Breakfast Roundtables:
1.
Kristi L. Lewis, PhD MPH
Importance and impact of influenza surveillance in the United
States
Seasonal influenza leads to high levels of morbidity and mortality
each year in the United States. Each year the United States
conducts surveillance beginning in early October to monitor
the spread of influenza. At this roundtable, we will discuss
the trends related to 1) influenza-like illness and 2) influenza
strains. The importance and impact of influenza surveillance
will also be discussed.
2. Bonnie C. Yankaskas, PhD
Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
Participants will gain knowledge about the national project
that has been collecting prospective data from mammography
facilities related to breast imaging and linking these data
with population-based cancer registries. Studies since 1995
have evaluated performance of screening mammography and outcomes
from breast imaging (screening and diagnostic). Data include
women-level demographics and risk factors, breast imaging
level data on what was done, results and recommendations,
and pathology data from the state Central Cancer or SEER registries,
as well as pathology laboratories.
The roundtable
has three main objectives:
1. highlight the rich data resource created by the BCSC
2. highlight some of the research results over the past 10
years, and the potential for new research collaborations for
the future
3. describe the national dataset, and how others may use it
for research
Participants
will:
1. be able to identify the data that makes up the BCSC registries
2. become familiar with the types of studies that have been,
and can be done with this resource
3. will help explore new uses of data and methods for accessing
the resource
3.
Kayla D. Collins and John Knight
Secondary Use of Administrative Data for Epidemiological Research:
Opportunities and Challenges
The Centre for Health Information is custodian to several
provincial databases including mortality, birth, hospital
discharge, outpatient physician visits, Statistics Canada’s
survey data, as well as several composite databases. We use
these provincial administrative databases and health surveys
to carry out applied health research across a broad range
of areas. The Centre also has expertise in data linkage and
acts as a trusted third party that makes possible for other
researchers to access de-identified linked administrative
data from a multitude of internal and external sources.
4.
Ping Yang, MD PhD
Pharmacogenomic research on disease outcomes
The areas covered in this discussion will include the design,
conduct, and results-interpretation and application.
5.
Maurizio Trevisan, MD MS
Systemic and Oral Health
There has been a lot of interest regarding the potential association
between oral and systemic health (i.e. periodontal disease
has been associated with diverse health outcomes like cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, pre-term birth, kidney disease etc.) however
most of these findings are observational in nature and data
from clinical trials are limited. There is a fair amount of
skepticism regarding the cause-effect relationship. This roundtable
aims to stimulate discussion around this topic and see what
other people think about it.
6.
Pat Buffler, PhD MPH and Jay Wilkinson
Curriculum development and competencies - including credentialing
exams.
7.
Doug Weed, MD MPH PhD
Epidemiology and the current state of corporate-sponsored
science
Industry-funded science is under attack by a loose but powerful
alliance of NGO's, academics, the media, and plaintiffs' attorneys.
What's an epidemiologist to do in this environment? How does
this situation affect professional epidemiologists working
in academia, the public sector, and especially, the private
sector?
8.
Julie Magri, MD MPH and Diana Bensyl, PhD MA
Using Case Studies as an Epidemiology Teaching Tool
Government agencies, academia, and other training programs
can benefit from using Case Studies to teach applied epidemiology
to trainees. This roundtable will talk about settings appropriate
for case studies, tips for using them effectively, and how
to access case study materials.
9. Setting
up Consortiums: Bob Hoover
10. Latebreaking
topics TBD
Luncheon
Roundtable Topics
1.
Impact of Mandatory and/or Universal Immunization for HPV
on the Epidemiology of Cervical Cancer. Dr. Patricia Buffler,
Dr. Eduardo Franco and Melinda Aldrich.
Dr. Buffler is the North American Councillor for the International
Epidemiology Association (elected to represent North America)
and Dr. Franco previously served as the North American Councillor.
This roundtable on HPV could cover the following important
policy questions:
1) What are the implications of not adopting universal HPV
vaccination, i.e., allowing it to be opportunistic, based
on the decision that health care providers will make with
their clients?
2) What are the costs to society of a mandatory HPV vaccination
policy vis-a-vis its benefits?
3) What are the changes that need to be made to traditional
cervical cancer screening programs to permit an overall cost-effective
prevention of cervical cancer following the introduction of
HPV vaccines?
4) Are there technical issues that need to be addressed, such
as, the need for vaccinating boys and to conduct catch-up
vaccination of women ages 13-26 years?
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