Educational Program
We're excited for the Educational Program at the 2027 ENAR Spring Meeting in Boston, MA. Take a look below for details regarding each session. You can add your session of interest during conference registration.
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| Day | Start Time (ET) | End Time (ET) | Education Program Type | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun, March 14 | 8:00 AM | 5:00 PM | Short Course Full Day 1 | Introduction to Bayesian Methods for Clinical Trial Design and Sample Size Determination for Time-to-Event Data | oseph Ibrahim |
| Sun, March 14 | 8:00 AM | 5:00 PM | Short Course Full Day 2 | Generative AI for Biomedical Data Science: Synthetic Data, Protein Design, and EHR Applications | Anru Zhang Alex Tong |
| Sun, March 14 | 8:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Short Course AM Half Day 3a | Empowering Your Study Through Federated Learning: the PDA framework | Yong Chen Thomas Trikalinos Raymond Carroll |
| Sun, March 14 | 1:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Short Course PM Half Day 3b | Estimating Correlations and Causal Relationships with Linked Data Sources | Roee Gutman |
| Sun, March 14 | 8:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Short Course AM Half Day 4a | Scorcher: A Tidy, Composable Framework for Building AI/ML Models Without Extensive Coding | Stephen Salerno Awan Afiaz Jeffrey T. Leek |
| Sun, March 14 | 1:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Short Course PM Half Day 4b | Modern AI for Biostatistics: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Large Language Models, and Biomedical Agents | Chengchun Shi Hongtu Zhu Bingxin Zhao |
| Sun, March 14 | 8:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Short Course AM Half Day 5a | Multimodal Integration and Multimodal Causal Inference using R/Bioconductor | Himel Mallick Nalin Arora |
| Sun, March 14 | 1:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Short Course PM Half Day 5b | Causal Machine Learning for Discovering Heterogeneous Treatment Effects | Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi Melody Huang Ana Kenney Tiffany Tang |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | Teaching Statistical Programming in the Era of Generative AI: What Should Change, What Shouldn't, and Why? | Rameshbabu Manyam |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | When things go wrong as they sometimes will: Embracing failure in research | Tanya Garcia |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | Navigating PCORI Funding: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies for Biostatisticians. | Kelley Kidwell |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | Staying in the Driver’s Seat: Calibrating AI Use in Statistical Research, Training, and Practice | Naim Rashid |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | From Member to Leader: Shaping the Field Through Volunteer Leadership | Scarlett Bellamy |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | The Current Landscape of Statistical Grant Funding at the NCI: Updates, Opportunities, and Application Strategies | Li Zhu |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | Beyond Academia: Industry Career Paths for Statisticians | Lorin Crawford Irina Degtiar |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | Statistics on the Stand: what statisticians have to offer as expert witnesses | Betsy Ogburn |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | How to Ace the Academic Job Interview | Nick Seewald |
| Mon, March 15 | 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Roundtable | Building Trust and Influence: Statistical Leadership in Team Science | Ana M. Ortega-Villa |
| Mon, March 15 | 8:30 AM | 5:30 PM | Tutorial I | NIH R01 Applications: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me | Gen LI |
| Mon, March 15 | 8:30 AM | 5:30 PM | Tutorial II | What Works for Whom: Estimating and Interpreting Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Single- and Multi-Study Data | Carly Brantner Elizabeth Stuart |
| Tue, March 16 | 8:30 AM | 5:30 PM | Tutorial IV | Bayesian information borrowing methods for clinical trials | Yong Zang |
| Tue, March 16 | 8:30 AM | 5:30 PM | Tutorial V | Data-Driven storytelling with Quarto: From research question to accessible reporting | Kim Webb Andrea Lane |