Keynote Speakers & Invited Sessions

Keynote Speakers

Erica E. M. Moodie

Biostatistics, McGill University, Canada

Erica E. M. Moodie is a Professor of Biostatistics and a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Statistical Methods for Precision Medicine. She obtained her MPhil in Epidemiology in 2001 from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Biostatistics in 2006 from the University of Washington, before joining the faculty at McGill. Her main research interests are in causal inference and longitudinal data with a focus on precision medicine. She is the 2020 recipient of the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. Dr Moodie is a Co-Editor of Biometrics, a Statistical Editor of Journal of Infectious Diseases, and the 2024-2025 President of the Statistical Society of Canada.

Ian Marschner

University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Ian Marschner is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Sydney and Director of Biostatistics at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre in Sydney, Australia. He has over 30 years of experience as a biostatistician working on clinical trials research across many therapeutic areas, with a recent focus on innovative clinical trial design. He has published extensively on new statistical methodology for biostatistical applications and is a Chief Investigator for the Australian Trials Methodology Research Network. Formerly, he was Head of the Department of Statistics at Macquarie University, Director of Biometrics at Pfizer and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University.


Invited Sessions

When worlds collide: Common methodological themes in meta-analysis, causal inference, and hybrid trial design

Organizers: David Philippo (chair), Lisa Hampson

  • Issa Dahabreh
  • Antonio Remiro-Azocar
  • Satrajit Roychoudhury

AI-driven multi-omics data integration

Organizers: Niko Beerenwinkel (chair), Krista Fischer

  • Maria Brbic
  • Julia Vogt
  • Kjong Lehmann

Prediction modelling meets causal inference for clinical decision making

Organisers: Ruth Keogh (chair), Giusi Moffa

  • Nan Van Geloven
  • Pedro Miranda Afonso
  • Wouter van Amsterdam

Mathematical and Statistical Modelling in the Life Sciences: Seeking causal explanations

Organiser: Jack Kuipers (chair)

  • Johannes Textor
  • Ivana Bozic
  • Theis Lange

Optimizing efficiency in adaptive trial designs

Organisers: Kate Lee (chair)

  • Frank Petavy
  • Marta Bofill Roig
  • Nigel Stallard

Generative AI in clinical research and drug development (BBS invited session)

Organisers: Lilla Di Scala, Giusi Moffa (chair)

  • Holger Fröhlich
  • Sarah Friedrich
  • Maarten van Smeden

Improving replicability in clinical biostatistics

Organisers: Anne Laure Boulesteix (chair) and Daniel Nevo

  • Leo Held
  • Sabine Hoffman
  • Charlotte Soneson
  • Tim Morris

Cracking causal questions: Estimands for reliable and clinically relevant evidence

Organisers: Marcel Wolbers (chair), Mouna Akacha and Lisa Hampson

  • Kelly van Lancker
  • Paul Delmar
  • Alexandra Bühler and Tobias Muetze