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Graduate Program Open House
Friday, October 24, 2008
Coffman Memorial Union
President's Room
300 Washington Ave. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
| 10:10-10:30 |
Welcome and brief introduction to the Biostatistics
graduate program by
Associate Professor Melanie Wall, Recruiting Committee Chair |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Associate Professor Timothy Hanson
"Can I Trust Those Test Results?" -- Statistical Methods
for Assessing Diagnostic Test Accuracy" |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Current Biostatistics students, RA/TA work |
| 11:20-11:45 |
Colleen Curran (MS, 2006), Clinical
Affairs - Statistician, Boston Scientific
and Joshua Rapkin (MS, 2008), Boston Scientific
"Putting life into Statistics: Being a Biostatistician
at Boston Scientific CRM" |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Tour of the Biostatistics environments |
| 12:15-1:00 |
Lunch with current students, faculty, and alumni
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| 1:00-1:25 |
Kurt Stromberg (MS, 2002), Principal Statistician,
Medtronic
"So what do you do? Life as a Biostatistician after Graduate
School" |
| 1:25-1:35 |
The application process: Guy Piotrowski, Student
Support Services Associate, School of Public Health Student
Services Center |
| 1:35-2:00 |
Admission and Graduate Program question and answer session
with
Associate Professor Wei Pan, Director of Graduate Studies
and
Sally Olander, Major Coordinator
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2008 Flyer (pdf)
Directions
(Please bring your parking stub with you so we can validate your parking.)
RSVP by October 21, 2008 to Sally Olander at (612) 625-9185
or brown198@umn.edu
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