Latest Biostatistics Podcast Episodes
EP15. Comms during COVID-19 with Ottawa Public Health’s Social Media Guru, Kevin Parent
Behind The Numbers - March 22, 2021 13:36 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to a new episode! This week we got to chat with Ottawa Public Health's social media guru, Kevin Parent. With Kevin's masterminding, OPH has risen to one of the top public health sources over the course of this pandemic, gaining a following of over 115k followers on Twitter at the time ...
EP14. 1 country, 2 pandemics: COVID19 & Inequalities with Dr. Stefan Baral
Behind The Numbers - February 22, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe are back, and while lot’s has changed over the past couple of months, there is lots that has not. Some things that have changed: it’s a new year, and Vaccines are rolling out. Things that haven’t changed: we’re still living in a pandemic, we are still responding to it the same way we did 11 m...
EP13. Paramedicine Research with Chief Michael Nolan
Behind The Numbers - December 21, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we are joined by Chief Michael Nolan, Director and Chief of the Paramedic service for the County of Renfrew. Chief Nolan’s impressive resume and reputation precede him, he garnered unprecedented results in kickstarting a drone program with the Renfrew paramedic service, is a strong adv...
EP12. Dr. Adrienne Stevens on Cochrane Canada’s launch of COVID19 Recommendations Portal
Behind The Numbers - December 14, 2020 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we welcome Dr. Adrienne Stevens, the Managing Director of Cochrane Canada. Cochrane is a global leader in the production of high quality SR, and have recently also started exploring the field of Rapid Reviews. Dr. Stevens expands on the differences between rapid reviews and systematic ...
EP11 - Dr. Dar Dowlatshahi on Strokes and Finding the Right Mentorship
Behind The Numbers - December 07, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we welcome Dr. Dar Dowlatshahi to the show! Dr. Dowlatshahi is a dual doctor (has completed both his MD and PhD) who works at The Ottawa Hospital as a Stroke Neurologist and Senior Scientist. Dr. Dowlatshahi chats about how he balanced starting medical school in the middle of his PhD; ...
EP11. Dr. Dar Dowlatshahi on Strokes and Finding the Right Mentorship
Behind The Numbers - December 07, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we welcome Dr. Dar Dowlatshahi to the show! Dr. Dowlatshahi is a dual doctor (has completed both his MD and PhD) who works at The Ottawa Hospital as a Stroke Neurologist and Senior Scientist. Dr. Dowlatshahi chats about how he balanced starting medical school in the middle of his PhD; ...
EP10. Dr. Sarina Isenberg on her career change from English Lit to Johns Hopkins Palliative Care
Behind The Numbers - November 30, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome! This week we welcome Dr. Sarina Isenberg, a recent recipient of the New Investigator award for Research Excellence at the University of Toronto, and current Chair in Mixed Methods Palliative Care Research at Bruyere Research Institute in Ottawa. Dr. Isenberg holds a PhD from Johns Hopki...
EP10 - Dr. Sarina Isenberg on her career change from English Lit to Johns Hopkins Palliative Care
Behind The Numbers - November 30, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome! This week we welcome Dr. Sarina Isenberg, a recent recipient of the New Investigator award for Research Excellence at the University of Toronto, and current Chair in Mixed Methods Palliative Care Research at Bruyere Research Institute in Ottawa. Dr. Isenberg holds a PhD from Johns Hopki...
EP9. Why The World Needs Biostatistics with Dr. Richard Webster
Behind The Numbers - November 23, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we are delighted to host our very first biostatistician/methodologist on the show, Dr. Richard Webster! Dr. Webster conducts research out of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). In this episode, Dr. Webster sheds light on the difference between biostatistics, data science...
EP8. Pre-Hospital Care, World Championship Duathlons, and Pursuing a Career in Medicine with Dr. Christian Vaillancourt
Behind The Numbers - November 16, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we are joined by ED Physician and Senior Scientist, Dr. Christian Vaillancourt! Dr. Vaillancourt is recognized for his world-renowned pre-hospital and cardiac arrest care research. He tells us about the biggest barriers in achieving a fast response to cardiac arrest, as well as the 3 k...
EP7. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Palliative Care with Danial Qureshi
Behind The Numbers - November 09, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHappy Monday and please join us in welcoming Danial Qureshi to the show! Danial graduated from McMaster with a Master’s degree in Epidemiology and has not stopped throwing out publications ever since. He is a Research Coordinator at Bruyere Research Institute in Ottawa, focusing on palliative ca...
EP6 - Why is Nobody Talking About This?? COVID19 with Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng
Behind The Numbers - November 02, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe man, the myth, the legend.... the Kwadcast king!! Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, ICU physician and host of Solving Healthcare podcast, joins us for a fun, uplifting, and informative podcast this week. Why is the media sensationalizing COVID? Why are we not addressing the indirect effects of COVID ...
EP6. Why is Nobody Talking About This?? COVID19 with Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng
Behind The Numbers - November 02, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe man, the myth, the legend.... the Kwadcast king!! Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, ICU physician and host of Solving Healthcare podcast, joins us for a fun, uplifting, and informative podcast this week. Why is the media sensationalizing COVID? Why are we not addressing the indirect effects of COVID ...
EP6 - Why is nobody talking about this?? COVID19 with Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng
Behind The Numbers - November 02, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe man, the myth, the legend.... the Kwadcast king!! Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, ICU physician and host of Solving Healthcare podcast, joins us for a fun, uplifting, and informative podcast this week. Why is the media sensationalizing COVID? Why are we not addressing the indirect effects of COVID ...
EP5. Linking Mental and Physical Health with Dr. Mark Ferro
Behind The Numbers - October 26, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe were joined this week by Dr. Mark Ferro, Professor and Researcher out of the University of Waterloo and Canadian Research Chair in Youth Mental Health. Dr. Ferro chatted with us about how to went from an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry to a PhD in Child Psychiatry; his initial research i...
EP4. The Hard Truth about COVID19 with Dr. Raywat Deonandan
Behind The Numbers - October 19, 2020 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDr. Raywat Deonandan, Epidemiologist and Science Communicator, joined us this week for Episode 4 of Behind The Numbers! Dr. Deonandan specializes in global health and has recently made a name for himself within mainstream media as a COVID-informant / expert-in-the-field. He chats with us about t...
EP3. Dr. Ian Roberts on Decarbonizing Society & The Miracles of Tranexamic Acid
Behind The Numbers - October 12, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow are climate change, traumatic injuries, and obesity linked? Dr. Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine joins us this week to talk about the severe repercussions of society's shift towards motorized transportation. He speaks about his book, The Energy Glut, which to...
EP2. Dr. Michael Hill on ESCAPE-ing Ischemic Strokes
Behind The Numbers - October 05, 2020 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we are joined by Dr. Michael Hill, world renowned Stroke researcher with the Hotchkiss Brain Institute of the University of Calgary. Dr. Hill chatted with us about one of his most iconic trials, ESCAPE, which was the Canadian effort of the HERMES Collaboration to show that Endovascular...
EP1. BTN Launch with Mary Scott
Behind The Numbers - September 28, 2020 12:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to the official launch (!!!) of Behind The Numbers. We had the honour of welcoming Mary Scott as our very first guest. Mary is a MSc Epidemiology student and is the President of CSEB uOttawa. She chatted with us about her unconventional path into Epidemiology, her research, how she got s...
Penalization Theory and Practice for Cox Models
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - April 18, 2019 17:21 - 29 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
Biomarker-based phase III clinical trial: Real-world experiences
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - April 18, 2019 17:21 - 23 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
Evaluating and addressing consistency of the evidence in a network metaanalysis
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - April 18, 2019 17:13 - 19 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
Recent developments in updating and extending risk prediction models, the European Randomized Study of Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - April 18, 2019 17:11 - 29 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
From model building to validation and back: a plea for robustness
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - April 18, 2019 16:58 - 57 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
Using network meta-analysis for decision making
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - April 18, 2019 16:58 - 22 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
Joint longitudinal survival models for prediction of prostate cancer recurrence following radiotherapy
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - April 18, 2019 16:56 - 23 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
Adaptive designs for confirmatory clinical trials with treatment selection
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - April 18, 2019 14:21 - 19 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
Recent developments in updating and extending risk prediction models, the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Calculator
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - August 29, 2013 17:37 - 47 minutes - Videocontribution and discussion
Gene signatures as treatment modifiers in clinical trial
ISCB34 - 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics - Munich, 25-29 August 2013 - August 29, 2013 07:49 - 24 minutes - VideoISCB 2013
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