Full Hot Breakfast (Covered by registration fee)

Clinical Trials in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities
Professor Susan S. Ellenberg, UPenn
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch

Clinical Trial Data Monitoring Committees and Reporting Statistical Centers: Problems and Solutions
Professor Susan Ellenberg, University of Pennsylvania, Matt Downs, MPH, Statistics Collaborative, Washington DC
Moderator Alfred H. Balch

Using Restricted Mean Survival Time for Classifications and Clinical Trials for Survival Endpoints
Professor Ying Lu, Stanford University
Moderator: Naitee Ting

Lunch Break (at your own)

Bootstrap Methods
Professor Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Moderator: Ivan S F Chan

Discrete Multiple Testing In Detecting Differential Methylation Using Sequencing Data 
Professor Nan Lin, Washington University in St. Louis
Moderator: Xiaoming Li

Speaker’s and Awards Dinner (Optional Added Fee Event)

Full Hot Breakfast (Covered by registration fee)

Practical and Challenging Statistical Issues in Regulatory Science
Professor Shein-Chung Chow, Duke University
Moderator: Naitee Ting

Introduction to Instrumental Variables
Nandita Mitra, PhD, UPenn and Jason Roy, PhD, Rutgers University
Moderator: Kalyan Ghosh

Modern Dose Finding Designs – Advances and Hot topics
Frank Fleischer, PhD, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Moderator: Naitee Ting

Lunch Break (at your own)

Artificial Intelligence for Drug Development, Precision Medicine and Healthcare
Professor Mark Chang, Boston University
Moderator: Wenjin Wang

Clinical Trial Data Analysis Using R & SAS
Professor Din Chen, UNC & Pinggao Zhang, PhD, Takeda
Moderator: Walter Young

Full Hot Breakfast (Covered by registration fee)

Non-Statistical Reflections on 50 Years Chairing the Deming Conference, Walter R. Young
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch

Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) for Machine Learning: A Gentle Introduction
Professor Mark J. van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley
Moderator: Bill Wang

Statistical Topics in Outcomes Research: Patient-Reported Outcomes, Meta-Analysis, and Health Economics
Joseph Cappelleri, PhD, Pfizer and Professor Thomas Mathew, UMBC
Moderator Ivan S. F. Chan

Lunch Break (at your own)

Prediction In Event-Based Trials
Professor Daniel Heitjan, SMU
Moderator: Kalyan Ghosh

A Method to Evaluate the Validity of a Literature Claim
S. Stanley Young, PhD, CGSTAT
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch

Short Course Registration and Breakfast

Medical Product Safety Evaluation: Biological Models & Statistical Methods
Instructors: Dr. Jie Chen, Merck Research Laboratories
Moderator: Naitee Ting

Targeted Learning in Data Science: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data
Professor Mark J. van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley
Moderator: Bill Wang

Combining Information From Different Studies with Meta-Analysis and Network Meta-Analysis
Professor Chris Schmid, Brown University
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch

BREAK TIMINGS:
9:30-9:50 Break
11:20-12:40 Lunch on Your Own
2:10-2:30 Break
4:00-4:20 Break

Short Course Registration and Breakfast

BREAK TIMINGS:
8:00-9:30 Lecture
9:30-9:50 Break
9:50-11;20 Lecture
11:20-11:40 Break
11:40-1:10 Lecture