R/Medicine Schedule

• All times EDT

• The conference runs in two parallel tracks for the first three days of workshops, demos, and panels

• The talks on the final two days run in a single track

• Click the titles below to see additional details of each session

Workshop/Demo Day 1 Monday, June 9, 2025
Start Time	End Time	Duration	Track
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	A	Demo In the Nix of Time: Creating a reproducible analytical environment with Nix and {rix} Eric Nantz, Eli Lilly
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	B	Demo A framework for cohort building in R: the CohortConstructor package for data mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model Nuria Mercade-Besora & Edward Burn, University of Oxford
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	A	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, Florida International University
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	B	Workshop Introduction to R for Clinical Data Stephan Kadauke, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	30m		Break
2:30 PM	5:30 PM	3h	A	Workshop R package development with GitHub Pages and pkgdown Melissa Van Bussel, Statistics Canada
2:30 PM	5:30 PM	3h	B	Workshop The power of {targets} package for reproducible data science Rahul Sangole, Apple
5:30 PM	6:30 PM	1h	A	Demo REDCapSync and RosyREDCap: two development R packages using the REDCap API for standardized data pipelines and exploratory data analysis Brandon Rose, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital
5:30 PM	6:30 PM	1h	B	Demo Biomarker Identification by Means of Frequent Itemset Mining and Contrast Set Mining Paul Kowalczyk, HAcKerS LaB

Workshop/Demo Day 2 Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Start Time	End Time	Duration	Track
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	A	Demo Using R shiny to perform and automate decision-analytic modeling for cost-effectiveness analysis Mahip Acharya, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	B	Demo Visualising data for patients: create accessible charts Rita Giordano, Visual data Studio
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	A	Workshop Survival analysis with tidymodels Hannah Frick, Posit
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	B	Workshop First Steps with SQL in R: Making Data Talk Chris Battiston, Women's College Hospital
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	30m		Break
2:30 PM	5:30 PM	3h	A	Workshop 'Visualise, Optimise, Parameterise!' - Writing dataviz code that your future self will thank you for Cara Thompson
2:30 PM	3:30 PM	1h	B	Demo Quarto Dashboards: from zero to publish in one hour Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University + Posit PBC
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	1h	B	Panel Supporting R learners on the job during interesting times: A panel of R educators Ray Balise, Silvia Canelón, Meghan Harris, Ted Laderas, Joy Payton
4:30 PM	5:30 PM	1h	B	Demo R You Compliant? Validating Packages for Regulatory Readiness Chris Battiston, Women's College Hospital

Workshop/Demo Day 3 Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Start Time	End Time	Duration	Track
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	A	Demo Application of attention mechanism to improve performance of surveyed llm/mllm used across R/Medicine Robert Devine, Johnson & Johnson Companies
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	B	Demo Co-occurrence analysis and knowledge graphs for suicide risk prediction Thomas Charlon, Harvard Medical School
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	A	Workshop Rix: reproducible data science environments with Nix Bruno Rodrigues, Luxembourg’s Ministry of Research and Higher Education
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	B	Workshop Personal R Administration David Aja, Posit;, Shannon Pileggi, The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	30m		Break
2:30 PM	5:30 PM	3h	A	Workshop Demystifying LLMs with Ellmer Joe Cheng, Posit
2:30 PM	5:30 PM	3h	B	Workshop teal Mastery: From Pre-built Modules to Custom Module Creation Dony Unardi, Genentech

Meeting Day 1 Thursday, June 12, 2025
Start Time	End Time	Duration
11:00 AM	11:15 AM	15m	Opening Remarks Emily Zabor, Cleveland Clinic
11:15 AM	12:15 PM	1h	Keynote Reinventing medicine with AI Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley
12:17 PM	12:37 PM	20m	Regular Talk Retrospective clinical data harmonisation reporting using R and Quarto Jeremy Selva, National Heart Centre Singapore
12:39 PM	12:59 PM	20m	Regular Talk Unlocking Statistical Consistency Across Platforms: The CAMIS Project Christina Fillmore and Lyn Taylor, Parexel
1:01 PM	1:21 PM	20m	Regular Talk Supercharging Statistical Analysis with ARDs and the {cards} R Package Becca Krouse and Davide Garolini, GSK/Roche
1:23 PM	1:43 PM	20m	Regular Talk Validating Shiny Apps in Regulated Environments Pedro Silva, Jumping Rivers
1:45 PM	1:55 PM	10m	Lighning Talk Improving Reproducibility of Medical Research with Controlled Vocabularies Jonathan Pearce, Analysis Group
1:57 PM	2:12 PM	15m	Break
2:12 PM	2:32 PM	20m	Regular Talk Mix, Pour, Share: The rUM Cocktail for Biomedical Project Packaging Kyle Grealis and Raymond Balise, University of Miami
2:34 PM	2:54 PM	20m	Regular Talk Refactor or Preserve? Challenging the 'If It Ain’t Broken, Don’t Fix It' Mindset in Shiny App Lifecycle Dror Berel, Independent consultant
2:56 PM	3:16 PM	20m	Regular Talk No More Copy-Paste: Automating Patient Inquiry Tracking in Pharma with Shiny Tanya Cashorali, TCB Analytics
3:18 PM	3:28 PM	10m	Lighning Talk Preprocessing Electronic Health Records for Analysis-Ready Data in an Asthma Cohort Kimberly Lactaoen, University of Pennsylvania
3:30 PM	3:50 PM	20m	Regular Talk RHealth – A Deep Learning Toolkit for Healthcare Predictive Modeling Junyi Gao, University of Edinburgh
3:52 PM	4:12 PM	20m	Regular Talk Dengue Forecasting Addressing the Interrupted Effect from COVID-19 Cases Thiyanga Talagala, University of Sri Jayewardeneoura
4:14 PM	4:24 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Competition winner TBD
4:26 PM	4:36 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Competition winner TBD
4:38 PM	4:43 PM	5m	Closing remarks Peter Higgins, University of Michigan

Meeting Day 2 Friday, June 13, 2025
Start Time	End Time	Duration
11:00 AM	11:15 AM	15m	Opening Remarks Emily Zabor, Cleveland Clinic
11:15 AM	12:15 PM	1h	Keynote Model Evaluation: From Machine Learning to Generative AI Erin LeDell, Distributional Inc
12:17 PM	12:27 PM	10m	Lightning Talk riskcalc.org: A Repository of Risk Calculators for Medical Decision Making Alex Zajichek, Cleveland Clinic
12:29 PM	12:49 PM	20m	Regular Talk nonprobsvy -- An R package for modern methods for non-probability survey Maciej Beręsewicz, Poznań University of Economics and Business / Statistical Office in Poznań (Poland)
12:51 PM	1:01 PM	10m	Lightning Talk rainbowR: A community for LGBTQ+ folks who code in R Ella Kaye, University of Warwick
1:03 PM	1:23 PM	20m	Regular Talk An Accelerometry Biomarker Framework with Application in Vigilance in UK Biobank Data Michael Kane, MD Anderson Cancer Center
1:25 PM	1:35 PM	10m	Lightning Talk pretestcad: An R package to calculate PreTest Probability (PTP) scores for obstructive Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Jeremy Selva, National Heart Centre Singapore
1:37 PM	1:47 PM	10m	Lightning Talk AOUSDOHtools: An R Package for Social Determinants of Health Survey data in the All of Us Research Program Zhirui Deng, University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing
1:49 PM	2:09 PM	20m	Regular Talk MIIPW: An R package for Generalized Estimating Equations with missing data integration using a combination of mean score and inverse probability weighted approaches and multiple imputation Bhrigu Rajbongshi, Indian Institute of Technology(Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad
2:11 PM	2:31 PM	20m	Regular Talk kidney.epi R Package for Facilitating Research in Diabetes, Kidney, Heart, and Other Diseases Boris Bikbov, Scientific-Tools.Org
2:33 PM	2:43 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Examining Factors Associated with Depressive Severity Among Cancer Survivors: An Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey Andre Williams, Florida Atlantic University
2:45 PM	3:00 PM	15m	Break
3:00 PM	3:20 PM	20m	Regular Talk {redquack}: An R Package for Memory Efficient REDCap-to-DuckDB Workflows Dylan Pieper, University of Pittsburgh
3:22 PM	3:32 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Optimizing Public Healthcare Cost Recovery with R: A Use Case from Argentina Ariana Bardauil and Dacio Martinez, Ministry of health - Buenos Aires City Government
3:34 PM	3:44 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Swimmer Plots with ggswim Richard Hanna, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3:46 PM	3:56 PM	10m	Lightning Talk What to Do When Shiny Packages Don't Fully Support Your Idea Anastasiia Kostiv, ESQlabs
3:58 PM	4:08 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Bootstrap inference made easy: p-values and confidence intervals in one line of code Måns Thulin, Thulin Consulting AB
4:10 PM	4:20 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Ethical Considerations of Contrasts in Statistical Modeling of Medical Equity Dwight Barry and Nicole Chicoine, Seattle Children’s Hospital
4:22 PM	4:32 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Advanced Distance Metrics for High-Dimensional Clustering: introducing 'distanceHD' R-package Jung Ae Lee, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
4:34 PM	4:54 PM	20m	Regular Talk Unified Deep Learning Survival Analysis for Competing Risk Modeling with Functional Covariates and Missing Data Imputation Yan Zou, Cleveland Clinic
4:56 PM	5:01 PM	5m	Closing Remarks Michael Kane, MD Anderson Cancer Center