Wednesday, 24th October Australian Epidemiology Association ASM 2018

Story from a successful mid-career researcher - Roslyn Giglia

• Nordic registers for research – opportunities and challenges - Mika Gissler
• How working with Aboriginal communities towards health improvements will close the gap in health outcomes: Evidence based research done Mob way - Maree Toombs

• Explaining geographical variation in bowel cancer screening participation in Victoria - James A Chamberlain
• Statin use in cancer survivors: cohort study using CPRD data - Kendal Chidwick
• Socioeconomic disparities in colorectal cancer screening mediated via health behaviours - Kanlaya Jongcherdchootrakul
• Longitudinal progression of chronic conditions and multimorbidity before and after cancer diagnosis in mid-aged women: a nationwide cohort study in Australia - Xiaolin Xu
• Analysis of mortality outcomes for national cancer screening programs - Christopher Rompotis
• Leprosy in Australian Indigenous and immigrant populations: time for vaccine - Harrison A Edwards
• Lung cancer from occupational low-dose mixed asbestos fibre exposure - NITA SODHI
• Work-unit social capital and long-term sickness absence: a prospective cohort study of 32 053 hospital employees - Eszter Török
• Risk of Autoimmune Diseases from Occupational Silica and Diesel Exposure - Istvan Kabdebo
• Using registries to increase compensation for occupational cancer in Norway - Kristina Kjaerheim
• Determinants of the increase in early term planned births - Jane Ford
• Effect of small-for-gestational-age on educational outcomes: A linked data study - Siranda Torvaldsen
• Timely delivery of babies with severe growth restriction in Western Australia - Helen D Bailey
• Maternal morbidities associated with post-delivery use of cessation pharmacotherapies - Mei Lin Lee
• GenV: A state wide initiative to accelerate lifecourse research - Karen Lamb
• Needs and priority areas for building capacity in the Australian pharmacoepidemiology workforce - Frank Sanfilippo
• Participation in work and activities following injury and subsequent injury - Helen Harcombe
• Factors associated with physical activity and sedentary behaviour in older adults from six low and middle-income countries - Liliana Orellana
• Using Growth-Mixture Modeling to reveal hidden decay-of-impact trajectories after health education - Joseph Green
• Use of Facebook to recruit research participants - Fiona Bruinsma
• Measuring illicit drug use via a telephone survey: practice implications - Sarah Pont
• Imputing missing country of birth in estimating cancer incidence for migrant groups. - Kara Martin
• Who chooses to participate in an Australia-wide population-based research study? - Brooke Beswick
• Impact of direct-acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C on liver disease burden: a population-based linkage study - Maryam Alavi
• Factors leading to bariatric revision surgery in Australia - Breanna Pellegrini
• BrainyApp: A smartphone intervention application for lifestyle modification - Edward Hill
• MedicineInsight, an Australian national primary health care database - Kendal Chidwick
• Cancer and screening data linkage - Christopher Rompotis
• Leading causes of death among serving and ex-serving ADF personnel - Tylie Bayliss
• Back to the Future: A retrospective, prospective data linkage Study - Sarah HM Jones
• Large scale reporting using complex statistical methods requires parallel computation - Danushka Fox
• The role of social capital in self-rated health: findings from multi-year population health surveys - Hai Phung
• Disability‐based discrimination and health: findings from an Australian‐based population study - Lauren Krnjacki

• Brain cancers after CT scans: Using the 95^th percentile of the pre-diagnostic symptomatic interval (PSI) to assess the possibility of reverse causation - Nicolas Smoll
• Appropriate use of the test-negative design for administrative data - Sheena Sullivan
• Agreement between constructs derived from register records and clinical summaries - Patsy Di Prinzio
• Practical guidance for handling convergence issues in multiple imputation - Cattram D Nguyen
• Doubly robust mediation analysis. - Murthy Dr Mittinty
• Accuracy of coded data: Post-procedural complications coding in Western Australia - William J Pyper
• Using PHREDSS to monitor codeine-related emergency department presentations - Branislav Igic
• Statistical methods for estimating legacy effects: A simulation study - Lin Zhu
• Correlates of Objectively Measured Personal Sun Exposure in Australians - Ainsley Furneaux-Bate
• Using capture-recapture methodology to assess completeness of a surveillance system - Siranda Torvaldsen
• HealthStats NSW: Automated quality assurance essential for scalable, timely reporting. - Danushka Fox
• Why sample selection matters in exploratory factor analysis: implications for the 12-item World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 - Liliana Orellana

Chair: Anne Cust

• Survival after breast conserving surgery (BCS) compared to mastectomy (MTX) in early stage breast cancer - Shoaib Abrahimi
• Temporally changing loss of life expectancy for people with cancer in WA - Cameron Wright
• Fraction of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in Australia - Renee N Carey
• Influences on oesophageal cancer mortality in China: a multilevel analysis - Kou Kou
• A quantitative bias analysis to estimate measurement error-related attenuation of the association between self-reported physical activity and colorectal cancer risk - Brigid Lynch
• Developing a comorbidity index for comparing survival from cancer in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. - Lettie Pule
• The utility of incorporating competing risk theory into evaluations of changes in cancer survival to more accurately capture progress against cancer - Rachael Moorin
• Regular use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and risk of renal cell carcinoma - Fiona Bruinsma
• Spatial analysis of oesophageal cancer mortality in China - Kou Kou
• Aging-associated changes in blood DNA methylation and cancer risk and survival - Pierre-Antoine Dugué
• The who and where of skin cancer treatment - Bridie Thompson
• Application of Scan statistics for spatial aspects of breast cancer - Adeleh Shirangi

• Healthy migrant phenomenon in pregnancy - Maryam Mozooni
• Pregnancy outcomes and risk of endometrial cancer - Renhua Na
• Long term outcomes of early term induction for large-for-gestational age - Ibinabo Ibiebele
• Vaginal delivery is associated with pneumococcal carriage in Fijian infants - Eleanor FG Neal
• Caesarean section and Type-1 diabetes risk among South Australian children - Mumtaz Begum
• Female reproductive history and risk of type 2 diabetes - Hsin-Fang Chung
• Preventing alcohol consumption during pregnancy in Fitzroy Valley: AUDIT-C update - Martyn Symons
• Multigenerational low birthweights among Aboriginal Western Australians and fetal programming - Alison Gibberd
• Effect of inter pregnancy interval on pre-eclampsia in a high-income country - Amanuel Tesfay Gebremedhin
• Association between early pregnancy haemoglobin levels and transfusion in the birth admission. - Deborah A Randall

• How does the community food environment change over time? Examining spatial exposure to food outlets in Perth, Western Australia - Alexia Bivoltsis
• Young pedestrians and cyclists: how safe are they? - Michelle M Hobday
• Rate of recovery following injury: the role of comorbidity - Gabrielle Davie
• Vertebral fractures and Ankylosing Spondylitis patients in Western Australia. - Milica Ognjenovic
• Maternal assault admissions and the risk of child protection involvement - Carol Orr
• Impact of alcohol and illicit drug use on Australian disease burden - Vanessa E Prescott
• Associations between electronic cigarettes, tobacco smoking and health behaviours . - Suzanne Schindeler
• Prevalence of racism exposure in a longitudinal study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children - Leah Cave
• Next generation evidence synthesis – prospective meta-analyses in health research - Anna Lene Seidler
• The NSW Population Health Survey: informing health policy since 1997 - Tim Harrold
• Maximising the use of Queensland preventive health survey series data - Susan Clemens

• Joint effect: heatwave and air-pollution on ambulance services in WA - Dimpalben Patel
• Heatwaves and work-related injuries in Australia: A multi-city study - Blesson Varghese
• Occupational exposure to carcinogenic agents among manufacturing employees in Malaysia - Jaseema Begum Nazir Khan
• Young men's receptiveness to workplace suicide intervention - Tania King
• Impact of ambient temperatures on work-injuries in three Australian cities - Blesson Varghese
• Financial impact of injury for older workers: utilising administrative data - Gabrielle Davie
• Prevalence of occupational exposure to asthmagens derived from animals, fish and/or shellfish among Australian workers - Sonia El-Zaemey

• Association between medication adherence and outcomes following myocardial infarction - Melanie Greenland
• Socioeconomic variation in absolute cardiovascular disease risk and treatment - Ellie Paige
• Monitoring stroke incidence after Closing the Gap using linked data - Judy M Katzenellenbogen
• A linked data analysis of multimorbidity in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal patients hospitalised with atherothrombotic disease in Western Australia: Implications for disease management - Mohammad A Hussain
• Cannabis use and sex differences in cardiometabolic health - Anna Waterreus
• Mixed effects prediction model for ascertaining rheumatic heart disease status - Daniela Bond-Smith

Chair: Anne Cust

• Using big data to improve vascular risk prediction and better targeted treatment - Rodney Jackson
• The future of epidemiology - David Preen

 Panel members:

• Anna Ferrante
• Lin Fritschi
• Rodney Jackson
• Louisa Jorm
• Maree Toombs
• Chris Reid
• Tarun Weeramanthri

Thank you and closing of 2018 AEA