DeLMAR Workshop: Meta-Analysis in Health and Medicine

Meta-analysis in Health and Medicine

Presenters: Tom Stanley, Professor of Meta-Analysis, Faculty of Business and Law, and Emily Kothe, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health.

This workshop will be held at Burwood Corporate Centre, and light morning tea will be provided. Attendees from other campuses are invited to dial in via VMP BL 3 39324 from Waterfront campus meeting room AD2.308 and Waurn Ponds meeting room KA4.622.

Contents

The Deakin Laboratory for the Meta-Analyisis of Research (DeLMAR) is hosting this workshop on the use of meta-analysis within the context of health and medicine.

A unifying focus of DeLMAR's work is the development and application of meta-analytic methods to research questions problems in the social and natural sciences. Tom Stanley, Professor of Meta-Analysis in the Faculty of Business and Law, and Emily Kothe, School of Psychology, will discuss how meta-analytic methods can be applied in a health context.

The session will include discussion of the conceptual basis of fixed and random effects meta-analysis and examples of research conducted by DeLMAR researchers from within psychology, behavioural medicine, psychiatry, and health economics.

Presenters

Dr Emily Kothe is the Co-Director of DeLMAR and the Stream Leader for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in the School of Psychology Data Sciences Unit. She has conducted systematic reviews and meta-analyses across a number of topics within psychology including: attachment, cognitive dissonance, health behaviour and behaviour change, and body image.

Tom Stanley is Professor of Meta-Analysis in the Faculty of Business and Law. He joined the Hendrix Faculty in 1986 and earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He specializes in meta-analysis and had developed statistical methods for meta-regression analysis and for detecting and correcting publication selection bias. Dr. Stanley is the convener of MAER-Net.