PMED Program organizers present opening remarks on Day 1 of the workshop.

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Program on Statistical, Mathematical,
and Computational Methods for Precision
Medicine (PMED)

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Program premise
Precision medicine: Evidence-based approaches to tailoring
treatment to patient characteristics
Fundamental: Quantitative methods for translating data into
information to guide treatment decisions
Quantitative methods: Diverse range of methods by statistical,
mathematical, and computational scientists

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Program premise
Goal of PMED: Foster collaborations among statistical,
mathematical, computational, and domain health scientists to forge
synthesis of approaches and thus innovative new data-driven
methodology for precision medicine through
• Workshops
• Interactions among long- and short-term visitors, locals
• Working groups

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Opening workshop:
First step: This workshop!
Workshop goal:
• Showcase the diversity of approaches to precision medicine being
taken across the quantitative sciences
• Highlight challenges and opportunities
• Form thematic working groups to address these

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Working groups
How they work:
• Finalized during this workshop
• Leader(s) and participants (need not have attended this workshop)
• Weekly meetings throughout 2018-2019 (local in-person and
remotely via WebEx, orchestrated by SAMSI)
• October: Theme, scope, specific goal(s) finalized
• Potential outcomes: Review articles, research publications,
software, materials for a short course, grant proposals, …
• Possible 2-day workshops for particularly active groups

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Working groups
Tentative themes: Final themes determined during workshop
• Integrated modeling strategies
• Improved data-driven sequential decision-making
• Inferential methods/uncertainty quantification
• mHealth
• Public health/use of observational data
• Subpopulation identification
• ???? – Be on the lookout this week for opportunities

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Working groups
Logistics:
• Wednesday, August 15: Introduction, more details
• Thursday, August 16 afternoon: Working group formation
• Friday, August 17 morning: Working group formation

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Workshop info
Restrooms: 2nd floor, down hallway on the left
Special request: NCSU Statistics PhD Qualifying Exam on 1st floor
until 1:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday; quiet please!
Meals: Light breakfast provided; lunch, dinner on your own

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Workshop info
Tonight @ 5:00 pm: NC ASA Social at Raleigh Beer Garden, 614
Glenwood Avenue (350+ beers on draft!)
Tomorrow @ 4:45 pm: Poster session and reception, SAS Hall 2nd
floor atrium (adult beverages, heavy hors d’ouevres)
Dining: Ask any local for recommendations; Raleigh has great
restaurants!

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Enjoy the Workshop!