Introductory course on Epidemiology

leiden

Leiden - Rapenburg

September 22-24, 2007

Leiden, The Netherlands

ERA-EDTA
European Council for Accreditation in CME in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (ECANDT of the ERA-EDTA accredited by the European Accreditation Council for CME - EACCME).

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), A. Torres (Spain) and K. Olgaard (Denmark).

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

Local Coordinators: T. Rabelink and F. Dekker (The Netherlands)

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

Scholarships for this course are being provided by ERA-EDTA and Ortho-Biotech.
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 22 September
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 23 September
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 24 September
8.30	Survival analysis II – Cox regression (lecture)
9.30	Survival analysis II – Cox regression (hands on session)
11.00	Coffee break
11.15	Causal effects (lecture)
12.00	Session end

COURSE FACULTY

Carmine Zoccali	ERA-EDTA Registry Chairman (Course Coordinator)
Friedo Dekker	ERA-EDTA Registry Senior Epidemiologist
Paul van Dijk	ERA-EDTA Registry Programmer and Scientist
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
Christoph Wanner	ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member