Curriculum Vitae - Presentations

Awards & Research Grants Educational Background Presentations

Professional Certifications Professional Development Activites Professional Experience

Professional Skills Publications Volunteer Work

Oral Conference Presentations

1. “My experiences working as a Biostatistician”, AARMS workshop on Robust and Computationally Intensive Statistical Models, 2005 APICS meeting at Acadia.

2. “Cessation of Swine Barn Exposure Results in Reduction in Yearly Lung Function Decline in Farmers” presented at the Fifth Canadian Rural Health Research Society Conference, Sudbury Ontario, October 2004, Vaneeta K. Grover, A Senthilsevan, James A. Dosman, Liliane Chénard, Nathalie Delmaire, Shelley Kirychuk, Ernie Barber, Chuck Rhodes, Sandra Halliday.

3. “Case Study: Neighborhood Factors and Children: Hierarchical Linear Models and Small Area Statistics” presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, June 2003.

4. Summary and Results of the three-day Rotaract Conference on Youth, Leadership & Sustainable Development presented at the Youth session of Shared Water Conference, Hamilton, June 2002.

5. “Activities of Hamilton-McMaster Rotaract Club”, United States, Canada, & Caribbean 2002 Rotaract Conference, Austin, Texas, 2002.

6. “Software Reliability Growth Models: A Historical Perspective” at the 84th Indian Science Congress, held at Delhi, India in January 1997.

7. “The Future Scenario of Telecom Services in India” at the XXVIII Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) held at New Delhi, India in December 1995.

8. “Simplex Method” at Intra College paper reading competition at Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi, India, 1994. I won Second Prize.

9. “Limits and Continuity” at Inter College Paper reading competition at Maitrey College, New Delhi, India, 1994. I was awarded Second Prize.

Poster Presentations

1. “Increased wheeze is associated with Toll-like 4 receptor (TLR4) 299 and 399 polymorphism in women not in men”, Donna Rennie, Jim Dosman, David Schwartz, Vaneeta Kaur Grover, Helen McDuffie, Punam Pahwa, Lalita Bharadwaj, Yue Chen, at the Sixth Conference of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society, Quebec City, October 2005.

2. “Baseline Lung Function predicts Healthy Worker Survival in Swine Farmers in 13 year Follow Up”, Liliane Chenard, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, James Dosman, Vaneeta K Grover, Shelley Kirychuk, Josh Lawson, Ernerst M Barber, Chuck Rhodes, Tom S Hurst at the Sixth Conference of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society, Quebec City, October 2005. (Oral presentation)

3. “Evaluation and treatment for Osteoporosis after Fragility Hip Fracture”, Nathan Kolla, V.K.Grover, Hasnain M. Khandwala at the Canadian Diabetes Association/Canadian Society of Endocrinology and metabolism Annual Meeting, Edmonton, October, 2005. (Oral presentation)

4. “MMPI-2 Profile Clusters in Patients with Chronic Pain”, E. Hapidou, V.K.Grover, at the 11th World Congress on Pain of the International Association for the Study of Pain, Australia, August 21-26, 2005

5. “Is Cue Based Feeding in the Best Interest of Premature Infants?”, Barbara Puckett, Dr. Sanakran, Vaneeta K Grover, nursing conference taking place in Washington DC in June, 2005

6. “Effect of work cessation on lung function in exposed swine farmers: results of a fourteen-year follow-up”, L.Chenard, V.K. Grover, A Senthilsevan, N. Delmaire, S.P. Kirychuk, E.M. Barber, C.S. Rhodes, S.L. Halliday and J. A. Dosman at American Thoracic Society 2005 - San Diego International Conference, May 2005

7. “Pulmonary function and risk of cancer: an inverse relationship?”, McDuffie, H., Pahwa, P., Grover, V.K., at 2005 AACR Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California, April 2005

8. “Pulmonary function and risk of cancer: an inverse relationship?”, McDuffie, H., Pahwa, P., Grover, V.K., at CARWH Conference 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia,. May 2005.

9. “Pulmonary function and risk of cancer: an inverse relationship?”, McDuffie, H., Pahwa, P., Grover, V.K., at 4th Annual Saskatchewan Cancer Research Day, Saskatoon, 2004

10. “Effect of Work Cessation on Lung Function in Exposed Swine Farmers: Results of a Fourteen-Year Follow-Up”, Liliane Chénard, A Senthilsevan, James A. Dosman, Vaneeta K. Grover, Nathalie Delmaire, Shelley Kirychuk, Ernie Barber, Chuck Rhodes, Sandra Halliday presented at the Fifth Canadian Rural Health Research Society Conference, Sudbury Ontario, 2004.

11. “Impact of a physical activity intervention on health status in older adults”, K.L. Fisher1, B.G. Lindstrom1, K.E. Chad, N.L. Ashworth, E.L. Harrison, B.A. Reeder, S. Schultz, M.S. Sheppard, V.K. Grover, at the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology conference, 2004.

12. “Effectiveness Of Home-Based Vs. Class-Based Exercise In Older Adults”, B.G. Lindstrom1, K.L. Fisher, K.E. Chad, N.L. Ashworth, E.L. Harrison, B.A. Reeder, S. Schultz, M.S. Sheppard, V.K. Grover, at the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology conference, 2004.

13. “Effects of physical activity programs (class- vs. community-based) on blood pressure and levels of physical activity in hypertensive older adults”, International Society for Aging and Physical Activity's 6th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity: From Research to Action for an Aging Society Kamencic, E., Reeder, B., Chad K.E., Harrison, E.L., Ashworth, N.L., Sheppard, M.S., Schultz, S., Fisher, K.L., Lindstrom B.G., Grover, V.K. London, Ontario, Canada, August 2004.

14. “Predictive Performance of Creatinine Clearance Equations in Renal Transplant Patients”. D. Raju, V. K. Grover, R. Sanad, A. Shoker, Canadian Society of Transplantation, 2003.

15. “Limitations of Creatinine Clearance Equations in Renal Transplant Patients.” D. Raju, V.K. Grover, A. Shoker, American Society of Transplantation, 2003.

16. “Accuracy of Intraocular pressure measurement in vitrectomized gas containing eyes” Renatta Varma, Vaneeta K Grover, Murray J Erasmus, 2003.

Invited Talks

1. “An introduction to six sigma”, Department of Applied Operational Research, University of Delhi, March 2005.

Seminar Presentations

1. “Injuries in rural and urban areas in prairies and rest of Canada”, Vaneeta K Grover, Punam Pahwa, informal session after the Hands-on Workshop on the Bootstrap Method Used for Variance Estimation in Health Surveys (NPHS & CCHS), Saskatoon May 04, 2005.

2. “Cessation of Swine Barn Exposure Results in Reduction in Yearly Lung Function Decline in Farmers”, Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, 2004. 3. “The mathematical/statistical modeling of rare events in patient safety”, Health Quality Council, 2004.

4. “Hierarchical Linear Modelling, an introduction”, Health Quality Council, 2003.

5. “Impact of Family & Neighbourhood on Child’s Learning: Using Hierarchical Linear Model”, I.ARE.H., 2003.