issues with people who share com-
The 8th International
mon interests. (Note: If you are a joint
SPES/QP member and logged into the
conference on Health
AsA Community early, you may have
Policy Statistics
found that your SPES community was
limited to other joint members. The
Quantitative insights and advances in
ASA technical staff have fixed this bug,
health policy analysis
so you should now have access to all
The 8th International Conference on Health Policy statistics (ICHPs),
members of both SPES and QP.)
organized by the Health Policy statistics section, will be held at the
The reality of being chair, or any
Fairmont Hotel in washington, DC, January 20–22. the deadline to register
other officer, is that it is much like being
for the conference is January 4, 2010.
in a relay race. Just as I had the baton
smoothly passed to me by Bill Notz,
In line with the American statistical Association’s recent initiatives to
who got it from Jen Van Mullekom,
further its efforts at engaging policymakers and other stakeholders in the
I will hand it off soon to Russ Lenth,
health policy arena, ICHPs 2010 will focus entirely on quantitative analysis
who will pass it to Phil Scinto. This is
of data related to policy issues. to view the program or to register, visit
good news for all of us, because Russ
www.amstat.org/meetings/ichps/2010. Highlights include the following:
and Phil are both excellent people
who have served the profession often
Plenary Speaker—January 21
and well. They come from different
Carolyn Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
backgrounds and will bring diverse
experiences and perspectives into the
Invited Sessions—January 21–22
leadership of SPES. I look forward to Mixed-Treatment Meta-Analysis for Promoting Comparative Effectiveness
working with both of them next year Research
(and then watching them both work
Novel Methods for using Decision Models in Economic Evaluation and
from a safe distance).
Research Priority setting in Health Care
While I’m on the subject of offi-
cers, I want to heartily thank those who
statistical Issues in Drug safety
served with me this year. Special person-
Incorporating Adaptive/Dynamic Treatment strategies in Clinical Trial Designs
al thanks go to Bill Notz, who endured
frequent contacts from me early in my
The Magic with Missing Data Methods: Is There More to the Prestige?
term as I worked to get my bearings. Data Confidentiality: Do we Really want to Disturb a sleeping Bear?
Bill, along with every other officer,
Beyond simple Randomized trials: Health services Research within the VA
does this job on a volunteer basis. All
Healthcare system
of the officers I’ve known are atten-
tive to the requirements of their posi-
Modeling Efforts to Inform Healthcare Initiatives and Policy
tions, and many willingly take on extra
Topic-contributed Sessions—January 21
responsibilities as issues come up that
don’t fall naturally into someone’s job
modern methods in Health Disparities Research
description. If you like what we’ve been
Quantitative Models for Health Care Reform
doing for you, check out the officer list
at
www.amstat.org/sections/spes and zip Symposium on comparative effectiveness research—
one of us a note of thanks. If you don’t January 22
like what we’ve been doing for you, zip
Putting the Research Into Comparative Effectiveness Research
me a note and suggest what we could
do better. We’re here for you, after all,
Workshops—January 20
and all of us would like to make this
section serve its members in the best
Bayesian Adaptive methods for Clinical trials
way possible. Better still, volunteer Estimating Treatment Effects using Longitudinal Observational Data
to serve the section in some capacity.
Reducing the Impact of selection Bias with Propensity scores
We are always looking to inject fresh
ideas into the section executive team
microsimulation modeling
and have lots of roles that can be filled,
Cluster Randomized trials in Health Policy Research
from entry-level to leadership.
(Free) the medical expenditure Panel survey (mePs): A National Data
Thank you for giving me the oppor-
tunity to serve the section. I wish you
Resource to Inform Health Policy
all the best of luck in 2010. n
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