Clinical Research Symposium
The Role of Specialist Societies in Clinical Outcomes Research:
How Can They Take a Lead?
Sunday, May 20
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Introduction: Why Clinical Outcomes Research?
Keith A. (Tony) Jones, MD, Alfred Habeeb Professor and Chair, Department ofAnesthesiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
• Cost Efficiency of Knowledge Generation: Observational vs. Interventional Trials
Andreas Hoeft, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
• Why P Values, C Statistics and AUCs Don’t Matter a Hoot in Outcomes Research
Simon C. Body, MBChB, MPH, Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Variability of Surgical Outcomes in Europe (EUSOS)
Rupert Pearse, FRCA, MD, Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Centre
for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the
London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London,
United Kingdom
• Pulmonary Complications in Catalonia and in Europe (PERISCOPE)
Jaume Canet, MD, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Postoperative Critical Care, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
• How to Do an Interventional Study with Minimal Money (PROVHILO)
Marcus J. Schultz, MD, PhD, Professor and Intensivist, Departments of Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Large Clinical Trials: A D ream or a Nightmare?
Lars S. Rasmussen, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesia, Centre of Orthopaedics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Panel Discussion
Daniel I. Sessler, MD, Michael Cudahy Professor and Chair, Department of Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio