III BIAS Annual Congress
Mixed Model Analysis
Perspective and Innovation in Data Management
• 9.15 – 10:00 Breakfast and Registration
• 10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction - BIAS
Committee
• 10:15 – 10:30 Welcoming address - Claudio Canuto
(Director, Dept of Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino)
• 10:30 – 11:15 How does a smart data manager
think in 2011 and beyond - Monica Pimazzoni
(CROS NT)
• 11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break
• 11:30 – 12:00 Balancing the books - How to run a
project within budget - Mark Campbell (CROS NT)
• 12:00 – 12:30 Vendors management: a dual–role
CRO point of view- Stefano Zancan (Aptuit)
• 12.30 – 13.00 Management of Independent Blinded
Readers - Simone Sarman (IBSA)
• 13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
• 14.15 – 14.45 IVRS Reconciliation process and
issues – Isabella Montagna (Chiesi Farmaceutici)
• 14.45 – 15.45 Interactive session: data
management, projects, collaboration and
timelines - moderator Mark Campbell (CROS NT)
• 15.45 – 16.15 Panel discussion
• 16.15 – 16.30 Coffee break
• 16:30 – 17:15 BIAS Committee report,
presentation of candidates
• 17.45 Visit to Mole Antonelliana and Museo del
Cinema
• 20.00 Dinner
Venue: Politecnico di Torino, Dept of Mathematics, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
20th May – Mixed Model Analysis
• 9.15 – 10:00 Breakfast and Registration
• 10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction - BIAS
Committee
• 10:15 – 10:30 Welcoming address - Claudio Canuto
(Director, Dept of Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino)
• 10:30 – 11:15 Regression models for correlated
data - Vincenzo Bagnardi (University of MilanoBicocca)
• 11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break
• 11:30 – 12:15 Mixed Model in SAS System using
PROC MIXED: features, syntax, how to - Silvio
Cavuto (NIBHAH Srl)
• 12:15 – 13:00 Has modelling killed randomisation
inference? - Stephen Senn (University of Glasgow)
• 13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
• 14.15 – 15.00 Mixed Model in SAS System using
PROC MIXED: applications and examples
Silvio Cavuto (NIBHAH Srl)
• 15.00 – 15.45 Why I hate minimisation - Stephen
Senn (University of Glasgow)
• 15.45 – 16.15 Panel discussion
• 16.15 – 16.30 Coffee break
• 16:30 – 17:15 BIAS Committee report,
presentation of candidates
• 17.45 Visit to Mole Antonelliana and Museo del
Cinema
• 20.00 Dinner
19th May - Perspective and Innovation in Data
Management
19th May – Mixed Model Analysis
Congress Program
• 9.15 – 9:30 Breakfast
• 9.30 – 10:15 Lord’s paradox - Stephen Senn
(University of Glasgow)
• 10:15 – 11:00 Mixed Models and Hierarchical
Bayesian Models - Mauro Gasparini (Politecnico di
Torino)
• 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
• 11.30 – 12.15 Some problems with the propensity
score - Stephen Senn (University of Glasgow)
• 12.15 – 13.00 Pearson correlation coefficient for
clustered data: a bivariate linear mixed model
approach - Massimiliano Copetti (Biostatistics Unit –
Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza)
• 13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
• 14.15 – 15.00 Nonlinear Mixed Effects to model
growth curves in oncology - Clelia Di Serio
(Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
• 15.00 – 15.45 Mixed models for health care costs Dario Gregori (University of Padua & SISMEC)
• 15.45 – 16.30 Panel Discussion, Meeting closure
and new BIAS committee proclamation
BIAS Steering Committee:
Beatrice Barbetta, Rottapharm | Madaus
Lisa Comarella, CROS NT
Marco Costantini, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics
Arturo Lanzarotti, IBSA
Giada Rizzi Helsinn Healthcare