PharmaSUG offers a speaker-sharing program for regional and local SAS users groups meetings on a first-come/first-serve basis. There are limited funds available for this program.

If a group is interested in acquiring a speaker for their meeting, they should submit a list of at least three choices from the best papers from the previous year's PharmaSUG conference. PharmaSUG will work through this list and attempt to secure one of these papers to be presented at your event. The following expenses will be paid by PharmaSUG for the author. It is expected that the requesting group will provide the registration to the event for the speaker.

• Transportation to the event
• Lodging - limited to the duraton of the conference which may include 1 day before and/or 1 day after

The list of best papers for the 2012 conference is below. Requests for speakers should be sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

AD12 : A SAS Macro Utility to Append SAS-Generated RTF Outputs and Create the Table of Contents
Sudhakar Anbazhagan, Ockham Group, Chennai, India
Shridhar Patel, Ockham Group, Cary, NC

AD15 : Database Tectonics: Assessing Drift in Analysis Data
Brian Fairfield-Carter, ICON Clinical Research
Jasmin Fredette, ICON Clinical Research

CC06 : Watermarking and Combining Multiple RTF Outputs in SAS ®
Ajay Gupta, PPD INC

CC19 : Don't have a "Week" Report
Barbara Ross, DataX Ltd

DS01 : Transform Incoming Lab Data into SDTM LB Domain with Confidence
Anthony Feliu, Genzyme

DS16 : Common Misunderstandings about ADaM Implementation
Nate Freimark, Theorem Clinical Research
Susan Kenny, Amgen
Jack Shostak, Duke Clinical Research Institute
John Troxell, Consultant

DG02 : Statistical Graphics for Clinical Research Using ODS Graphics Designer
Wei Cheng, Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

DG08 : Personalized Risk Graphs for Intervention Trials – in Technicolor! Using PROC GKPI and CALL EXECUTE to Get the Job Done
Janet Grubber, Durham VA HSR&D
Cynthia Coffman, Durham VA HSR&D, Duke University Medical Center
Will Yancy, Durham VA HSR&D, Duke University Medical Center
Corrine Voils, Durham VA HSR&D, Duke University Medical Center

HO07 : Using the SAS System as a bioinformatics tool: a macro that calls the standalone Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) setup
Kevin Viel

IB04 : Could Have, Would Have, Should Have! Adopting Good Programming Standards, Not Practices, To Survive An Audit.
Vincent Amoruccio, Alexion Pharmaceuticals

MS02 : A CareerView Mirror - Another Perspective on your Work and Career Planning
Bill Donovan, OckhamSource

MS05 : Giving Data a Voice: Partnering with Medical Writing for Best Reporting Practices
Katherine Troyer, REGISTRAT-MAPI
Brit Minor, REGISTRAT-MAPI

SP03 : Computing Initial Values for Pharmacokinetic ML Nonlinear Regression via genetic algorithms and parallel genetic algorithms
Francisco Juretig, Nielsen

TA08 : Perl Regular Expressions in SAS® 9.1+ - Practical Applications
Joel Campbell, Advanced Analytics

TF03 : Simplifying Effective Data Transformation Via PROC TRANSPOSE
Arthur Li, City of Hope

TF15 : A Hitchhiker's Guide for Performance Assessment & Benchmarking SAS® Applications
Viraj Kumbhakarna, JP Morgan Chase