R/Medicine Schedule

Speakers: Please see additional instructions and deadlines in the speaker guide.


Workshop Day 1
Monday, June 10, 2024.
All Times EST

Start Time End Time Duration
11:00 AM 2:00 PM 3h 1A - Workshop
Causal Inference in R
Travis Gerke
Director of Data Science, Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium
11:00 AM 2:00 PM 3h 1B - Workshop
Promover la Equidad Científica: Una Introducción al uso de R para la programación en Bioestadística y Ciencia de Datos, en Español
Catalina Canizares-Escobar, Francisco Cardozo
Study Coordinator, PhD student, Florida International University
2:00 PM 2:30 PM 30m Break
2:30 PM 5:30 PM 3h 2A - Workshop
Google BigQuery: First Steps in R
Joy Payton
Data Scientist, CHOP
2:30 PM 5:30 PM 3h 2B - Workshop
Project Oriented Workflows
Shannon Pileggi
Data Scientist, Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium
5:30 PM 8:30 PM 3h 3A - Workshop
Tidy time series analysis and forecasting
Mitchell O'Hara-Wild
Data Scientist, Nectric

Workshop Day 2
Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

Start Time End Time Duration
11:00 AM 2:00 PM 3h 4A - Workshop
Next Generation Shiny Apps with {bslib}
Garrick Aden-Buie
Software Engineer, Posit
11:00 AM 2:00 PM 3h 4B - Workshop
From R to PowerPoint: Advanced PowerPoint Presentations Using {officer}
Theo Roe, Colin Gillespie
R educators, Jumping Rivers
2:00 PM 2:30 PM 30m Break
2:30 PM 5:30 PM 3h 5A - Workshop
Setting Up a Dockerized R Development Environment with VScode
Rami Krispin
Senior Manager/Data Scientist, Apple
2:30 PM 5:30 PM 3h 5B - Workshop
REDCap + R: Teaming Up in the Tidyverse
Stephan Kadauke, Will Beasley
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, CHOP, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center

Demo Day
Wednesday, June 12, 2024.

Start Time End Time Duration
10:00 AM 10:55 AM 55m 1 - Demo
R Consortium's R-based Test Submission Package for FDA Evaluation: A Milestone in R-based Regulatory Submissions
Joel Laxamana
Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group
11:00 AM 11:55 AM 55m 2 - Demo
R + Snowflake to enable Medical Research
Rika Gorn, Posit
Ralph Braun, Snowflake
12:00 PM 12:30 PM 30m Break
12:30 PM 1:25 PM 55m 3 - Demo
Handling Health Data Imbalance in Machine Learning Using R
Olawale Awe
University of Colorado
1:30 PM 2:25 PM 55m 4 - Demo
An Introduction to Tidy R Spatial Packages: Incorporating Historic Sociodemographic Data from the US Census and Visualizing Geographic Distributions
Stephen Uong and Christina Mehranbod
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
2:30 PM 3:25 PM 55m 5 - Demo
RosyREDCap – a REDCap-project-agnostic R package that uses an API token to make a single, updating, standardized R list object containing all metadata and data for exports, imports, transformation, and shiny applications
Brandon Rose
University of Miami
3:30 PM 4:25 PM 55m 6 - Demo
Word embeddings in mental health, from exploration to confirmation, towards multidimensional diagnoses
Thomas Charlon
Harvard Medical School
4:30 PM 5:25 PM 55m 7 - Demo
No ChatGPT? No Problem!: Using the R Ecosystem to Facilitate the Extraction and Use of Knowledge from Scientific Literature
Paul Kowalczyk
Adaptimmune
5:30 PM 6:25 PM 55m 8 - Demo
Using logistic regression coefficients as a query vector for semantic search.
Robert Horton
WV Labs

Meeting Day 1
Thursday, June 13, 2024.

Start Time End Time Duration
11:00 AM 11:10 AM 10m 1 - Intro
Welcome to R/Medicine 2024
Peter Higgins
University of Michigan
11:13 AM 12:15 PM 1h 2m 2 - Keynote
Statistical Challenges in Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
Stephanie Hicks
Johns Hopkins
12:15 PM 12:35 PM 20m 4 - Regular talk
flowchart: an R package for creating participant flow diagrams integrated with tidyverse
Pau Satorra
Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute and Hospital (IGTP)
12:37 PM 12:47 PM 10m 5 - Lightning talk
Reporting survival analysis results with the gtsummary and ggsurvfit packages
Emily Zabor
Cleveland Clinic
12:49 PM 1:09 PM 20m 6 - Regular talk
Survival analysis with tidymodels
Hannah Frick
Posit, PBC
1:11 PM 1:31 PM 20m 7 - Regular talk
Cox Regression and other ways to survive survival analyses
Mitchell Maltenfort
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
1:33 PM 1:53 PM 20m 8 - Regular talk
Identifying latent subgroups using regularized mixture cure models to develop risk stratification systems in cancer: Illustration using the hdcuremodels R package
Kellie Archer
Ohio State University
1:53 PM 2:08 PM 15m Break
2:08 PM 2:18 PM 10m 9 - Lightning talk
Leveraging the Power of Teal-Based R-Shiny Applications: Case Study from a TechBio Company
Kasra Yousefi
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
2:20 PM 2:30 PM 10m 10 - Lightning talk
A one year recap on teaching statistics to medical students: how can R and Quarto help?
Chi Zhang
University of Oslo
2:32 PM 2:52 PM 20m 11 - Regular talk
Creating Data Packages with Overproof {rUM}
Raymond Balise
University of Miami
2:54 PM 3:14 PM 20m 12 - Regular talk
SciDataReportR: Streamlining Scientific and Clinical Data Exploration in R
Raha Dastgheyb
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
3:16 PM 3:36 PM 20m 13 - Regular talk
Updating Quarto Slides Automatically with GitHub Actions
Rose Hartman
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3:36 PM 3:51 PM 15m Break
3:51 PM 4:11 PM 20m 14 - Regular talk
Don't merge datasets when you don't need to. Preserving the 'Experimental unit' is a key!
Dror Berel
Independent statistical consultant
4:13 PM 4:33 PM 20m 15 - Regular talk
Generate Raw Synthetic Dataset for Clinical Trial
Binod Jung Bogati
4:35 PM 4:55 PM 20m 16 - Regular talk
OralOpioids: The Role of Statistical Software in Dealing with the US Opioid Crisis
Ankona Banerjee
Baylor College of Medicine
4:57 PM 5:17 PM 20m 17 - Regular talk
World beyond {targets}: Embracing Data Pipelines in Life Sciences
Aga Rasinska
Appsilon
5:19 PM 5:24 PM 5m 18 - Closing remarks

Michael Kane
Yale University

Meeting Day 2
Friday, June 14, 2024.

Start Time End Time Duration
11:00 AM 11:10 AM 10m 1 - Welcome Back
Welcome to R/Medicine 2024
Peter Higgins
University of Michigan
11:13 AM 12:15 PM 1h 2m 2 - Keynote
Reproducibility in Medical Research
Gundula Bosch
Johns Hopkins
12:17 PM 12:37 PM 20m 3 - Regular Talk
Ah, Ha, Ha, Ha, Parameterise! Creating parameterised plot functions for flexible and reproducible data-to-viz pipelines
Cara Thompson
Building Stories with Data
12:39 PM 12:59 PM 20m 4 - Regular Talk
Rmageddon - Mitigating Critical Vulnerabilities and Streamlining Deployment Processes
Jake Riley and Hojjat Salmasian
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
1:01 PM 1:21 PM 20m 5 - Regular Talk
Comparing Analysis Method Implementations in Software (CAMIS): An open source repository to document differences in statistical methodology across software
Agnieszka Tomczyk
PAREXEL
1:23 PM 1:43 PM 20m 6 - Regular Talk
PhyloTrace - a Shiny App for Bacterial Pathogen Monitoring on a Genomic Level
Filip Paskali and Marian Freisleben
Furtwangen University
1:43 PM 1:58 PM 15m Break
1:58 PM 2:08 PM 10m 7 - Lightning Talk
R in Clinical Competency Committee {shiny + reticulate + selenium + ...}
Ken Koon Wong
Cleveland Clinic Akron General
2:10 PM 2:20 PM 10m 8 - Lightning Talk
Health Equity Explorer Application Showcase
Can Taşlıçukur, Appsilon
Bill Adams, Boston Medical Center
2:22 PM 2:32 PM 10m 9 - Lightning Talk
in_vivo_research_dashboard.Rmd
Michael McCoy
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2:34 PM 2:44 PM 10m Break
2:46 PM 3:06 PM 20m 11 - Regular Talk
Automating Sharing of Data Summaries from REDCap, Googlesheets, and Qualtrics with Quarto Webpages and Automated Emails
Peter Higgins
University of Michigan
3:08 PM 3:28 PM 20m 12 - Regular Talk
An omnibus R package for propensity score based dynamic borrowing methods for survival data
Sanhita Sengupta and Archie Sachdeva
Bristol Myers Squibb
3:28 PM 3:43 PM 15m Break
3:43 PM 3:53 PM 10m 13 - Lightning Talk
org+plnr: Packages for Organized Project Material and Effective Analysis
Richard White
Consortium for Statistics in Disease Surveillance
3:55 PM 4:05 PM 10m 14 - Lightning Talk
redcapAPI: Analysis-Ready Data Retrieval from REDCap with Advanced Processing Capabilities in R
Savannah Obregon
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
4:07 PM 4:17 PM 10m 15 - Lightning Talk
Enhancing Predictive Accuracy and Reproducibility in Medical Research: A Case Study on Thyroid Cancer Using Quarto, tidymodels, and GitHub Actions
Marly Gotti
Apple Inc
4:19 PM 4:39 PM 20m 16 - Contest Winner
4:41 PM 5:01 PM 20m 17 - Contest Winner
5:03 PM 5:23 PM 20m 18 - Contest Winner
5:25 PM 5:30 PM 5m 19 - Closing Remarks

Emily Zabor
Cleveland Clinic