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STEP Seminar Series 2012

STEP invites local and international colleagues to present their research and ideas on the general themes of health screening, monitoring and diagnostic testing. Speakers vary from academic researchers to public policy makers and are invariably topical and informative.

STEP is the result of a collaboration between the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, and Bond University.

Seminars are usually held from 1.00pm to 2.00pm on Wednesdays. Any time changes will be indicated in the table below. Anyone interested is welcome to join us.

Date	Speaker	Topic	Venue
15 February	Tom Lung School of Public Health University of Sydney	Cost-effectiveness of monitoring renal function for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the United Kingdom	Chemistry Lecture Theatre 4
Thursday 23 February	Sverre Sandberg Adjunct Professor Department of Public Health & Primary Health Care University of Bergen, Norway	Do clinicians use the concepts of biological variation and reference change values (critical differences) when monitoring patients with laboratory tests?	Chemistry Lecture Theatre 4
29 February	James Hanley Professor Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics McGill University, Canada	How big are the mortality reductions produced by cancer screening? Why do so many trials report only 20%?	Chemistry Lecture Theatre 4
21 March	Prof Bruce Armstrong Professor of Public Health School of Public Health University of Sydney	Where we are now with prostate cancer screening	Chemistry Lecture Theatre 4
4 April	Dr Patrick Bossuyt University of Amsterdam, Netherlands	Casual claims in clinical and public health research	Chemistry Lecture Theatre 4
16 May	Dr Andrew Hayen & Dr Katy Bell School of Public Health University of Sydney	Monitoring absolute cardiovascular risk: how often do we need to re-measure?	Chemistry Lecture Theatre 4
20 June	Dr Magid A Fahim Department of Nephrology Princess Alexandra Hospital	TBC	Chemistry Lecture Theatre 4
1 August	Prof Paul Glasziou Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine Bond University	TBC	TBC
15 August	Assoc Prof Kirsten Howard School of Public Health University of Sydney	TBC	TBC
19 September	Dr Jenny Doust Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice Bond University	TBC	TBC
17 October	Dr Germaine Wong School of Public Health University of Sydney	Detect Study	TBC
21 November	Dr Gabrielle Williams, Dr Sukanya De & Tom Lung Children’s Hospital Westmead	Further results from the FEVER study	TBC

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The University of Sydney - Sydney School of Public HealthScreening and diagnostic Test Evaluation Program (STEP)

STEP Seminar Series 2012

The University of Sydney - Sydney School of Public Health
Screening and diagnostic Test Evaluation Program (STEP)