SECTION NEWS
Biometrics
Award Winners Announced, JSM 2010
Preparations Begin
edited by Page moore, Biometrics section Publications Officer
significant contributions to the develop- 10-minute invited discussion and 10
Byar Award Committee
ment and application of statistical meth- minutes of floor discussion. However,
Katie Kerr
ods during his career at the National other formats are possible. The 2009
Cancer Institute. program is a good source for examples.
University of washington
Final program decisions must be made
Kathy Cronin
JSM 2010
by September 9, so submit your ideas no
National Cancer Institute
It is time to start thinking about invited later than September 2.
sessions for next year’s Joint Statistical In addition to session proposals
Paul Vos
Meetings, which will be held August centered on biometrical methodol-
east Carolina University
1–5 in Vancouver, British Columbia, ogy, session proposals on biometrical
Canada. Anyone who is interested in applications to nontraditional topics
Jeremy Taylor organizing an invited session or who has
are encouraged. Examples include
University of michigan
ideas for one should contact the section’s biometry in health and human rights,
2010 program chair, Hormuzd Katki, at biometry and global health issues, and
Daniel Heitjan
katkih@mail.nih.gov. biometry and aspects of comparative
University of Pennsylvania A typical invited session consists effectiveness research. n
of three 30-minute talks followed by a
Barry Graubard
National Cancer Institute
S
onja Greven, a post-doctoral fel-
low in the Department of
Biostatistics at The Johns Hopkins
University, was recently named the win-
ner of the David P. Byar Young
Investigator Award. She received a
$1,000 award for her paper, “On the
Behavior of Marginal and Conditional
Akaike Information Criteria in Linear
Mixed Models,” which she presented at
JSM in Washington, DC.
Also given was a travel award of
$500, which went to Xiaoxi Zhang of
Pfizer for “Longitudinal Image Analysis
of Tumor/Brain Change in Contrast
Uptake Induced by Radiation.”
Certificates and plaques commemo-
rating the awards were given to Greven
and Zhang during the Biometrics Section
mixer and business meeting at JSM.
The David P. Byar Young Investigator
Award is given annually by the Biometrics
Section to a new researcher and section
member who presents an original man-
uscript at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
The award commemorates David Byar,
a renowned biostatistician who made
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