Pre-Meeting Short Courses

Sunday, October 18, 2015

9:00 AM-12:30 PM

Mills Studio 4
AM01   SMDM CORE COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL DECISION ANALYSIS (DECISION-ANALYTIC MODELING)
Ursula Rochau, MD, MSC
Sterling Studio 1
AM02   SMDM CORE COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO SHARED DECISION MAKING AND PATIENT DECISION AIDS
Mary Politi, PhD, Angela Fagerlin, PhD and Dominick Frosch, PhD
Mills Studio 6
AM04   ADVANCED TOPICS IN DECISION ANALYTIC MODELING
Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD and Elamin H. Elbasha, PhD
Mills Studio 5
AM07   DECISION MODELLING USING R
Petros Pechlivanoglou, MSc, PhD, Nicholas Mitsakakis, MSc PhD, Lusine Abrahamyan, MD MPH PhD and William W. L. Wong, Ph.D.
Mills Studio 8
AM08   MAKING BETTER DECISIONS IN CAUSAL ANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING AND BAYESIAN NETWORKS
Jarrod E. Dalton, PhD, Adam T. Perzynski, PhD and Joseph J. Sudano, PhD
Mills Studio 2
AM10   PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE DATA VISUALIZATION
Carrie Bennette, MPH, PhD and Catherine Richards, MPH, PhD
Mills Studio 7
AM11   AN INTRODUCTION TO MICROSIMULATION IN HEALTH-STATE TRANSITION MODELS
David Naimark, MD, MSc, BSc
Mills Studio 3
AM12   ISSUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF HEALTH CARE COST DATA
Nicholas Mitsakakis, MSc PhD

9:00 AM-5:30 PM

Mills Studio 1
FD1   A BEGINNERS’ GUIDE TO THE ART AND SCIENCE OF STATED-PREFERENCE METHODS
A. Brett Hauber, PhD and John F.P. Bridges, PhD

2:00 PM-5:30 PM

Mills Studio 4
PM01   SMDM CORE COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS
Jeffrey S. Hoch, PhD
Mills Studio 5
PM02   SMDM CORE COURSE: PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
Victoria A. Shaffer, PhD, Laura D. Scherer, PhD, Marieke de Vries, PhD and Negin Hajizadeh, MD, MPH
Mills Studio 6
PM03   WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO PATIENTS? USING TOOLS FROM MARKETING AND EDUCATION TO ASSESS DISPARATE PERSPECTIVES AND IMPROVE DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS
Nananda F. Col, MD, MPH, MPP, FACP, Geri Baumblatt, BA, MA, Jan Gollins, MBA and Danielle Walls, MA
Mills Studio 7
PM04   ANALYSING DECISION UNCERTAINTY TO INFORM FUNDING AND RESEARCH DECISIONS
Susan Griffin, PhD, Marta Soares, Msc, Elisabeth A.L. Fenwick, PhD and Christopher Parker, MSc
Sterling Studio 1
PM05   AN INTRODUCTION TO (PYTHON) PROGRAMMING FOR THE MEDICAL DECISION SCIENTIST
David Chartash, BEngSc, MHSc and William Bennett, MD
Sterling Studio 2
PM06   METHODS OF DISEASE MODEL CALIBRATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Ankur Pandya, PhD, Douglas Taylor, MBA and Vidit Munshi, MA
Mills Studio 8
PM07   INTRODUCTION TO AGENT-BASED SIMULATION MODELING
Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD and Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD
Mills Studio 2
PM10   INTRODUCTION TO IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE
Enola Proctor, PhD and Byron Powell, PhD
Mills Studio 3
PM15   VALUE OF INFORMATION ANALYSIS USING REGRESSION METAMODELING
Hawre Jalal, MD, MSc, PhD and Fernando Alarid-Escudero, MS