Monday, June 10, 2024

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Welcome and Introduction
Nandita Mitra, PhD and Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD
Co-Directors, Center for Causal Inference
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Dylan Small, PhD
Universal Furniture Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Historical Perspective on Causal Inference

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Alisa J. Stephens-Shields, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Introduction to Identification of Causal Effects

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Wei Peter Yang, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania|
Topic: Estimation of Causal Effects

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Wei Peter Yang, PhD
Topic: Estimation of Causal Effects (cont’d)

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Nicholas J. Seewald, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Quasi-Experimental Designs

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Nicholas J. Seewald, PhD
Topic: Quasi-Experimental Designs (cont’d)

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Enrique F. Schisterman, PhD
Perelman Professor in Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
Chair, Department of Biostatistics Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania

Ellen Caniglia, ScD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Trial Emulation

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Enrique F. Schisterman, PhD
Ellen Caniglia, ScD
Topic: Trial Emulation (cont’d)

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Nandita Mitra, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Instrumental Variables

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Andrew Spieker, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University
Topic: Sensitivity Analysis

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Luke J. Keele, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Statistics in Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Mediation Analysis

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD
University Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School
Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania

Chan Park, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Proxies and Negative Controls

Thursday, June 13, 2024

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Breakfast & Registration

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
 

Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Division of Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Real World Evidence and Research Design

11:00 AM-11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

Todd A. Miano, PharmD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Avoiding Collider and Time-Related Biases in Pharmacoepidemiology

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Jesse Yenchih Hsu, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Weighting Methods to Address Confounding in Pharmacoepidemiology

3:30 PM

Adjourn