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International Society for Clinical Biostatistics News International Society for Clinical News Biostatistics Number 41 June 2006 Editor: David W. Warne Executive Committee 2006 Editorial Officers There are just a few weeks to go before the President: John Whitehead (UK) 2006 Conference, ISCB27 to be held in Geneva, Vice-President: Emmanuel Lesaffre (B) Switzerland. The organisers were almost Secretary: Harbajan Chadha-Boreham (CH) overwhelmed with the number of abstracts Treasurer: Norbert Victor (D) received (about 250) and Lutz Edler has been Members extremely busy organising them into a packed News Editor: David W. Warne (CH) programme, which you can see in the middle of Webmaster: Bjarne Nielsen (DK) 2005-06 Peter Lachenbruch (USA) this News. The conference should be the largest Rumana Omar (UK) for many years. Catherine Quantin (F) Congratulations to Statistics in Medicine Jeno Reiczigel (H) on its 25th Birthday this year. Its publisher has Marie Reilly (S) been a strong supporter of ISCB across the years Martin Schumacher (D) and at ISCB27, there will be 3 very special poster Vana Sypsa (GR) prizes. On p.4, there’s a look back at the special Koos Zwinderman (NL) ISCB issues of SiM. Would You like to be part of ISCB? Later SubCommittee Chairs this year, new members and officers of the Communications David W. Warne (CH) Executive Committee will be chosen to serve from Conference Organising Harbajan Chadha-Boreham (CH) 2007-08. See the details on page 5. Dentistry Emmanuel Lesaffre (B) Thanks to the contributors to this News: Education Rumana Omar (UK) John Whitehead, Harbajan Chadha-Boreham, National Groups Julia Singer (B) Harry Southworth and the book reviewers, and Regulatory Affairs Jørgen Seldrup (F) retiring CAS and SCA chairs, Michael Schemper Student Conf. Awards Kyungmann Kim (USA) and Marie Reilly. Correspondence Address WWW and Email Addresses David W. Warne ISCB News Editor www: http://www.iscb.info Home: Chemin du Petit-Bel-Air 115, CH-1226 Thônex, Permanent Office: office@ iscb.info Switzerland. Tel: +41 22 700 6380 david_w_warne@ bluewin.ch Book review Editor: harry_southworth@ Work: Tel: +41 22 739 3374, yahoo.co.uk Fax: +41 22 739 3330 Index ISCB Membership ..................................................... 2 ISCB27 – Geneva 2006 – Draft Programme – May President’s Mid-Year Message ................................... 3 2006 .............................................................11 ISCB27 Geneva 2006: AGM Agenda .......................... 3 Book Review by Bruno M Cesana (Italy)...................24 ISCB27 Geneva 2006: Conference Awards for ISCB GENERAL INFORMATION...............................26 Scientists ........................................................ 3 Advertising Rates ....................................................26 ISCB26 Geneva 2006: Student Conference Awards.... 3 Society’s Aims .........................................................26 Book Review by Harry Southworth (UK)..................... 4 Changes of Address or Email...................................26 Statistics in Medicine: Happy 25th Birthday from Information on Submitting Articles..........................26 ISCB! .............................................................. 4 How to Contact the ISCB Office and Executive Elections for Executive Committee 2007-08 .............. 5 Committee.....................................................27 Book Review by Richard Kay (UK).............................. 5 ISCB Membership and Yahoogroup Emailing List ....27 Book Review by Gaj Vidmar (Slovenia)....................... 6 How to Contact the ISCB Subcommittees ................28 Book Review by Andreas Wienke (Germany) .............. 7 ISCB Membership Information ................................30 Books for Review by Harry Southworth ..................... 8 ISCB Membership Subscription...............................31 Book Review by Victor Moreno (Spain)..................... 10 Calendar .................................................................32 ISCB Membership If you joined ISCB by attending the Szeged conference, please note this will be the last News you receive, so please renew your subscription! end end Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Dec Nov Nov Nov May 89 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 *=host of conference Total 261 596 715 698 725 702 685 729 818 797 837 825 756 758 620 433 # Countries 23 32 32 31 33 34 37 37 41 40 45 41 40 38 39 35 1. UK 50 90 176* 120 144 121 128 169* 135 151 153 141 190* 140 109 62 2. Hungary [NatGrp] 1 21 17 18 19 25* 27 29 29 33 34 41 48 42 38* 50 3. Poland [NatGrp] 11 11 24 24 30 21 19 26 34 37 41 41 43 40 42 4. Germany 30 67 75 84 71 78 72 70 186* 90 87 77 61 57 51 34 5. USA 18 45 40 39 41 40 79* 66 76 77 89 78 75 57 51 33 6. Romania [NatGrp] 2 4 1 1 1 19 21 30 28 7. Denmark 4 58* 38 31 30 32 26 35 38 39 36 46 41 37 37 26 8. Czech. Rep. [NatGrp] 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 17 9. Netherlands 14* 30 38 33 36 29 31 39 35 33 38 39 33 87* 35 16 10. Switzerland 14 25 22 80* 33 29 24 25 23 18 23 26 22 23 23 16* 11. Sweden 23 51 53 54 58 64 51 45 38 44 88* 50 36 34 24 15 12. Belgium 13 22 27 30 30 32 35 29 25 33 36 33 23 27 24 15 13. France 30 52 62 50 73 67 52 52 49 53 37 93* 31 41 30 13 14. Italy 16 33 37 32 32 33 26 33 26 63* 29 25 15 25 15 9 15. Norway 13 18 25 22 12 18 10 10 11 10 16 16 12 14 12 7 16. Japan 2 6 7 5 7 4 10 13 20 12 11 10 10 10 17 6 17. Canada 6 12 14 14 11 13 15 14 9 9 10 14 16 8 12 6 18. Australia 6 9 11 6 9 8 11 9 10 12 8 9 14 8 6 6 19. Austria 4 9 11 13 11 16 13 11 15 18 15 13 16 17 15 4 20. Finland 2 7 7 9 9 9 7 5 10 9 18 11 7 11 10 3 21. Spain 10 12 18 12 46* 23 14 16 12 11 11 8 7 15 5 3 22. Slovenia 1 2 3 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 3 3 3 23. Israel 1 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 10 13 10 7 8 3 2 24. Malaysia 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 25. South Africa 1 4 1 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 26. India 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 2 27. Greece 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 6 1 2 2 2 28. Slovakia 1 1 2 29. Singapore 3 6 4 5 8 5 7 2 4 1 30. Turkey 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 31. New Zealand 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 2 1 32. Iran 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 33. Russia 1 3 3 3 2 2 1 4 3 2 1 1 34. Mexico 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 35. Portugal 1 3 5 2 2 2 2 5 5 3 4 3 3 1 1 1 36. Cuba 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 37. Taiwan 1 1 1 1 1 1 38. Estonia 2 1 1 39. United Arab Emirates 1 40. Malawi 1 1 1 41. Ireland 1 2 3 4 3 4 4 2 3 2 3 1 1 42. South Korea 3 1 1 43. Colombia 1 1 1 1 44. China 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 45. Thailand 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 46. Croatia 1 1 1 47. Gambia 1 48. Lithuania 2 49. Argentina 1 50. Brazil 2 1 51. Kuwait 1 1 52. Saudi Arabia 1 53. Sudan 1 54. Ukraine 1 1 55. Egypt 1 56. Pakistan 1 1 1 57. Philippines 1 58. Indonesia 1 59. Zimbabwe 1 60. Kenya 1 1 61. Oman 1 ISCB News 41 Page 2 June 2006 President’s Mid-Year Message From John Whitehead Summer is here, and so the ISCB Conference cannot be part in hosting ISCB in 2009 or 2010, then it is not too far away! I hope that you will be coming to Geneva this early to begin to put together some ideas and to year, and that you will publicise our meeting to approach the Officers of the Society. colleagues who are less familiar with the Society. An A number of the Society’s Officers will reach the end of exciting scientific programme has been arranged, and their terms of office at the end of 2006, and so later this we are hoping for good attendance from both regular year there will be elections for a new Vice-President and new members. A beautiful venue and some lively (who will succeed as President in 2009), a new social gatherings can also be promised. Treasurer and a new Secretary. The seats on the Even though our meeting in Geneva has not yet taken Executive Committee will also be contested, although it place, preparations are already under way for ISCB is hoped that most of the ExCom members who joined 2007 in Greece. This meeting will take place on the in 2005 will wish to stand again for a second two-year beach - or at least very close to it, in the resort town of term. Please consider whether you would like to stand Alexandroupolis. More preliminary work is also going on for one of these positions, or to nominate someone for in preparation for the following year’s meeting in them. Nominations will be sought in due course by the Copenhagen. These future arrangements will be Ballot Committee.
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