The afternoon will be an extension of the morning workshop and will cover selected advanced and emerging areas of genetics and genomics. The course will focus initially on topics related to DNA polymorphism, mutation and DNA repair, and discuss application of these issues to the study of disease etiology with a focus on cancer. DNA chips, expression arrays, and other technologies have gathered considerable interest within the epidemiology community, although they have seldom been applied in epidemiology studies. The course will provide the epidemiologist with a conceptual understanding of these technologies and the current limitations on their application. Finally, the workshop will try to anticipate near and intermediate-term applications of emerging genomic technologies on epidemiology studies, and suggest practical aspects of tissue procurement and storage, and consent.
Many epidemiologists conduct primary or secondary analyses of sample survey data.
Specialized analytical software is usually needed because complex sample survey designs deviate from simple random sampling. Common deviations are clustering of elements, stratification, and unequal selection probabilities. Basic or intermediate biostatistics, basic or intermediate epidemiology, and experience using a statistical analysis package. M.D. University of Miami Department of Pediatrics and National Bioethics Advisory Commission 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. This workshop will review foundations of ethics and epidemiology as well as address issues for which standard models of valid consent and scientific practice may be inadequate, and for which too little attention has been devoted in scholarly research and literature.