News

RAISE-GENIC Video Vote

Our lab member, Chantelle, and the RAISE-GENIC team created an amazing video describing their work on "identifying factors that impact the choice of anti-seizure medications" to improve clinical decision-making.

Watch the 2-minute video with the link below:
https://lnkd.in/gBM4m54Z

Kindly click the thumbs-up (like) button to vote for the video.

O'Brien Institute for Public Health Award

Congratulations to our Principal Investigator and director, Dr. Tolu Sajobi, on being awarded the O'Brien Institute for Public Health Mid-Career Research Leader Award. We are excited that his leadership works as a biostatistical investigator and collaborator at our lab with teams across the Cumming School of Medicine UCalgary and internationally is recognized with this award.

He is truly inspiring to us, and we are glad to learn under his mentorship. We look forward to celebrating more ground-breaking feats and accomplishments. Thank you, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, for this award, and congratulations to other awardees too!

Read the full award news here: https://obrieniph.ucalgary.ca/news/2022-obrien-institute-award-winners-exemplify-research-excellence-community-service-and

ISOQOL Conference 2022

We are pleased to share the annual meeting of the International Society for Quality of Life Research in Prague, the Czech Republic, between October 19 – 22, 2022. Join us in Prague for this meeting and check out a few papers and workshops to be delivered by members and collaborators of the Person-centered Methods and Analytics Lab.

• Our Principal Investigator, Dr. Tolu Sajobi, in collaboration with Prof. Lisa Lix (University of Manitoba) and Prof. Yuelin Li (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, US), will deliver a pre-conference workshop on "unsupervised machine learning for differential item functioning in patient-reported outcomes." on October 19, 2022.
• Our Principal Investigator, Dr. Tolu Sajobi, will deliver a plenary talk on: "Tree-based structural equation modelling for assessing measurement invariance in patient-reported outcome measures." on October 20, 2022.
• Dr. Tolu Sajobi will deliver another oral presentation on "Response shift in parent-reported psychopathology in children with chronic physical illness" – a collaborative work with Dr. Mark Ferro (University of Waterloo, Canada) on October 20, 2021.
• Seyi Lawal, a doctoral candidate and member of our lab, will deliver an oral presentation at #ISOQOL titled: "Impact of Response Shift on treatment-related changes in patient-reported outcomes in coronary artery disease." on October 21, 2022.
• Ms. Nancy Verdin, a patient partner, will deliver an oral presentation at ISOQOL on "User-centered development of an electronic patient-reported outcomes system for individualized monitoring and management of coronary artery disease" on October 21, 2022.

What an eventful conference it will be for members of our lab! See you all in Prague!

Welcome Ayo Okikiolu

We are excited to welcome Ayo Okikiolu, who started his MSc program in #Neuroscience at the University of Calgary this Fall. Ayo will be supervised by Dr. Bijoy Menon and Dr. Tolu Sajobi. Ayo’s graduate work will explore outcomes assessment in acute ischemic stroke patients.

Before starting this program, Ayo worked with our lab as an undergraduate summer student and part-time Research Assistant for the last two years. Congratulations and welcome to the lab, Ayo.

Appointment

Congratulations to our director Dr. Tolu Sajobi on his appointment as the Academic Director of the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI Data, Research, and Strategy), University of Calgary.

He will work with UCalgary's EDI team "to develop an EDI data strategy with institutional partners and oversee institutional EDI data collection and analysis efforts to support the university’s strategic EDIA priorities." This is super exciting news and we look forward to your good work with the EDI team.

Read the full appointment announcement news here:
https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/office-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-welcomes-3-new-colleagues

Presentation at WNAR IBS

Congratulations to Mili Roy, a PhD student in PCMA lab, for her invited talk at the recently concluded 2022 Western North American Region of The International Biometric Society (WNAR IBS) conference. The title of her talk was "Joint analysis of binary and continuous data via joint modeling of jittered binary and continuous outcomes: A new approach."

Mili’s doctoral research focuses on joint modelling, copula, correlated data, and longitudinal data analysis.

AcT Trial

A huge and exciting clinical practice-changing result from the #AcT trial published in The Lancet. The 2-year long study was led by Dr. Bijoy Menon (University of Calgary) and Dr. Rick Swartz (University of Toronto) in collaboration with members of our lab (Dr. Tolu Sajobi and Ayoola Ademola).

Dr. Tolu Sajobi and Ayoola Ademola provided statistical leadership and support for the trial. The #AcT trial demonstrates tenecteplase as a safe, non-inferior, and easily administered clot-busting drug in acute stroke.

Impactful research often takes time and willingness to learn from and work with others. Many thanks to the #AcT team of investigators, trainees, and the 1600 Canadians who participated in this study.

Welcome

• We would like to welcome Mili Roy to the team

Recognitions

• Congratulations to Samuel Babatunde for successfully passing his oral thesis defence and completing his MSc program

Welcome

• We would like to welcome Chantelle Lin and Olayinka Arimoro to the team

Welcome

• We would like to welcome Gabriel Afriyie to the team!

Recognitions

• Congratulations to Joel Adekanye for being nominated for a Vanier scholarship