R/Medicine Schedule

• All times EDT

• The conference runs in two parallel tracks for the first two days of workshops, demos, and panels

• The talks on the final two days run in a single track

Workshop/Demo Day 1

Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Start Time	End Time	Duration	Track
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	A	Demo You Should Probably Map That: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R Anjile An, Weill Cornell Medical College
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	B	Demo Interactive and Instant: GenAI-driven Creation of Clinical Trial Applications Marcin Dubel, Appsilon
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	A	Workshop Introduction to R for Clinical Data Rich Hanna, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	B	Workshop Promover la Equidad Científica: Introducción a R Catalina Cañizares-Escobar, New York University;, Francisco Cardozo, University of Miami
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	30m		Break
2:30 PM	5:30 PM	3h	A	Workshop Mastering Clinical Data Summaries with {gtsummary} and AI Daniel D. Sjoberg, Genentech;, Shannon Pileggi, The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium
2:30 PM	3:30 PM	1h	B	Demo Building Accessible, On-Brand Documents with Quarto Charlotte Wickham, Posit
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	1h	B	Panel R and RedCap Panel Discussion Raymond Balise, Brandon Rose, Rich Hanna, and others
4:30 PM	5:30 PM	1h	B	Demo Ctrialsgov R Package Michael Kane, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Workshop/Demo Day 2

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Start Time	End Time	Duration	Track
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	A	Demo Demonstration on making Shiny dashboards accessible for users who rely on screen readers and keyboards Abigail Stamm & Eric Kvale, Minnesota Department of Health
10:00 AM	11:00 AM	1h	B	Demo REDCapSync and RosyREDCap: Advanced REDCap API for Even the Basic R User; Standardized Data Pipelines and a Companion Shiny App for any REDCap Project Brandon Rose & Natalie Goulett, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	A	Workshop Working with Larger than Memory Data in R François Michonneau, Posit
11:00 AM	2:00 PM	3h	B	Workshop ggplot2 for Data Visualisation: Creativity, Clarity, Accessibility Cara Thompson
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	30m		Break
2:30 PM	5:30 PM	3h	A	Workshop LLMs for Data Analysis in R Sara Altman, Posit
2:30 PM	5:30 PM	3h	B	Workshop No more copy and paste! Parameterized plots and reports with R and Quarto Nicola Rennin

Meeting Day 1

Meeting Day 1 Thursday, June 12, 2025
Start Time	End Time	Duration
11:00 AM	11:15 AM	15m	Opening Remarks Emily Zabor, Cleveland Clinic
11:15 AM	12:15 PM	1h	Keynote Software sustainability and community management Yanini Bellini, rOpenSci
12:15 PM	12:20 PM	5m	Break
12:20 PM	12:22 PM	2m	Session Intro
12:22 PM	12:42 PM	20m	Regular Talk Bridging the Gap Between Spreadsheets and Shiny: Interactive Clinical Data Entry with esq.handsontable Anastasiia Kostiv, ESQlabs
12:42 PM	1:02 PM	20m	Regular Talk MetaInsight v7: A Comprehensive and Reproducible Shiny App for Network Meta-analysis Simon Smart, University of Leicester
1:02 PM	1:07 PM	5m	Questions
1:07 PM	1:12 PM	5m	Break
1:12 PM	1:14 PM	2m	Session Intro
1:14 PM	1:34 PM	20m	Regular Talk NIH: Not Invented Here: balancing unique software needs vs out-of-box (almost) perfect generic solution. Teal “module-first” as a case study. Dror Berel, Consultant
1:34 PM	1:44 PM	10m	Lightning Talk CougarStats: An Interactive R-Based Platform for Applied Health Data Science Ashok Krishnamurthy & Darren Law Yan Lun, Mount Royal University
1:44 PM	1:54 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Toggling Between Traditional and Chat-Based Data Filters in Shiny Alex Zajichek, Cleveland Clinic
1:54 PM	1:59 PM	5m	Questions
1:59 PM	2:04 PM	5m	Break
2:04 PM	2:06 PM	2m	Session Intro
2:06 PM	2:26 PM	20m	Regular Talk From Prompt to Proof: Governing LLM Intelligence in Pharma with Snowflake and Shiny Tanya Cashorali, TCB Analytics
2:26 PM	2:36 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Report Agent: An LLM-Powered Framework for Automated Shell-to-Code Report Generation Lucie Zhang, Genentech
2:36 PM	2:46 PM	10m	Lightning Talk AI-Assisted Authoring of an Open-Access Portuguese Biostatistics Book in Quarto and R Audrei Pavanello & Leonardo Pestillo de Oliveira, Cesumar Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation
2:46 PM	2:51 PM	5m	Questions
2:51 PM	2:56 PM	5m	Break
2:56 PM	2:58 PM	2m	Session Intro
2:58 PM	3:18 PM	20m	Regular Talk Supercharging Reproducible Research in R with GitHub Actions Jonathan Pearce, McGill University
3:18 PM	3:38 PM	20m	Regular Talk Care and Feeding of Your Biostats Team: Scaling best practices in a large hybrid SAS/R team John Ehrlinger, Cleveland Clinic
3:38 PM	3:43 PM	5m	Questions
3:43 PM	3:48 PM	5m	Break
3:48 PM	3:50 PM	2m	Session Intro
3:50 PM	4:50 PM	1h	Keynote Voices in the Code: A Story about People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made David Robinson, OpenAI
4:50 PM	4:55 PM	5m	Break
4:55 PM	4:57 PM	2m	Session Intro
4:57 PM	5:07 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Streamlined Access to NHANES Data: Fast, Harmonized, and Reliable Natalie Neugaard & Amrit Baral, University of Miami
5:07 PM	5:17 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Infodengue intramunicipal - An R package under development Ayrton Gouveia & Thais Riback, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
5:17 PM	5:27 PM	10m	Lightning Talk REDCapDM: Managing REDCap Data João Carmezim, IGTP
5:27 PM	5:32 PM	5m	Closing remarks TBD

Meeting Day 2

Meeting Day 2 Friday, June 13, 2025
Start Time	End Time	Duration
11:00 AM	11:15 AM	15m	Opening Remarks Emily Zabor, Cleveland Clinic
11:15 AM	12:15 PM	1h	Keynote The Truth Seekers: Learning How to Assess Generative AI from Professional Sceptics Peter Gruber, USI Università della Svizzera italiana
12:15 PM	12:20 PM	5m	Break
12:20 PM	12:22 PM	2m	Session Intro
12:22 PM	12:42 PM	20m	Regular Talk bulkreadr: Fast, Reproducible Bulk Data Import for R-Based Research Workflows Ezekiel Ogundepo, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
12:42 PM	12:52 PM	10m	Lightning Talk From Chaos to Consistency: Building a Long‑Lasting Polish Arthroplasty Registry Data Pipeline Dominik Żabiński, Gruca Orthopaedic and Trauma Teaching Hospital
12:52 PM	1:02 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Encapsulated Test Coverage: test.assessr – a package for R unit testing Edward Gillian, Sanofi
1:02 PM	1:07 PM	5m	Questions
1:07 PM	1:12 PM	5m	Break
1:12 PM	1:14 PM	2m	Session Intro
1:14 PM	1:34 PM	20m	Regular Talk blockr: Clinical Data Analysis without Code Christoph Sax, cynkra / University of Basel
1:34 PM	1:44 PM	10m	Lightning Talk sumExtras: Streamlining Table Workflows in Clinical Research with R Kyle Grealis, University of Miami
1:44 PM	1:54 PM	10m	Lightning Talk An R-Based Pipeline for Resource-Optimized Participant Selection in High-Cost Clinical Research Aparna Bhattacharyya, Johns Hopkins University
1:54 PM	1:59 PM	5m	Questions
1:59 PM	2:04 PM	5m	Break
2:04 PM	2:06 PM	2m	Session Intro
2:06 PM	2:26 PM	20m	Regular Talk medicalcoder: A Unified and Longitudinally Aware Framework for ICD-Based Comorbidity Assessment in R Peter DeWitt, University of Colorado Anschutz
2:26 PM	2:36 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Modeling Fall Risk with Staged Trees and Expert Judgement Rachel Wilkerson & Anika Dachiraju, Baylor University
2:36 PM	2:46 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Using ggregions for building intuitive coding interfaces for anatomical visualizations Evangeline (Gina) Reynolds, Consultant
2:46 PM	2:51 PM	5m	Questions
2:51 PM	2:56 PM	5m	Break
2:56 PM	2:58 PM	2m	Session Intro
2:58 PM	3:18 PM	20m	Regular Talk Beyond Sequential: Scaling Existing Medical Pipelines with 'futurize' Henrik Bengtsson, University of California San Francisco
3:18 PM	3:28 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Parallel computing in R to analyze big health data Ariel Mundo Ortiz, Centre de recherche du CHUM
3:28 PM	3:38 PM	10m	Lightning Talk The MBCproject R Package: Enabling reproducible analysis of multi-omic data in metastatic breast cancer Diana Garcia Cortes, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
3:38 PM	3:43 PM	5m	Questions
3:43 PM	3:48 PM	5m	Break
3:48 PM	3:50 PM	2m	Session Intro
3:50 PM	4:10 PM	20m	Regular Talk Synthetic by Design: Pairing toysurveydata and NSSP Synthetic Data Generator for Privacy-Safe Public Health Training and Development Abigail Stamm & Eric Kvale, Minnesota Department of Health
4:10 PM	4:20 PM	10m	Lightning Talk DIVINE: Curated Datasets and Tools for Medical Data Natàlia Pallarès & João Carmezim, IDIBAPS/IGTP
4:20 PM	4:30 PM	10m	Lightning Talk Preventing Data Leakage in Clinical Machine Learning: Guarded Resampling Workflows with fastml in R Fikret Bartu Yurdacan, Trakya University
4:30 PM	4:35 PM	5m	Questions
4:35 PM	4:40 PM	5m	Break
4:40 PM	4:42 PM	2m	Session Intro
4:42 PM	5:02 PM	20m	Regular Talk When Quant Meets Qual: Extending the R Ecosystem for Qualitative Data Abiraahmi Shankar, New York University
5:02 PM	5:22 PM	20m	Regular Talk Rapid and comprehensive power analysis in R, with a focus on planned error control for multiple outcomes Kristen Hunter & Luke Miratrix, University of New South Wales
5:22 PM	5:27 PM	5m	Closing Remarks TBD