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ERA-EDTA CME COURSES 2010

Vilamoura
Vilamoura
 
 

Introductory Course on Epidemiology

 
February 23-24, 2010
 

Vilamoura, Portugal

 
 
 

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LOCAL COORDINATOR
ERA-EDTA COORDINATOR
DETAILS
COURSE PROGRAMME
COURSE FACULTY
 
 

Board members of the Committee for CME activities

Goce Spasovski, Rosanna Coppo, Carmine Zoccali, Meguid El Nahas and Ivan Rychlik

Chair Person: G. Spasovski

Secretary: I. Rychlik
 

CME Course Areas (members of the CME Committee)

Basic Science & Clinical Nephrology: R. Coppo and P. Ronco

Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension, Clinical Epidemiology: C. Zoccali and G. London

Dialysis: R. Vanholder, S. Davies and C. Wanner

Transplantation: C. Ponticelli, JM Grinyo

Collaboration with ISN and other Societies: N. Lameire, A. Covic


 
 

 

Date
February 23-24, 2010
 
Location
Vilamoura, Portugal
 
Local Coordinator
F. Carrera (Portugal)
 
ERA-EDTA Coordinator
K. Jager, E-mail: k.j.jager@amc.uva.nl

M. Noordzij . E-mail: m.noordzij@amc.uva.nl

 
Details

Available soon

 
Course Programme

Tuesday, February 23

        8.30         Registration
        9.00         Welcome                                                                             
        9.05         Course introduction                                                             
        9.15         Measuring disease occurrence (lecture)                               
        9.45         Measuring disease occurrence I (hands-on session)             
      10.00         Measuring disease occurrence II (hands-on session)            
      10.30         Coffee break
      10.45         Cohort and case control studies (lecture)                             
      11.30         Study design (hands-on session)                                          
              
      12.45         Lunch
      13.45         Simple analysis of risk and prevalence data (lecture)          
      14.15         Bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies (lecture)     
      15.00         Confounding (hands-on session)                                         

      15.15         Coffee break
      15.45         Ways to address confounding: stratification and
                        regression (lecture)                                                              
      16.30         Stratification (hands-on session)                                          
      17.00         Session end

Wednesday February 24

        8.30         Prediction and correction for confounding (lecture)            
        9.30         Introduction to SPSS: linear regression  (hands-on session) 

      10.30         Coffee break
                        Picture
      11.00         Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (lecture)                        
      12.00         Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (hands-on session)        
                                                                                                                    

      13.00         Lunch
      14.00         Survival analysis II – Cox regression (lecture)                     
      15.00         Survival analysis II – part 1, survival curves (hands-on session)     

      15.30         Coffee break
      16.00         Survival analysis II – part 2, Cox regression (hands-on session)      
      17.00         Various                                                                                
      17.45         Session end

Course Faculty
Kitty Jager

ERA-EDTA Registry Director and Senior Epidemiologist
(Course Coordinator)

Friedo Dekker            ERA-EDTA Registry Senior Epidemiologist
Reinhard Kramar Former ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member
Anneke Kramer ERA-EDTA Registry Programmer and Scientist
Moniek van de Luijtgaarden ERA-EDTA Registry Programmer and Scientist
Alison Macleod Former ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member
Karlijn van Stralen ERA-EDTA Registry Epidemiologist