VASA VA Statisticians Association

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VASA VA Statisticians Association

• HSRD Breakfast Session
• 02/15/2008
• 700am

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VASA Officers

• President Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou
• VA Puget Sound Health Care System
• Vice President Susan Loveland
• VA New England Health Care System
• Program Committee Chair Roslyn Stone
• VA Pittsburgh Health Care System
• Acting Secretary Christina Cho
• VA Puget Sound Health Care System

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VASA Executive Committee

• Mark Glickman - VA New England Health Care System
  
• Stephen Hillis- CRIISP, Iowa City
• Kelvin Lee- Palo Alto Cooperative Studies
• Martin Lee VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care
  System
• Susan Loveland - VA New England Health Care
  System
• Cindy Christiansen VA Bedford Health Care System
• Roslyn Stone - VA Pittsburgh Health Care System
• Linda Young- North Florida/South Georgia Health
  Care System
• Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou - VA Puget Sound Health Care
  System

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Mission

• Promote disseminate statistical methodological
  research relevant to VA studies
• Facilitate communication collaboration among
  VA-affiliated statisticians
• Promote good statistical practice
• Increase participation visibility of
  statisticians
• VA HSRD
• ASA Joint Statistical Meetings
• Increase participation of statisticians in VA
  research merit review.

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VASA Members

• 74 current members
• VASA Members in the 15 Centers of Excellence
• Ann Arbor, MI 1 member
• Bedford, MA 4 members
• Boston, MA 6 members
• Durham, NC 7 members
• Gainesville, FL 5 members
• Hines IL 4 members
• Houston, TX 5 members

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VASA Members

• VASA Members in the 15 Centers of Excellence
• Indianapolis, IN 1 member
• Iowa City, IA 1 member
• Little Rock, AR 1 member
• Minneapolis, MN 6 members
• Palo Alto, CA 7 members
• Pittsburg, PA 10 members
• Seattle, WA 2 member
• Sepulveda, CA 1 member

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Activities

• VASA website http//www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_r
  esearchers/vasa/
• Mission
• Current and upcoming VASA activities
• Contact information

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Activities (cont)

• HSRD National Meeting 2008
• Workshops
• Multilevel Models in Health Services
  Research-Christiansen
• Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Health
  Care Costs-Zhou
• Statistical Methods
• Differential Item Functioning in a Graded
  Response IRT Model A Bayesian Approach to Item
  Discrimination-Glickman
• Comparison of Statistical Methods to Account for
  Missing Race in VA Administrative Data-Mor
• A Data Security Framework for Research Study
  Databases Using Metadata-Obrosky

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Upcoming Activities

• JSM 2009- Washington, DC
• August 2-6, 2009
• 2009 HSRD National Meeting
• Hosted by Ann Arbor COE

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Comments Questions?

• VASA contact information
• Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou
• Andrew.Zhou_at_va.gov
• [phone]
• - Christina Cho
• Christina.Cho_at_va.gov
• [phone]