SORA-TABA-Dalla Lana School of Public Health Biostatistics Research Day Poster Presentations
On June 17th and 18th the Division of Biostatistics held its first ever Virtual Poster Presentations during its annual Biostatistics Research Day. There were forty-five posters presented over the two-day event by graduate students, primarily from Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), but from elsewhere in Canada too. The event, chaired by Tony Panzarella (MSc Program Director and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics), was organized by a committee that included core and status faculty, administrative staff, student alumni and current students. A list of the organizing committee members, abstracts and other program details can be found online in the 2020 SORA-TABA-DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day Poster Presentation program booklet.
A panel of judges was tasked with evaluating each poster presentation and selecting three award winners. The winners, announced shortly after the final session, were: 1st prize: Yuan Bian “Hypothesis Testing in Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Outcomes”; 2nd prize: Pai-Shan Cheng “Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs for the Management of Pain Due to Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis: Network Meta-Analysis with Gaussian Random Walk Model”; and 3rd prize: Boxi Lin “Genome-wide Association Study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infectious in Cystic Fibrosis”. Honourable mentions went to Madeline Ward, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph and Linda Luu, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto.
The awards are named after Professor Emeritus Paul Corey. Professor Corey thanked everyone involved and commented how impressed he was by the high quality of the presentations. Professor Wendy Lou, Division Head of Biostatistics at DLSPH, thanked Professor Corey for his support, and the organizing committee for their hard work. The poster presentations are usually held in-person as part of the annual joint event of DLSPH with the Southern Ontario Regional Association (SORA) of the Statistical Society of Canada and The Applied Biostatistics Association (TABA), the SORA-TABA-DLSPH Workshop and DLSPH Biostatistical Research Day. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the poster presentations were held virtually, and the workshop has been postponed to the fall.
Congratulations to all involved!
If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Rosner at biostat.dlsph@utoronto.ca.
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