Schedule for: 25w5474 - Emerging Statistical Methods for Digital Health Data
Beginning on Sunday, February 23 and ending Friday February 28, 2025
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).
| Sunday, February 23 |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 20:00 - 22:00 |
Informal gathering ↓ Meet & Greet at MACLab (Other (See Description)) |
| Monday, February 24 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Opening Session (HYBRID) ↓ Organizers introduce the purpose and structure of the event. Everyone briefly describes their research interests, data types, and major methodological challenges. (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:50 - 11:05 |
Jessilyn Dunn: The Digital Physiome: Wearables for Disease Detection and Monitoring (TCPL 201) |
| 11:10 - 11:25 |
Jeff Goldsmith: Functional quantiles and related methods (Online) |
| 11:11 - 11:26 |
Eric J. Daza: Discovering Your Own Health Behavior Causal Effects Using Wearables and Apps (Online) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:20 - 14:35 |
Aarti Sathyanarayana: Digital Phenotyping in Action: Methods and Applications in Women's Health, Mental Health, and Mobility Research (TCPL 201) |
| 14:40 - 14:55 |
Debangan Dey: Multivariate Principal Component Analysis for Mixed-Type Functional Data with application to mHealth (Online) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:15 |
Mentor-Consultation Introduction ↓ Introduce experienced mentors who will be available throughout the week to advise on scientific, methodological, or career challenges. (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 21:00 |
Game Night ↓ Play some casual board/card games in the BIRS Lounge (same building as check-in/reception) (Other (See Description)) |
| Tuesday, February 25 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Panel Discussion (HYBRID) ↓ Collaborations in digital and mobile health research
Samprit Banerjee
Min Qian
Stephanie Cook
Eric J. Daza
Nikolai Bliznyuk
(TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Rahul Ghosal: Functional Time Transformation Model with Applications to Digital Health (TCPL 201) |
| 11:10 - 11:25 |
Erjia Cui: Functional Random Effects Inference with Applications to Accelerometry Data ( (Online) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 11:31 - 12:00 |
Haochang Shou: Harmonization of Longitudinal Physical Activity Intensity Measures from Multiple Sources (Online) |
| 13:00 - 13:45 |
John Muschelli: [TUTORIAL] Processing accelerometer data in R (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Mentoring roundtables ↓ Participants will convene in small groups to discuss mentoring related topics (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Juned Siddique: Joint modeling the frequency and duration of accelerometer-measured physical activity from a lifestyle intervention trial (TCPL 201) |
| 15:50 - 16:05 |
Jingjing Zou: Multi-modal wearable device data analysis with self-supervised learning and functional data analysis (TCPL 201) |
| 16:10 - 16:25 |
Vadim Zipunnikov: Digital Health Technologies for Drug Development (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 21:30 |
Social outing in Banff ↓ Location TBD (Other (See Description)) |
| Wednesday, February 26 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Irina Gaynanova: [TUTORIAL] Processing CGM data in R (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Lily Koffman: NHANES Accelerometry and Derivatives (Online) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Jaroslaw Harezlak: Head Impact Measurements in American College Football players (TCPL 201) |
| 11:10 - 11:25 |
Emily Huang: Using a Quality-Controlled Dataset from ViSi Mobile Monitoring for Analyzing Posture Patterns of Hospitalized Patients (TCPL 201) |
| 11:25 - 12:00 |
Zhenke Wu: Some recent adventures in digital biomarkers from Apple SensorKit and digital health intervention design via reinforcement learning tools (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 |
Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, February 27 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Walter Dempsey: Selective Inference for Time-Varying Effect Moderation (Online) |
| 09:20 - 09:50 |
Tianchen Qian: Causal inference and machine learning in mobile health --- modeling time-varying effects using longitudinal functional data (Online) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Linda Valeri: Individual causal effect estimation in the presence of non-stationarity and missing data (TCPL 201) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Small Working Group: White Paper Planning (TCPL 202) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Small Working Group: Future of Digital Health Technology & Event Planning (TCPL Lounge) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Small Working Group: Data Sources and Reproducibility (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 11:30 - 12:15 |
Small Working Group Report Out (HYBRID) (TCPL 201) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Emily Hector: Modeling massive physical activity monitor data through distributed inference (Online) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Julian Wolfson: Combining passive mobile sensing and EMA data to understand daily human activity patterns (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Katharina Schultebraucks: Integrating Digital Biomarkers and Large Language Models in Real-World Settings : How Digital Innovations and AI are Shaping the Future of Mental Health (TCPL 201) |
| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Synthesis & Next Steps (HYBRID) ↓ Set deadlines for initial collaborative follow-ups, outline a plan for at least one joint grant submission or joint publication in the coming months. Organizers and participants share final thoughts, commitments, and appreciation. (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 17:30 |
Flex Time ↓ Open time to network and continue discussions. (TCPL Foyer) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 20:00 - 21:30 |
Social outing: Bowling ↓ Bowling at High Rollers in Banff (Other (See Description)) |
| Friday, February 28 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Checkout by 11AM ↓ 5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM. (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
