Chapter Meeting July 14, 2009
Title: Clinical trial design issues in studying treatment of chronic pain
Speaker: Sarah Hurwicz Kogut, Twin Cities Chapter Representative
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 / 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: University of Minnesota WDH Building Room 2-110 Weaver-Densford Hall, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (next to Moos Tower, across from Washington Ave. Parking Ramp)
Meeting schedule:
5:30-6:00 p.m. Social and refreshments
6:00-6:30 p.m. Chapter business meeting/officer election 6:30-7:30 p.m. Talk/discussion
Abstract: This presentation will focus on some clinical trial design issues in studying treatment of conditions such as chronic pain with drugs or medical devices. Chronic pain has multiple etiologies including surgery, work-related injury, or side effects of conditions such as diabetes. Treatment may include medication, neurostimulation device, or acupuncture. Evaluation of the efficacy of pain treatments can be difficult, in particular because the endpoints are usually based on patient-reported outcomes. The patient’s own evaluation of their response could be influenced by their expectation, which in turn could be influenced by information provided by study personnel and documentation. For this reason, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded comparative trials are recommended. Desirable aspects of clinical trial design=2 0can be potentially difficult to implement in implantable device studies. However, when simplistic designs are used the sake of convenience, the study results may not provide valuable scientific evidence. Results of an academic study of the comparative magnitude of effects of drug and device placebos in treatment of chronic pain will also be presented.
Directions to WDH (Weaver/Densford Hall-Moos Tower) and parking instructions can be found on the university web site:
http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/WDH/
Chapter Co-sponsored Event - October 24 and 26 2007
The Twin Cities ASA chapter and the University of St. Thomas are co-sponsoring two talks this month by Dr. Lynne Billard from the University of Georgia. Both are being held on St. Thomas' St. Paul Campus. Directions to UST and parking instructions can be found on the university web site: http://www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps/stpaul.asp. Refreshments will be provided. Parking on the street near the building should be easy as UST's semester break starts on the 26th. Campus maps and directions in Adobe PDF format are available for download below--on the map, look for #39 Owens Science Hall.
Dr. Lynne Billard
Who Count? Why Count? How Do We Count?
Wednesday, October 24 at 3:00 P.M.
3M Auditorium in Owens Science Center
University of St. Thomas' St. Paul Campus
Abstract
Dr. Lynne Billard
Review of Symbolic Data and their Analyses
Friday, October 26 at 3:00 P.M.
OSS 227 - O'Shaughnessy Science Building (Corner of Summit and Cretin Avenues)
University of St. Thomas' St. Paul Campus
Abstract