Pre-Meeting Workshops

SER will be offering seven Pre-Conference Workshops.  Workshops are led by individuals with exceptional relevant expertise.  The smaller audience size permits more interaction between registrants and Workshop leaders.

Workshops will be held on June 27, 2012, in the conference hotel (Hyatt Regency Minneapolis).  All workshops are half-day, and you may register for one or two Workshops at the time you register.  Workshop costs are not included in the meeting registration fee.

**Workshops may be cancelled due to undersubscription; if cancelled, participants will be notified and given the opportunity to register for another workshop.**

Please click on the workshop name below to view a full description of the workshop.

Morning Workshops (8:30 am to 12:30 pm)

• Career Panel: Career Insights from Senior and Recently Minted Epidemiologists
  Faculty: Polly Marchbanks (CDC), Bernard L Harlow (University of Minnesota), Vanessa Perez (Exponent, Inc), Alyssa Mansfield (Department of Veterans Affairs), Arijit Nandi (McGill University), Edgar Simard (American Cancer Society)
• Methods for Causal Mediation Analysis
  Faculty: Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard School of Public Health
  
• Introduction to Directed Acyclic Graphs
  Faculty: Charlie Poole, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  
• Health and Demographic Data from the Minneapolis Population Center
  Faculty: Michael Oakes, Miriam King, David Van Riper, and Katie Genadek, Minnesota Population Center, University of MInnesota
  

Afternoon Workshops (1:00 pm to 5:00 pm)

• Assessing Food and Nutrient Intake using Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR)
  Faculty: Lisa Harnack, DrPH, RD and Denise King, PhD, Nutrition Coordinating Center, University of Minnesota
  
• Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Faculty: Charles Poole, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  
• Analysis of Probability Surveys using SAS®
  Faculty: Chris Daman, SAS Institute