CSEB Webinar |
Presented by Dr. Stephen Walter, recipient of the first Greenberg Award at the North American Congress of Epidemiology in 2011, for the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Date and Time: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST
Description:
We will review the career and professional achievements of Professor Bernard Greenberg, who was a prominent biostatistician and epidemiologist in the 20th century. Greenberg was an early leader in the development of statistical methods for epidemiology studies, and he was involved in a variety of important studies in clinical medicine and public health. Selected examples of Dr. Greenberg’s work will provide object lessons for contemporary professionals, and some links to the speakers own research will also be briefly mentioned.
Registration Fees:
Registration Type |
Fee + HST |
CSEB Member |
$85 |
CSEB Non-Member |
$180 |
Student CSEB Members |
$40 |
Student Non-Members |
$80 |
Speaker Bio:
Stephen Walter
Stephen Walter received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. After faculty appointments at the University of Ottawa and Yale University School of Public Health, he joined the Deptartment of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, where he is now a Professor. Dr. Walter collaborates with clinicians in internal medicine, evidence-based medicine and developmental pediatrics, and with epidemiologists working in environmental health, cancer etiology and screening. He is interested in several areas of biostatistical methodology, including: design and analysis of medical research studies; risk assessment and communication; evaluation of diagnostic and screening data; and, regional and temporal variation in health. He has published widely on these topics (including almost 400 refereed papers) in the biomedical literature.
Dr. Walter is a past Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, and Section Editor for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. He served as Chair of Biostatistics in the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), and has been extensively involved with research development in Asia, Latin America and Africa. He is a past coordinator of the Health Research Methods program at McMaster, and has worked with approximately 100 Masters and Ph.D. students.
His work has been recently recognized by several honours and awards, including:
- Inaugural Bernard Greenberg Award for Excellence in Methods Development and Application, North American Congress of Epidemiology 2011.
- Winner, International People’s Epidemiology Library award (American College of Epidemiology and Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences); World Congress of Epidemiology, Edinburgh, 2011
- Co-author on Paper of the Year 2010, selected by The Lancet from the world literature
- CIHR-CMAJ Top Achievement in Health Research Award (co-recipient); and related awards from the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and Orthopaedic Research and Educational Foundation (all 2010).
- Inaugural presentation, Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work, 2008
Other previous honours and awards include:
- International Society for Fracture Repair, Best Paper Award (co-recipient);
- Canadian National Health Scientist Award;
- CIHR Senior Investigator and Partnership Awards;
- Elected as Member, International Statistical Institute;
- Elected as Fellow, American Statistical Association;
- Fellow, Royal Statistical Society;
- Honourary Life Member, Indian Clinical Epidemiology Network;
- Inaugural Tait McKenzie Medal for Research, Canadian Academy for Sport Medicine;
- Taiwan Science Council, Distinguished Scholar Award; and,
- Distinguished Visitors Award, University of Western Australia.
Selected Publications:
- Walter SD, Macaskill P, Lord SJ, Irwig L. Effect of dependent errors in the assessment of diagnostic or screening test accuracy when the reference standard is imperfect. Stats in Medicine (in press, accepted September 2011).
- Walter SD, Turner RM, Macaskill P, McCaffery KJ, Irwig L. Optimal allocation of participants for the estimation of selection, preference and treatment effects in the two-stage randomised trial design. Stats in Medicine (in press, accepted August 2011).
- Walter SD (2010). Local estimates of population attributable risk. J Clinical Epidemiology 63, 85-93.
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (2009). Vitamin D and Cancer. IARC Working Group Reports, 5.
- Walter SD, Ismaila AS, Devereaux PJ (2008). Statistical issues in the design and analysis of expertise-based randomized clinical trials. Statistics in Medicine 27: 6583-6596.
- Walter SD (2005). Section Editor for Clinical Epidemiology, 50 entries. Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, 2nd edition (print and online): Armitage P and Colton T (Eds); 8 volumes. Wiley, New York.
- Walter SD (2002). Properties of the summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve for diagnostic test data. Statistics in Medicine 21, 1237-1256.
- Le ND, Marrett LD, Robson DL, Semenciw RM, Turner D, Walter SD (1996). Canadian Cancer Incidence Atlas, Health Canada, H49-6/1-1996, Ottawa.
- Walter SD (1991). The ecologic method in the study of environmental health. Env Hlth Persp 94, 61-65.
- Walter SD, Marrett LD, From L, Hertzman C, Shannon HS, Roy P (1990). The association of cutaneous malignant melanoma with the use of sunbeds and sunlamps. Amer J Epidemiology 131, 232-243.
- Walter SD, Day NE (1983). Estimation of the duration of a pre-clinical disease state using screening data. Amer J Epidemiology 118, 865-886.
- Hui SL, Walter SD (1980). Estimating the error rates of diagnostic tests. Biometrics 36, 167-171.
- Walter SD (1976). The estimation and interpretation of attributable risk in health research. Biometrics 32, 829-849.
Please note that Dr. Stephen Walter will receive no monetary profits from the delivery of this presentation.