Annual Report 2008.pdf - SAMSI

X. Program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory Perception, Policy &
Practice Workshop
Schedule
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Radisson Hotel RTP
Room H, 3 rd Floor
8:00 – 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome: Nell Sedransk, SAMSI and NISS
8:45 – 9:45 Opening Speaker
“Encounters with Risk PPP During a Career in Operations Research”
Stephen Pollock, University of Michigan
Environmental Risk
9:45 – 10:45 “Incorporating Historical Control Data When Comparing Tumor Incidence Rates”
Shyamal Pedadda, NIEHS
10:45 – 11:15 Break
“Bayesian Semiparametric Density Regression: Applications to Risk Assessment in
Epidemiology”
David Dunson, Duke University
11:15 – 12:15 “Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Environmental Toxicology”
John Green, Dupont
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch
“Association Analyses of Bivariate Competing Risks Data”
Yu Cheng, University of Pittsburgh
1:30 – 2:30 “Weighing Multiple Risks in an Epidemiological Study”
Amy Herring, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
2:30 – 3:00 Break
“Quantile Regression: Overview and Applications to Risk Assessment“
Judy Wang, North Carolina State University
Drug, Biomarker and Pharmaceutical Risk
3:00 – 4:30 “Clinical Validation of Prognostic Biomarkers of Risk and Predictive Biomarkers of
Drug Efficacy or Safety”
Gene Pennello, FDA
4:30 Discussion
“Bias Correction in Pharmaceutical Risk Assessment”
Bob Obenchain, Eli Lilly
“Risk Analysis in Drug Approval”
Todd Durham, Inspire