Professional Development

An Introduction to Network Meta-Analysis, Ottawa 2012
Canadian Cochrane Centre Review Manager Training, Ottawa 2011
Health Technology Assessment: From Theory to Evidence to Policy, Ottawa 2011
Best practices for economic evaluations; evidence to support decision-making, CADTH Symposium, Ottawa, Canada 2009
York University, Schulich Executive Education Centre 2008
Cost-benefit, cost-utility, cost-effectiveness studies, simulation models, analysis and presentation to decision makers: Pharmacoeconomics PEIV (EPIB-654), McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2008
Statistical methods for combining independent studies in meta-analysis, 29th Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Pittsburgh, USA 2007
Methodological approaches to drug assessment in populations, advanced study design, analysis, and computerized databases: Advanced Pharmacoepidemiology III (EPIB-661): McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2007
Statistical methods for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, 5thCanadian Cochrane Symposium. Ottawa, Canada 2007
Decision analysis, 28th Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Boston, USA 2006
Methodological approaches to assess the effect of drugs at the population level, emphasizing study design limitations, confounding and bias: Pharmacoepidemiology I (EPIB-633) McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2006
Screening and diagnostic tests methods, prognosis working group, diagnostic reviews and meta analysis of diagnostic tests, assessing susceptibility to bias, 13th Cochrane Colloquium. Melbourne, Australia 2005
5th Annual Short Course on Statistical Genetics NIDDK: for Obesity and Nutrition Researchers, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA 2005
Biotechnology policy forum, BioNorth 2004, Ottawa, Canada 2004
Qualitative research, systematic review of prognosis studies, peer-reviewing, 12th Cochrane Colloquium, Ottawa, Canada 2004
Economic evaluation of healthcare interventions; methodological issues in systematic reviews, International Society for Technology Assessment in Health Care (ISTAHC), Canmore, Canada, 2003
Undertaking a Cochrane review, Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre, Ottawa, Canada 2002
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses ,Thomas C. Chalmers Centre for Systematic Reviews, Ottawa, Canada 2002
Third Symposium on Systematic Reviews: Beyond the basics improving quality and impact-methods and problems of doing systematic reviews from question formulation to the application of the results. St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK 2000
Systematic Reviews: meta-analysis: quality of life assessment; qualitative data analysis; clinical trial assessment; randomized trial design and economic analysis. University of St. Andrews, UK 1999

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