Epidemiology Events Calendar
| February 2 |
| 3:30 pm - 4:50 pm |
UW Epidemiology 2010 Distinguished Visiting Epidemiologist
Please join us for a series of special events, Feb 2nd & 3rd, with the Malcolm Maclure, ScD
British Columbia Chair in Patient Safety and Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC; Director of Research and Evidence Development, Pharmaceutical Services Division, BC Ministry of Health Services, Victoria BC; and Past-President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research.
Title: Causation of Bias: The Episcope
A review of ideas about confounding, information bias, and selection bias that underscores the need for routinely analyzing the sensitivity of study findings to multiple hypothesized biases.
Suggested reading:
Health Sciences room T-733.
for more information contact Courtney Marshall at 543-1065.
http://depts.washington.edu/epidem/Epi583/2010-02-02%28Malcolm%29.shtml
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| February 3 |
| 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm |
UW Epidemiology 2010 Distinguished Visiting Epidemiologist
Journal Club: 'Why me?' vs. 'Why Now?'
Discussion of the articles will be led jointly by Drs. Maclure and Delaney.
Suggested Readings:
Lunch will be provided – please RSVP to epiadmin@uw.edu by Mon, Feb 1st.
Location: F-348
for more information contact Courtney Marshall at 543-1065.
http://depts.washington.edu/epidem/Epi583/2010-02-02%28Malcolm%29.shtml
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| February 3 |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
UW Epidemiology 2010 Distinguished Visiting Epidemiologist
Panel discussion:
Inventing New Methods in Epidemiology and Health Services
Co-sponsored by the UW Department of Epidemiology and the Grand Rounds-Moments in Leadership series.
Wed, Feb 3rd, 4:30-6:00 pm, Health Sciences room T-739
Reception at 4:00 pm.
Panelists:
Dr. Maclure, ScD
Dr. Thomas D Koepsell, MD, MPH, Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Health Services, UW
Dr. David Grembowski, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Services, UW
Dr. Scott S Emerson, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UW
Motivation for the panel discussion:
Epidemiologists learn classic methodological approaches for good reasons: A study is more understandable and credible if it uses a standard, established design and proven methods of statistical analysis. On the other hand, epidemiologists may also develop new methodologies for good reasons: Breakthroughs in our understanding of the scientific method or in technology can yield methods that produce more valid results.
According to UW epidemiologist, Dr. Tom Koepsell, when faced with a research situation where our tried and true methods are inadequate, epidemiologists earnestly, "retreat through a hierarchy of stronger to weaker (but usually well-known) alternatives until we find an option that fits the constraints. Then we have to decide whether that option is good enough: how likely and serious the biases would be, what we can do to probe for artifact and try to get around it, and what the consequences of error would be."
Dr. Maclure writes, "Some of the worst and most influential epidemiology is put to use in the domain of health services research. In circumstances where epidemiological methods are used to address health services questions, we are often forced to innovate for practical reasons because databases are large and almost free, but were designed for administration, not research. Yet the risks of innovating are often less than the risks of knowing almost nothing about expensive and controversial problems. To bend or not to bend – that is the question."
Location: T-739
for more information contact Courtney Marshall at 543-1065.
http://depts.washington.edu/epidem/Epi583/2010-02-02%28Malcolm%29.shtml
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| February 10 |
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Lucio Costa
Lucio Costa, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, will deliver the School's Winter Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture: My (First) 30 Years in Neurotoxicology. A reception will follow the lecture.
T-739
for more information contact Holly Weese.
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| February 15 |
Official Holiday: Presidents Day
University is closed on official holidays
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