CONFERENCE
on INNOVATIONS in TRAUMA RESEARCH METHODS
November 17-18, 2004
New Orleans, LA
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
November
17, 2004
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Welcome and Orientation to CITRM 2004 | CITRM Executive Planning Committee: Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH; Elisa Triffleman, MD; Lynda King, RN, PhD; Daniel King, PhD |
| 8:45 - 9:25 | Opening Plenary: "Disaster Research: Past Innovations and Future Directions." | Fran Norris, PhD, Research Associate, Executive Division, National Center for PTSD, and Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School |
| 9:30 - 10:45 (concurrent session) | Statistics Workshop: "New longitudinal methods for trauma research" | Daniel King, PhD, and Lynda King, PhD, Research Professors, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Boston University, and Research Psychologists, National Center for PTSD and Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center |
| 9:30 - 10:45 (concurrent session) | Measurement Workshop: "Key issues in assessing exposure to psychological trauma" | Frank Weathers, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Auburn University |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 - 12:30 (concurrent session) | Bayesian Statistical Methods: What Are They And How Can They Improve Trauma Research? | Dalene Stangl, PhD, Professor and Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University. |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Research Career Development Workshop: "Having the time of your life: Time management for busy people" | Jayne Thorson, PhD, Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Director of Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan Medical School |
| 12:45 - 1:45 | Sit down lunch | |
| 2:00 - 3:15 (concurrent session) | Pathways to Publication: "The Writer's Task Force Model" | Joseph Guydish, PhD Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco |
| 2:00 - 3:15 (concurrent session) | Brainstorming Session: "What are the important questions in disaster research, and what methods are needed to answer them?" | Facilitator: Terence Keane, PhD, Associate Chief of Staff for Research & Development, VA Boston Healthcare System, Director, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD, Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | Coffee break | |
| 3:45 - 5:15 | Methodological Think Tank: Sampling the Right People in the Right Places |
Rafael Gabriel Sanchez MD, PhD, Director, Clinical Epidemiology Department, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid Laura Ferrando MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Universidad de Alcalá., Madrid Linda
B. Bourque, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Public
Health and Disasters, Associate Director, Southern California
Injury Prevention Research Center, and Professor, Department of
Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University
of California/Los Angeles |
| 6:30 - 8:00 | Reception: Complimentary hot hors doeuvres; cash bar | |
November 18, 2004
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 - 9:45(concurrent session) | Design and Measurement Workshop: "Measuring and modeling the social and geographic context of trauma" | Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health, Harvard School of Public Health |
| 8:30 - 9:45(concurrent session) | Research Career Development Panel Discussion: "Advancing your trauma research career: Providence, pearls, pratfalls, and pitfalls" | Moderator:
Karestan C. Koenen,
PhD, Assistant Professor,
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development,
and Health. David Foy, PhD, Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University Paula Schnurr, PhD, Deputy Executive Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Center for PTSD and Research Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School Glenn Saxe, MD, Boston University School of Medicine and Center for Medical and Refugee Trauma, and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Boston Medical Center Grant Marshall, PhD, Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA Ned Rodriguez, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Trauma Research Consultant, Santa Monica, California. |
| 9:45- 10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15 - 11:45 | Interpreting Ethical Principles Appropriately To The Context: Trauma Research In The Setting Of Chaos. | Joan Sieber, PhD, Psychologist and Professor Emerita, California State University/Hayward |
| 12: 00 - 1:00 | Box lunch | |
| 1:15 - 2:45 | Web-Based Sampling Methods in Disaster Research: "Opportunities and Challenges" | William
Schlenger, PhD, Director, Center for Risk Behavior and Mental
Health Research, Research Triangle Institute Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior and Department of Medicine, University of California/Irvine. |
| 2:45 - 3:15 | Coffee break | |
| 3:15 - 4:15 | Closing Session: "Lessons learned and future challenges" | Fran Norris, PhD, and Lynda King, PhD |