Statistics in Epidemiology
Paper Submission Deadline Nears
Dylan Small, Section Publications Officer
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re you graduating this year, or did travel to the 2009 meetings up to $500.
you graduate in May 2004 or later? Applicants must be members of the ASA.
Are you planning to submit an For both awards, the criteria for assess-
abstract to the Joint Statistical Meetings? ment of papers include the following:
The Section on Statistics in
Overall quality of the work and statisti-
Epidemiology (SIE) encourages current
cal methodological value
students and recent graduates who plan
to present at JSM 2009 to submit their
Innovation and creativity
talks as papers to be considered for the
Substantive impact of the method
SIE Young Investigator Award and SIE
Graduate Student Award.
Relevance to the discipline of
The SIE Young Investigator Award of epidemiology
$750 and a certificate will go to the best paper
Preference will be given to papers with
presented by a ‘young investigator’ at a JSM
both methodological contributions and
2009 session. The award will be presented at
substantive epidemiological applications.
the SIE business meeting. At the discretion of
Jointly authored papers are acceptable,
the award committee, additional runner-up
but the applicant must be the lead author
prizes also may be awarded, with emphasis on
and present the work at JSM 2009. (Note
recognizing outstanding work by current stu- later) from a master’s or doctoral program in
that the presentation does not have to be
dents of statistics or biostatistics. Applicants these departments.
in a session sponsored by the Section on
must be members of the ASA and graduate The SIE Graduate Student Award is
Statistics in Epidemiology.)
students in statistics, biostatistics, or epide- for current graduate students (graduating
To be eligible for consideration, applicants
miology or recent graduates (May 2004 or May 2009 or later) to cover expenses for
should do the following:
Submit an abstract online by February
2, 2009, at 3 p.m. EST for JSM 2009
Send the completed paper with a cover
letter requesting consideration for the
SIE Young Investigator Award by June
1, 2009, to Amy Herring, Program
Chair, Department of Biostatistics,
CB #7420, School of Public Health,
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599;
aherring@bios.unc.edu.
‘09 Topic-Contributed Sessions
The Statistics in Epidemiology Section
welcomes organization of topic-contribut-
ed sessions. These sessions consist of five
20-minute presentations (one of which can
be a discussant) organized around a com-
mon theme. Each speaker must submit an
abstract by the February 2 deadline, but
indicate it is part of a topic-contributed
session. The name of the session orga-
nizer must be included online at the time
of abstract submission. Individuals who
wish to organize topic-contributed sessions
should contact Amy Herring, section pro-
gram chair, at
aherring@bios.unc.edu. n
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