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To register for an ACE workshop, go to www.acepidemiology2.org
1. Writing and Publishing a Scientific Paper, led by Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH. (8:30 am -12noon)
Dr Gastel is coauthor, with Robert A Day, of How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 6th edition. She also has written three other books on communicating science, and she edits the Council of Science Editors periodical, Science Editor. A faculty member at Texas A&M University, she coordinates the science journalism graduate program there.
This workshop will cover the basics from preparing to write and choosing a target journal, writing the paper itself, getting it published, and additional tips on dealing with common problems such as finding time to write, revision, and overcoming writer’s block.
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2. Systems Thinking in Epidemiologic Research led by Allan Best, PhD. (8:30 am -12noon)
Systems thinking refers to a broad perspective of ideas and activities that are increasingly coming together to help establish new ways of solving public health problems. This workshop will focus on the nature of the research to policy and practice process, related conceptual and methodological issues, and particularly the systems issues around how we design effective organizational bridges between funder, researcher, decision maker, and practitioner silos.
The workshop builds on a three-year NCI project designed to integrate different systems research and tools. The Initiative for the Study and Implementation of Systems (ISIS) was intended to become a long-term, multi-agency collaboration to create and implement transdisciplinary systems principles and methods for the discovery, development and delivery of program and policy interventions within a research-to-practice paradigm. The resulting NCI Monograph 18 integrates systems thinking theory, research, and methodology from disciplines including mathematics, engineering, organizational behaviour, psychology, communications, epidemiology, informatics, public health, policy, and community development.
The workshop will summarize key lessons from ISIS and present examples of how some of the tools can be used. Recent work to refine models for research-to-practice will be described, along with the challenges that they create for designing effective bridges across the silos.
Participants will discuss how key issues for the design and application of research compare and contrast with the range of traditional epidemiological methods. Sample case studies will be presented so that participants can work through how they would approach the design and implementation of a project from a systems thinking perspective.
Questions that participants should be able to answer at the end of the workshop include: How does systems thinking align with epidemiologic research? How does an epidemiologist use systems thinking approaches? How would the systems thinking approach benefit ongoing or new epidemiologic projects?
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3. How to Report Statistics in Medicine and What You Should Know about Meta-Analysis led by Tom Lang. (1:00 pm - 4:30 pm)
Tom Lang is the author of How To Report Statistics in Medicine. An international consultant in scientific publications, he teaches medical writing at the University of Chicago and at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He is a Past President of the Council of Science Editors and a Fellow of the American Medical Writers Association.
20 Statistical Errors Even YOU can Find
Poor statistical reporting is rampant, if unacknowledged. Interpreting statistics is not the same as calculating them. The 20 most common errors easily identified. Forewarned is forearmed! Participants will learn to recognize the most common statistical reporting errors in the biomedical literature. The concepts and implications behind each error will be explained—but without Greek letters, mathematical symbols, or equations.
How to Do Quality Research on the Cheap: What You Should Know about Meta-Analysis
Ask and answer important questions. Publish in the best journals. Prepare for a career in research. Stay on top of your field. Meta-analyses are research based on systematic reviews of the literature. They can be conducted without substantial research support or experience, and yet they can address important questions and can be published in leading journals.
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4. What is Evolutionary Epidemiology? Chris Reiber, PhD. (1:00 pm - 4:30 pm)
The term “evolution” often conjures up images of a litany of prehistorical forms culminating in modern humans, and the relevance of this array of data points to modern medicine and epidemiology can be very hard to see at face value. But the terms “evolutionary medicine” and “evolutionary epidemiology” imply much more. These emerging fields focus on applying an understanding of the evolutionary process to modern biomedical issues. Thinking about organisms—humans included—as both products of, and active participants in, the ongoing evolutionary process can provide novel insights. Why are we the way we are? Why are we vulnerable to particular diseases/disorders and not others? Why do our biophysiological processes work the way they do? Answers to questions such as these are the starting point for evolutionists, and can lead the epidemiological detective down new and exciting pathways to discovery and understanding.
This workshop is intended to provide evolutionary basics for use in epidemiology. It will cover topics including: what is evolutionary epidemiology, and why should you care?; a modern understanding of the evolutionary process; how this understanding is applied to medicine and epidemiology; the history of using evolution in epidemiology (with some examples); and where the field is going in the future.
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41st Annual SER Meeting