Dear CSEB Delegates, Judges, and Workshop leaders, We hope you enjoyed attending the CSEB National Student Conference in Winnipeg. We are pleased to announce the winners of the student competitions. Two students in each category were selected based on the average of the judges’ scores. The presentations were categorized as either Biostatistics or Epidemiology based on the themes selected when students submitted their abstract.

Congratulations to the following students:

Rapid Fire Presentations

1st: Carmen Chan, Queen’s University Lifetime cumulative exposure to estrogen and postmenopausal IGF-1 levels

2nd: Jessica Yu, University of British Columbia Exploring pathways to health equity for South African gold mining communities

Poster Presentations

Biostatistics Awards

1st: Yohann Chiu, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Study of relationships between cardiovascular disease peaks and weather: Applications in Quebec and Montreal, Canada

2nd: Michael Xu, McMaster University Progress and challenges associated with the use of Decision Tree Analysis to validate the Hamilton Early Warning Score

Epidemiology Awards

1st: Suzanne Clarke, Dalhousie University Should large urban centres decide how best to use health care services.

2nd: Kaoutar Ennour-Idrissi, Laval University Telomere length and breast cancer prognostic factors.

Oral Presentations

Biostatistics Awards

1st: Nadia Arrouf, UQAM A mediation analysis to assess the impact of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) during pregnancy on birthweight

2nd: Jason Lacombe, University of Toronto Exploring the health outcomes of various Pan-Canadian Cervical Cancer Screening programs using microsimulation

Epidemiology Awards

1st: Alison Dasiewicz, Western University Paediatric to adult health care transition readiness and experiences of Canadian adolescents diagnosed with epilepsy in childhood and their parents.

2nd: Deepa Jahagirdar, McGill University The effect of paid maternity leave policies on early childhood growth in low and middle income countries.

Thanks to the Canadian Society for Epidemiology & Biostatistics for sponsoring the Epidemiology awards. Thanks to the Biostatistical Section of the Statistical Society of Canada for sponsoring the Biostatistics awards. We hope to see you at the 2017 CSEB Conference in Alberta!

2016 CSEB National Student Conference Planning Committee