🌟 Event Recap: 2024 Allan Donner Lecture 🌟
Our department proudly hosted the 2024 Allan Donner Lecture featuring Dr. Fan Li from the Yale School of Public Health on April 5th. The event drew students, faculty, and guests.

📸 Event photos:
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Thanks Wenbo Wu! Excited to share this work and meet with colleagues next Tuesday.

I feel deeply honored to be part of this invited series. Professor Allan Donner authored one of the leading textbooks on cluster-randomized trials in 2000, and I am excited to initiate a conversation about new interpretations of this classic text.

Creating #IMPACT Together! Kudos to the IMPACT Cores and Teams for five years of building the nation's capacity to conduct #ePCTs within health care systems for #PLWD and their caregivers, shown in this amazing graphic recording by Jo Byrne. #IMPACT SC24 🧠💜

'Assessing treatment effect heterogeneity in the presence of missing effect modifier data in cluster trials'

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Very proud of Bryan Blette on this great methods review & very clever simulation study - give it a read!

Scott Halpern Fan Li Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics

Excited for the 5th annual NIA IMPACT conference in Bethesda, MD. See full agenda and view live streams on LinkedIn Live beginning Wed. at 8:45 am.

Pascal Nevins and colleagues conducted a survey of published stepped-wedge randomized trials, documenting some of the methodological limitations in their conduct. #SWCRT The Ottawa Hospital Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa SCTorg

Death-truncated non-mortality outcomes challenge trials in many fields, esp critical care.

While I still don't find any approach conceptually ideal, here is a new-ish idea from us: conditional survivor average causal effects.

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Fan Li Tony Guangyu TONG

Our friends at IMPACT Collaboratory have announced an online certificate program designed to empower researchers in integrating #healthequity considerations into pragmatic clinical trials for people living with #dementia and their care partners.

Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/49crR73

ICYMI: IMPACT members Keith Goldfeld, Fan Li, Monica Taljaard, & Xueqi Wang co-authored an article highlighting advancements in cluster-randomized trials (CRTs) & the importance of understanding interventions in predefined participant subgroups. More: bit.ly/48hasKD

In this Friday's PCT Grand Rounds, we conclude our special #biostatistics series with a presentation by Rui Wang of Harvard Medical School on handling missing data in cluster randomized trials. Join us! bit.ly/48jS9Eu

Congratulations to Michael on this well-deserved award! It's an absolute blessing and joy to work alongside you and cheers to more exciting work ahead!

Interested in estimand-aligned and efficiency-focused inference for cluster-randomized experiments/trials? Check out our new methods paper led by Bingkai Wang

& Thanks to The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute & NIH/NIAID for supporting this work!

New paper! 🥳 My (former) master’s student Ruyi Liu looked at how to apply interim monitoring to patient-preference trials and when it might be most helpful to investigators:
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S/O to Fan Li and Denise Esserman for being part of a stellar mentoring team!

Excited to share that I've been awarded funding by The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to continue my research on causal mediation methods for cluster-randomized trials. Great thanks to Michael Harhay F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE Ted Melnick Scott Halpern Susan Mitchell Yale Biostatistics Yale School of Public Health and many others not on X!

Wondering how well we adhered to key recommendations when working with stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials in the past half decade? Check out this most recent systematic review led by Pascale 🌱 with Mary Ryan, PhD (marymryan 💙🌌) Yongdong Ouyang Can Meng Tony Guangyu TONG and others.

Excited to see this final published version online, and this is great team work supported by The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute !

Save the date! Our next #GrandRounds is on Nov. 16 at 12pm ET w/ Michael Harhay from Penn Medicine. Join us to learn about 'Outcomes truncated by death in randomized trails.' More info here: bit.ly/3FGwucJ

I am looking for a full-time Biostatistics Postdoctoral Associate to join my team in 2024, with a flexible start date. The candidate will work on developing methods for cluster randomized trials & stepped wedge designs. Position details m.yale.edu/b7s4 via Yale School of Public Health

Great to have our international and national speakers join us via webcast for this session on cluster trials
Fan Li
Laura Balzer Laura B. Balzer
Lisa Yelland Lisa Yelland