TSHS Has Something for Everyone at JSM2018

We are very excited about JSM 2018 in Vancouver, and are glad to be able to provide you with a quick look at the great sessions the section will be sponsoring! We will have two invited sessions, three topic contributed sessions, one contributed sessions, three round-table discussions, as well as speed and poster presentations and several other sessions we are cosponsoring. There should be something to fit everyone’s interests and we look forward to seeing you at a session (or several)!

Invited Sessions:

Building a Computing Age #StatisticsCurriculm for Biomedical Scientists
Educational Tools for Causal Inference in the Health Sciences
Collaborative Biostatistics: Finding a Happy Medium in Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice (cosponsor)
Innovations in Teaching Undergraduate Probability (cosponsor)
Staying Statistically Relevant: Keeping your Skills Sharp (cosponsor)

Topic Contributed Sessions:

Leading to Quantitative Literacy
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Biostatistics Partially or Fully Online
Educating the Government Workforce to Lead with Statistics

Contributed Session:

Challenges and Approaches to Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences

Round Table Discussions:

Teaching Meta-analysis for Health Scientists
Career Advice for Statistics Educators in the Health Sciences
DataFests for Reinforcing Concepts, Challenging Students and Creating Community in the Health Sciences