Healthy Aging Collaboration Hub Seminar Series:

Advanced Methods and Analyses for Pharmacoepidemiology

Registration: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6AaqYtawPaYjcI6

Date: November 17 (Monday)

Time: 2 PM - 3:30 PM

Location: HKJC-S3, G/F, 5 Sassoon Road

Join us for a seminar on advanced methods and analyses for pharmacoepidemiology. Topics include using instrumental variable analysis to evaluate NSTEMI management in kidney impairment patients and examining how psychotropic and antihypertensive medications influence heatwave-related health outcomes.
This seminar will be conducted both on-site and online.

Speakers

Dr Angel YS Wong
Dr Wong is an Assistant Professor in Pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She studied BSc in Public Health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interest is to use electronic health records to study medication effects and advanced methods to minimise bias and confounding. She has extensive experience in using routine clinical data from Hong Kong and the UK. She is also one of the OpenSAFELY members to conduct numerous COVID-19 related research since pandemic in April 2020. She is now the course organiser of Professional Certificate course of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance at LSHTM and deputy director of Centre for Global Chronic Conditions.

Dr Patrick Bidulka
Dr Bidulka is an epidemiologist and health data scientist with expertise in using routinely collected health data for causal inference. He holds a PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), which focused on using instrumental variable analyses to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of glucose-lowering treatments in people with type 2 diabetes and heart attack treatments in people with kidney impairment. He also holds an MSc in epidemiology (LSHTM) and a BSc in pharmacology and economics (McGill University).

For enquiry, please contact
Dr. Tiffany Leung
3917-6836 / aginghub@hku.hk