PharmaSUG 2014 Interactive Schedule Grid

Welcome to the PharmaSUG 2014 Interactive Schedule Grid. Use the links below to jump to a portion of the schedule, then click on a paper title to view the abstract and other details!

(Revised May 29)

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Monday AM Early

Section 9:00 AM 9:15 AM 9:30 AM 9:45 AM
Applications Development Add Dropdowns and Redirects to Your SAS Output Challenges in Moving to a Multi-tier Server Platform
Beyond the Basics Risk-Based Approach to Identifying and Selecting Clinical Sites for Sponsors Preparation for FDA/EMA Inspection
Coders Corner How to Keep Multiple Formats in One Variable after Transpose Let Hash SUMINC Count For You Standardization of Confidence Intervals in PFS Tables - a Macro Approach Having Fun with RACE Derivation in DM Domain
Data Standards Challenges of Processing Questionnaire Data from Collection to SDTM to ADaM and Solutions using SAS®
Data Visualizations & Graphics JMP® Visual Analytics®
Healthcare Analytics Reporting Healthcare Data: Understanding Rates and Adjustments
Industry Basics Challenges in Processing Clinical Lab Data
SAS Super Demos SAS Clinical Data Integration: How to Develop a Custom Generated Transformation SAS Solutions OnDemand Extensions for SAS Drug Development (SDD) - An Example of SDD API Usage

Monday AM Late

Section 10:15 AM 10:30 AM 10:45 AM 11:00 AM 11:15 AM 11:30 AM 11:45 AM 12:00 PM
Applications Development Tips for Creating SAS-Based Applications for Oracle Clinical Macro Programming via Parameter Look-Up Tables The SAS® LOCALE Option Win an international passport for your SAS code
Beyond the Basics Five Ways to Flip-Flop Your Data Defensive Programming, Avoiding the Big Mistakes
Coders Corner Tips to Manipulate the Partial Dates Preserving Line Breaks When Exporting to Excel An alternative way to detect invalid reference records in supplemental domains Automating the Number of Treatment Columns for a Dose Escalation Study Streamline the Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Record Processing in SAS by Using Concepts of Queue and Run-Length Encoding A Macro to Automate Symbol Statements in Line Plots WHERE, Oh, WHERE Art Thou? A Cautionary Tale for Using WHERE Statements and WHERE= Options
Data Standards CDISC Electronic Submission SAS® as a Tool to Manage Growing SDTM+ Repository for Medical Device Studies Update: Development of White Papers and Standard Scripts for Analysis and Programming An Alternative Way to Create Define.XML for ADaM with SAS Macro Automation
Data Visualizations & Graphics ODS EPUB: SAS® Output at Hand Swimmer Plot: Tell a Graphical Story of Your Time to Response Data Using PROC SGPLOT Want to Conquer the Fear of Annotation? Start Using Note Statement.
Hands-on Training Programming With CLASS: Keeping Your Options Open
Healthcare Analytics Using the SAS System as a bioinformatics tool: A macro that translates BLASTn results to populate a DNA sequence database table %ME: A SAS Macro to Assess Measurement Equivalence for PRO (Patient-reported outcome) Measures
Industry Basics Cover the Basics, Tool for structuring data checking with SAS Good versus Better SDTM  Why Good Enough May No Longer Be Good Enough When It Comes to SDTM
SAS Super Demos Define.xml Round-Trip in SAS Clinical Data Integration The Integration of SAS Drug Development and SAS Clinical Data Integration Visualizing Clinical Data with SAS Visual Analytics

Monday PM Early

Section 1:15 PM 1:30 PM 1:45 PM 2:00 PM 2:15 PM 2:30 PM 2:45 PM 3:00 PM
Applications Development Managing the Organization of SAS® Format and Macro Code Libraries in Complex Environments on Multiple SAS® Platforms Deploying a User-Friendly SAS Grid on Microsoft Windows
Beyond the Basics Efficient SQL for Pharma... and Other Industries Understanding and Applying the Logic of the DOW-Loop
Career Planning Call me, Maybe? Using LinkedIn to make sure you get the call for the job Career planningHow to make it work for you? - Tips for programmers, managers and senior leaders Negotiation: Getting the Best Out of an Offer
Coders Corner Quotes within Quotes: When Single () and Double () Quotes are not Enough Additional Metadata for Common Catalog Entry Types Need for Speed in Large Datasets  The Trio of SAS® INDICES, PROC SQL and WHERE CLAUSE is the Answer SCAN and FIND "CALL SCAN" Its not the Yellow Brick Road but the SAS PC FILES SERVER® will take you Down the LIBNAME PATH= to Using the 64-Bit Excel Workbooks. Cleaning up your SAS® log: Overwritten Variable Info Messages A Shout-out to Specification Review: Techniques for an efficient review of Programming Specifications A Toolkit to Check Dictionary Terms in SDTM
Data Standards Discover Define.xml Referencing Medical Device Data in Standard SDTM domains Developing ADaM Specifications to Embrace Define-XML 2 Requirements
Data Visualizations & Graphics Up Your Game with Graph Template Language Layouts Automate the Process of Image Recognizing a Scatter Plot: an Application of a Non-parametric Statistical Method in Capturing Data from Graphical Output
Hands-on Training A Hands-on Introduction to SAS Dictionary Tables
Healthcare Analytics Common and Comparative Incidence Indicators of Adverse Events for Well-defined Study Pools Survey of Population Risk Management Applications Using SAS®
Techniques & Tutorials: Foundations Internal Consistency and the Repeat-TFL Paradigm: When, Why and How to Generate Repeat Tables/Figures/Listings from Single Programs V for & Variable Information Functions to the Rescue What is the Definition of Global On-Demand Reporting Within the Pharmaceutical Industry?

Monday PM Late

Section 3:30 PM 3:45 PM 4:00 PM 4:15 PM 4:30 PM 4:45 PM 5:00 PM 5:15 PM
Applications Development Techniques for Managing (Large!) Batches of Statistical Output Managing bulk SAS job submissions with post execution analysis and notification.
Beyond the Basics That SAS®sy Lab Data D is for Dynamic, Putting Dynamic Back into CDISC (A simple macro using PROC SQL which auto-formats continuous variables) Express Yourself! Regular Expressions vs SAS Text String Functions
Career Planning Whats Hot, Whats Not  Skills for SAS® Professionals Creating a personal career GPS in a changing workplace: Ten steps to improve your professional value.
Coders Corner Let Chi-Square Pass Decision to Fishers Programmatically BreakOnWord: A Macro for Partitioning Long Text Strings at Natural Breaks Automating Production of the blankcrf.pdf A SAS Macro Tool for Visualizing Data Comparison Results in an Intuitive Way Need to Review or Deliver Outputs on a Rolling Basis? Just Apply the Filter! Creating PDF Reports using Output Delivery System
Data Standards A Guide to the ADaM Basic Data Structure for Dataset Designers How Valued is Value Level Metadata?
Data Visualizations & Graphics Techniques of Preparing Datasets for Visualizing Clinical Adverse Events Graphical Representation of Patient Profile for Efficacy Analyses in Oncology Napoleon Plot
Hands-on Training Practically Perfect Presentations
Statistics & Pharmacokinetics Factor analysis of Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms using SAS Software Handling with Missing Data in Clinical Trials for Time-to-Event Variables A SAS Macro to Evaluate Balance after Propensity Score Matching Defining Non-Inferiority Margins for Skin Adhesion Studies
Techniques & Tutorials: Foundations Let the CAT Out of the Bag: String Concatenation in SAS 9 The Three Is of SAS® Log Messages, IMPORTANT, INTERESTING, and IRRELEVANT

Tuesday AM Early

Section 8:00 AM 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 8:45 AM 9:00 AM 9:15 AM 9:30 AM 9:45 AM
Applications Development Converting Multiple Plain DOC Files to RTF Files in SAS Automatic Access Control via SAS: More Efficient and Smart Table Lookup Techniques: From the Basics to the Innovative
Beyond the Basics I Object: SAS® Does Objects with DS2 Using the power of SAS SQL
Coders Corner Quickly Organize Statistical Output for Review Times can be Tough: Taming DATE, TIME and DATETIME variables Let the CAT Catch a STYLE 1 of N Methods to Automate Y-axis QC made Easy using Macros What do you mean 0.3 doesnt equal 0.3? Numeric Representation and Precision in SAS and Why it Matters Macros make Final Documentation Quick and Easy Reducing Variable Lengths for Submission Dataset Size Reduction
Data Standards Creating Define-XML version 2 with the SAS® Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.6 Considerations in the Submission of Exposure Data in SDTM-Based Datasets
Data Visualizations & Graphics I Am Legend Clinical Data Dashboards for Centralized Monitoring Using SAS® and Microsoft® SharePoint® Developing Graphical Standards: A Collaborative, Cross-Functional Approach
Hands-on Training Hands-On ADaM ADAE Development
Management & Support Distance Management: how to lead a team of SAS users who sit half a world away The Fourth Lie - False Resumes Recruiting for Retention
Statistics & Pharmacokinetics %IC_LOGISTIC: A SAS Macro to Produce Sorted Information Criteria (AIC/BIC) List for PROC LOGISTIC for Model Selection A SAS® Macro to address PK timing variables issues A Mental Health and Risk Behavior Analysis of American Youth Using PROC FACTOR and SURVEYLOGISTIC
SAS Super Demos What's New in SAS/STAT 13.1 SAS Clinical Data Integration: Turning Your Data Around

Tuesday AM Late

Section 10:15 AM 10:30 AM 10:45 AM 11:00 AM 11:15 AM 11:30 AM 11:45 AM 12:00 PM
Applications Development Creating Define.xml v2 Using SAS for FDA Submissions DefKit: A Micro Framework for CDISC Define-XML Application Development Dealing with Missing Data in Clinical Trials
Beyond the Basics XML in a SAS and Pharma World Kaplan-Meier Survival Plotting Macro %NEWSURV
Coders Corner Let SAS Do That For You Inserting MS Word Document into RTF Output and Creating Customized Table of Contents Using SAS and VBA Macro PRELOADFMT comes to your rescue, it brings missing categories to life in summary reports Give me everything! A macro to combine the CONTENTS procedure output and formats. A Macro to Create Occurrence Flags for Analysis Datasets Self-fulfilling Macros Generating Macro Calls and Enabling Complete Automation Macro to check Audit compliance and standards of SAS programs
Data Standards An Integrated platform to manage Clinical data, Metadata and Data Standards Panel Discussion: ADaM Implementation
Data Visualizations & Graphics Quick Introduction to ODS DOCUMENT
Hands-on Training Survival 101 - Just Learning to Survive
Management & Support Panel Discussion: Today's Marketplace for Statistical Programmers & Consultants A Guide for Front-Line Managers to Retain Talented Statistical SAS® Programmers
Statistics & Pharmacokinetics Modeling Categorical Response Data
SAS Super Demos Clinical Graphs using SG Procedures Whats new in ODS Graphics for SAS 9.4 The SAS Drug Development Audit History and Enhancements Using Extended Attributes

Tuesday PM Early

Section 1:15 PM 1:30 PM 1:45 PM 2:00 PM 2:15 PM 2:30 PM 2:45 PM 3:00 PM
Applications Development Expediting Access to Critical Pathology Data MACUMBA - The Log Belongs to the Program Let SAS Improve Your CDISC Data Quality
Beyond the Basics Automated Validation - Really? Basics of Macro processing - Q way Come Out of Your Shell: A Dynamic Approach to Shell Implementation in Table and Listing Programs
Career Planning Enhancing Your Career by Bringing Consultants into Your Organization Careers in Biostatistics and Clinical SAS® Programming  An Overview for the Uninitiated
Data Standards A Road Map to Successful CDISC ADaM Submission to FDA: Guidelines, Best Practices & Case Studies. Effective Use of Metadata in Analysis Reporting OpenCDISC Validator Implementation: a Complex Multiple Stakeholder Process
Hands-on Training So You're Still Not Using PROC REPORT. Why Not?
Industry Basics Clinical Trial Data Transparency: Seeing is Believing TLF Validation Etiquette: What to Say, When to Say, How to Say, and Why to Say Clinical Study Report Review: Statisticians Approach
JMP Risk-Based Monitoring of Clinical Trials Using JMP® Clinical Panel Discussion: JMP and JMP Training
Management & Support How To Win Friends and Influence People  A Programmers Perspective on Effective Human Relationships. Demystify Ten years of pharma programming experience required - What hiring managers actually look for Monitoring Quality, Time and Costs of Clinical Trial Programming Projects using SAS®
Techniques & Tutorials: Foundations Strategies and Techniques for Getting the Most Out of Your Antivirus Software for SAS® Users Investigating the Irregular: Using Perl Regular Expressions

Tuesday PM Late

Section 3:30 PM 3:45 PM 4:00 PM 4:15 PM 4:30 PM 4:45 PM 5:00 PM 5:15 PM
Applications Development The New Tradition: SAS® Clinical Data Integration Clinical Trial Data Integration: The Strategy, Benefits, and Logistics of Integrating Across a Compound
Beyond the Basics Atypical application of PROC SUMMARY Indexing: A Powerful Technique for Improving Efficiency A SAS® Macro Utility to Modify and Validate RTF Outputs for Regional Analyses
Career Planning Pharma Company Questions and Answers Show Your SAS® Off: Personal Branding and Your Online Portfolio Pick Me, Pick Me
Data Standards Data Standards Development for Therapeutic Areas: A Focus on SDTM-Based Datasets Applying ADaM BDS Standards to Therapeutic Area Ophthalmology
Hands-on Training SDTM, ADaM and define.xml with OpenCDISC®
Healthcare Analytics The Association of Morbid Obesity with Mortality and Coronary Revascularization among Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Linking Healthcare Claims and Electronic Health Records (EHR) for Patient Management  Diabetes Case Study
Management & Support Building Better Programming Teams with Situational Exposure Training When is Validation Valid?
Statistics & Pharmacokinetics Customizing the Kaplan-Meier Survival Plot in PROC LIFETEST in the SAS/STAT® 13.1 Release Methodology for Non-Randomized Clinical Trials: Propensity Score Analysis
Techniques & Tutorials: Foundations Strategies and Techniques for Debugging SAS® Program Errors and Warnings Principles of Writing Readable SQL

Wednesday AM Early

Section 8:00 AM 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 8:45 AM 9:00 AM 9:15 AM 9:30 AM 9:45 AM
Applications Development Automation of Appending TLFs Validating Analysis Data Set without Double Programming - An Alternative Way to Validate the Analysis Data Set Don't Type, Talk SAS
Data Standards Forging New SDTM Standards for In-Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Devices: A Use-Case A How-To Guide for Extending Controlled Terminology Using SAS Clinical Data Integration An ADaM Interim Dataset for Time-to-Event Analysis Needs
Data Standards Round Trip Ticket  Using the Define.xml file to Send and Receive your Study Specifications
Hands-on Training Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks with SAS®: The Basics and Beyond Part 1
Healthcare Analytics Using SAS® to Calculate and Compare Adjusted Relative Risks, Odds Ratios, and Hazard Ratios Estimating Medication Adherence Using a Patient-Mix Adjustment Method
Industry Basics Common Variables in Adverse Event and Exposure Analysis datasets specific for Oncology Study Trials Attain 100% Confidence in Your 95% Confidence Interval
Management & Support A New Trend in the industry  Partnership between CROs and Pharma. Do we know how to work in this new relationship? KAIZEN Was Dorothy Right; Is There No Place Like Home?
Statistics & Pharmacokinetics Automating Pharmaceutical Safety Surveillance process Same Data, Separate MEANS  SORT of Magic or Logic? The Path Less Trodden - PROC FREQ for ODDS RATIO
Techniques & Tutorials: Foundations Modernizing Your Data Strategy: Understanding SAS Solutions for Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance and Master Data Are You Missing Out? Working with Missing Values to Make the Most of What is not There "Ma, How Long Do I Cook The Turkey For?"
SAS Super Demos Creating Dataset-XML files with the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit Creating Define-XML Version 2 with the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.6 Creating Portable Jobs in SAS Drug Development SAS Drug Development API

Wednesday AM Late

Section 10:15 AM 10:30 AM 10:45 AM 11:00 AM
Applications Development Moving to SAS Drug Development 4
Data Standards Considerations in Creating SDTM Trial Design Datasets
Industry Basics From just shells to a detailed specification document for tables,listings and figures.
Statistics & Pharmacokinetics Our Survival Confidence Intervals are not the Same!
Techniques & Tutorials: Foundations Functioning at a Higher Level: Using SAS® Functions to Improve Your Code
SAS Super Demos Modifying the PROC LIFETEST Survival Plot