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Dear All
Just a reminder about the NICE event we are
holding at the Max Perutz Theatre on Friday 9th
May 2008. Detail programme listed below. If you
wish to attend please email me by midday 7th May,
as I need to have the correct numbers for the
lunch being provided for all those attending.
Please pass this information on to all those who
may be interested in attending.
Thank you
Kathy
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NICE encounter: evidence synthesis and public health
When: FRIDAY,9 May 2008 from 10.15hrs to 16.00hrs.
Where: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge.
Whom to contact:to reserve a place, please
contact Kathy Airey at MRC Biostatistics
Unit(phone: 012223 330366, email: [log in to unmask])
Keynote speaker:Professor Sir Michael Rawlins,
chairman of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
10.15 – 10.20 Welcome and introduction to the day’s seminar. (Chair SMBIRD)
Methodology matters in cost-effectiveness and at
implementation: recent examples
10.20 – 10.40 abdominalaortic aneurysm screening
– from trials to policy-decision via
cost-effectiveness. Professor Simon Thompson, MRC
Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge.
10.40 – 11.00. Breast cancer screening – from
trials to implementation via performance
monitoring. Professor Stephen Duffy, Queen Mary’s, London.
11.00 – 11.20. Implantable
cardioverterdefibrillators –from trials to
cost-effectiveness via synthesis of individual
patient data. Dr Linda Sharples, MRC
Biostatistics Unit and Papworth Hospital, Cambridge
11.20 – 11.35 Discussion
Designs on the public health (Chair DJ SPIEGELHALTER)
11.35 – 11.55 Designs on the public health
–Professor Nick Wareham, UK CRC Centre for Public Health Excellence, Cambridge
11.55 – 12.15 Cost-effectiveness design for
Alzheimer’s disease – Dr. Carol Bryne, CFAS IPH, Cambridge
12.15 – 12.35 Effectiveness on
trial:Naloxone-on-release to reduce overdose
fatalities – Professor Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
12.35 – 12.50 Discussion
12.50 – 13.30 BUFFET LUNCH
13.30 – 14.25 Professor Sir Michael Rawlins,
National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence. NICE challenges . . . ! (Chair SGTHOMPSON)
New Bayesian methodologies for evidence
synthesis: beyond RCTs (Chair L.Sharples)
14.25 – 14.45 Overview re internal and external
biases; and software developments – Professor
David J. Spiegelhalter and Dr. David Lunn,MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
14.45 – 15.05 Structural uncertainty; and
software developments – Dr. Chris Jackson, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
15.05 – 15.25 Devilishly into practice:
anti-Dprophylaxisfor pregnant Rhesus negative
women – Dr. Rebecca Turner, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
15.25 – 15.45 Devilishly into practice:
HepatitisC surveillance in England and Wales –
Dr.Daniela de Angelis, HPA & MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
15.45 – 16.00. Discussion and close.
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Kathleen Airey
PA / Assistant Administrator
MRC-Biostatistics Unit
IPH Forvie Site
Robinson Way
Cambridge
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Tel: 01223 330366 - Direct Line
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Fax: 01223 330365
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