Prof. Fawzi will present on “Adolescent Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Bridging Knowledge Gaps for Public Health and Sustainable Development.”
Date: April 8, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: PHRI Auditorium
Named for the late Janice Pogue, the founder of PHRI's statistical group, this lectureship invites international leaders to share their knowledge in biostatistics.
Dr. Harrell received his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina in 1979. He was on the faculty of Duke University for 17 years and of the University of Virginia for 7 years. He founded the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1996 and the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University in 2003. He has taught biostatistics and research methodology to hundreds of physicians since 1980 and has been a mentor or co-mentor to several physician investigators. He is an Associate Editor for Statistics in Medicine. His specialties are development of accurate prognostic and diagnostic models, model validation, clinical trials, observational clinical research, technology evaluation, quantifying predictive accuracy, missing data imputation, pharmaceutical safety, flexible Bayesian design and analysis, and statistical graphics and reporting.
Dr. Harrell is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and winner of its 2014 WJ Dixon Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting. He was the 2008 Mitchell Lecturer for the Department of Statistics, Glasgow University. He was the 2012 Presidential Invited Lecturer for WNAR, International Biometric Society, the 2017 Visionary Speaker, Clinical Studies Coordinating Center, University of North Carolina Department of Biostatistics, Chapel Hill, and the 2018 Distinguished Visiting Scientist, University of Calgary Biostatistics Centre.
He has worked in cardiovascular research and statistical computing for 50 years and is the author of a popular text Regression Modeling Strategies, an accompanying R package rms, several other R packages, and free online texts Biostatistics for Biomedical Research and R Workflow.
Dr. Harrell will be addressing the following topics:
Max Halperin Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics, former Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Former chief of the Biostatistics Branch at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Research interests include the design, data monitoring and analysis of clinical trials, especially large Phase III randomized clinical trials. He is well known for his work on sequential statistical methods for monitoring interim data for early evidence of intervention benefit or possible harm.
Founder and President Emerita of WCG Statistics Collaborative, Janet Wittes is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Society for Clinical Trials, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
Interim Analyses: Rules or Guidelines: A guide from and for the perplexed
Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa
Associate Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa
The Promise and Pitfalls of Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials Watch the recorded lectureship.
Professor and Associate Chair, and Director of Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, University of North Carolina
Opportunities and Challenges in Clinical Research with the Use of Big Data and Novel Trial Designs
Professor of Statistical Science & Research Professor of Global Health, Duke University
Challenges in Modeling Associations Among Environmental and Behavioural Exposures and Health Outcomes
Professor of Biostatistics – University of Washington
Use of Biomarkers as Replacement Endpoints in Clinical Trials
Named for renowned Canadian cardiologist, Dr. Arnold L. Johnson, PHRI's lectureship series started in 1995.
Bertram Pitt is a Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University of Michigan, School of Medicine. He obtained his MD degree from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he remained on the faculty until he left to direct the division of cardiology at the University of Michigan.
New Opportunities for Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists (MRAs) Alone and in Combination in Cardiorenal Disease
Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Harvard Medical School
Creating Learning Health Systems to Integrate Care, Translation and Discovery
Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine
Chairman of the Department of Medicine
Stanford University
Key ACS Lessons over the Last 25-30 Years Education and Research in an Era of Quality, Big Data, Precision Medicine, and Digital Health Rethinking Randomized Trials
Head of Nuffield Department of Population Health
BHF Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of Oxford
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow of the Royal Society
Randomization vs. Observation: Statin Therapy in the Real World Evolve or Die: The Urent Need to Streamline Randomized Trails
Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Science, Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute
Baylor University Medical Center
Historical Paradigms for Understanding Heart Failure: An Exploration of How Many Times We Have Been Wrong Neprilysin Inhibitors
Head, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford
Honorary Consultant in Cardiology, John Radcliffe Hospital
Director, British Heart Foundation
Centre of Research Excellence at Oxford
Genomic Medicine - Hype or Hope? Genetic Insights that Impact on Diagnosis and Treatment in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Professor of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow
Inaugural Eugene Braunwald Scholar in Cardiovascular (CV) Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Success in Heart Failure Understand the latest advances in pharmacological therapy for HF-REF Understand the latest advances in device therapy for HF-REF c) Understand the latest therapeutic efforts in HF-PEF
Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Lessons from Recent TIMI Trials on Diabetes and Atrial Fibrillation Top 10 Achievements in Cardiology
Professor & Chairman, Cardiology & Cardiovascular Center University Hospital Zurich
From Eisenhower’s Heart Attack to Modern Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome Aging and Longevity Genes as Mediators of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor of Internal Medicine Specialized in Vascular Medicine Academic Medical Center Amsterdam
Management of Venous Thromboembolism – The Hamilton Legacy Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism Relation Venous and Arterial Thrombosis and the Role of Statins
Honorary Consultant, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
For AMI, thrombolysis is now dead - but has it been murdered? Serendipity in Medical Careers - can it still occur? Role of circulatory rhythms in health & disease: Music, mantras & prayer
Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke: The First 100 Years What’s New in Stroke? The Top 10 Studies for 2006 -2008
Professor, Clinical Cardiology Cardiac and Vascular Sciences
St. George’s Hospital, London, UK
Acquired QT Prolongation and Cardiovascular Risk New Antiarrhythmic Drugs for Atrial Fibrillation
Professor of Medicine and Director, Disease Management, University of Montreal
Canada's Health: Perceptions, Politics and Possibilities Patient Adherence and Concordance in Chronic Care Disease Management as a Chronic Model: A Cardiologist's View
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Oxford, UK
Proof of Causality Deduction from Epidemiological Observation Tobacco: A Medical History Quantification of the Benefits of Alcohol: An Epidemiological Problem Clinical Discussion of Major Projects with Investigators Identification of Tobacco as One of the Great Killers
Director, Public Health Policy Group & Chairman, International Obesity Task Force (IASO/OTF)
London, UK
Challenges and Controversies in the Management of Chronic Diseases: The Case of Obesity Managing the New Epidemic of Obesity The Sensitivity of Asians to the Co-Morbidities of Weight Gain The High Global Burden of Disease from Obesity
Emeritus Professor, Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health
University of Oxford, UK
Halving Premature Death Getting the BP Story Right Future Worldwide Health Effects of Current Smoking Patterns
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
The Journalism of Science: Justifiable Controversy or Jeopardized Credibility?
PHRI's lectureship focusing on world experts in population health, including work in public health, genomics, global health, and more.
Carol Brayne is a Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Her research programme is based around longitudinal population-based studies of people aged 65 and above, running since 1985. They include collections of blood, and are linked to the Cambridge Brain Bank.
Topic: How can population based research into brain health and dementia inform public health action for future health in general?
Scientific Director, McGill University Genome Québec Innovation Centre
Understanding the Genetic Basis of Human Health and Disease Can Genetics Improve Healthcare?
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
Planetary Health: A Global Science for the 21st Century
Professor Emeritus, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
President, European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Foundation / Chairman, ESH Educational Board
What are the Practical Implications of Recent Trials for the Practicing Clinician to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease in Hypertension?
Principal Director, The George Institute for Global Health
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology, University of Sydney
Professor of Medicine, James Martin Fellow, University of Oxford
Professor of Public Health, Peking University
High blood pressure - what to do about the world’s leading cause of illness Innovation, entrepreneurship and global health What do physicians and supermarket checkout assistants have in common? Imminent extinction by computer!
Professor & Chair of Clinical Epidemiology, Public Health & Policy, University of Liverpool
Preventing Cardiac Deaths in Canada: Past and Future NCD Prevention Politics: Pills or Policies? Science or Showbiz? Using the Media to Support your Public Health Interventions
Professor – University of Bristol
Director of the MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology
The Limits of Personalised Medicine: Epidemiological Reflections Mendelian randomization in cardiovascular disease: what does the future hold?
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Looking Upstream: New perspectives from around the world on the social and environmental influences of health
Focusing on innovation and collaboration in the efforts to reduce global perioperative risk.
Full Professor of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine; Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
Topic: Novelties in the early diagnosis of AMI: possible implications for perioperative care
Location: David Braley Research Institute, Hamilton, ON.
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
RSVP to heather.gill@phri.ca
Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine; Professor of Anesthesia and Physiology – University of Toronto. Former Canada Research Chair in Anesthesia
Preserving Brain Function after Anesthesia and Surgery: To understand the incidence and risk factors associated with postoperative neurocognitive deficits; to learn about the new nomenclature for postoperative neurocognitive deficits and recent practice guidelines; and to identify mechanisms underlying postoperative neurocognitive deficits and potential new treatments.
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Oxford, UK
40 Years of Carotid Interventional Trials: Where we will be in 10 years' time?
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Large Multicentre Trials in Anesthesia
Cardiac Surgeon, Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada
Improving Cardiac Surgery Outcomes: Kaizen or Report Card Day
Beyond the scope of PHRI's regular lectureship series, these exceptional speakers from around the world grace us with their research insights and innovations.
Dealing with Predatory Journals:
How to identify and avoid predatory journals, and how to support research integrity
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
8:00 – 9:15 am EST
Speaker: Dr. David Moher, PhD, is the Director, Centre for Journalology at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa.
Professor Moher received his PhD in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, from the Amsterdam Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam. Professor Moher’s current research foci is open scholarship, and trustworthiness in research.
9th Annual Chanchlani Global Health Research Award and Lecture – part of a virtual 2021 International Women’s Day event
Canada’s first female First Nations surgeon, Dr. Nadine Caron is the founding First Nations Health Authority Chair (FNHA) in Cancer and Wellness at the University of British Columbia, where she also serves as co-director of the university’s Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health (CEIH). Her main focus is Aboriginal Health and Canadian health policy and her work advocates for the needs and voices of northern, rural and Indigenous populations in Canada.
Topic: Perspectives of a First Nations Physician in Canada: Do you ever wonder what we think?
12 -4 pm EST, Monday, March 8th, 2021
Additional event speakers include:
Professor and Director, Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lead author, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Can actions to solve today’s climate crisis create the largest health opportunity of our times?
Associate Editor, The Lancet
Cardiovascular Research in The Lancet: Past, Present and Future What Makes a High-Quality Paper?
Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Cardiovascular Research Institute
Adjunct Associate Professor, Community Health and Preventative Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine
Chanchlani Global Health Research Award Recipient for 2019
Naming, Measuring and Addressing the Impacts of Racism on Health View Video
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