CONFERENCE
on INNOVATIONS in TRAUMA RESEARCH METHODS
November 3-4, 2006
Hollywood, CA
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
November
3, 2006
| 7:15
- 8:15 |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST | |
| 8:15
- 8:30 |
WELCOME AND ORIENTATION TO CITRM 2006 | CITRM Executive Planning Committee: Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH; Elisa Triffleman, MD; Lynda King, RN, PhD; Daniel King, PhD |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | OPENING PLENARY: Methodological Issues in Conducting Psychotherapy Research | Paula Schnurr, PhD, Editor, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Deputy Executive Director, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD, and Research Professor, Dartmouth University Medical School |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 (concurrent session) | New Ideas in Clinical Trial Design: Equipoise Stratification and Adaptive Treatment Strategies | Philip Lavori, PhD,Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 10:30 - 12:00 (concurrent session) | Ethics
Panel The Ethics of Asking and Not Asking About Trauma |
Kathryn
Becker Blease, PhD, Researcher, Instructor,
Department of Psychology, Washington State University Vancouver
Jennifer Freyd, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon Ann DePrince, PhD,
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Denver |
| 12:15 - 1:15 | SIT-DOWN LUNCH | |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Why Doesn’t a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Tell You If Something Is Cost-Effective? Suggestions About How and Why to Do a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Jeffrey Hoch, PhD, The Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Associate Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Adherence Panel Adherence, Alliance, and Concordance: Methodological Aspects of a Thorny Problem |
Facilitator:
Elisa Triffleman, MD Jacques Barber, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania Center for Psychotherapy Research, and President-Elect, Society for Psychotherapy Research Sally Shumaker, PhD, Associate Dean for Research, Professor, Public Health Sciences and Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University, Director, Intercampus & Community Program Development Charles Marmar, MD, Professor in
Residence and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF, Chief
of Staff, Mental Health, San Francisco VA Medical Center |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Use of Hierarchical Linear Modeling Methods in Analysis of Intensive Repeated Measures Data
Modeling Intensive Longitudinal Data to
Examine Chronic Fluctuation in PTSD: Multilevel Time Series Analysis |
Nigel
Field, PhD, Pacific Graduate School
of Psychology, Palo Alto, CA
Eve Carlson, PhD, Research Health Science Specialist, Education and Clinical Laboratory Division of the National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Susan Doron-LaMarca, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, New Longitudinal Methods for Trauma Research, National Center for PTSD, Boston University School of Medicine Barbara Niles, PhD, Staff Psychologist,
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston
University School of Medicine |
| 5:15-6:15 | Poster Session | |
| 5:15-7:00 | RECEPTION/HORS D'OEUVRE BUFFET | |
November 4, 2006
| 7:30 - 8:30 | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST | |
| 8:30 - 10:00 (concurrent session) | Brainstorming
Session What are the Important Questions in Resilience Research, and What are the Methods Needed to Answer Them? |
Steve Southwick, PhD, Yale University, National Center for PTSD Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, Assistant
Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Department of Family
Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
|
| 8:30 - 10:00 (concurrent session) | Item Response Theory in Trauma Research (IRT): An Introduction to Methods and Applications | Patrick
Palmieri, PhD,
Summa Health System, Kent State University, Kent, OH |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Career Development
Panel K Awards: The Ins and Outs of Career Development Grants |
Facilitator:
Elisa Triffleman, MD
Dawn Johnson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Kent State University, and Clinic Coordinator, Summa-Kent State Center for Treatment and Study of Traumatic Stress Raj Morey, MD, MS, Clinical Associate,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University,
and Neuroimaging Core Director, Mental Illness Research Dorie Glover, PhD, Assistant Professor
in Residence, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences,
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Old Problems, New Solutions
to Design and Analysis in Longitudinal Trauma Research |
John McArdle, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California, Co-Director, Longitudinal Research Institute, Charlottesville, VA 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
|
| 12:15 - 1:15 | LUNCH | |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | The Central Role of Confounding in Observational Research—Theory, Examples, and Adjustment Methods | Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of Research, Division of Aging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | The Challenge of Constructing Instruments that Measure the Impact of Traumatic Events
Measuring Trauma Severity |
Sandy
McFarlane, MB BS, MD, FRANZCP,
Dip. Psychother, Professor of Psychology,
University of Adelaide, Head of the Centre of Military and Veterans’
Health
Andrew Rasmussen, PhD, New York University School of Medicine, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture Barry Rosenfeld, PhD, Fordham University |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3:15 - 4:45 | New Statistical Methods for Analyzing Categories and Dimensions of Diagnostic Criteria | Bengt Muthen, PhD, Professor, Social Research Methodology Program, Graduate School of Education and Information Systems, UCLA |
| 3:15 - 4:45 | Qualitative Methods for Trauma Research with Culturally Diverse Populations | Carl Auerbach, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, NY |
| 4:45 - 5:15 | Closing Session Lessons Learned and Future Challenges |
ALL CONFERENCE ATTENDEES |