The Centre for Statistics in Medicine in Oxford is holding a one day meeting in celebration of its 10th Birthday: "MEDICAL STATISTICS: MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN HEALTH CARE" on Tuesday 20th September 2005 9.30am-5pm at Magdalen College, Oxford SPEAKERS: Doug Altman - Professor of Statistics in Medicine and Director of CSM How much confidence can we have in published medical research? Martin Bland - Professor of Health Statistics, York Measuring agreement between measurements Marion Campbell - Professor of Health Services Research, Aberdeen Data monitoring of randomised controlled trials: medical statistics in action Paul Glasziou - Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford Clinical trials to clinical decision-making Fiona Godlee - Editor of BMJ What can statisticians do for medical journals? Peter Gøtzsche - Director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, Copenhagen Medical statistics in practice: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Julian Higgins - Statistician, MRC Biostatistics Unit Embracing complexity in evidence synthesis David Schriger - Professor of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles Problems in the analysis and reporting of clinical research: are graphics the solution? Full details of talks and speakers is available on our website at http://www.csm-oxford.org.uk/anniversary REGISTRATION: Places are still available Registration for the meeting is £25 (includes lunch) Registration forms are also available on our website: http://www.csm-oxford.org.uk/mod_product/uploads/registration%20form1.pdf Or contact: Tracy Edwards 44-(0)1865 284402; [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] Jon Deeks Senior Medical Statistician Centre for Statistics in Medicine Wolfson College Annexe Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD UK Phone +44-(0)-1865-284403 Fax +44-(0)-1865-284424 ________________________________________________________________