10.3 Conferences

I attended a number of conferences during this year, in which I delivered the following oral presentations:

• Survival Analysis for Junior Researchers conference, held in Leicester, UK, on April 5^th and 6^th 2017. I delivered a talk titled Direct likelihood maximisation using numerical quadrature to approximate intractable terms;

• Statistical Analysis of Multi-Outcome Data (SAM) conference, held in Liverpool, UK, on July 3^rd and 4^th 2017. I delivered a talk titled Impact of model misspecification in survival models with frailties;

• Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics conference, held in Vigo, Spain, on July 9^th to July 13^th 2017. I delivered two talks: a titled Impact of model misspecification in survival models with frailties during one of the contributed sessions on survival analysis, and a talk titled Exploring results from simulation studies interactively during the Students’ Day organised on July 13^th.

Additionally, I delivered an oral presentation on previous research work external to my PhD project during the 54^th ERA-EDTA Congress held in Madrid, Spain, between June 3^rd and June 6^th. The ERA-EDTA Congress is the main conference in the field of Nephrology in Europe, with approximately 10,000 participants in 2017. I delivered my presentation, titled Inappropriate prescription of nephrotoxic drugs to individuals with chronic kidney disease, to an audience of clinicians, epidemiologists, clinical researchers, and other stakeholders.