Workshop on Principles of Cancer Epidemiology. October 11-13, 2018 Course offered by Biostatistics Resource and Training Centre, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. In collaboration with the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (previously Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, and the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute, Maryland, United States. This course’s main purpose is to impart foundational knowledge in the principles and practice of cancer epidemiology, specifically in the areas of cancer etiology, surveillance, and survival analysis. The etiology module will cover the design, analysis, and interpretation of observational studies. The surveillance module will contain an overview of the infrastructure needed to conduct cancer surveillance, aspects of data quality, and tools for using the data (standardization, age-period-cohort models). Finally, the survival analysis module will include material related to life tables, survival curves, survival time models, and the application of survival analysis to screening trials and evaluation. Other topics that may be covered include: cancer etiology and surveillance in the local Indian setting, sample size calculation, and risk factor surveillance. An important aspect of this course will be hands-on exercises using examples to understand the theory and its applications in cancer epidemiology.

1. October 11-13, 2018
Course offered by
Biostatistics Resource and Training Centre,
Clinical Epidemiology Unit,
Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
In collaboration with the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (previously Clinical
Epidemiology and Biostatistics) at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada and the Division of Cancer Epidemiology
and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute, Maryland, United States.
Workshop on
Principles of Cancer Epidemiology

2. Background:
This course’s main purpose is to impart foundational knowledge in
the principles and practice of cancer epidemiology, specifically in
the areas of cancer aetiology, surveillance and survival analysis. The
aetiology module will cover the design, analysis, and interpretation
of observational studies. The surveillance module will contain an
overview of the infrastructure needed to conduct cancer
surveillance, aspects of data quality, and tools for using the data
(standardization, age-period-cohort models). Finally, the survival
analysis module will include material related to life tables, survival
curves, survival time models and the application of survival analysis
to screening trials and evaluation.
Other topics that may be covered include: cancer etiology and
surveillance in the local Indian setting, sample size calculation, and
risk factor surveillance. An important aspect of this course will be
hands-on exercises using examples to understand the theory and its
applications in cancer epidemiology.
 To understand the designs used to conduct epidemiological
research in cancer, with a focus on aetiology.
 To understand the challenges and opportunities in the
collection and analysis of cancer surveillance data.
 To achieve an understanding of the variety of methods
available for survival analysis, and when each is appropriate.
Background
Course Objectives

3. This course is tailored to medical, allied health professionals,
nonmedical faculty, and/or researchers who are interested in
learning more about cancer epidemiology, surveillance methods
and survival analyses, or teaching institution members interested in
furthering their knowledge and skills in methodology.
 Course kit will be provided.
 Hands-on practical exercises
Rs 10,000/ (Inclusive of 18% GST)
(Course kit, Lunch, snacks and tea will be provided)
Course Fee should be paid in full by October 01, 2018. Payment can
be made by Demand Draft (DD) in favour of “Christian Medical
College Vellore Association Account “, payable at Vellore.
Participants will have to bear their own expenses for travel,
boarding and lodging. The Organizers will provide Lunch and
Snacks. However, the organizers may arrange basic
accommodation with A/C facility in the college campus on request.
Only limited accommodation is available on campus and priority will
be given to the female participants on first come and first served
basis. The room will be available from 10th October evening
onwards only. However, the list of hotels attached in the brochure.
Who Should Apply?
Benefits
Course Fee
Accommodation

4. Biostatistics Resource and Training Centre (BRTC),
Department of Biostatistics,
Christian Medical College,
Bagayam, Vellore - 632 002.
The number of participants: Limited to 45 admissions & this will be
purely on first come first served basis.
Note: After Registration if cancelled the course fee will not be
refunded.
Venue

5. Stephen Walter received his Ph.D. from the University of
Edinburgh. After faculty appointments at the
University of Ottawa and Yale University, he
joined the Department of Clinical Epidemiology
and Biostatistics at McMaster University, where
he is now a Professor Emeritus. Dr Walter has
collaborated in research on internal medicine,
evidence-based medicine, developmental
pediatrics, environmental health, cancer etiology
and medical screening. He is interested in several
areas of biostatistical methodology, including: the design and
analysis of medical research studies;risk assessment; evaluation of
diagnostic and screening data; and regional and temporal variation
in health. He has published widely on these topics (with over 450
refereed papers) in the biomedical and statistical literature.
Dr Walter is a past Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology,
and Section Editor for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. He
served as Chair of Biostatistics in the International Clinical
Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), and has been involved with
research capacity development in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Dr
Walter is a regular Visiting Professor in Australia and Finland, and he
has been involved in research activities in several other countries.
He is a past coordinator of the Health Research Methods program
at McMaster, and has worked with about 100 Masters and Ph.D.
students.
About Faculty

6. Honours and Awards:
 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada)
 Inaugural Greenberg Award for Excellence in Methods
Development and Application, North American Congress of
Epidemiology.
 Winner, International People’s Epidemiology Library Award
(from American College of Epidemiology and Netherlands
Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences); World Congress of
Epidemiology.
 Co-author on “Best Paper of the Year”, selected by The Lancet
from the world literature.
 CIHR-CMAJ Top Achievement in Health Research Award (co-
recipient); and related awards from the Orthopaedic Trauma
Association, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons,
and Orthopaedic Research and Educational Foundation.
 Inaugural Statistical Society of Canada Award for Impact of
Applied and Collaborative Work.
 Elected Member, International Statistical Institute.
 Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association.
 Fellow, Royal Statistical Society.
 Honourary Life Member, Indian Clinical Epidemiology
Network.
 International Society for Fracture Repair, Best Paper Award
(co-recipient)
 Canadian National Health Scientist Award; CIHR Senior
Investigator and Partnership Awards
 Inaugural Tait McKenzie Medal for Research, Canadian
Academy for Sport Medicine.

7.  Distinguished Visitors Award, University of Western Australia.
 Taiwan Science Council, Distinguished Scholar Award.
Dr. Diana Withrow is a research fellow in the Radiation
Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer
Epidemiology and Genetics at the U.S. National
Cancer Institute (NCI), where she has worked since
2016. Having trained at the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University
of Toronto, Dr. Withrow’s research interests
include cancer trends, surveillance, and disparities, radiation-
related second cancers and the late effects of pediatric cancer
treatment. At the US NCI, Dr. Withrow has received the Directors’
Innovation Award, the Intramural Research Award and an
Outstanding Paper Award. She instructs an annual Epidemiology
course for NCI summer interns.
Dr. Prashant Mathur, who completed his post graduation and PhD
in Pediatric Gastroenterology & Hepatology from
the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New
Delhi. He has received training in clinical
epidemiology, qualitative research methods and
program evaluation, has more than 40 peer
reviewed publications in national and
international journals and chapters in 18 books and is
a reviewer of 21 national and international journals.
He has joined NCDIR as the Director, National Center for Disease
Informatics, Bengaluru in May 2016. At NCDIR, the National Cancer
Registry Program (NCRP) and its various activities are being
implemented. NCDIR is a centre of disease informatics, focused on
disease surveillance, software development for the data collection,

8. analysis, reporting on data of non-communicable diseases. The
Survey for Monitoring the National Non-communicable Diseases
Targets is being executed. NCDIR also houses the Bioethics Unit of
ICMR.
Previously, at the ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi he was Program
Officer for extramural research in the areas of Non communicable
Disease Surveillance, Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome, Chronic
Disease Epidemiology, Tobacco and Gastroenterology. He initiated
several multi-centric task force programs in these areas of public
health relevance, including NCD risk factor surveys, childhood
obesity, celiac disease, non alcoholic fatty liver disease. He is the
Member Secretary of the National Technical Working Group on NCD
Surveillance, and represents ICMR at several committees of the
departments of Government of India on NCD surveillance and NCD
prevention and control. He coordinated the implementation of the
national NCD risk factor surveys in 2007-2008 under the Integrated
Disease Surveillance Program of the Ministry of Health in 7 States of
the country. He is Member Secretary of the National Technical
Working Group on NCD monitoring, evaluation and surveillance. He
steered the ICMRs collaboration with the Medical Research Council,
UK, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Global Alliance for
Chronic Disease. He has worked closely with the WHO Offices of the
South East Region and India Office, including serving as Temporary
International Professional with the WHO South East Regional
Office, New Delhi and has worked on Capacity Assessment for NCD
Prevention and Control and Analysis of NCD related Policies in SEAR
Countries.
He has been actively involved as the member of Core Group of the
ICMR Strategic Plan, Sub group for Health Effects on Electronic

9. Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS), Karnataka State Cancer Control
Committee and other various important committees at different
institutions across the country.
Dr. Abraham Peedicayil MBBS, DGO, MPH, MD, FRCOG, Professor
and Head, Dept of Gynaecologic Oncology, CMC
Hospital, Vellore 632004, India. Trained at UNC,
Chapel Hill and has been member of the Clinical
Epidemiology Unit (CEU) since 1992. He is the
current Co-ordinator of CEU at CMC. Also the
coordinator for the PG Research Methodology
and Dissertation writing workshops in CMC. He has
been involved in teaching epidemiology and participating in clinical
and epidemiological research. Main clinical interest is treatment of
gynaecological cancers. Research interest has been early detection
of cervical cancer and outcomes of cancer treatments.
Dr. Thambu David Sudarsanam, Professor of Medicine at the
Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore and
current Director of the South Asian Cochrane
network at CMC, Vellore. Trained both MBBS and
MD General Medicine in the CMC, Vellore.
He has been teaching Epidemiology/Clinical
epidemiology & Research methods . His interests
include Infectious diseases, epidemiology and
systematic reviews. He is also interested in Nutritional interventions
for TB and the problems of HIV and TB co-infection.

10. Dr. L. Jeyaseelan, Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of
Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore. He
has been teaching Epidemiology and Clinical
Epidemiology for the Masters Program at this
Department. He is specialized in Clinical
Epidemiology, Bayesian Methods, Bootstrap, and
Mixture Distributions. He is the founder of the
Biostatistics and Resource and Training Centre
(BRTC). He has been organizing short courses in Biostatistics,
Epidemiology, and Advanced Statistics Methods for the last 15
years. He is also the founder of the Clinical Data Management
Centre (CDMC) to support data management, analyses and report
writing for Vaccine and Drug trials. This is the first ever recognised
data management centre in an academic institution in India. He is
also member of the DSMB of Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
and WHO. He has published over 135 papers in public health and
medicine. He is the PI of the nMaster sample size calculation
software from this Department. He is Investigator or Co-
investigator of nearly 10 Epidemiological studies and about 15
capacity building projects.

11.  In general, the workshop will cover designs in cancer
epidemiology, data analyses and analyses of data from
surveillance systems.
 Cancer screening concepts, data analyses (methods of
standardization, Life table methods and surveillance) will be
covered.
 The course will focus on data analyses, defining the
denominators and different analytical methods.
 Other topics that may be covered include: basics of survival
analyses (Kaplan Meier survival curves, comparison and Cox
PH models).
Course Content
Course Co-ordinator/Address for communication
Dr. L. Jeyaseelan,
Professor and Head
Biostatistics Resource and Training Centre (BRTC)
Advanced Clinical Data Management Centre (ACDMC)
Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College,
Bagayam, Vellore 632 002. India
Secretariat / Contact person
Mr. C. Jayaprakash / Mr. Sankar
Email: biostats@cmcvellore.ac.in
Phone: (0416) 2262703, 2284205

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Department of Biostatistics, CMC, Vellore-2
WORKSHOP ON PRINCIPLES OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY
(OCTOBER 11-13, 2018)
REGISTRATION FORM
SIGNATURE
AHMAD OZAIR
21
Medical Student
King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow, UP
Haleem Clinic, Touriaganj, Bazarkhala,
Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh
7060588925
ahmadozair1@gmail.com
ahmadozair@kgmcindia.edu
Evening of 10th October
I will be attending Cochrane training workshop
from 15th to 19th October. Hence departure from
CMC vellore would be on 19th october in the day.
As a student, kindly give me campus accommodation
from 10th evening to 19th.
10,000
Allahabad Bank

13. List of Hotels available in Vellore
Vellore city STD code is +91- 416
Hotel name
Single
non AC
Double
non AC
Single
AC
Double
AC
Phone
Nos
Distance
from
Venue
(approx)
Darling Residency
http://www.darlingresidency.com
2424/- 2788/-
2213001
4202006
4202007
3.5 kms
Grand Krishna
http://hotelgrandkrishna.com
2350/- 3528/-
2258189
2258289
2258389
2258489
15 kms
Hotel Surabhi International
http://www.hotelsurabi.com
2424/- 2788/-
2216399
2216499
2216599
3.5 kms
Baby Residency
http://www.babyresidency.com
1814/- 2055/-
2226484
2213285
2227584
3 kms
Aavanaa Inn
http://www.hotelaavanaainn.com
1697/- 2060/- 2424/- 2788/-
2215073
2215074
2228935
6 kms
River View
http://www.hotelriverview.org
2182/- 2666/-
2225251
2222349
2225218
2225108
7 kms
Mount Paradise
http://hotelmountparadise.net
1000/- 1350/- 1500/- 1700/-
222831
2235531
2212631
10 kms
Sri Srinivasar Residency
http://www.srinivasaresidency.com
1455/- 1940/-
2232725
2232726
2232727
7 kms
Sri Annamalaiyar Residency
http://annamalaiyarresidency.com
1500/- 1814/- 2229999 7 kms
Kumaran's Millennium Residency
http://www.mmresidency.in
950/- 1200/- 1200/- 1600/- 2245500 10 kms.
Lingam Residency 650/- 650/- 950/- 950/- 2220971 6 kms.
Koona Residency 525/- 825/- 2211298 6 kms.
Arunachalam Lodge 700/- 1400/- 2210979 6 kms.
AMP Lodge 300/- 400/- 3292652 1 Km.
Ananda Bhavan
vimdes@rediffmail.com
500/- 2266770 1 Km.
Note: Rates may be subject to revision