CME COURSE AREAS AND COORDINATORS
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| Chair Person of the CME activities: |
R. Coppo |
| Assistants: |
G. Spasovski, I. Rychlik |
| Basic Science & Clinical Nephrology: |
R. Coppo, P. Ronco |
| Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension, Clinical Epidemiology: |
C. Zoccali, G. M. London |
| Dialysis: |
R. Vanholder, S. Davies, C. Wanner |
| Transplantation: |
C. Ponticelli, J.M. Grinyo |
| Collaboration with ISN and other Societies: |
N. Lameire, A. Covic |
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| Date |
| March 14-16, 2009 |
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| Location |
| Brussels, Belgium |
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| Local Coordinator |
| F. Collart (Belgium) |
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| ERA-EDTA Coordinator |
| K. Jager, E-mail: k.j.jager@amc.uva.nl |
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| Course Application |
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The deadline for application is January 5, 2009 |
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| Details |
For more information, please contact Marlies Noordzij at era-epicourses@amc.uva.nl |
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| Course Programme |
Saturday, March 14 |
14.00 |
Course presentation (lecture) |
14.15 |
Measuring disease occurrence (lecture) |
14.45 |
Measuring disease occurence I (hands on session) |
15.00 |
Measuring disease occurrence II (hands on session) |
15.30 |
Coffee break |
15.45 |
Cohort and case control studies (lecture) |
16.30 |
Study design (hands on session) |
18.00 |
Session end |
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Sunday, March 15 |
8.30 |
Simple analysis of risk and prevalence data (lecture) |
9.00 |
Surrogate end-points in clinical research in nephrology (lecture) |
9.45 |
Bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies (lecture) |
10.30 |
Coffee break |
10.45 |
Confounding (hands on session) |
11.00 |
Ways to address confounding: stratification and regression (lecture) |
12.00 |
Lunch |
13.15 |
Stratification (hands on session) |
13.30 |
Prediction and correction for confounding (lecture) |
14.30 |
Introduction to SPSS: linear regression (hands on session) |
15.30 |
Coffee break |
16.00 |
Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (lecture) |
17.00 |
Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (hands on session) |
17.45 |
Session end |
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Monday, March 16 |
8.30 |
Survival analysis II – Cox regression (lecture) |
9.30 |
Survival analysis II – Part 1, survival curves (hands on session) |
10.00 |
Coffee break |
10.15 |
Survival analysis II – Part 2, Cox regression (hands on session) |
11.15 |
Various (lecture) |
12.00 |
Session end |
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| Course Faculty |
Carmine Zoccali |
ERA-EDTA Registry Chairman (Course Coordinator) |
Kitty Jager |
ERA-EDTA Registry Director and Senior Epidemiologist (Course Coordinator) |
Friedo Dekker |
ERA-EDTA Registry Senior Epidemiologist |
Reinhard Kramar |
ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member |
Moniek van de Luijtgaarden |
ERA-EDTA Registry Programmer and Scientist |
Marlies Noordzij |
ERA-EDTA Registry Epidemiologist |
Vianda Stel |
ERA-EDTA Registry Epidemiologist |
Cristoph Wanner |
ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member |
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