Tentative Agenda
Thursday, May 5, 2011 Morning Session 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Robert DiPaola Director, Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rebecca Wright DIMACS Deputy Director Rutgers University 9:00 - 10:15 Perspectives on Trends, Challenges and Opportunities Multiple Data Streams: A Regulatory Perspective Gerald Dal Pan Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology Food and Drug Administration Strategies to Counter Researcher Initiative Stan Young Assistant Director for Bioinformatics National Institute of Statistical Sciences How do we tell folks what we are up to? Insights and lessons about risk, benefit, perceptions and the ultimate consumer Paul Stang Senior Director of Epidemiology Johnson & Johnson 10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:45 The "Nuts & Bolts of Drug Safety Monitoring Detecting Potential Safety Issues in Large Clinical or Observational Trials by Bayesian Screening when Event Counts Arise from Poisson Distributions Larry Gould Senior Director, Inv. Research Merck The need for, and use of, multiple data streams in drug safetysurveillance Andrew Bate Senior Director, Analytics Team Lead, Epidemiology Pfizer TBA Patrick Ryan Research Investigator, Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Associate Director of Analytical Epidemiology, Johnson & Johnson 11:45 - 1:00 Lunch Afternoon Session 1:00 - 2:45 Methodologies for Drug Safety Monitoring Confounding, Cohorts, and Computers: New Approaches to Propensity Score Matching Jeremy Rassen Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Automatically Constructing Risk Networks using Text-mining Techniques: Framework and Application to Drug Safety Monitoring Marcello Trovati Research Scientist IBM Research A holistic safety approach means getting the right answer faster: What do we need to get there? Sheila Weiss Director of the Center for Drug Safety, University of Maryland Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Watson, DeepQA, Wikipedia, Twitter (and Drug Safety) Rick Lawrence Manager, Machine Learning IBM Research 2:45 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:30 Panel Discussion Facilitator: David Madigan Gerald Dal Pan Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology Food & Drug Administration Marianthi Markatou Research Scientist, IBM Research Adjunct Professor of Statistical Sciences, Cornell University Guna Rajagopal Executive Director, Bioinformatics Cancer Institute of New Jersey Jeremy Rassen Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Paul Stang Senior Director of Epidemiology Johnson & Johnson 4:30 Closing Remarks