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Sunday, October 24, 2010 - Pre-Meeting Short Courses

9:00 AM-12:30 PM

Pre-Meeting Short Courses - AM Half Day
AM1
MEDICAL DECISION MAKING WITH BAYESIAN NETWORKS
Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD and Mehmet Ayvaci, MS
AM2
MDM 101: COMMON MDM METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Joel Tsevat, MD, MPH, James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH, Karen M. Kuntz, ScD, Nananda F. Col, MD, MPH, MPP and Alan Schwartz, PhD
AM3
MODELING APPROACHES FOR ANALYSING HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS – AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON
Beate Jahn, PhD, James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH, Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP, Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, SD and Sally Brailsford, MSc PhD
AM4
MICROSOFT EXCEL: BASIC SKILLS FOR EFFICIENCY AND MODELING
Gregory S. Zaric, PhD, Lauren E. Cipriano, BSc, BA, PhD Candidate, Eva Enns, MS, PhD Candidate and David W. Hutton, PhD
AM5
INCORPORATING QUALITY OF LIFE INTO ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS: HEALTH UTILITIES MEASUREMENT
Feng Xie, PhD and Eleanor Pullenayegum, PhD
AM6
INTRODUCTION TO DESIGNING EVIDENCE-BASED PATIENT DECISION AIDS
Deb Feldman-Stewart, PhD and Arwen H. Pieterse, PhD
AM7
BASIC PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
Robert M. Hamm, PhD, Marieke De Vries, PhD and Jef Van den Ende, PhD
AM8
PROPENSITY SCORE METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CAUSAL TREATMENT EFFECTS USING OBSERVATIONAL DATA
Peter C. Austin, Phd
AM9
THE THRESHOLD TECHNIQUE: HOW DOES THIS RESEARCH METHOD WORK ANYWAY?
R. Trafford Crump, PhD
AM10
METHODS FOR BUILDING ARCHIMEDES-TYPE MODELS
David Eddy, MD, PhD

9:00 AM-5:30 PM

Pre-Meeting Short Courses - Full Day
FD1
INTRODUCTION TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION MODELS
Beate Sander, RN, MBA, MEcDev, David N. Fisman, MD, MPH and Amy L. Greer, PhD
FD2
META-ANALYSIS: STATISTICAL METHODS FOR COMBINING THE RESULTS OF INDEPENDENT STUDIES
Ingram Olkin, PhD and Thomas A. Trikalinos, MD, PhD
FD3
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF PERSON-LEVEL COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS
Jeffrey Hoch, PhD, Elisabeth A.L. Fenwick, PhD and Katia Noyes, PhD
FD4
AN INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS IN HEALTH CARE
Dean A. Regier, PhD, John F.P. Bridges, PhD and Deborah Marshall, PhD
FD5
NICE DECISION MAKING
Sarah Davis, MPhys, Jonathan Michaels, MB BChir MA, MChir, Mark Sculpher, PhD, Ken Stein, MB ChB MSc, Matt Stevenson, PhD and Francis Ruiz, BSc GradDip PSychol MSc

2:00 PM-5:30 PM

Pre-Meeting Short Courses - PM Half Day
PM1
HOW-TO HANDS-ON WORKSHOP: PRESENTATION SKILLS
M.G. Myriam Hunink, MD, PhD and Tessa S.S. Genders, MSc
PM2
QUANTIFYING BENEFIT-RISK TRADEOFF PREFERENCES FOR REGULATORY DECISION MAKING
F. Reed Johnson, PhD and A. Brett Hauber, PhD
PM3
INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION FOR HEALTHCARE
James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH
PM4
PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING II: MODELING JUDGMENT, THE BRUNSWIKIAN APPROACH
Robert S. Wigton, M.D., M.S, Thomas G. Tape, M.D, Robert M. Hamm, PhD and Esther Kaufmann, PhD
PM5
ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT IN CLINICAL TRIALS
Henry Glick, PhD and Jalpa Doshi, PhD
PM6
CAUSAL INFERENCE AND CAUSAL DIAGRAMS IN MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, SD
PM7
GENERATING AND USING ELICITED EVIDENCE FOR DECISION MODELS
Laura Bojke, PhD, MSc, BA and Marta Soares, Msc
PM8
EVIDENCE-BASED DIAGNOSIS (ROC CURVES, INTERVAL LIKELIHOOD RATIOS AND BEYOND)
Michael A. Kohn, MD, MPP and Thomas B. Newman, MD, MPH
PM9
MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES - ANALYTIC METHODS FOR SEQUENTIAL DECISIONS
Andrew Schaefer, PhD, Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP and Lisa Maillart, PhD
PM10
MICROSOFT EXCEL: ADVANCED SKILLS FOR EFFICIENCY AND MODELING
Gregory S. Zaric, PhD, David W. Hutton, PhD, Lauren E. Cipriano, BSc, BA, PhD Candidate and Eva Enns, MS, PhD Candidate