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2007

Date Topic Speaker/Discussant

04 Oct

Uveitis and the Tower of Babel: Standardizing clinical research

Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA

01 Nov

A Pure Likelihood Approach for Adaptive Clinical Trials

Jeffrey D. Blume, PhD

06 Dec

Results of the TAPE trial -- The placebo effect in asthma

Robert Wise, MD

03 Jan

Getting the Most From Clinical Trials: The Submacular Surgery Trials

Barbara S. Hawkins, PhD

07 Feb

Government and Industry Collaborations for Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Other Retinal Diseases

Emily Chew, MD

07 Mar

Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Elizabeth Kimbrough Pradhan, PhD

04 Apr

The STAR Breast Cancer Prevention Trial - CANCELLED
Kala Visvanathan, MBBS, FRACP, MHS

02 May

The Precursors Study: 50 years of follow-up Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH

2006

Date Topic Speaker/Discussant

03 May

The Intersection of Clinical Trials and Meta-Analysis

Kay Dickersin, PhD

05 Apr

Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Risks in ADAPT

Barbara Martin, PhD

01 Mar

TBA

Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH

01 Feb

Clinical Trial of Azithromycin for Trichiasis in Ethiopia: Special Issues in Developing Counties

Sheila West, PhD

04 Jan

A Cluster Randomized Trial of Guided Care for Frail Elderly People

Charles Boult, MD, MPH, MBA

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2005

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

07 Dec

Publication Policies and Procedures in Multicenter Trials

Neil M. Bressler, MD

02 Nov

The Effectiveness of t-PA in Treating Acute Ischemic Stroke: Clinical, Statistical and Policy Issues

Thomas Louis, PhD

05 Oct

Clinical Trials and Public Health

Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS

04 May

The Dying Child: Terrible Questions, Few Answers.  A Reporter's Perspective on the Hardest Story

Diana Sugg

06 Apr

Confessions of a Recovering Trialist

Charles Flexner, MD

02 Mar

Clinical Trials and IRBs

Mark Steinhoff, MD

16 Mar

The NIH Roadmap and its Impact on Clinical Trials

Robert Nussenblatt, MD

02 Feb

Lessons from Landmark Clinical Trials: Tales from Project ImpACT

Steven Goodman, MD, PhD

05 Jan

Protection of Human Subjects of Research: Where are We?  Where are We Going?

Bernard A. Schwetz, DVM, PhD

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2004

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

01 Dec

Treatment vs Prevention Trials

Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD

03 Nov

The Hijacking of Clinical Trials

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

05 May

The Impact of Scientific Uncertainty on the Development of Health Policy

Leon Gordis, MD, MPH, DrPH

07 Apr

The Evolution of the AIDS Activist Movement

Kevin Robert Frost

03 Mar

Conduct of Large Randomized Clinical Trials

Keith West, MPH, DrPH

04 Feb

The Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group-US Project

Kay Dickersin, PhD

07 Jan

Contributions of American Indians in the Global Control of Infectious Diseases

Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH

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2003

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

03 Dec

Treatment Effects Monitoring Committee (TEMC)

Barbara Martin, PhD

05 Nov

Lessons from Two Decades of Diet-Blood Pressure Trials

Lawrence S. Appel, MD, MPH

01 Oct

Trials & Tribulations of a Clinician Trialist

Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA

07 May

Logistics and Challenges Associated with Coordinating Center Activities in the Women’s Health Initiative

Garnet L. Anderson, PhD

02 Apr

Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance for the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure (REMATCH)

Annetine Gelijns, PhD

05 Mar

Recent problems in conducting vaccine trials
in children

Neal A. Halsey, MD

05 Feb

The Impact of Scientific Uncertainty on the Development of Health Policy

Leon Gordis, MD, DrPH

08 Jan

Privacy Protection Legislation and Impact on Clinical Trials

Joanne Pollak, JD

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2002

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

04 Dec

The Placebo Effect

Robert Wise, MD

06 Nov

"Why R.A. Fisher is Important (Even if He Wasn’t Influential):
Randomization, Statistical Inference and Uncertainty"

Harry Marks, PhD

02 Oct

Unresolved Issues in IRBs and Clinical Trials

Paul S. Lietman, MD
Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

01 May

Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study: Results of a Randomized Trial

Barbara S. Hawkins, PhD

03 Apr

Clinical Trials and Conflicts of Interest

Frank Davidoff, MD, FACP

06 Mar

Placebo Controls

Robert Temple, MD

06 Feb

National Emphysema Treatment Trial - Subgroup Results

Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD

09 Jan

The Conflict Between Observation and Experiment

Jonathan Samet, MD, MS

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2001

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

05 Dec

The Languages of Epidemiology

John M. Last, MD, FRACP, FRCPC, FFCM

07 Nov

Community Intervention Trials for Obesity

Robert Jeffery, PhD

03 Oct

Vitamin A and Human Disease: Who Needs Trials

Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS

02 May

Clinical Trials and IRBs

Donald S. Burke, MD

04 Apr

Risks and Benefits Applying Prevention Trials Results and Recruitment for the Next Generation of Trials

Kathy J. Helzlsouer, MD

07 Mar

Challenges of a Flu Trial

Robert Wise, MD

07 Feb

Issues in Compliance and Credibility in Clinical Trials

Eliot Lee Marshall, AB

03 Jan

Ethical and Practical Issues in Trials in Developing Countries

Joanne Katz, ScD

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2000

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

06 Dec

Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) Results

James Tonascia, PhD

01 Nov

Vaccination Trials Against TB: Lessons Learned

George W. Comstock, MD, DrPH

04 Oct

The State and Nature of Clinical Trials

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

03 May

Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS)

Trudy Bush, PhD

05 Apr

Issues in Pediatric Trials

Andrea Ruff, MD

01 Mar

Alzheimer Disease Prevention Trials

John Breitner, MD

02 Feb

Issues in Vaccine Trials

Mark Steinhoff, MD

05 Jan

Political Issues in the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT)

Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD

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1999

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

01 Dec

Ethical Challenges in the Prevention of Retrolental Fibroplasia: The “RLF Trial” Revisited

Arnall Patz, MD

03 Nov

What Medical Students Should Know About Clinical Trials

Leon Gordis, MD, DrPH

06 Oct

Clinical Trials, Past, Present and Future

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

12 May

Clinical Trials in Complementary Medicine: Trials and Tribulations

Brian Berman, MD

07 Apr

A Web-Based Clinical Trials Support Tool Medical Director

Daniel S. Reshef, MD, MPH

03 Mar

Exciting Challenges in Medical Device Clinical Trials

Gregory Campbell, PhD

03 Feb

Controlled Trials in Developing Countries

Neal A. Halsey, MD

06 Jan

Early Developmental Trial Designs in Oncology

Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD

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1998

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

02 Dec

Issues Arising from Randomized Trials of Home Treatment of Severe Malaria


Richard H. Morrow, Jr, MD

04 Nov

Lorenzo’s Oil Trial In Retrospect

Hugo W. Moser, MD

07 Oct

Policy vs Reality in Clinical Trials

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

06 May

Ethics of Placebos

Nancy Min, PhD

01 Apr

Outcomes Research and Clinical Trials

Mark Danese
PhD student

04 Mar

Impact of Population Heterogeneity on the Design of Developmental Trials

Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD

04 Feb

Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials of Vaccines

Janet Wittes, PhD

07 Jan

Planning Cost-Effectiveness Analyses in Clinical Trials: Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding

Kevin Frick, PhD

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1997

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

03 Dec

Information-Based Design and Monitoring of Group Sequential Studies

Daniel Scharfstein, PhD

05 Nov

Design Strategies in Dementia Prevention Trials with New or Old NSAID Therapies

Walter Stewart, PhD

01 Oct

Competency vs Objectivity in Clinical Trials

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

12 Mar

Assessing the Effect of HIV Vaccination on Infectiousness

Wasima Rida, PhD

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1996

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

13 Nov

Analyzing Clinical Trials with Patient Crossover and Dropout

Daniel F. Heitjan, PhD

04 Oct

Conceptual Errors in the Use of Statistics in Published Medical Research

Douglas G. Altman, DSc

11 Sep

Apples and Oranges?: Modeling Heterogeneity
in Meta-Analysis

John P.A. Ioannidis, PhD

12 Jun

General Faculty Meeting

All Center Faculty

17 Apr

Current FDA Reform (Deform?) Legislation

Sidney Wolfe, MD

13 Mar

Quantitative Compliance Monitoring

Charles Flexner, MD

14 Feb

Figures Don’t Lie, But Liars Figure: A Case Study of Fraud in Clinical Trials

Craig Hendrix, MD

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1995

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

13 Dec

Adjusting Survival Curves for Confounders: A Review and A New Method

Javier Nieto, MD, PhD
Josef Coresh, MD, PhD

11 Oct

“Picturing” Clinical Trials: The Art in Medicine

Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD

13 Sep

The Adequacy of the Consent Process and Patients’ Understanding of Clinical Research: Results of Two Studies Conducted for the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experimentation

Gail Geller, ScD
Steven Goodman, MD, PhD
Nancy Kass, ScD

14 Jun

The Cochrane Collaboration: A Progress Report

Kay Dickersin,  PhD
Steven Goodman, MD, PhD

17 May

General Faculty Meeting

All Faculty, CCT

12 Apr

When Bad Things Happen: A Case Study of the FIAU Trials

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

08 Mar

Measuring Outcomes: The 18th Century Inoculation Debates

Harry M. Marks, PhD

08 Feb

Publication and Reporting of Phase I Clinical Trials

Marcy Winget
PhD student

01 Jan

Misconduct in Clinical Trials

Marie Diener-West
Barbara S. Hawkins
Claudia S. Moy

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1994

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

14 Dec

Perioperative Transfusion & Cardiac Morbidity A Clinical Trial

Rose Christopherson, MD, PhD

08 Nov

Society for Clinical Trials Program Talks

CCT Staff and Faculty

12 Oct

Making the Data Fit the Analysis: A Case-Cohort Analysis of a Case-Coverage Vaccine Study

Lawrence H. Moulton, PhD

14 Sep

Dementia After Death? A Method for Survival Analysis when Survival is Not the Outcome

Leonardo D. Epstein, PhD

08 Jun

 Faculty Meeting

CCT Faculty

13 Apr

Intention to Treat vs Treatment-Received Analysis in Clinical Trials

Cynthia B. Saiontz
ScM student

12 Jan

Reader Based Analysis of Clinical Trials Bayesian Statistics and Expert Systems

Harold Lehmann, MD, PhD

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1993

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

08 Dec

Putting Clinical Trials Into Practice at the National Health Service

Muir Gray, CBE, MD, FRCP

13 Oct

Society for Clinical Trials Program Talks

CCT Staff and Faculty

08 Sep

Does Peer Review Make a Difference? The Results of a study

Steven N. Goodman, MD, PhD

09 Jun

General Faculty Meeting

Open Discussion

12 May

Meinert on Clinical Trials

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

14 Apr

Treatment Trials and Drug Company Agreements

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

10 Mar

Ethical Dilemmas in Continuing a Zidovudine Trial After Early
Termination of Similar Trials

Open Discussion

10 Feb

Two Ethical Problems in Clinical Trials

Ruth Faden, PhD

13 Jan

Identical Survival Models from Contracting Assumptions: Example and Discussion

Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD

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1992

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

09 Dec

Threats to Clinical Trials and What We Can Do About Them

Open discussion

11 Nov

Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Clinical Trials: The Current Debate

Janet Wittes, PhD

14 Oct

Recent Developments in the Design of Phase I and II Clinical Trials

Richard Simon, PhD

16 Sep

Directions for Clinical Trials Research in the 90s

Faculty presentations

20 May

Plans for 1992-93

CTTP Faculty

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1991

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

11 Dec

SOCA: Lessons in Strategy and Tactics

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

09 Oct

Randomization From the First Patient

Barbara S. Hawkins, PhD

11 Sep

Clinical Trials After Efficacy is Established: Cost and Cost Effectiveness as Endpoints

Neil Powe, MD

05 Jun

The VA Cooperative Studies Program: A Model for Multicenter Clinical Trials?

Joseph F. Collins, ScD

01 May

General Faculty Meeting

CCT Faculty

03 Apr

Analysis of Pre-Post Data in Non- Randomized Trials

Kenrad Nelson, MD
Alvaro Muñoz, PhD

06 Mar

Are Randomized Clinical Trials Ethical? A Review of the Debate

Steve N. Goodman, MD, PhD

06 Feb

Estimating A Drug Effect When All Patients At Risk Are Treated; is Herb Robbins Crazy?

Scott L. Zeger, PhD

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1990

Date

Topic

Speaker/Discussant

05 Dec

Underrepresented Groups in Clinical Trials

Kay Dickersin, PhD

07 Nov

Enthusiasm for Cancer Therapies at Different Phases of Development

Brigid Leventhal, MD

03 Oct

Language of the FDA -- Adequate , Director
and Well-Controlled Studies

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD

12 Sep

Start-up

Steve N. Goodman, MD, PhD

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