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CAUSALab @causalab.bsky.social · Dec 3

What role do competing events play in #dementia research?

Paloma Rojas-Saunero (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health) is next for the 2024-2025 CAUSALab Methods Series @karolinskainst.bsky.social

📆 December 10, 2024
⏰ 15.00 CEST/9.00 ET
📍 Virtual

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Paloma Rojas-Saunero December 10 Methods Series talk, "Understanding the Role of Competing Events in Dementia Research: the Need for Multiple Estimands"

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Jennifer Weuve @epidancer.bsky.social · Dec 4

TOMORROW's episode of #MELODEM features...

Dr. Audrey Murchland presenting:

"Intimate Partner Violence and #Dementia Risk: Challenges and Opportunities for Longitudinal Studies of Aging."

11a US ET

Not on the zoom link email list? Mosey on over to our web lounge for deets sites.bu.edu/melodem/

Methods for Longitudinal Studies in Dementia (MELODEM)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Dec 12

People are enraged by health insurance denials because they arise when they are at their most vulnerable and least able to respond. Both physical and mental health matter to our ability to respond to the types of administrative demands that insurers rely on.
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Jennifer Weuve @epidancer.bsky.social · Jan 14

#MELODEM, your favorite place to hash out #methodologic challenges in #dementia research, kicks off 2025 w a session ft Dr. Miguel Arce & Dr. Emily Briceño-Abreu conversing abt "Cross-national harmonization of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP)."

Th Jan 16, 11a US ET via zoom.

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Jennifer Weuve @epidancer.bsky.social · Jan 10

**Jan 27, 2025** <-- the last day to apply for the In-Person Meeting of #MELODEM, a sumptuous convening to collaboratively scratch heads (one's own, just so we're clear) and generate solutions to #methodologic challenges in longitudinal #dementia research.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Jan 26

FWIW, I‘ve known @usha.bsky.social and have been repeatedly impressed by her scrupulous attention to truth; her courage; and her deep respect for sourcing

Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · Jan 26

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · Jan 26

Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?

Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.

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Jennifer Weuve @epidancer.bsky.social · Jan 7

#MELODEM is accepting applications--by 1/27/25--to participate in this year's Annual In-Person Meeting!

The meeting features:

Jun 23-25: presentations w extensive discussion
Jun 25-27: hands-on data workshop, involving a subset of participants

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Application for 2025 Annual MELODEM Meeting

We are delighted to announce that we are accepting applications to participate in MELODEM's Annual In-Person Meeting which will be held in St. James Hotel in Red Wing, MN from Monday, June 23rd to Fri...

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Jennifer Weuve @epidancer.bsky.social · Jun 30

Additional gratitude to The @tejenson.bsky.social for orchestrating the session, which included the best marketing prose on an epi/EH methods seminar invite in recent memory.

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Jennifer Weuve @epidancer.bsky.social · Jun 30

What was esp helpful about Amanda's talk was getting a firmer sense of seeing how ITB plays out with exposures distributed on a continuum (an expansion on the examples many of us have seen that involve dichotomous exposures).

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Jennifer Weuve @epidancer.bsky.social · Jun 30

In the true-story example she chronicled, effects estimated using a design that induced ITB were impressively large (one might call a HR of 51 gargantuan). Upon correction, they all shrank. & though some remained large (that HR of 51 became a HR of 5.5), some previously adverse findings became null.

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Jennifer Weuve @epidancer.bsky.social · Jun 30

A big holler-y grateful shout-out to **Amanda Gassett**, Research Scientist at University of Washington, for presenting clearly and constructively on dodging immortal time bias in studies of air pollution's health effects. #EnviroBrain #CONFAB @busph.bsky.social

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