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  • Sunday, Aug 24th
    11:30 AM - 11:45 AM ET
    1F-05 - Development and validation of gestational age estimation algorithms for non-live births in administrative healthcare databases
    Location: 202AB
    Presenting Author: Yongtai Cho – School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.
    Co-Author: Eun-Young Choi – School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.
    Co-Author: Hyesung Lee, PhD – Department of Medical Informatics, Kangwon National University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea
    Co-Author: Yunha Noh – College of Pharmacy, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.
    Co-Author: Jung Yeol Han – Korea Mothersafe Counseling Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inje University Paik Hospital, Goyang, South Korea.
    Co-Author: Seung-Ah Choe – Department of Preventive Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine
    Co-Author: Hoon Kim – Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
    Co-Author: Ju-Young Shin, PharmD, PhD – School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Sunday, Aug 24th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    SW-1A - Building transparency and reproducibility into the practice of pharmacoepidemiology and outcomes research
    Location: 202AB
    Presenting Author: Shirley V. Wang – Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Co-Author: Anton Pottegård – University of Southern Denmark
    Co-Author: Joshua Gagne, PharmD, ScD, FISPE – Johnson & Johnson
    Co-Author: Patrice Verpillat, MD, MPH, PhD – European Medicines Agency
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Sunday, Aug 24th
    5:15 PM - 6:45 PM ET
    SW-2E - Resolved That the Hierarchy of Evidence Should Be Replaced: A Debate
    Location: 204ABC
    Presenting Author: Lisa Weiss, PhD, MPH – MDIC
    Co-Author: Kirk Geale, MSc, PhD – Quantify Research
    Co-Author: Christina D. Mack, PhD – IQVIA
    Co-Author: Mary E. Ritchey, PhD, FISPE – Med Tech Epi
    Co-Author: Ursula Kirchmayer, MPH – Department of Epidemiology, ASL Roma1, SSR Lazio, Rome, Italy
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Sunday, Aug 24th
    5:15 PM - 6:45 PM ET
    SW-2F - Overcoming Challenges in CDM Harmonization from Within-Country Coordination to International Collaboration
    Location: 208AB
    Co-Author: Kristian B. Filion, PhD – McGill University
    Co-Author: Ashley I. Michnick, PharmD, PhD – Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
    Co-Author: Daniel Prieto-Alhambra – Health Data Sciences, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford
    Presenting Author: Chin-Yao Shen – School of Pharmacy, Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    Co-Author: Darren Toh, ScD – Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Sunday, Aug 24th
    5:15 PM - 6:45 PM ET
    SW-2G - Addressing the threat of confounding in pharmacoepidemiology with innovative methods: Lessons from the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center
    Location: 207AB
    Presenting Author: Rishi Desai, MS, PhD – Harvard Medical School
    Co-Author: Fatma M. Shebl, MD, PhD, MS – Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration
    Co-Author: Pamela Shaw – Kaiser Permanente, Washington
    Co-Author: Xu Shi – University of Michigan
    Co-Author: Richie Wyss – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Monday, Aug 25th
    8:30 AM - 8:45 AM ET
    3D-02 - A Comparison of Traditional versus Semi-Automated Processes for Screening and Data Extraction in a Systematic Literature Review.
    Location: Ballroom AB
    Presenting Author: Fidelia Ida – 1. CSL Behring LLC, 1020 First Avenue, King of Prussia, PA, US
    Co-Author: Quazi Ataher – CSL Behring LLC
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Monday, Aug 25th
    8:45 AM - 9:00 AM ET
    3D-03 - An experiment from SeValid: Integration of Artificial Intelligence in the Clinical Validation Pipeline of the VACcine Monitoring Collaboration for Europe (VAC4EU)
    Location: Ballroom AB
    Co-Author: Giulia Hyeraci – Agenzia Regionale di Sanità della Toscana (ARS Toscana), Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Marco Lippi – Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Valeria Nardoni – Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Martina Maccari – SOD Ottica Fisiopatologica – Clinical Trial Center, Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Giorgio Limoncella – Department of Statistics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Alejandro Arana, MD, MPH, MSc, FISPE – RTI Health Solutions, Barcelona, Spain
    Co-Author: Ersilia Lucenteforte – Department of Statistics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Simone Marinai – Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Sima Mohammadi, MD – VAC4EU
    Co-Author: Giuseppe Roberto – Agenzia Regionale di Sanità della Toscana (ARS Toscana), Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Gianni Virgili – Department NEUROFARBA, University of Florence, Italy
    Co-Author: Daniel Weibel – Vaccine monitoring collaboration for Europe (VAC4EU), Brussels, Belgium
    Co-Author: Amirreza Dehgahn Tarazjani – Department of Data Science and Biostatistics, Julius Center for Health Science and Primary Care, University Medical Center of Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Presenting Author: Rosa Gini, PhD – Agenzia Regionale di Sanità della Toscana (ARS Toscana), Florence, Italy
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Monday, Aug 25th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
    SW-3G - Precision Medicine and Pharmacoepidemiology Synergistic Approaches to Real-World Evidence
    Location: 202AB
    Presenting Author: STANLEY A. EDLAVITCH, PhD,MA – UMKC SOM, KUMC SOM
    Co-Author: Gillian Bartlett, PhD – Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine
    Co-Author: Bruce C. Carleton, PharmD, FCP, FISPE – University of British Columbia
    Co-Author.: Tara Dutka – Nation​al Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Tuesday, Aug 26th
    1:45 PM - 2:00 PM ET
    6F-02 - Evaluation of Different Washout Periods for Identifying New Users
    Location: 202AB
    Presenting Author: Daniel Hsiang-Te Tsai – Population Health Data Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    Co-Author: Albert Tzu-Ming Chuang, PharmD – Population Health Data Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    Co-Author: Avery Shuei-He Yang, MClinPharm – School Of Pharmacy, Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University
    Co-Author: Edward Chia-Cheng Lai, PhD – Population Health Data Center, National Cheng Kung University
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other
  • Tuesday, Aug 26th
    2:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET
    6E-05 - Effect-based modeling of individualized treatment effects to predict benefit-harm balance: example using immune checkpoint inhibitors
    Location: Ballroom AB
    Presenting Author: James Heyward, PhD – Johns Hopkins University, Department of Epidemiology
    Co-Author: Hemalkumar B. Mehta, PhD, MS – Johns Hopkins University, Department of Epidemiology
    Co-Author: Jodi B. Segal, MD, MPH – Johns Hopkins University
    Co-Author: Catherine Lesko, PhD, MPH – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
    Co-Author: David Kent – Predictive Analytics and Comparative Effectiveness (PACE) Center, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    Co-Author: Joseph Murray, MD, PhD – Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
    Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology / Other