We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Chicago Diabetes Day that will take place on Saturday May 13th, 2017. This conference is intended to serve as a forum for basic and clinical investigators, clinicians, and pharmaceutical industry personnel in Chicago and the Midwest to meet, share information, and discuss common interests with the goal of fostering collaborations between individuals and between institutions. Ample opportunities will exist throughout the day to meet with your colleagues.

A poster session is planned for those who wish to share findings from current basic, clinical, or translational research. If you are planning on presenting a poster, remember to send an abstract in word doc (no more than 2 pages) showing your name and the title of the poster to zpaz@bsd.uchicago.edu. The top eight posters will receive an award of $100 each.

We are excited about this event and encourage you to attend what promises to be a stimulating and productive day! For the program agenda and more information click here.

Location:
The University of Chicago
Donnelly Biological Sciences Learning Center
924 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Sponsored by The University of Chicago Diabetes Research and Training Center and Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research

3rd Annual Research Symposium

Future of Health Care Policy for Aging Populations (with poster session)

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Event Details
9:00-3:30 pm
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, University of Chicago
Free lunch will be served
Please REGISTER HERE

DAVIS LECTURE KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Jonathan Oberlander, PhD
Professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

SPEAKER LINEUP:
Tamara Konetzka, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences and Department of Medicine at University of Chicago

Louise Hawkley, PhD, MA
Senior Research Scientist, National Opinion Research Center at University of Chicago

Stacie Levine, MD
Director, Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine Program at University of Chicago

William Dale, MD, PhD
Section Chief for Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine; Director of Specialized Oncology Care & Research in the Elderly (SOCARE) at the University of Chicago

Cynthia Boyd, MD
Core Faculty, Center on Aging and Health; Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University

LEARNING GOALS:

• Network with professionals in all levels of research, policy, and pharmacy
• Discuss critical issues surrounding patient health outcomes, cost controls, economic modeling, and doctor-patient interactions
• Develop ideas for future research

5th Annual Kovler for Kids (*New Location: Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield, IL)
Kovler for Kids is turning 5! Join the Kovler staff at the Brookfield Zoo for a morning of educational, family fun. Kovler experts will be sharing the latest in diabetes care and research, information on the effects of diabetes on the family, and type 1 diabetes and research and prevention programs. Event includes complimentary breakfast, supervised activities for children, and free access to the zoo. Tickets are $5 per person over 3 years old. Advanced registration is required. To register by Oct 10, click here.

The annual scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association will be June 5-9, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. We are pleased to announce that several of our CCDTR-affiliated investigators will be presenting at the meeting this year.

For general information about the Annual Meeting, click here.
Click here to view program information.

Rachel Stones, MS2
Pritzker School of Medicine
University of Chicago

 Room W229
**Lunch will be served.**

Our Research In Progress Conferences are generously supported by the
Section of General Internal Medicine, Section of Hospital Medicine, and CHESS.

Special Event

Guest Speaker:

Gary Chan, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Health Services
University of Washington

 Room W229

The estimation of average treatment effects based on observational data is extremely important in practice and has been studied by generations of statisticians under different frameworks. We will review some common frameworks, such as propensity score, recycled prediction and doubly robust methods, and introduce a model-free method that attains an exact three-way balance of the moments of observed covariates among the treated, the control, and the combined group. We show that efficiency without resorting to direct estimation of propensity score or outcome regression function. Moreover, a non-resampled standard error estimator is proposed and an R package is available. A few practical examples are given to illustrate the practical usefulness of this method.

Special Event

Guest Speaker:

Edward H. Livingston, MD, FACS, AGAF
Deputy Editor
Clinical Reviews and Education
Journal of the American Medical Association

 Room W229

Click here to download the flyer with more details about the event.

We are pleased to announce the 10th Annual Chicago Diabetes Day that will take place on Saturday May 16th, 2015. This conference is intended to serve as a forum for basic and clinical investigators, clinicians, and pharmaceutical industry personnel in Chicago and the Midwest to meet, share information, and discuss common interests with the goal of fostering collaborations between individuals and between institutions. Ample opportunities will exist throughout the day to meet with your colleagues. A poster session is planned for those who wish to share findings from current basic, clinical, or translational research. The top eight posters will receive an award of $100 each.

We are excited about this event and encourage you to attend what promises to be a stimulating and productive day.

Location:
The University of Chicago
Donnelly Biological Sciences Learning Center
924 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

To register, send an e-mail with your name and institutional affiliation to:
zpaz@bsd.uchicago.edu.

For the program agenda and more information, click here.