Biometrics
Award Nominations, Abstract
Submissions Sought
Edited by Ralitza Gueorguieva, Biometrics Section Publications Officer
of the current year or be enrolled as a doctoral student in statistics
or biostatistics and in active pursuit of a doctoral degree. They also
must be current members of the ASA Biometrics Section and first
author of the paper submitted. (Membership in the ASA does not
automatically confer section membership. Applicants may join at
the time of submission for a $3 annual membership fee.) The paper
may be submitted to a journal or be under review, but may not
have appeared online or in print at the time of the application or
have been accepted for publication as of January 1, 2009. Finally,
applicants must be scheduled to present the submitted paper at JSM
2009 in Washington, DC, as a talk or poster presentation.
Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to submit their
abstracts to the Biometrics Section. Application materials should
consist of the following in electronic format:
Cover letter certifying that the applicant meets the eligibility
requirements
A
bstract submission opens December 1 for contributed and
topic-contributed papers for JSM 2009, which will be held Current CV
August 1–6 in Washington, DC. All abstracts are due
Copy of the finished paper (drafts are not acceptable)
February 2. See
www.amstat.org/meetings for more information.
Topic-contributed sessions are a nice alternative to contributed
Applicants are invited to submit one copy each of supplemen-
sessions because the sessions are organized around a central topic,
tary published or in-press papers if they compose a body of sci-
the talks are longer (20 minutes, rather than 15), and one can have
entific work related to the paper to be presented. If these are not
discussants as well as regular talks. Typically, sessions consist of either
available electronically, contact Jeremy Taylor, chair of the 2009
five speakers or four speakers and a discussant. 2009 JSM Biometrics
Biometrics Section Awards Committee, at
jmgt@umich.edu. All
Section Program Chair Wensheng Guo is collecting proposals for
materials, including the paper, must be submitted electronically on
topic-contributed talks. If you are interested in organizing a topic-
or before March 1, 2009.
contributed session, contact him at
wguo@mail.med.upenn.edu. While
the deadline for submitting topic-contributed session abstracts is also
Transition Between Section Officers
February 2, proposals should be sent to Guo as early as possible. With the arrival of 2009, we will have a new set of officers.
First, there are a number of transitions involving the past chair,
Byar Award
current chair, chair-elect, and chair-elect-elect. (The numer-
Do you know a young investigator who is planning to submit ous chair positions are needed to distribute the workload—
an abstract for JSM 2009? If so, you may wish to tell him or and hopefully the corresponding credit—of the overall chair
her that the ASA Biometrics Section is seeking nominations for position.) To start the line of succession, current past chair
the 2009 David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. This annual Tom Ten Have will be replaced by Jeremy Taylor, who will
award is given to a young investigator for best emerging work be replaced by Daniel Heitjan, leaving the chair-elect slot to
to be presented at JSM. The award is in memory of David Byar, Barry Graubard.
who made significant contributions to the development and The transition for the remaining officer positions is a little less
application of statistical methods and was esteemed as an excep- confusing: Jianwen Cai to Thomas Belin (secretary/treasurer); Ralitza
tional mentor during his career at the National Cancer Institute. Gueorguieva to Page Moore (publications officer); Mahlet Tadesse to
The winner will receive a $1,000 award. Gerald Heatley (continuing education chair); and Amita Manatunga
In addition to the Byar Award, the section may provide travel to Denise Roe (Council of Sections representative). Additionally,
awards to the authors of other outstanding papers submitted to the Jinbo Chen will be our program chair for the 2009 ENAR meeting
Byar award competition. and Wensheng Guo will be our program chair for JSM 2009.
Applicants must have held a doctorate in statistics, biostatistics, For more information, visit
www.bio.ri.ccf.org/Biometrics/
or a related quantitative field for three or fewer years as of April 1 officers.html. n
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