Invited Preliminary Program
Statistical Challenges with Linked and Coarsened Data in Public Health Research
Organizer & Chair: Sarah Lotspeich, Wake Forest University
Speakers:
Bonnie Shook-Sa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Laura Balzer, University of California, Berkeley
Jianing Wang, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Laura White, Boston University
Statistical Innovations for Microbiome and Metabolomics Analysis: Batch Effect, Association, Prediction, and Beyond
Organizer: Wodan Ling, Weill Cornell Medicine
Chair: Amarise Little, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Speakers:
Yijuan Hu, Emory University
Huang Lin, University of Maryland
Huilin Li, New York University School of Medicine
Wodan Ling, Weill Cornell Medicine
Harnessing Surrogate Markers to Enrich our Analyses and Study Designs
Organizer: Sarah Lotspeich, Wake Forest University
Chair: Ashley Mullan, Wake Forest University
Speakers:
Layla Parast, The University of Texas at Austin
Emily Roberts, University of Iowa
Xiaokang Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Sarah Lotspeich, Wake Forest University
Advancements in Analytical Approaches for Brain Functional and Dynamic Connectivity
Organizer: Yize Zhao, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University
Chair: Selena Wang, Yale University
Speakers:
Emma Zhang, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Brian Caffo, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Yize Zhao, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University
Weining Shen, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine
PANEL: Who Can We Generalize To? Aiming for Representativeness without Formal Representativeness
Organizer & Chair: Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Panelists:
M. Daniele Fallin, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Sheri Schully, National Institutes of Health
Keri Althoff, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Michael Elliott, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Bryan Lau, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Novel Bayesian Approaches for Informative Prior Elicitation with Time-to-event Data
Organizer: Ethan Alt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair: Xinxin Chen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speakers:
Joseph Ibrahim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Matthew Psioda, GSK
Ethan Alt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Lanju Zhang, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Statistical Methods for Population Scale Single Cell RNA-seq Data and Spatial Transcriptomics
Organizer & Chair: Wei Sun, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Speakers:
Nancy Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
Stephanie Hicks, John Hopkins University
Veera Baladandayuthapani, University of Michigan
Recent Developments in Phase I-II Clinical Trial Designs Inspired by FDA Project Optimus
Organizer: Brad Carlin, PharmaLex
Chair: Bruno Boulanger, PharmaLex
Speakers:
Liz Garrett-Mayer, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Ying Yuan, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Yuan Ji, University of Chicago
Brad Carlin, PharmaLex
Revolutionizing RCTs: Unleashing the Power of Real World Data in Innovative Ways
Organizer & Chair: Joseph Koopmeiners, University of Minnesota
Speakers:
Mingyang Shan, Eli Lilly and Company
Shu Yang, North Carolina State University
Tom Murray, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Brian Hobbs, University of Texas at Austin
Recent Advances in Clinical Trial Designs for Precision Medicine
Organizer: Yeonhee Park, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Heng Zhou, Merck
Speakers:
Kentaro Takeda, Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc.
Amy Crawford, Berry Consultants
Jun Yin, Mayo Clinic
Yeonhee Park, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Methodological Advances In and Practical Considerations for Data Originating from Randomized Trials
Organizer & Chair: Andrew Spieker, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Speakers:
Bryan Blette, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Ruoxuan Xiong, Emory University
Zhenke Wu, University of Michigan
Irina Degtiar, Mathematica
Recent Advances in Statistical Approaches for Postmarket Medical Product Safety
Organizer & Chair: Saptarshi Chakraborty, State University of New York at Buffalo
Speakers:
Ram Tiwari, Distinguished Biometrics Fellow, Bristol Myers Squibb
Lili Zhao, Director of Biostatistics, Carewell Health; Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan
Robert Platt, Professor, McGill University
Marianthi Markatou, SUNY Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo
Causal Inference Methods for Observational Data Using Difference-in-differences
Organizer: Michael Jetsupphasuk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biostatistics
Chair: Michael Hudgens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biostatistics
Speakers:
Ting Ye, University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics
Gary Hettinger, University of Pennsylvania
Ismael Mourifie, Washington University at St. Louis
Discussant: Laura Hatfield, Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy
Making Sense of Deprivation and Disadvantage: Advances in the Modeling of Areal Health Indices
Organizer: Pavel Chernyavskiy, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Chair: Soutik Ghosal, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Speakers:
Yang Xu, Drexel University - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Pavel Chernyavskiy, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Loni Tabb, Drexel University - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina - Department of Public Health Sciences
Advances in Statistical Methods for Studying Neurodegenerative Diseases
Organizer & Chair: Panpan Zhang, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Speakers:
Sharon Xie, University of Pennsylvania
Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
Dana Tudorascu, University of Pittsburgh
Sheng Luo, Duke University
Success Stories, Challenges, and Opportunities in Use of Observational Health Data for Generating Clinical Evidence
Organizer: Akihiko Nishimura, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins
Chair: Zhenke Wu, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Speakers:
Fan Bu, University of Michigan
Rebecca Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania
Akihiko (Aki) Nishimura, Johns Hopkins University
Martijn Schuemie, Research Fellow of Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research & Development
Biostatistical and Data Science Advances to Meet Challenges in Aging and Gerontology
Organizer: Chixiang Chen, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Chair: Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Speakers:
Michelle Shardell, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Haochang Shou, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Chixiang Chen, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Shuo Chen, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Recent Advances in Statistical Methods for Integrative Analysis of Multi-sample Multi-modal Spatially-resolved Transcriptomics Data
Organizer & Chair: Stephanie Hicks, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speakers:
Dongyuan Song, University of California, Los Angeles
Wesley Tansey, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Xiaoyu Song, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Boyi Guo, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Novel Approaches for Fair and Equitable Inference in Biomedical Research
Organizer: Shelley Liu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chair: Yitong Chen, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Speakers:
Shelley Liu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Judy Zhong, New York University
Linda Valeri, Columbia University
Cole Brokamp, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; University of Cincinnati
Advances in Statistical Methods for Sequential Medical Decision Making
Organizer: Abdus Wahed, University of Rochester
Chair: Huang Lin, National Institutes of Health
Speakers:
Ashkan Ertefaie, University of Rochester
Yu Cheng, University of Pittsburgh
Abdus Wahed, University of Rochester
Daiqi Gao, Harvard University
Integrating Data from Multiple Sources to Estimate Causal Effects
Organizer: Carly Lupton Brantner, Johns Hopkins University
Chair: Trang Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers:
Carly Lupton Brantner, Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Ackerman, Janssen Research & Development
Cathy Shyr, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Discussant: Irina Degtiar, Mathematica Policy Research
Navigating the Intersection: Regulatory Perspectives and Statistical Innovations for Real-World Data
Organizer: Kumaresh Dhara, Food and Drug Administration
Chair: Ye Yang, Food and Drug Administration
Speakers:
Jennifer Kirk, Food and Drug Administration
Saptarshi Chakraborty, University of Buffalo
Bikram Karmakar, University of Florida
Discussant: Kumaresh Dhara, Food and Drug Administration
Recent Advances in Statistical Methods for Wearable Computing
Organizer: Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University
Chair: Xinkai Zhou, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers:
Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University
Erjia Cui, University of Minnesota
Irina Gaynanova, University of Michigan
Sonja Greven, Humboldt University of Berlin
Statistical Methods for Quantifying the Association Between Physical Activity and Health
Organizer & Chair: Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers:
Jaroslaw Harezlak, Indiana University School of Public Health in Bloomington
Loki Natarajan, University of California, San Diego
Roger Zoh, Indiana University School of Public Health in Bloomington
Xinkai Zhou, Johns Hopkins University
Innovative Bayesian Methods for Complex Longitudinal Data from Observational Studies
Organizer & Chair: Juned Siddique, Northwestern University
Speakers:
Danping Liu, National Cancer Institute
Zeynab Aghabazaz, Northwestern University
Michael Daniels, University of Florida
Mengbing Li, University of Michigan
Innovative Bayesian Methods for Assessing Heterogeneous Treatment Effect
Organizer: Qiao Wang, Duke University School of Medicine
Chair: Hwanhee Hong, Duke University School of Medicine
Speakers:
Chenguang Wang, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Leon Di Stefano, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Qiao Wang, Duke University School of Medicine
Discussant: Mi-Ok Kim, UCSF; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Innovative Methods and Applications of Joint Models
Organizer: Rajeshwari Sundaram, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Chair: Abhisek Saha, National Institutes of Health
Speakers:
Yifei Sun, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Laurent Briollais, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital & Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Esra Kurum, University of California, Riverside
Rajeshwari Sundaram, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Recent Advances in the Design and Analysis of Studies Reliant on Error-prone Electronic Health Records Data
Organizer: Pamela Shaw, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Chair: Sarah Ratcliffe, University of Virginia
Speakers:
Gustavo Amorim, Vanderbilt University
Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Pamela Shaw, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Thomas Lumley, University of Auckland
Recent Advances in Modeling Complex Time-to-Event Data
Organizer: Jing Qian, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair: Chi Hyun Lee, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Speakers:
Richard Cook, University of Waterloo
Rebecca Betensky, New York University
Ruosha Li, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jing Qian, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Recent Developments in the Presentation, Application, and Interpretation of Hierarchical Composite Endpoints
Organizer: Ted Lystig, BridgeBio
Chair: Martha Cao, BridgeBio
Speakers:
Tracy Bergemann, Medtronic
Ted Lystig, BridgeBio
Cordula Zeller, Boehringer-Ingelheim
Discussant: Jialu Zhang, FDA
Bayesian Methods for Complex Biomedical Data
Organizer: Kuan Liu, University of Toronto
Chair: Chixiang Chen, University of Maryland
Speakers:
Leif Erik Lovblom, University Health Network, University of Toronto
Zihang Lu, Queen's University
Osvaldo Espin Garcia, Western University
Kuan Liu, University of Toronto
Integrating External Controls in Clinical Trials
Organizer & Chair: Weining Shen, University of California, Irvine
Speakers:
Jiwei Zhao, University of Wisconsin
Chenyin Gao, North Carolina State University
Joseph Marion, Berry Consultants
Xiang Zhang, CSL Behring
PANEL: Paths to Success: Perspectives from Recruiters and Hiring Committees with a Focus on Fostering Inclusivity and Equity
Organizers: Ziqiao Wang, Johns Hopkins University; Siddhesh Kulkarni, Bristol Myers Squibb
Chair: Summer Zhang, The University of Chicago
Panelists:
Suzanne Judd, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Snigdhansu Chatterjee, University of Maryland at Baltimore County
Amarjot Kaur, Merck Research Labs
Tongrong Wang, Eli Lilly and Company
Katie Ziegler-Graham, St. Olaf College
PANEL: Data scientists and biostatisticians: competitors or collaborators?
Organizer & Chair: Thomas Stewart, University of Virginia
Panelists:
Chris Lindsell, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Jeffrey Blume, University of Virginia
Lisa Strug, University of Toronto
Jay Aikat, University of North Carolina
Cancer Risk Modeling in Action
Organizer: Ruth Pfeiffer, National Cancer Institute
Chair: Neha Agarwala, National Cancer Institute
Speakers:
Mitchell Gail, National Cancer Institute
Donna Ankerst, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Sander Roberti, The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Discussant: Ruth Pfeiffer, National Cancer Institute
Knowledge Synthesis Between Psychometric and Neuroimaging Methods: Network Modeling, Latent Factors and More
Organizer: Jinyuan Liu, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Chair: Megan Taylor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Speakers:
Yuqi Gu, Department of Statistics at the Columbia University
Douglas Gunzler, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center
Jinyuan Liu, Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University
Lin Ge, Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University
For the record: Innovative Statistical Applications to Study Real-world Patient Outcomes Using Electronic Health Records and Claims Data
Organizer & Chair: Elizabeth Handorf, Rutgers University
Speakers:
Wendy Wang, Flatiron Health
Jill Hasler, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Ernesto Ulloa-Pérez, University of Pennsylvania
Yu-Ru Su, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Recent Advances in Survival Risk Prediction
Organizer & Chair: Di Wang, University of Michigan
Speakers:
Shuangge Ma, Yale School of Public Health
Nilanjan Chatterjee, Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Ying Ding, University of Pittsburgh
Kevin He, University of Michigan
Having a Significant Impact on Policy and Health Outcomes as a Collaborative Biostatistician
Organizer: Brian Egleston, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Chair: Yan Zhou, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Speakers:
Brian Egleston, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Elizabeth Colantuoni, Johns Hopkins University
Yun Li, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Handorf, Rutgers University, Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Exploring the Impact of High-Dimensional Environmental Mixtures on Health: Innovative Approaches, Fresh Perspectives, and Engaging Applications
Organizer & Chair: Zhen Chen, National Institutes of Health
Speakers:
Ander Wilson, Colorado State University
Ruijin Lu, Washington University in St Louis
David Wheeler, Virginia Commonwealth University
Shanshan Zhao, National Institutes of Health
Adaptive Methods for Analyzing Complex Biomedical Time Series Data
Organizer: Scott Bruce, Texas A&M University
Chair: Robert Krafty, Emory University
Speakers:
Carolina Euan, Lancaster University
Mark Fiecas, University of Minnesota
Jamshid Namdari, Emory University
Scott Bruce, Texas A&M University
Novel Methods and Study Designs for Long COVID Research
Organizer: Harrison Reeder, Massachusetts General Hospital Biostatistics; Harvard Medical School
Chair: Andrea Foulkes, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Speakers:
Harrison Reeder, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Tanayott Thaweethai, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Jasmin Divers, Department of Foundations of Medicine at NYU Long Island School of Medicine
Sean O'Brien, Duke School of Medicine
In Memory of Late Professor Tze Leung Lai
Organizer & Chair: Heping Zhang, Yale University
Speakers:
Jay Bartroff, University of Texas
Haipeng Xing, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Johan Lim, Seoul National University
Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
Evaluating Accuracy and Reproducibility of Forensic Science Methods Used in Criminal Courts
Organizer: Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University
Chair: John McGready, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers:
Maria Cuellar, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth (Liz) Chin, Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth (Betsy) Ogburn, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University
Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs and Analysis from Early Stage to Confirmatory Stage
Organizer & Chair: Feiran Jiao, Food and Drug Administration
Speakers:
Yeh-Fong Chen, Office of Biostatistics/Center of Drug Evaluation and Research/FDA
Jingyu (Jerry) Yu, Office of Clinical Pharmacology/Center of Drug Evaluation and Research/FDA
Haitao Pan, St.Jude Children's Research Hospital
Yisheng Li, MD Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas
Advance Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches for High-Dimensional Data Analysis in Biomedical Research
Organizer: Aditya Mishra, University of Georgia
Chair: Ruijin Lu, Washington University in St.Louis
Speakers:
Christine Peterson, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ali Rahnavard, George Washington University
Di Wu, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Aditya Mishra, University of Georgia
IMS Invited Sessions
Modern Statistical Methods for Spatial Multiplex Imaging Data
Organizer & Chair: Veera Baladandayuthapani, University of Michigan
Speakers:
Julia Wrobel, Emory University
Maria Masotti, University of Michigan
Simon Vandekar, Vanderbilt University
Alex Soupir, Moffitt Cancer Center
The Interface Between Generative AI and Modern Statistics
Organizer: Kean Ming Tan, University of Michigan
Chair: Ting Ye, University of Washington
Speakers:
James Zou, Stanford University
Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania
Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota
Song Mei, University of California, Berkeley
Precision Health Meets Imaging and Genetics Study
Organizer & Chair: Xinyi Li, Clemson University
Speakers:
Michael Kosorok, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rui Feng, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Zhengwu Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Todd Odgen, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Recent Advances in Statistical/computational Approaches to Single-cell Multi-omics
Organizer & Chair: Rong Ma, Harvard University
Speakers:
Didong Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
Christina Kendziorski, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Siran Li, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Recent Advances in Integrative Omics Data Analysis
Organizer: Shulei Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chair: Bo Yuan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Speakers:
Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles
Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania
Hongkai Ji, Johns Hopkins University
Himel Mallick, Cornell University
Innovative Approaches for Handling High-Dimensionality in Bayesian Analysis
Organizer & Chair: Hsin-Hsiung Huang, University of Central Florida
Speakers:
Hsin-Hsiung Huang, University of Central Florida
Shao-Hsuan Wang, National Central University
Tianzhou Ma, University of Maryland
Liangliang Zhang, Case Western Reserve University
Advances in Causality with Applications to Brain Imaging
Organizer & Chair: Hernando Ombao, KAUST
Speakers:
Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
Ying Guo, Emory University
Yi Zhao, Indiana University School of Medicine
Hernando Ombao, KAUST
Recent Advances in Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Electronic Health Record Data
Organizer & Chair: Molei Liu, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Speakers:
Jinbo Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Xu Shi, University of Michigan
Rui Duan, Harvard University
Junwei Lu, Harvard University
Innovative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches for Imaging Data Analysis
Organizer & Chair: Cai Li, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Speakers:
Heping Zhang, Yale University
Ani Eloyan, Brown University
Xuan Bi, University of Minnesota
Bei Jiang, University of Alberta