Continental
Breakfast
Rebecca
Betensky,
Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Session 1: Keynote Address
Howard
Weiner, Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Session
2: Issues in Study Design for MS
Alberto
Ascherio, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard
School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Introduction
Philip
De Jager,
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Break
Alberto
Ascherio, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard
School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Yinshan
Zhao, Research Associate, University of British Columbia MS/MRI Research
Group, British Columbia, Canada
Discussion
Lunch
Session
3: Vitamin D and MS
Alberto
Ascherio, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard
School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Introduction
Ed
Giovannucci, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School
of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Sue
Hankinson, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
Donna
Spiegelman, Professor of Epidemiologic Methods, Harvard School of
Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
George
Ebers, Action Research Professor, University of Oxford, Oxford, United
Kingdom
Discussion
Break
Session
4: Methods for Analysis of MS Progression
Rebecca Betensky, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Introduction
John
Petkau, Professor of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
Gary
Cutter, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, Alabama
Micha
Mandel, Lecturer in Statistics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Discussion