Recent Presentations: 2008-2011

  • Statistical Issues in the Assessment of Risk and Benefits of Alternative Treatment Modalities. Invited talk at: International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS 2012) June 17-21, 2012 Bangkok, Thailand


  • Meta-analysis in Risk-Benefit Evaluation. Indian Association for Statistics in Clinical Trials (IASCT) Annual Conference, April 19-22, 2012, Bangalore, India


  • Good Research Practices for Nonrandomized Studies of Treatment Effects Using Secondary Data Sources. Invited talk at: 2nd International Symposium on Biopharmaceutical Statistics, February 28-March 3, 2011, Berlin, Germany.


  • Reflections on Heterogeneity and Exchangeability in Comparative Effectiveness Research. Invited talk at: 20th Applied Statistics Symposium, International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA ), June 26-29, 2011, New York City, NY


  • Current Issues with Meta-analysis in Medical Research. Instituto Panamericano de Estudios Avanzados en Probabilidad y Estadistica, PASI, Semana de Bioinformatica, Bioestadistica, Analisis de Supervivencia, May 3-8, 2010. Guanajuato, Mexico.


  • Recent Developments in Indirect Treatment Comparisons. Australian Statistical Conference. December 6-9, 2010. Perth, Australia.


  • A Comparative Study of Entropy-Based Goodness of Fit Tests. Stellenbosch Statistical Symposium: The International Society for Business and Industrial Statistic. August 24-26, 2009, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa


  • Enhancing the Statistics Profession Globally Through an Educational Ambassador Initiative. (Panelist with M. Aliaga and F. Scheuren). The 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute, August 16-22, 2009, Durban, Republic of South Africa


  • Testing for Normality Based on Entropy. First Annual Symposium of The International Society for Biopharmaceutical Statistics. June 30 - July 2, 2008, Shanghai, China


  • Drug Safety Assessment. Discussant of Invited Talks at: First Annual Symposium of The International Society for Biopharmaceutical Statistics. June 30 - July 2, 2008, Shanghai, China