About
The goal of the R/Medicine conference is to promote the use of the R programming environment and the R ecosystem in medical research and clinical practice. R, the open source language for statistical computing and data visualization, has also become an effective tool for enabling reproducible research and the communication of scientific knowledge. In addition to showcasing novel tools, algorithms and methods for analyzing medical and clinical data. We hope the conference will provide a forum for collaboration within the community.
Conference talks will address the use of R in medical applications from Phase I clinical trial design through the analysis of the efficacy of medical therapies in public use. Topic areas for R/Medicine include: clinical trial design, the analysis of clinical trial data, personalized medicine, the analysis of patient records, the analysis of genetic data, the visualization of medical data, and reproducible research.
Note that topics related to drug discovery and PK/PD modeling will likely be the focus of the upcoming R/Pharma conference.Keynotes
Robert Tibshirani , Profesor of Biomedical Data Science, and Statistics at Stanford University
Victoria Stodden (@victoriastodden), Associate Professor of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Lawrence (@lawremi), Core Member of R and Bioconductor and Computational Biologist at Genentech
Location
The Omni Hotel 155 Temple Street New Haven, CT
Lodging and Dining
For lodging, click the following link to the Omni Hotel.
The conference will go from 7am to 5pm daily. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provded on both days. There will be a reception on Friday from 5pm to 6:30 pm where food and drinks will be served.
The Omni Hotel does serve dinner in its rooftop restaurant. If you would like to venture out a little further the following restaurants are recommended.
Restaurant | Address | Phone | Type of food |
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Olea | 39 High Street | 203-780-8925 | Spanish, vegetarian friendly |
Zinc | 964 Chapel Street | 203-624-0507 | American, contemporary |
Union League Cafe | 1032 Chapel Street | 203-562-4299 | French, contemporary |
Barcelona | 155 Temple Street | 203-848-3000 | Mediterranean, European, Spanish |
Claire's Corner Copia | 1000 Chapel Street | 203-562-3888 | American cafe, kosher, vegetarian, vegan friendly |
Atticus Bookstore and Cafe | 1082 Chapel Street | 203-776-4040 | American |
Prime 16 | 172 Temple Street | 203-782-1616 | American, pub |
Louis' Lunch | 263 Crown Street | 203-562-5507 | American, the first hamburger |
Shake Shack | 986 Chapel Street | 203-747-8483 | American, fast food |
Mecha Noodle | 201 Crown Street | 203-691-9671 | Japanese, Vietnamese |
Chipotle Mexican Grill | 900 Chapel Street | 203-785-0799 | Mexican |
Starbucks | 1068 Chapel Street | 203-624-3361 | Coffee and tea |
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana | 157 Wooster Street | 203-865-5762 | Pizza |
Consiglio's | 165 Wooster Street | 203-865-4489 | Italian, vegetarian friendly |