From Research to Practice Webinar

Register now for “From Research to Practice” (launched May 2023), based on the new 2nd edition of “A Clinician’s Guide to Statistics in Mental Health” by Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH. Turn hard statistics into clear clinical calls—read studies, separate signal from noise, and move evidence to the bedside.

You’ll learn how to:

Spot confounding (indication, selection, immortal time) and why randomization often beats huge observational datasets; when stratification, regression, or matching help—and when they don’t.

Read RCTs the right way: primary vs secondary/post-hoc outcomes, multiplicity, power/sample size, intention-to-treat vs per-protocol, and average vs subgroup traps.

Understand p values (and their limits): statistical ≠ clinical significance; Type I/II error; why α=0.05 is arbitrary; how CIs, effect sizes, ARR, NNT/NNH change decisions.

Judge meta-analyses: inclusion/exclusion, heterogeneity, small-study/publication bias, fixed vs random effects; why meta-analysis is an observational “study of studies.”

Apply methods to psychiatry’s canon (CATIE, STAR*D, STEP-BD) to see what they truly show—and don’t—about efficacy, tolerability, and real-world outcomes.

Appraise high-profile claims and umbrella reviews, separate robust signals from hype, and spot common statistical fallacies.

Translate research to practice: lithium & suicide, clozapine & mortality, antidepressants & suicidality; use base rates and absolute risks for safer choices.

What’s included:

8 concise lectures (~8 hours) with slide and table/figure walkthroughs.

Practical appraisal heuristics and checklists you can use the next day (trial hierarchy, effect vs significance, subgroup sanity checks).

Case exercises across observational studies, RCTs, meta-analyses, and recent controversies.

Who it’s for:

Psychiatrists, psychiatric NPs/PAs, primary-care clinicians, psychologists, and trainees wanting a fast, rigorous way to read research and make evidence-first decisions.