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SPM NEWS
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Society Executive Secretary: Ms Victoria Wood 9 Red Lion Court, London EC4A 3EF, UK Website: www.socpharmed.org
Editor: Martin W. Lunnon
1. Future Meetings
(Tel: 020 7936 5900 or fax: 020 7936 5901) E-mail: [email protected]
The future meetings diary for the SPM is given in table I. For further details on any of these meetings please see the SPM website at www.socpharmed.org or contact: Victoria Wood, SPM Secretariat, 9 Red Lion Court, London EC4A 3EF, England
or Dr Donna Ellender, the Honorary Scientific Meetings Secretary of the SPM E-mail: [email protected]
Table I. Society of Pharmaceutical Medicine future meetings Date
Meeting
Venue
Additional Information
13 Jun
A statistical workshop: the Essence of Statistics in Clinical Trials This training is for anyone who would like to better understand basic statistical information for designing and analysing clinical trials Course Trainers: Dr Kerry Gordon & Rachel Moate with a special guest speaker from MHRA
CCT, Barbican, London
Topics expected to be covered include: motivation, need for statistics; populations and samples; uncertainty and variability; distributions; types of data; summarising data (mean, median, standard deviation, standard errors, proportions); hypothesis testing; type 1 and 2 error; p-values; confidence intervals; superiority, non-inferiority; sample size determination (power, delta); avoiding bias – randomization and blinding; populations – safety, ITT, PP; basic statistical methods: T-test, chi-square test; covariates and subgroups; comparing treatments (differences in means, odds ratios, relative risk, absolute risk difference etc); More sophisticated statistical methods (ANCOVA, logistic regression)
18 Jun
Challenges in Oncology Clinical Trials – “Does the trial fit the patient?”
Royal College of Surgeons, London
Topics expected to be covered includes: choosing the appropriate endpoint; predictive response markers; patient stratification and enrichment strategies; statistical challenges and adaptive design; challenges in paediatric oncology trials
20 Oct
The Adrian Salter Memorial Lecture – “Is there a Future for the Research-Based Pharmaceutical Industry?” to be delivered by Dr John Patterson (Astra Zeneca)
Royal Society, London
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