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CONFERENCE on INNOVATIONS in TRAUMA RESEARCH METHODS
November 6-7, 2005
Toronto, ON Canada

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

November 6, 2005

7:15 - 8:15	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:15 - 8:30	WELCOME AND ORIENTATION TO CITRM 2005	CITRM Executive Planning Committee: Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH; Elisa Triffleman, MD; Lynda King, RN, PhD; Daniel King, PhD
8:30 - 10:00	OPENING PLENARY: "LONGITUDINAL STUDIES IN PTSD: A CLINICIAN-RESEARCHER PERSPECTIVE"	Arieh Shalev, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress, Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem
10:00 - 10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 12:00 (concurrent session)	"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 Associate Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
10:30 - 12:00 (concurrent session)	"SURVIVAL ANALYSIS: FROM LOG-RANK TEST TO COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS REGRESSION"	Lonni Schultz, PhD Senior Research Biostatistician, Henry Ford Health System
10:30 - 12:00 (concurrent session)	"PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN MULTILEVEL RANDOM COEFFICIENTS REGRESSION FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA: CHOICE OF MODEL, PREPARATION OF DATA, AND APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE" (SUBMITTED PRESENTATION)	Susan Doron-LaMarca, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, New Longitudinal Methods for Trauma Research, National Center for PTSD, Boston University School of Medicine Dawne Vogt, PhD Research Psychologist, Women's Health Sciences Division, National Center for PTSD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine
12:15 - 1:15	SIT-DOWN LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00	"USE OF ECOLOGICAL PROXIMAL ASSESSMENT TO STUDY TRAUMA SURVIVORS"	Eve Carlson, PhD Research Health Science Specialist, Education and Clinical Laboratory Division of the National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
3:00 - 3:30	COFFEE BREAK
3:30 - 5:00	METHODOLOGICAL THINK TANK: "MINIMIZING ATTRITION IN LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH"	Jennifer Vasterling, PhD Associate Director for Research, VA South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine John Boyle, PhD Senior Vice President and Partner, Shulman, Ronca, Bucuvalas, Inc. (SRBI) Christy Scott, PhD Director, Chestnut Health System's Chicago Research Office and Illinois Health Survey Lab, Inc. Mark Creamer, PhD Director, Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
5:00 - 6:30	BREAK
6:30 - 8:30	RECEPTION/HORS D'OEUVRE BUFFET

November 7, 2005

7:30 - 8:30	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 - 10:00 (concurrent session)	"APPLYING DYNAMIC CHANGE MODELS TO TRAUMA RESEARCH"	John McArdle, PhD Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia [After August 2005: University of Southern California], Co-Director, Longitudinal Research Institute, Charlottesville, VA Daniel King, PhD, and Lynda King, RN, 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
8:30 - 10:00 (concurrent session)	"LINKING CUTTING EDGE METHODS TO TRADITIONAL EDITORIAL REVIEW PRACTICES"	Frederick Newman, PhD Senior Methodologist/Statistician and Professor, Health Services Administration, Florida International University, Associate Editor, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
8:30 - 9:15 (concurrent session)	"HOW TO INCORPORATE GENETICS INTO LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF TRAUMA AND PTSD" (SUBMITTED PRESENTATION)	Karestan Koenen, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
9:15 - 10:00 (concurrent session)	"MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE IN LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF TRAUMA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS" (SUBMITTED PRESENTATION)	Maria Llabre, PhD Professor, Psychology Department, Director of Statistics, Behavioral Medicine Research Center, University of Miami
10:00 - 10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 12:00	"ETHICAL AND REGULATORY OVERSIGHT OF TRAUMA RESEARCH: HOW TO MINIMIZE THE TRAUMA OF IRB REVIEW"	Dan Nelson, PhD Associate Professor, Social Medicine and Pediatrics, Director, Office of Human Ethics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:15 - 1:15	BOX LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00	"MISSING DATA: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA RESEARCH"	John Graham, PhD Professor, Biobehavioral Health and Human Development and Family Studies, Senior Member, The Methodology Center, Pennsylvania State University
3:00 - 3:15	COFFEE BREAK
3:15 - 4:15	CLOSING SESSION: "LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTURE CHALLENGES"	All Conference Attendees

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