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 episummer Applied Logistic, Poisson, and Survival Course Description The aim of this workshop is to provide theoretical and practical training for biostatisticians, epidemiologists and professionals of related disciplines in statistical modeling with emphasis on logistic regression, Poisson Regression and Cox proportional hazards regression. Students will become familiar with the use of Stata to analyze data for these models.  

The NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp is a two-day intensive boot camp combining lectures, hands-on activities, and discussions to demystify the NIH application process. This training will prepare participants to submit an NIH grant proposal that turns reviewers into advocates, positioning the applicant for success. The 2-day NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp: Building a Strong Foundation for Funding Success will provide comprehensive training that supplies researchers with the tools to write persuasive, effective grant proposals. Through a combination of seminars, discussions, examples, and hands-on activities, with a particular focus on navigating between-the-lines on how to tailor your proposals to grant reviewers, this training will orient you to all aspects of the academic funding process (i.e., grant writing and grant strategizing), including: How to identify and apply for the right funding opportunities with the NIH (and beyond); How to position your research and yourself to make reviewers your research advocates; How to target your application to the right place at the right time; and How to write clearly, effectively, and persuasively when telling your scientific story. Audience and Requirements Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate. No prior experience in preparing or submitting NIH grant applications is necessary. However, each participant should be prepared to share* and work on an NIH Specific Aims page and an NIH biosketch. Participants who have not previously written an NIH-style Aims page and/or biosketch will have an opportunity to draft their page and receive initial feedback ahead of the on-site workshop. There are no other requirements to attend the NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp. *Hands-on activities will use participant aims pages, and we therefore request that all participants respect the confidentiality of other attendees. Any participant who prefers not to share their research ideas may create a mock aims page to use during the boot camp. Additional Information Subscribe for updates on new Boot Camp details and registration deadlines. Contact the NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp team. Capacity is limited. Paid registration is required to attend.

The Statistical Analysis with Missing Data Workshop is a two-day intensive workshop of seminars and hands-on analytical sessions to provide an overview of concepts, methods, and applications for statistical analysis of health studies with missing data. This two-day intensive workshop integrates the principle concepts and methods commonly used in statistical analysis with missing data and their applications in surveys, longitudinal studies, and clinical trials. Led by a team of renowned experts in missing data research, this workshop will integrate seminar lectures with hands-on computer lab sessions and case studies to put concepts into practice. We will cover weighting, maximum likelihood, Bayes, and multiple imputation methods and use a wide variety of examples to illustrate the techniques and approaches. We will also discuss methods for missing not at random and the latest developments on missing data research. By the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with the following topics: Missing data patterns and mechanisms Weighting methods Maximum likelihood methods Bayes and multiple imputation Approaches to missing not at random Missing data in surveys Missing data in longitudinal studies Missing data in clinical trials Audience and Requirements Investigators from all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate. There are three requirements to attend this training: Each participant must be familiar with common methods of statistical analysis of complete data, such as multiple regression and logistic regression. Each participant must have experience with programming in R. Each participant is required to bring a personal laptop as all lab sessions will be done on your personal laptop. Each participant must have R downloaded and installed prior to attending the Workshop. Instructors Roderick J. Little, PhD, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Roderick J. Little is Richard D.  Qixuan Chen, PhD, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Qixuan Chen is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia University. Additional Information Subscribe for updates on new Training details and registration deadlines. Contact the Boot Camp team. Capacity is limited. Paid registration is required to attend.

Recent neuroimaging research reveals that many patients formerly thought to be unresponsive in coma and vegetative states are in fact conscious, raising many ethical and clinical questions. Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Fins about these fascinating and important challenges.   Speaker: Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P. is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine where he is a Tenured Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry, Professor of Medical Ethics in Neurology, Professor of Medical Ethics in Rehabilitation Medicine, and Professor of Health Care Policy and Research. He is the founding Chair of the Ethics Committee of New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where he is an Attending Physician and Director of Medical Ethics. A member of the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital, he co-directs the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI) at Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School in addition to his appointment at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Fins graduated from Wesleyan University (B.A. with Honors, The College of Letters, 1982) and Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1986). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and has served as Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is author of over 500 papers, chapters, essays, and books, his most recent volume is Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics and The Struggle for Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Moderated by: Robert Klitzman, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the Program Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics at Columbia University.   In Person Location: Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Room: Amphitheater 1 630 W 168 Street, New York, NY 10032 (Between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)   This is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in person at at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and via Zoom. Registered guests will receive a Zoom link prior to the event. Lunch will be provided for those choosing to attend in person.   For further information, please contact Marie Gugnishev, mg4441@columbia.edu. To obtain additional information about program offerings at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at inquire@sps.columbia.edu. If you require closed captioning, sign-language interpretation or any other disability accommodations, please contact Disability Services, disability@columbia.edu, at least 10 days in advance. Please visit Columbia University’s Hub for Emergency Preparedness to stay up to date on the latest campus health and safety policies. This event is open to individuals irrespective of identity and sex.