School of Statistics

First Joint Biostatistics Symposium
Abstract Submission and Registration Information

(The first round of notification)

In recent years, research design and data analysis have received widespread attention due to advancements in various areas of biostatistical research. To foster dialogue among biostatisticians from mainland China and abroad, as well as to promote an interdisciplinary approach for research, Renmin University of China, the Chinese Association of Applied Statistics, Chinese Association of Health Metrics and Evaluation, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies Clinical Trials Evaluation Committee, International Chinese Statistical Association, in collaboration with other renowned organizations, are jointly hosting the First Joint Biostatistics Symposium in July, 2010 in Beijing, China. The upcoming Symposium will focus on statistical methods and their applications in basic medicine, clinical medicine, public health and preventive medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, health economics, and statistical methods in bioinformatics. We encourage and welcome the participation of scholars and experts in related fields.

Hosted by

• Renmin University of China, School of Statistics
• China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guang'anmen Hospital’s Clinical Research Center
• State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of China, Clinical Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Chinese Association for Applied Statistics, Biomedical Statistics Society
• University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics

Sponsors

• Renmin University of China
• Chinese Association for Applied Statistics 
• Chinese Association of Health Metrics and Evaluation 
• World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies’ Clinical Trials Evaluation Committee
• International Chinese Statistical Association

Co-sponsors

• Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Chinese Society of Preventive Medicine’s Health Statistics Committee 
• Chinese Preventative Medicine Association’s Division of Epidemiology
• Chinese Medical Association’s Division of Clinical Epidemiology
• Chinese Center for Health Statistics and Information’s Statistics Education Committee 
• Chinese Center for Health Statistics and Information’s Public Health Information Committee
• Chinese Center for Health Statistics and Information’s Medical Statistics Committee
• Chinese Center for Health Statistics and Information’s Statistical Theory and Methods Committee
• Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University
• Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics
• American Statistical Association Section on Health Policy Statistics
• Department of Veterans Affairs Statisticians’ Association (VASA)

Website

http://www.biostats.org/english.action

Principal Topics

• Special Topic Seminars
  - Statistical issues in medicine and public health
• Clinical Trials
  - Latest clinical trials design
• Bioinformatics
• Statistical Methods in Medical Research
• Statistical Methods in traditional Chinese medicine
• Statistical Methods in Disease Prevention and Control
• Genetic Association Studies
• Biostatistics Education

Please download the tentative invited sessions with their speakers.

Symposium Agenda

• October 1, 2009 to May 30, 2010: Paper submission period
• 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM on July 15, 2010:  Symposium registration and training course check-in
• 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on July 16, 2010:  Ongoing Symposium registration and short training courses
• July 17 to July 18, 2010: Symposium. Details TBA.

Short Course Training

1. Design and statistical methods in pragmatic RCT
2. Design and statistical methods in new drug clinical trial
3. Spatial epidemiology and statistical methods
4. Statistical methods in observational studies

Registration Fee for Short Course Training

• Representatives from HK, Taiwan and other countries:$30/module
• Representatives from mainland China (students included):150RMB/module

Keynote Speakers

• Ross Prentice, Ph.D
  Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
  Director of Division of Public Health Sciences
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
• Mark P. Becker, Ph.D
  Professor of Statistics, President of Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
• Professor Boli Zhang
  President of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering
• Professor Kaitai Fang
  Beijing Normal University ,United International College, Hong Kong Baptist University

Call for papers

1. Requirements:

1. The paper should include abstract (500 words both in English and Chinese) or full text(less than 8000 words).name of the author ,positional titles, work unit, address, postal code, phone number(cell phone) and e-mail.
2. The name of your paper or subject of e-mail should mark “First Joint Biostatistics Symposium+ topic+ work unit+ name”.
3. If private contents involved, please keep your privacy by yourselves. 
4. Papers due on May 30, 2010

2. Selection of Papers

The program committee will discuss on the papers for this symposium, select the best ones and recommend them for possible publication in both Chinese and English journals, such as Statistic in Medicine and Statistic in Biosciences.

Selected papers will be also published as a proceeding of the symposium; if your papers are selected, and you are interested in publiching them in the proceeding, please submit your English and Chinese abstract and full text; another announcement will be made for the publication charges.

3. Please keep original manuscript yourselves, the program committee has right to edit them.

Symposium Location

Renmin University of China ,Beijing, China 

Registration Fees

Basic

• 260 USD per person for overseas (including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) participants
• 100 USD per person for overseas student participants (please present a valid student ID at time of registration)
• 1,000 RMB for mainland China participants
• 500 RMB for Chinese student participants (please present your Chinese student ID at time of registration)

Notes:Please check the procedure of registration and payment for this conference in the second round of notification.

How to Register

Note: The registration deadline is June 30, 2010.

All Symposium participants will receive a government issued Grade A certificate in Continuing Education in Medicine.

Contact Information

Mr. Chang Liu

• Address:59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District ,Renmin University of China ,School of Statistics ,Beijing, China 100872 
• Telephone: (010) 82500131  
• E-mail: liuchang@ruc.edu.cn

Ms. Xiaoxiao Wen

• Address: 5 Beixian Court, Xuanwu District ,China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine ,Guang'anmen Hospital's Clinical Research Center ,Beijing, China 100053
• Telephone: (010) 88001446
• E-mail: wenxiaoxiao1982@163.com

Note

Please make your own hotel and transportation arrangements.

Formal invitation letters are available upon request from the External Affairs committee during the conference time frame.

However, we provide relevant information in terms of the hotel with discount and other beneficial conditions for this meeting. At present, hotels that have signed beneficial contracts with us are listed as below:

• Beijing Yanshan Hotel
• Ariva Beijing West hotel&Serviced Apartment

Please download the attachment which includes information about hotel offers and reservation contact information.

Xiao-Hua (Andrew) Zhou
Co-Chair,2010 Program Committee
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington

Danhui Yi
Co-Chair, 2010 Program Committee
School of Statistics
Renmin University of China

Xiao-Hua (Andrew) Zhou
Co-Chair, Scientific Committee
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington

Zhi Geng
Co-Chair, Scientific Committee
Department of Probability and Statistics
Peking University

Appendix

List of Program Committee of the 2010 Joint Biostatistics Symposium

Chairmen

• Danhui Yi Professor
  School of Statistics, Renmin University of China
• Xiaohua Zhou Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington

Committee Members(Ordered by the Initial of the Family Name)

• Jianwen Cai Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Tianxi Cai Associate Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University
• Ivan Chan Merck Company
  Chen-Hsin Chen Research Fellow
  Institute of Statistics, Academic Sinica
• Pingyan Chen Professor
  Teaching and Research Section of Health Statistics, Southern Medical University
• Zhi Geng Professor
  School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University
• Jia He Professor
  Teaching and Research Section of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University
• Jingqing Hu Professor
  Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Sciences
• Shuigao Jin Researcher
  Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention
• Hongzhe Lee (Li) Professor
  Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylavia
• Gang Li Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of California at Los Angeles
• Kang Li Professor
  Harbin Medical University
• Xiaosong Li Professor
  West China Medical University
• Zhaohai Li Professor
  Department of Statistics, George Washington University
• Hua Liang Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, Rochester University
• Xihong Lin Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University
• Baoyan Liu Professor
  Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
• Bin Nan Associate Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
• Peter Song Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
• Jane-Ling Wang Professor
  Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis
• Naisyin Wang (ICSA Representative) Professor
  Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
• Wubao Wang Doctor Merck & Co
• Lan Wang,   Associate Professor
  School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
• Jielai Xia Professor
  Teaching and Research Section of Health Statistics, Fourth Military Medical University
• Bangchang Xie Professor
  Department of Statistics and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University
• Chen Yao Professor
  Peking University First Hospital
• Danhui Yi Professor
  School of Statistics, Renmin University of China
• Dong Yi Professor
  School of Public Health and Prevention, Third Military Medical University
• Paul S.F. Yip Professor 
  Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong
• Shicheng Yu Researcher
  Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention
• Heping Zhang Professor
  Division of Biostatistics, Yale University 
• Zhongzhan Zhang Professor
  School of Mathematical and Physical Science, Beijing University of Technology
• Naiqing Zhao Professor
  School of Pubic Health, Fudan University
• Chuan Zhou Assistant Professor
  Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington
• Xiaohua Zhou Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
• Yong Zhou Researcher
  Academy of Mathematics &System Science, China Academy of Sciences

List of Scientific Committee of the 2010 Joint Biostatistics Symposium

Chairmen

• Zhi Geng Professor
  School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University
• Xiaohua Zhou Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington

Committee Members(Ordered by the Initial of the Family Name)

• Zhi Geng Professor
  School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University
• Jingqing Hu Professor
  Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Sciences
• Shuigao Jin Researcher
  Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention
• Kang Li Professor
  Harbin Medical University
• Xiaosong Li Professor
  West China Medical University
• Xihong Lin Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
• Baoyan Liu Professor
  Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
• Chen Yao Professor
  Peking University First Hospital
• Danhui Yi Professor
  School of Statistics, Renmin University of China
• Dong Yi Professor
  School of Public Health and Prevention, Third Military Medical University
• Naiqing Zhao Professor
  School of Pubic Health, Fudan University
• Xiaohua Zhou Professor
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington