HESM Community Half Day: Transparency in Modelling

We are pleased to invite you to the 6th Health Economics & Simulation Modelling (HESM) Academic Community Half-day! This event series aims to provide opportunities for us to foster the HESM community in BC and advance our work together, including patient-oriented research (POR) initiatives. Our next event is co-sponsored by the BC SUPPORT Unit HESM Methods Cluster and the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). Important details  are as follows:  Date: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 Time: 12:30 pm- 4:30 **Lunch and afternoon refreshments will be provided Location: UBC Medical Student & Alumni Centre, 2750 Heather Street   **Please note that this month's event includes an optional morning workshop 'Decision Analytics in R' from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm in the same location. Details of the workshop will be circulated in the coming days. Room: Hardwick Hall & Latham Hall Preliminary agenda: Registration and Lunch  Opening remarks by Mohsen Sadatsafavi  Featured presentation by Petros Pechlivanoglou, University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation  Spotlight on PRISM: the Programmable Interface for Simulation/Statistical/ Models (Amin Adibi, Mohsen Sadatsafavi) Panel and Group Discussion: Petros Pechlivanoglou, University of Toronto; Tania Conte, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation; Nick Bansback, UBC; Stirling Bryan, UBC; Mohsen Sadatsafavi, UBC Participation in each session is encouraged, but optional.  Lunch and afternoon refreshments will be provided. We will end the day with a networking event at Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar, 602 West Broadway, from 4:45 pm onward. There is no charge to attend this event. Please help us by registering online in advance, noting any dietary restrictions:    Thank you for your participation!   HESM Methods Cluster