23 Mar 2017 09:30am to 10:30am

Statistical challenges in conducting epidemiological outcome studies with real world data

Seminar
Event Location
Ella Latham Theatre, Royal Children's Hospital
50 Flemington Road
Parkville VIC 3052
Australia
Speakers
Professor Sanjoy Paul
Director, Melbourne EpiCentre, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Sanjoy Paul is Professor of Clinical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Health Sciences Research, University of Melbourne and Director of Melbourne EpiCentre, a collaborative research centre within the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to establishing his clinical trials research group in Australia, he created the Statistics & Modelling Group of the University of Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) in the UK.

Professor Paul is an internationally recognised clinical trialist, biostatistician and a research administrator with long‐standing experience of design and conduct of clinical trials and pharmaco‐epidemiological studies. He currently leads several studies in the fields of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases combining clinical trial and large primary care data, including large comparative longitudinal studies funded by government bodies and the pharmaceutical industry.