Congratulations to Tom Cook, Professor CHS, for his election as member of the 2022 Class of Fellows by the Society of Clinical Trials. He, and classmate Alexia Iasonos of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, will …
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Founding Chair Dave DeMets Spearheads Society for Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committee Initiative
The Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) launched a Data Monitoring Committee initiative, which was born out of the recognition that there is a dearth of people qualified to serve on Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs). BMI …
Clinical Trials Community of Practice: Pragmatic Clinical Trials
This month’s meeting focuses on “Pragmatic Clinical Trials”, and the guest speaker is Dr. Christopher John Lindsell, the Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Methods Program, and Co-director of the Vanderbilt …
Professor KyungMann Kim Lead Editor of Newly Published Clinical Trials Handbook
Professor KyungMann Kim, the director of BMI’s Clinical Trials Program, is the lead editor of the newly published “Handbook of Statistical Methods for Randomized Controlled Trials” from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. Professor Kim and fellow …
David L. Demets: Celebrating Half a Century of Excellence: The Final Analysis
Founding chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Dr. David L. DeMets, is retiring at the end of this year after a 50-year professional career. We are celebrating his contributions and retirement on …
Asst Prof Lu Mao receives 3-year NIH award to develop new statistical methods for use in clinical trials
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Lu Mao on the award of a $1.1M 3-year National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) award titled “Novel Statistical Methods for Complex Time-to-Event Data in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials. In clinical …