2023 Prague ISCB Course in Biostatistics

ISCB Survival Analysis Course with Prof. Hein Putter

Czech National Group of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, 

in cooperation with the Institute of Computer Science AS CR in Prague, and, 

Faculty of Mathematics & Physics of the Charles University in Prague

are delighted to invite you to attend

 One-day in-person course on

„Dynamic Prediction in Survival Analysis“

presented by

Hein Putter

Professor of Medical Statistics at the Biomedical Data Sciences of the Leiden University Medical Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands


Hein Putter Brief Biography

 Hein Putter is a Professor of Medical Statistics at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. He completed his PhD studies at the Department of Mathematical Statistics at Leiden University. After having worked as post-doc at the University of Amsterdam, Free University Amsterdam, and Cambridge University, he has been employed at the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, the Netherlands, from 2000 onwards. In 2010 he was appointed full professor.

Hein's main research topic of interest is complex survival data, such as competing risks, multi-state models and frailty models. An important theme in his work is dynamic prediction; the development of prediction models that take into account event history of an individual, as well as his/her prognostic factors. He co-authored the CRC Chapman & Hall book “Dynamic Prediction in Clinical Survival Analysis” with Hans van Houwelingen. 


WHERE

We are happy to confirm that after three years' break the course is scheduled again as an in-person course.

The course will take place on Friday 3 NOV 2023 at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Pod Vodárenskou věží 2, 182 00 Prague 8 - Ládví.

The course material (slides) will be made available to registered course participants approximately 1 week ahead of the course schedule. 


WHEN                                               

3 November 2023 (Friday), 9:00 AM through 4:30 PM Central European Standard Time (CEST), i.e. a winter time. The time shift to standard (winter) time will be applied on Sunday 29th OCT 2023 at 3 am, the clock will shift back 1 hour to 2 am.


REGISTRATION DEADLINE       

27 October 2023 (Friday), 12:00 CEST (noon-time)

Important !!: 


COURSE ABSTRACT

Prediction models play an important role in clinical practice, in counseling patients and guiding treatment decisions. The vast majority of these prediction models are constructed from “baseline”, a well defined clinical moment, such as diagnosis or start of treatment. But also after this initial moment prognosis of the patient remains important, and possibly new treatment decisions have to be made. This means that the original prediction has to be updated at later moments, and additional relevant information needs to be taken into account. We refer to this as dynamic prediction. The additional information can come in the form of longitudinal measurements of biomarkers or knowledge of the occurrence of relevant clinical events.

This course will cover different aspects of and methods for dynamic prediction in clinical survival analysis. We will cover two “schools” of obtaining dynamic predictions, joint models and multi-state models on the one hand, and landmarking on the other hand.

Plenty of examples will be discussed throughout the course, and methods will be illustrated on clinical data. Occasionally, code in R will be shown to illustrate the usage of the methods, but knowledge of R is not required.


REFERENCES


COURSE SCHEDULE

The course consists of four blocks of approximately 90 minutes each; two in the morning and two in the afternoon


REGISTRATION RATES

Early Bird (until 15 September 2023)

ISCB student member* 1 500 CZK (60 EUR)

ISCB regular member* 2 000 CZK (80 EUR)

Non-ISCB member – academia 4 000 CZK (160 EUR)

Non-ISCB member – business 10 000 CZK (400 EUR)

Regular (16 September – 27 October 2023)

ISCB student member* 2 000 CZK (80 EUR)

ISCB regular member* 2 500 CZK (100 EUR)

Non-ISCB member – academia 5 250 CZK (210 EUR)

Non-ISCB member – business 13 250 CZK (530 EUR)

(*) Note: ISCB membership is required for 2023 and 2022. For doctoral students, the ISCB membership for 2023 will be sufficient.

Payments by bank transfer ONLY

(All international payments have to be made in EUR)

ACCOUNT INFORMATION

For all domestic (CZK) and international transfers (EUR):

Bank's name and address   Fio banka, a.s., V Celnici 1028/10, 11721 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Account owner                      Mezinárodní společnost pro klinickou biostatistiku v České republice, z.s.

Account number                   2100009829 / 2010  

IBAN                                        CZ3820100000002100009829

BIC code/SWIFT                     FIOBCZPPXXX

CANCELLATION INFORMATION

Cancellation fees apply as explained below:

COURSE VENUE

Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Pod Vodarenskou vezi 2, 182 00 Prague, Czech Republic 

COURSE SECRETARY

Ms. Lenka Semeráková, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, tel. +420 266 053 640, e-mail: semerakova@cs.cas.cz