Dear friends and colleagues:

The NYSPI Biostatistics Seminar series will resume on January 21, 2009, for the 2009 Spring semester. The list of our spring semester speakers is shown on the next page. You are cordially invited to attend these seminars.

These seminars are held every Tuesday, 3:00PM-4:00PM, in the Multi-Purpose Room (6602) of the New PI Building, with coffee served 2:45PM-3:00PM and post-seminar reception 4:00PM-4:30PM. Please note that the time for these seminars is changed from the time we used to have in previous semesters.

Please note also a one-time exception for the first seminar of the semester, which will be held on 1/21 (a Wednesday instead of a Tuesday), in the Board Room (6601) in the New PI Building, 3:30PM-4:30PM, with corresponding changes to coffee and reception.

I would like to thank and congratulate Dr. Henian Chen, our seminar chair for the spring semester, for his hard work and success in inviting a very exciting cast of speakers.

If you are interested in receiving regular announcements for our seminars in the future, please send your e-mail address to Ms. Kelly Roska (), our division administrator.

This seminar series aims to serve as a forum of shared learning experience for biostatisticians and PI investigators and research staff who are not biostatisticians but are interested in biostatistics. Please attend the seminars, and participate in the discussions, if you can. With permission of the speaker, we will videotape the presentations for those who are interested but cannot attend. Please contact Ms. Kelly Roska if you like to borrow a tape for viewing.

We would appreciate your comments, suggestions, and feedback on our seminar series, and suggestions for possible topics and/or speakers for future seminars. Please contact me (), or Ms. Kelly Roska (), for your feedback.

Sincerely,


Naihua Duan, Ph.D.

Director, Division of Biostatistics and Data Coordination

New York State Psychiatric Institute


Spring 2009 NYSPI Biostatistics Seminar Series

Tuesdays 3:00-4:00pm, New PI 6th Floor Multipurpose Room (6602)

Coffee: 2:45-3:00pm, Reception: 4:00-4:30pm

Jan. 21[1] Jaehee Kim

Department of Statistics, Duksung Women’s University

Jan. 27 Jeanne Teresi

NYSPI and Department of General Medicine, Columbia University

Feb. 3 Susan Murphy

Department of Statistics and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Feb. 17 Howard Andrews

NYSPI and Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University

Feb. 24 Cheng-Shiun Leu

NYSPI and Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University

Mar. 3 Stephen G. West

Department of Psychology, Arizona State University

Mar. 10 Bill Stewart

Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University

Mar. 24 Martin Lindquist

Department of Statistics, Columbia.University

Mar. 31 Yao Lu

Department of Sociology, Columbia University

Apr. 7 Myunghee Cho Paik

Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University

Apr. 21 Joy Hirsch

Departments of Radiology and Psychology, Columbia University

Director, Program for Imaging and Cognitive Sciences.

Apr. 28 Thomas Ten Have

Department of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

[1] Please note this seminar will be held Wednesday, January 21 from 3:30-4:30 in the Boardroom (6601) of the New PI Building.