Keynote Speakers
Garrett Fitzmaurice (GF)
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, the Harvard University, Belmont, USA.
Dr. Fitzmaurice is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, an Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics) at Harvard Medical School, and serves as a Senior Biostatitician in the Division of General Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. His research interests lie in the design and analysis of longitudinal and repeated measures studies and methods for handling missing data.
Patrick Heagerty (PH)
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Dr. Heagerty is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington, a director at Biostatistical Collaboration Unit and Center for Biomedical Statistics, and a Core Statistican at Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center (ERIC). His research and teaching interests are in the regression techniques for dependent data, including marginal models and random effects models for longitudinal data, and hierarchical models.
Local Speakers
Susan Morton (SM)
Senior lecturer, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Population Health, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Dr. Morton is a senior lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. She is the leader of a research team designing a new longitudinal study of New Zealand children and families examining childrens developmental outcomes across a broad range of domains of wellbeing.
Patricia Metcalf (PM)
Senior lecturer, Department of Statistics, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Dr. Metcalf is a senior research fellow in the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland. Her research interest is medical statistics and has many years of expertise in longitudinal data analysis, SAS programming and teaching.