ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL STATISTICIANS (ACTS)
August 3–4, 2013
Intercontinental Montréal Hotel, Room: I-Saint-Jacques
Saturday, August 3
12:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:10 PM
Welcome
1:10 PM – 2:00 PM
Implementing Reproducible Research in the Collaborative
Medical Environment: Challenges, Solutions, and the Future
Leah Welty (Northwestern Univ.)
2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
Genomics of Common Diseases: The Case of Autism
Knut Wittkowski (Rockefeller)
2:50 PM – 3:10 PM
Coffee break
3:10 PM – 4:00 PM
Integrating Biological Markers into Clinical Research Study Design
Brad Pollock (UT HSC San Antonio)
4:00 PM –5:30 PM
ACTS Business Meeting
 Treasurer’s Report
 Election for new ACTS Officers
 Establish a new planning committee for 2014 meeting
 Incorporation of the ACTS
 Other business
6:30 PM –9:00 PM
Cocktail Hour and Dinner at Boris Bistro
(465 McGill Street, Montreal, H2Y 2H1)
Sunday, August 4
9:00 AM –10:00 AM
Easy Power and Sample Size for Most of the
Mixed Models You Will Ever See
Keith Muller (University of Florida)
09:00 AM –10:00 AM
Biostatistical Review Process for the Clinical Translational Science
Awards
Paul Nietert (MUSC)
Paula Roberson (Univ. of Arkansas)
Avital Cnaan (Children's National Medical Center-GWU)
11:00AM – 12:00 noon Assessing Futility in a 2-by-2 Factorial Design
Leslie McClure (Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham)
12:00 noon –1:30 PM
Lunch Workshop: Mentoring/Training Approaches
for Junior Collaborative Biostatisticians
Matt Mayo (Univ. of Kansas Medical Center)