Sponsors: Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, the Kansas Western-Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association, and the Quantitative ‘Omics Core that supports the Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine

When: April 21^st – 22^nd

Fully virtual: Zoom based single track meeting

About this meeting:
IDAD is a regional statistics/biostatistics conference that is co-sponsored by the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of the ASA, and the Quantitative ‘Omics Core that supports the Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine.  The first annual IDAD meeting took place 2007. Over the last 14 years this meeting has become a major draw for quantitative/statistical researchers in the Midwest. Historically, IDAD has been held in Kansas City over the course of two days during the month of April. Given concern over COVID-19, we have decided to host the spring 2022 IDAD meeting entirely virtually. This year‘s meeting will include: a Keynote Address delivered by Dr. Hui Zou, Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota; a Journey Lecture delivered by Dr. Scott Berry, President and a Senior Statistical Scientist at Berry Consultants, LLC; and a mini-workshop on sample size calculations in the context of time-to-event endpoints, delivered by Dr. Milind Phadnis, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center. Journey Lectures are lighthearted non-technical talks by distinguished figures in the field of biostatistics and data science that address their career journey and words of wisdom. In addition to these events, this year’s meeting will include a panel discussion on ‘Leadership and Mentoring in the Quantitative Sciences‘, along with several invited and contributed platform presentations and poster presentations. We hope you can join us for the 15th annual IDAD meeting and look forward to seeing you this April.