Webinars

About the CLEAR Center Webinars

The Clinical Research Methods Webinar series is hosted by The Clinical Learning, Evidence and Research (CLEAR) Center for Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Washington and the PM&R Journal. These webinars focus on key topics that research investigators, journal editors, and clinicians encounter as they develop and conduct research studies, review research manuscripts, and stay up-to-date on the latest research in their field.

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Upcoming Webinars

June 3, 2024

Dr. Kevin Anstrom, PhD, MS

Biomarkers for Evaluating Spine Treatments Trial – Some Design and Statistical Considerations

Webinar Archive

Date	Speaker	Title
April 19, 2024	Dr. Kushang Patel, PhD, MPH	Expanding access to evidence-based exercise for older adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain: From pilot to effectiveness trials
January 29, 2024	Dr. Linda Resnik, PT, PhD	Advancing access to and quality of rehabilitation services through learning health systems research
October 16, 2023	Dr. Avi Kenny, PhD	Analysis of stepped wedge cluster randomized trials in the presence of a time‐varying treatment effect
September 11, 2023	Dr. Frances Williams, PhD	Using omics to understand musculoskeletal disease in TwinsUK
August 28, 2023	Dr. Gwendolyn A Sowa, MD, PhD; Dr. Gina McKernan, PhD	Innovative Analysis for Large Datasets
June 5, 2023	Heather Feldner, PT, PhD; Heather Evans, PhD; and Mark Harniss, PhD	Bridging Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Medicine
May 8, 2023	Jeffrey C. Lotz, PhD	A New Integrated Model to Phenotype Low Back Pain: The Biopsychosocial Model Meets Big Data
Apr 3, 2023	Thomas A. Peterson, PhD	Phenotyping Patients for Retrospective and Prospective Clinical Research
Oct 17, 2022	Kristin Sainani, PhD	How to Analyze Research Data
July 18, 2022	Roger Chou, MD	Evaluating Comparative Effectiveness of Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty for Low Back Pain
May 23, 2022	Ken Cohen MD, FACP	Optimizing the Use of Evidence Based Therapies in the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain
April 25, 2022	Andrew Humbert, PhD	The p-value: Is it still significant?
January 31, 2022	Patricia D Franklin, MD, MPH, MBA	Predictive analytics using clinical and patient-reported data to guide treatment decisions in knee and hip osteoarthritis
January 10, 2022	Meliha Yetisgen, PhD	Extracting Information from Clinical Narratives for Secondary Use Application
July 26, 2021	David Benkeser, PhD	Recent Advances in Machine Learning and Causal Inference
April 26, 2021	Safwan Halabi, MD	Functionality of Federated Learning for Artificial Intelligence Analysis of Patient Data
January 25, 2021	Kristin Sainani, PhD	Top Ten Statistical Errors in Data Analysis
October 26, 2020	Chaya Moskowitz, PhD	Assessing Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers
July 27, 2020	Beth Devine, PhD, PharmD, MBA	Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
October 21, 2019	M. Hassan Murad, MD, MPH	Developing Trustworthy Guidelines using the GRADE Approach
April 26, 2019	Kristin Sainani, PhD	Methods for Dealing with Confounding in Observational Studies: Instrumental Variables
February 1, 2019	Kristin Sainani, PhD	Methods for Dealing with Confounding in Observational Studies: Propensity Score Matching