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February 1, 2006

Health Policy Statistics Section at Joint Statistical Meetings 2006

Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Conference Dates: 6-10 August 2006
Abstract Deadline: 1 February 2006 (online) or 15 January 2006 (non-electronic submission)

We are pleased to bring to your attention several Health Policy Statistics Section activities related to the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle.

1. Student travel award competition.
2. Roundtable luncheon proposals invited
3. Contributed paper submissions: time to get them in!
4. Topic contributed sessions

Information about these is included below. Questions should be directed to either the Program Chair or Program Chair-Elect as indicated for each item. For JSM 2006 these are:

Program Chair: Chris Schmid, cschmid@tufts-nemc.org
Program Chair-Elect: Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, bonnieg@rand.org

• Student Travel Award Competition
  We welcome submissions for the Health Policy Statistics Section student awards competition. Current students, or those who completed their degrees within the past year, are eligible to apply for up to $800 US to be applied toward expenses to attend the 2006 JSM. Details of the competition appear online

  This is an excellent opportunity for students to present their work and begin to launch their professional careers, and we have received submissions of very high quality. If you are in a teaching or mentoring situation, please bring this to the attention of your students and encourage them to apply. The deadline for applications is December 23, 2005. For further information contact the Program Chair-Elect to whom applications should be submitted.

• Roundtable Luncheon Proposals
  Roundtable luncheons provide a nice opportunity for informal discussion of a topic in health policy statistics with a maximum of 10 participants, including the discussion leader. They do NOT count against your limit of one presentation, so you can lead a Roundtable and also do a regular session presentation. The leader’s lunch is paid for by the Section.

  Do you have an idea for a Roundtable you’d like to attend, or might you be a discussion leader for a Roundtable, or you would like to suggest someone to serve as a discussion leader? Please send a title or brief statement of the topic for the Roundtable, and also the name of the suggested leader if it is not yourself, to the Program Chair-Elect. Roundtables need to be vetted by the program chair-elect and must be submitted on the same schedule as other contributed sessions, February 1 deadline.

• Coffee Roundtable Proposals
  For JSM 2006, ASA is also trying out some coffee roundtables in the morning before the 8:30 session. The purpose of these roundtables is to enable exhanges outside of the luncheon setting which is impractical for some attendees. As for the luncheon roundtables, ideas should be directed to the Program Chair-Elect.

• Topic Contributed Sessions
  “Topic Contributed Sessions” provide a vehicle for bringing together related papers into sessions organized around a theme. Topic Contributed Sessions offer participants a number of advantages over Regular Contributed Sessions, including better grouping of related papers, an extra 5 minutes for each presentation, the potential availability of a discussant, and time for floor discussion. A Topic Contributed Session includes five presentations of 20 minutes each, with 10 minutes reserved for floor discussion and concluding remarks by the chair. Another variant on the Topic Contributed Session is the Topic Contributed Panel, which has three to five panelists providing commentary on a topic.

  Now is the time to be pulling together your ideas for topic contributed sessions and panels. These sessions need to be fully organized by mid-January at the latest, so that the authors can submit their abstracts and registration fees to ASA by the February 1 online deadline (Deadline is January 15 if not submitting electronically). The ASA website is open as of December 1 for submissions. Note that you must register for the meeting at the time you submit an abstract, and you may only make one oral presentation (as speaker, discussant, or panelist) at the meeting (with some very particular exceptions). For a Topic Contributed Session, each author must submit their abstract by the deadline. Topic Contributed Panels require only one abstract, which is submitted—with a registration fee—by the organizer. If you think that you might like to organize a contributed session for our section, or you have some topics that you would like to suggest, please contact the Program Chair.

• Contributed Paper Submissions
  The ASA office will start accepting JSM 2006 abstracts for contributed papers on-line on their website on December 1. Note that you must register for the meeting at the time you submit an abstract, and you may only make one oral presentation (as speaker, discussant, or panelist) at the meeting (with some very particular exceptions). The deadline for submission is February 1, 2005 (January 15 if non-electronic), you can go online to JSM 2006 for information about submission

  If your topic is related to health policy statistics, it is to your benefit to specify HPSS as your sponsoring section by selecting it on the submission form. This will improve the chances that it finds a “good home” with related papers.

If you give me information in advance, I may be able to organize your paper in advance of submission into a Topic Contributed Session as described above. This has the advantage of placing your work in the same session as others with a similar focus and can bring you a more targeted (as well as bigger) audience. If you are interested, please send your paper title with a one or two sentence description as soon as you can. The lead time may even allow me to solicit additional papers to fill out a session.

Chris Schmid
Program Chair 2006, Health Policy Statistics
Associate Professor, Tufts University
Senior Statistician
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies
Tufts-New England Medical Center

Phone: 617-636-5179
Fax: 617-636-5560
Email: cschmid@tufts-nemc.org

February 2006: Health Research