Pharmacoepi Toolbox for Confounding Control

Co-Moderator(s)

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  Jesper Hallas, MD, PhD, FISPE (he/him/his)

  Professor of clinical pharmacology
  University of Southern Denmark
  Odense C, Denmark
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  Sophie Bots, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  Utrecht University
  Utrecht, Netherlands

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM ADT

  Principled Approaches To Handle Partially Observed Confounder Data From Electronic Health Records: A Plasmode Simulation Study
  

  Presenting Author: Janick Weberpals, RPh, PhD – Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM ADT

  Accounting for treatment switching by pairwise censoring: Is this needed, sufficient to mitigate attrition bias, or should more advanced methodology be used?
  

  Presenting Author: Sudhir Venkatesan, MPH, PhD – Medical & Payer Evidence Statistics, BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK; Department of Medical Statistics
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM ADT

  Orthogonalized regression for causal inference: a pharmacoepidemiologist’s dream?
  

  Presenting Author: Nuvan Rathnayaka – TargetRWE
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM ADT

  Use of Standardization to Increase the Precision of Site-Specific Estimates in Multi-Site Studies and Distributed Networks
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Andrew Webster-Clark, PharmD, PhD – McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM ADT

  Nonparametric Assignment of Stratum Membership to Achieve Covariate Balance in Small Cohorts
  

  Presenting Author: Alec Walker, MD, DrPH (he/him/his) – Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM ADT

  Using Inverse Odds Weights to Separate Modification from Better Confounding Control When Restricting on Covariates
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Andrew Webster-Clark, PharmD, PhD – McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health