BCNAR Annual Conference 2010
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Day One
Conference Facilitator - Lillian Bayne, Independent Consultant
Welcome – Dr. Andrew Wister, BCNAR Executive, Dept. of Gerontology Chair, SFU
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Opening Remarks – Dr. Anne Martin-Mathews, Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Aging
Key Note
Dr. Paul Burton, Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester, UK
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Plenary
Dr. Parminder Raina, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatics, McMaster University
Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: Advancing the Science of Population Health and Aging Through Interdisciplinary Research
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Session One - Integration of Disciplines in Life Courses Research
Opening remarks – Dr. Heather Stewart, Research Associate, SFU
Dr. James Carey, Dept. of Entomology, University of California, Davis
A Cross-disciplinary Overview of Longitudinal Studies from Fruit Flies to Humans
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Dr. Alain Gagnon, Dept. of Sociology, University of Western Ontario
The Long Term Legacy of Early Life: Linking Censuses to Civil Registration to Assess How Conditions Experienced in Infancy and Childhood Affect Survival in Old Ages
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Dr. David Almeida, Dept. of Human Development & Family Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Integrating Disciplines in the Midus Studies
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Session Two – BCNAR Annual General Meeting
Dr. Lynn Beattie, Chair of BCNAR, Professor Emeritus, Geriatric Medicine, UBC
Over view of BCNAR – Activities and Successes
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Session Three - Harmonizing and Pooling of Data
Opening remarks – Dr. Andrea Piccinin, Developmental Research Methods, UVIC
Dr. Jack McArdle, Dept. of Psychology, University of S. California
Modeling Life-span Growth of Cognition Using Longitudinal Data With Multiple Groups and Changing Scales of Measurement
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Dr. Isabel Fortier, Research & Development, Project in Genomics Consortium
Data Schema and Harmonization Platform for Epidemiological Research
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Dr. Paul Burton, Dept. Genetics, University of Leicester, UK
How BIg is Big? DataSHIELD
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Session Four - Inferential Issues for the Analysis of Longitudinal Studies of Aging
Opening remarks: Lillian Bayne, Conference Facilitator
Introduction: Dr. Scott Hofer, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria
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Dr. Paula Diehr, University of Washington
Describing and Understanding Longitudinal Health Trends in the Presence of Death and Missing Data
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Dr. Brenda Kurland, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle
Longitudinal Data with Follow-up Truncated by Death: Matching the Analysis Method to Research Aims
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Session Five – Health Transitions and Multistate Analysis
Dr. Leilei Zeng – Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science; Joint appointment in Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
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Dr. Sandy Rutherford, Department of Mathematics & Irmac, SFU
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Session Six - Applying Epigenetics & Bioinformatics to Longitudinal Research
Dr. Michael Kobor, Epigenetics; Department of Medical Genetics, UBC
Epigenetic Variation and its Impact on Human Health and Disease
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Dr. Marie-Pierre Dubé, Statistical Genetics Research Group, University of Montreal
Genetic and Epigenetic Factors in Longitudinal Studies
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Closing Remarks
Dr. Andrew Wister, BCNAR Executive, Dept. of Gerontology Chair, SFU
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