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
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