Introductory course on Epidemiology

amsterdambridge

February 16-18, 2008

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ERA-EDTA CME Activities

Chair-person: R. Coppo (Italy)

Secretary: A.L.M. De Francisco (Spain)

Members: J. Floege (Germany)

R. Vanholder (Belgium)

A. Wiecek (Poland)

C. Zoccali (Italy)

J. Cannata-Andia, ERA-EDTA President (Spain)

CME Courses Coordinators:

Basic Science and Clinical Nephrology: R. Coppo (Italy) and P. Ronco (France).

Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension and Clinical Epidemiology: C. Zoccali (Italy) and G. London (France).

Dialysis: R. Vanholder (Belgium), S. Davies (UK) and C. Wanner (Germany).

Transplantation: C. Ponticelli (Italy) and J. Grinyo (Spain).

Collaboration with ISN for courses in Eastern Europe: N. Lameire (Belgium), A. Covic (Romania).

Local Coordinators: R. Krediet and K. Jager (The Netherlands)

ERA-EDTA Coordinator: K. Jager E-mail: k.j.jager@amc.uva.nl

A course application form can be downloaded from www.era-edta-reg.org. For more information, please contact Kitty Jager at k.j.jager@amc.uva.nl

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Saturday 16 February
14.30	Course presentation (lecture)
14.45	Measuring disease occurrence (lecture)
15.15	Measuring disease occurence (hands on session)
15.30	Measuring disease occurrence (hands on session)
16.15	Coffee break
16.30	Cohort and case control studies (lecture)
17.15	Study design (hands on session)
18.30	Session end

Sunday 17 February
9.00	Simple analysis of risk and prevalence data (lecture)
9.30	Bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies (lecture)
10.15	Confounding (hands on session)
10.30	Coffee break
10.45	Ways to address confounding: stratification and regression (lecture)
11.30	Prediction and correction for confounding (lecture)
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Introduction to SPSS: linear regression and stratification (hands on session)
14.45	Coffee break
15.00	Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (lecture)
16.00	Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (hands on session)
17.00	Session end

Monday 18 February
8.30	Survival analysis II – Cox regression (lecture)
9.30	Survival analysis II – Cox regression (hands on session)
11.00	Coffee break
11.15	Surrogate end-points in clinical research in nephrology (lecture)
12.00	Session end

COURSE FACULTY

Carmine Zoccali	ERA-EDTA Registry Chairman (Course Coordinator)
Friedo Dekker	ERA-EDTA Registry Senior Epidemiologist
Kitty Jager	ERA-EDTA Registry Director and Epidemiologist (Course Coordinator)
Reinhard Kramar	ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member
Anneke Kramer	ERA-EDTA Registry Programmer and Scientist
Alison Macleod	ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member
Vianda Stel	ERA-EDTA Registry Epidemiologist
Karlijn van Stralen	ERA-EDTA Registry Epidemiologist