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SER is arranging dinner reservations at restaurants within walking distance of the Grand Hyatt for attendees who want to meet other meeting attendees.  The reservations will be made for the evenings of June 17th and June 18th for parties of 6-8.  If you are interested in signing up for dinner, please look for the sign up sheets at the registration table.  The space is limited so sign up early.  SER will only be coordinating the reservations.  Those attending are responsible for any transportation and payment.

We are pleased to offer the SER Meeting App. App features include ability to create your own daily schedule, view conference maps, presenter details, poster directory, SPC events, restaurant suggestions, general conference information, and more. Connect with other participants at the conference through the networking feature and social media platforms. Download the meeting app to enhance your overall meeting experience. Apple users, click here Android users, click here Blackberry, Windows, and Computer users, click here Email Sue Bevan (sbevan@epiresearch.org) with any questions.

Pre-registration is now open for the SPC Breakfast With the Experts, Mentored Poster Chats, and Lunchtime Roundtables. Space is limited. Click here to learn more.

Craig Meyer, SER-SPC President The SPC has been busy organizing and finalizing the programming at the Annual Meeting. There will be many opportunities to network and meet experts in the field at our SPC events, including Breakfast With the Experts, Lunchtime Roundtables, Junior Career Panel, and Mentored Poster Chats. Online registration for our ticketed events opened on June 1 for a limited number of seats. We will have our remaining tickets available at the SPC table, first come first serve, at opening registration on Tuesday, June 16, starting at 5PM. If you’d like to know more about the SPC, make sure to attend the SPC Business Meeting and Raffle. This will be followed immediately with a Happy Hour. More details and a full itinerary are available on the SER meeting app, and on the SER website, click here. Good luck with the final touches on your posters and presentations! We look forward to seeing you in Denver! Cheers, Craig  

Timothy L. Lash, SER President My year as President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research has been far more work than advertised, and far more rewarding than advertised. We have accomplished a lot. One of the main highlights has been the launch of the new and vastly improved SER web site. The web site has enabled far more effective and efficient communication with our members, and has enabled seamless submission and evaluation of abstracts, workshop proposals, symposium proposals, and award nominations. We have also held successful SERtalks events in Atlanta, New Orleans, Chicago, and Washington DC, and we had the largest attendance yet at the SERdigital meeting organized by the Student and Postdoc Committee. We continue to curate a growing number of short videos on the SERexperts page, and we have an ever expanding list of readings on the SERplaylists page. All of this happened before we even get to the annual meeting in Denver. This year’s annual meeting will itself have many new aspects. Our colleagues at SPER and the SPC , and many local volunteers from the Colorado universities, have worked closely with SER to organize the inaugural fun run for Wednesday morning of the meeting. More than 150 people […]

The SPC Junior Career Panel is a casual noon-session with early career panelists sharing their experience about their career trajectories.  Our panelists come from a variety of areas including academia, government, and private industry. This is your chance to ask all of those questions you’ve been thinking about for taking the next steps in your career!

Visit our suggestions for restaurants, transportation, and what to do to make the most of your time in Denver. Click here for more information.

We want to thank all of our generous volunteers and donors for supporting the mission of the SER Student and Postdoc Committee! Ann Aschengrau Ashley Naimi Barry Popkin Beate Ritz Bernard Rosner Brittany Charlton Caroline Boeke Dana Dabalea David Kleinbaum Diego Vasquez Emily Goldman Emily Harville Enrique Schisterman Garth Rauscher Germaine Buck Louis Ichiro Kawachi J. Michael Oakes Jennifer Ahern Jill Norris Jorge Chavarror Judea Pearl Kritsin Palmsten Kyle Bernstein Lauren Wise Lisa Berkman Louise Brinton Maria Glymour Mark Klebanoff Martha Werler Matt Fox Michelle Odden Mike Jackson Nigel Paneth Olga Basso Oxford University Press Pamela Klein Patricia O’Campo Sandro Galea Sean Cleary Stephen Gilman Susan Mason Tim Lash Tom Lang Tyler VanderWeele Walter Willett Wolters Kluwer Health

One of the most important things to do, especially as a grad student, is to network. Although, the word ‘networking’ makes it sound so cold and dull. Instead, talk to people you find interesting! As a grad student who will be attending the SER annual meeting for the fourth time and having talked to people I consider to be epidemiology celebrities (as who I was more nervous to talk to than I would be talking to Beyonce), no one has even so much given me a bad vibe for having approached them. Although attending talks and reading posters is important, meeting people face to face is the one thing you can do at a conference that you can’t do from your office. So if you see someone interesting at the conference, don’t be afraid, chat them up!