VASA VA Statisticians’ Association HSRD Breakfast Session 02/15/2008 7:00am
2 VASA Officers President: Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou – VA Puget Sound Health Care System Vice President: Susan Loveland – VA New England Health Care System Program Committee Chair: Roslyn Stone – VA Pittsburgh Health Care System Acting Secretary: Christina Cho – VA Puget Sound Health Care System
3 VASA Executive Committee Mark Glickman - VA New England Health Care System Stephen Hillis- CRIISP, Iowa City Kelvin Lee- Palo Alto Cooperative Studies Martin Lee – VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System Susan Loveland - VA New England Health Care System Cindy Christiansen – VA Bedford Health Care System Roslyn Stone - VA Pittsburgh Health Care System Linda Young- North Florida/South Georgia Health Care System Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou - VA Puget Sound Health Care System
4 Mission Promote & disseminate statistical methodological research relevant to VA studies; Facilitate communication & collaboration among VA- affiliated statisticians; Promote good statistical practice; Increase participation & visibility of statisticians; – VA HSR&D – ASA Joint Statistical Meetings Increase participation of statisticians in VA research merit review.
5 VASA Members 74 current members VASA Members in the 15 Centers of Excellence – Ann Arbor, MI: 1 member – Bedford, MA: 4 members – Boston, MA: 6 members – Durham, NC: 7 members – Gainesville, FL: 5 members – Hines IL: 4 members – Houston, TX: 5 members
6 VASA Members VASA Members in the 15 Centers of Excellence – Indianapolis, IN: 1 member – Iowa City, IA: 1 member – Little Rock, AR: 1 member – Minneapolis, MN: 6 members – Palo Alto, CA: 7 members – Pittsburg, PA: 10 members – Seattle, WA: 2 member – Sepulveda, CA: 1 member
7 Activities VASA website – Mission – Current and upcoming VASA activities – Contact information
8 Activities (con’t) HSR&D National Meeting 2008 – Workshops: Multilevel Models in Health Services Research-Christiansen Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Health Care Costs-Zhou – Statistical Methods: Differential Item Functioning in a Graded Response IRT Model: A Bayesian Approach to Item Discrimination-Glickman Comparison of Statistical Methods to Account for Missing Race in VA Administrative Data-Mor A Data Security Framework for Research Study Databases Using Metadata-Obrosky
9 Upcoming Activities JSM Washington, DC – August 2-6, HSR&D National Meeting – Hosted by Ann Arbor COE
10 Comments & Questions? VASA contact information: – Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou (206) Christina Cho (206)