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International Society for Clinical NNEEWWSS Biostatistics Number 56 December 2013 Editor: David W. Warne Executive Committee 2014 Editorial Officers ISCB34 in Munich was just as successful as we expected, and President Koos Zwinderman (NL) again attracted over 600 participants. The scientific and social Vice-President, David W. Warne (CH) programmes were a great success and I thoroughly enjoyed a return News Editor, Acting Webmaster visit to one of my favourite cities. Treasurer KyungMann Kim (US) We now look forward to ISCB35 in Vienna, another of Europe’s Secretary Vana Sypsa (GR) most beautiful cities, which will be a first visit to Austria since 1988. It Members will again be very well attended, so do register early. Please read Michal Abrahamowicz (CA) more about the conference in this News and see the website Keith Abrams (UK) www.iscb2014.info. Tomasz Burzykowski (BE) About the time you read this News, we will be launching the 2nd Zsolt Lang (HU) ISCB Survey. Can you remember the 1st? It doesn’t seem that long ago Saskia Le Cessie (NL) but 20 years have flown by since the first one was carried out using a Chris Metcalfe (UK) paper CRF with analysis on a Psion palmtop... A lot of things have Jeremy Taylor (US) moved on since then... a link to the new web-survey will be sent to Zdenek Valenta (CZ) you via email. Please spend a little time to answer the questions and provide your opinions on the Society and how you would like to see it WWW and Email Addresses develop. Other articles of interest include: the President’s mid-term report www www.iscb.info and information about the National Groups from the representatives. Permanent Office [email protected] Thanks to the contributors to this News: Zdenek Valenta and Book Review Editor [email protected] Ulrich Mansmann on behalf of the SCs on NGs and SCAs, Michael Schemper and Georg Heinze of the Vienna LOC and SPC, Sylvain ISCB News: Correspondence Address Larroque and the book reviewers, ISCB Secretary Vana Sypsa for the AGM Minutes and Election Warning, various contributors of ISCB News Editor David W. Warne [[email protected]] photographs from Munich, and Rita Schou of the ISCB Office. National Group Representatives/Deputies 2014/Websites Subcommittee Chairs/Secretaries 2014 Czech Zdenek Valenta [email protected] sites.google.com/site/iscbcr/home Conference Organising David W. Warne (CH), Geir Egil Eide (NO) Rep. Marek Maly [email protected] Jeno Reiczigel [email protected] efabis.univet.hu:8080/biostat Hungary Education Catherine Quantin (FR), Jeno Reiczigel (HU) Krisztina Boda [email protected] Ewa Kawalec [email protected] www.iscb.pl/ Epidemiology Marie Reilly (SE), Saskia Le Cessie (NL) Poland Krystyna Szafraniec [email protected] National Groups Zdenek Valenta (CZ), Anca Vitcu (RO) Walerian Piotrowski [email protected] Anca Vitcu [email protected] thor.info.uaic.ro/~rng/ Statistics in Regulatory Affairs Christoph Gerlinger (DE), Christos Nakas (GR) Romania Anca Ignat [email protected] Student Conference Awards Ulrich Mansmann (DE), Nadine Binder (DE) Zorana Bizetic [email protected] - Serbia Natasa Bogavac- [email protected] Vaccines Allen Izu (US), Jennifer Nelson (US) Stanojevic Index ISCB Membership .......................................................................................2 Czech Republic National Group Report....................................................18 ISCB President’s Mid-Term Message ..........................................................3 Hungarian National Group Report............................................................19 ISCB Numbers – We’re Now >210!...............................................................3 Serbian National Group Report................................................................19 Books for Review by Sylvain Larroque ........................................................4 Romanian National Group Report............................................................19 Book Review by Theo Stijnen (NL) ..............................................................6 ISCB Partnership with Wiley.....................................................................19 Book Review by Gerd Rosenkranz (CH).......................................................6 Book Review by Michael Grayling (UK) ....................................................20 Elections for the Executive Committee 2015-16: Early Warning! ...............7 Advert: MPS Lancaster, UK.......................................................................20 Book Review by Rainer Muche (DE)............................................................8 ISCB GENERAL INFORMATION..................................................................21 ISCB34 Munich: AGM Minutes....................................................................9 Advertising Rates .....................................................................................21 ISCB35 Vienna 2014: Student Conference Awards (SCA)..........................12 Society’s Aims ..........................................................................................21 ISCB35 Vienna 2014: Conference Awards for Scientists (CAS)..................12 Changes of Address or Email....................................................................21 ISCB35 Vienna, Austria: 24-28 August 2014: Invitation ............................13 Information on Submitting Articles..........................................................21 Honorary Memberships............................................................................14 ISCB Office & Executive Committee: Contact Details ............................... 22 ISCB34 Munich: Memories .......................................................................15 ISCB Membership and Googlegroups Emailing Lists................................. 23 Advert: Chapman and Hall/CRC................................................................16 ISCB Subcommittees: Contact Details ......................................................24 Education SC Update ................................................................................17 ISCB Membership Information.................................................................26 Education SC: Course Organisation Advertising........................................17 ISCB Membership Subscription ................................................................27 Polish National Group Report ...................................................................18 ISCB Calendar...........................................................................................28 ISCB Membership We’re pleased that so many new members have joined ISCB by attending the conference in Munich. We hope all 1020+ of you will renew your membership early in 2014 – please look out for the email in your inbox. If you need any help, please contact [email protected]. end end Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Dec Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Dec Nov Dec Dec Dec Jun Dec *=host of Conference 89 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 13 Total 261 596 715 698 725 702 685 729 818 797 837 825 756 758 620 808 800 921 862 880 864 993 547 1028 # Countries 23 32 32 31 33 34 37 37 41 40 45 41 40 38 39 40 41 42 39 42 41 43 35 42 1. United Kingdom 50 90 176* 120 144 121 128 169* 135 151 153 141 190* 140 109 133 117 114 124 114 99 130 50 130 2. Germany 30 67 75 84 71 78 72 70 186* 90 87 77 61 57 51 73 48 59 72 61 53 78 36 113 3. Poland [NatGrp] 11 11 24 24 30 21 19 26 34 37 41 41 43 40 49 54 62 66 71 78 82 82 88 4. Romania [NatGrp] 2 4 1 1 1 19 21 30 28 30 31 36 2 67 58 67 67 5. France 30 52 62 50 73 67 52 52 49 53 37 93* 31 41 30 57 41 49 49 119* 48 60 21 66 6. 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