| Teresia Arthur (SAS Institute) |
Teresia Arthur has multiple SAS certifications and has extensive experience designing, coding and supporting SAS applications internal to SAS Institute. She has been working at SAS 20 years including 3 years systems programming, 16 years MIS applications development, and 1 year tools and applications development for the Research and Development division. |
| William E. Benjamin (Owl Computer Consultancy, LLC) |
William E. Benjamin, Jr. currently owns a consulting company called OWL Computer Consultancy,LLC in Phoenix AZ, his expertise includes Base SAS Software, SAS Macros, SQL, and SAS/AF®. William has a BS degree in computer science from Arizona State University and a Master of Business Administration in Management from Western International University. He has been a SAS software user since 1983 and a computer programmer since 1973. His programming experience spans from vacuum tube mainframes, to current PC computers, and he has used languages from assembly language to fourth generation programming languages. |
| Eric Brinsfield (SAS Institute) |
Eric Brinsfield is the Director of Global Health and Life Sciences Professional Services at SAS Institute, where he leads a team that supports pharmaceutical and medical device companies as well as health insurance and health care organizations. In addition to supporting worldwide delivery of SAS, his team also builds customer-driven solution development for the health and life sciences sector. Example solutions include health plan reporting, drug safety surveillance, and clinical data integration for CDISC.
Eric started using SAS software in 1977, worked for SAS from 1984-1990 and from 2003 to the present. From 1990 to 2003, he ran Meridian Software Inc., which he founded to provide custom software consulting solutions, primarily using SAS. Eric received his BS from Duke and MS from North Carolina State.
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| Nancy Brucken (i3 Statprobe) |
Nancy Brucken has been a SAS programmer for over 20 years, including 17 years in the pharmaceutical industry. She holds a M.S. in Statistics from the University of Michigan (but is still an Ohio State fan), and a B.S. in Math/Computer Science from Marietta College. |
| Bhavin A. Busa (Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc.) |
Bhavin Busa is an independent consultant working as a SAS Programmer in various Pharmaceutical and Contract Research Organization. He is currently working with Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and also providing consulting work at Prometrika on a part-time basis. At Cubist he is working on a variety of different projects. This includes developing SAS macros for Biostatistics and Data Management group to facilitate and automate SAS related processes, creating integrated clinical safety data warehouse, conducting training and workshops on topics like SAS ODS, SAS JMP, and Proc Report. He is an active participant in CDISC initiative and training courses offered on CDISC SDTM standards model and well adept with SDTM Implementation Guide and CRT DDS specification for define.xml. He has experience mapping CRF data into SDTM domains for submission purpose using SAS and has developed an in-house SAS macro-based solution to validate CDISC SDTM compliant submission-ready clinical domains. |
| David W. Carr (ICON Clinical Research) |
Senior SAS Programmer Analyst with 7+ years of SAS experience in the pharmaceutical research industry and 2 years of SAS experience in the health care claims industry. Interests include reading, soccer, and Irish history. |
| Elizabeth Ceranowski (SAS Institute) |
Elizabeth Ceranowski currently manages Student Programs for SAS. In this role, Elizabeth encourages students at all levels of higher education to use SAS in their research and coursework. Elizabeth joined SAS in 2003 as a Technical Training Specialist, teaching SAS Programming and Business Intelligence courses. Prior to joining SAS, Elizabeth worked at Nortel Networks for more than five years as a software designer and then at Quintiles Transnational as a SAS programmer. Elizabeth is certified as a Base and Advanced SAS Certified Professional. |
| Hanyu Chen (CAZ Consulting Corporation) |
Hanyu Chen is the general manager with CAZ Consulting Corporation and involved extensively in statistics and statistical programming as well. His academic credentials include MD in public health, MPH in biostatistics in China, and MA in statistics and research methodology in the United States. He also took a year’s course in biostatistics at doctoral level in Columbia University. Hanyu’s professional career covers teaching in statistics, statistical consulting, project management, and all areas of SAS programming for NDA. Hanyu has about 10 year’s experiences in the pharmaceutical industry. He is the principal developer of CAZ’s commercial product XPRINT, a SAS macro-based report-writing system. |
| Hui-Ping Chen (Eli Lilly and Company) |
Hui-Ping Chen is working at Eli Lilly and Company as a Sr. Statistical Analyst. Besides study work, Hui-Ping Chen also ikes to maximize her programming skills on non-study work, such as using SAS to create Gantt Chart as project tracking tool. |
| Junliang Chen (Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc) |
Dr. Chen graduated from Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University in 2001. He then worked at PPD Inc for five years from Biostatistician to Principle Statistical Scientist. He joined Talecris Biotherapeutics Inc two years ago as a Manager of Biostatistics. |
| Wei Cheng (Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) |
Wei Cheng is presently a director of Biometrics Department at Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Carlsbad, California. He is serving on San Diego’s SAS Users Group (SANDS) Executive Committee as vice president and WUSS Executive Committee as User Group Liaison. He has contributed to SUGI, WUSS, and PharmaSUG as a paper presenter, section chair, and session coordinator. He is a SAS certified advanced programmer. |
| Chip C. Chhun (Allergan) |
8 Years of SAS experiences in Market Reseach, and 20 years of experiences in Pharmaceutical Industry. |
| William C. Csont (H.M. Proskin & Associates, Inc.) |
Bill has over 20 Years of experience working with healthcare data in many different environments. He received his Master of Public Administration with a Healthcare Emphasis from SUNY(pronounced: sue knee) Brockport in 1988. He has over 13 years of SAS programming experience and was primarily self-taught. He has presented session papers at NESUG and PharmaSUG on various topics. He currently is a Data Manager/Programmer for Howard M. Proskin and Associates, Incorporated, which is located in Rochester, NY. |
| Vince DelGobbo (SAS Institute) |
Vince DelGobbo is a Senior Systems Developer in the Web Tools group at SAS. This group is responsible for the SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher and SAS Stored Processes. He has worked on the HTML Formatting Tools, the SAS Design-Time Controls and the ExcelXP ODS tagset, and is developing new Web and server-based technologies, as well as integrating SAS output with Microsoft Office. Vince has been a SAS Software user since 1982, and joined SAS in 1992. |
| Frank C. DiIorio (CodeCrafters, Inc.) |
A SAS programmer since 1975, Frank DiIorio is President of CodeCrafters, Inc. and the author of "SAS Applications Programming: A Gentle Introduction" and "Quick Start to Data Analysis with SAS." A frequent presenter at local, regional, and international SAS user groups, he is past President of the SouthEast SAS Users Group, and co-chaired its 1994 and 1996 conferences. If he looks tired, it's because he's in the middle of a move. After living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina since 1974 he and his wife are relocating to Philadelphia later this month. |
| Robert A. Diseker (PPDI) |
Robby has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for three years with PPD in Wilmington, NC. His experience has been with phase 2 and 3 clinical trials and integration of these studies for FDA submissions. Before moving into the industry, Robby spent 5 years in Atlanta with Kaiser Permanente in health services research. He'd like to thank his wife and 2 boys for their continued support through all the challenges, late nights and frustrations that come with this competitive business. |
| Michael C. Doherty (i3DrugSafety) |
Michael Doherty works as an Epidemiology Ananlyst for i3 Drug Safety since 2005. Before that he worked for New England Research Institute as a Statistician for four years. Michael has been using SAS since he was a graduate student, giving him over 10 years of experience programming. This will be the first time he has presented a paper at a SAS Users Group meeting |
| Paul M. Dorfman (PDC) |
Paul started using SAS while pursuing a Ph.D. in computational plasma physics. Thereafter, he has worked as an Independent SAS Consultant in telops, banking, credit card, pharmaceuticals, and managed health care industries. When particularly idle, Paul delves into Data step implementations of high-performance sorting and searching. Over years, he has earned a number of honorable nicknames, such as “SasHole” from a group of COBOL bigots, “Most Valuable SAS-Ler” and “Hall-of-Famer” from SAS-L, and “Hash-Man” from SAS R&D. |
| David Duling (SAS Institute) |
David Duling is the software development manager for SAS/Enterprise Miner.
He has worked at SAS since 1996 developing various components for EM including
the process flow diagram, scoring functions, neural network, ensemble models,
and link analysis. David has degrees in Physics and Statistics and previously
worked from 1986 to 1996 for the National Institutes of Health developing and
publishing methods for numerical analysis simulations of magnetic resonance
spectroscopy. |
| David M. Escobar (Seattle Children's Hospital) |
David has been programming in SAS for 3.5 years and has 2.5 years of experience in clinical trial data management. He has a background in biochemistry and public health epidemiology and is a clinical data programmer with the Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Network Coordinating Center, based in Seattle, Washington. He enjoys finding innovative uses for SAS in streamlining data management processes in addition to supporting the analysis and reporting of phase I through phase III clinical trial data. In his free time David is an avid recreational athlete. |
| Ronald Fehd (Centers for Disease Control) |
Ronald Fehd has a B.S. in Computer Science, and has attended SAS User Group conferences since 1989. Since 1997 he has presented almost two dozen papers on macro usage, programming theory, and Hands On Workshops on list processing. He is the macro maven on SAS-L, the international online SAS listserve; to which he has posted over 4,000 messages since 1997. In 2001 and 2003 he was voted Most Valuable SAS-L Contributor. He is the author of several packages on the SAS Community wikipedia. His 20 years of SAS experience includes 17 years as a data manager; he is currently tech support for SAS on the HelpDesk at Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. |
| David W. Franklin (Indendent Consultant) |
David has over 22 years of SAS programming experience, the last 17 mainly being in the Pharmaceutical industry. |
| Tony Friebel (SAS Institute) |
Anthony "T" Friebel has logged more than twenty five years industry experience in computing disciplines and is currently the XML Strategist for SAS Platform R&D. He has been a participating member of the CDISC working groups since 1999, is the 2005 ODM Team Outstanding Achievement award winner, a principal contributor on the CDISC CRT-DDS (aka define.xml) standard, and was a technical member of the CDISC ADaM/SDTM Pilot Submission project team. T is also the principal developer of the SAS XML Libname Engine and the inventor of the SAS XMLMap technology. |
| VIKAS D. GADDU (I3 STATPROBE) |
Vikas is a senior statistical programmer at I3 Statprobe, with extensive experience in SAS. He has worked as SAS programmer in CRO and also in pharamaceutical companies. He is SAS Advanced programmer for SAS V9 and also Sun certified Java programmer. |
| Michelle M. Gayari (MMS Holdings) |
Michelle Gayari has 13 years experience as a clinical programmer in the medical and pharmaceutical industries. She has experience in delivering tables, listings, graphs and statistical analysis for Phase I-III trials. She has also created integrated databases and generated output to support submission documents. She has worked on several submissions in both the US and Europe. Michelle is currently Senior Manager of Clinical Programming at MMS Holding, Inc. in Canton, Michigan. |
| Annie Guo (ICON Clinical Research) |
Annie Guo is a senior applications developer at ICON Clinical Research. She has 13 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining ICON, she worked as an Oracle database administrator and developer in internet industry. Annie enjoys homestyle baking in her spare time. |
| Lara Guttadauro (i3 Statprobe) |
Lara Guttadauro is a senior statistical programmer for i3statprobe and has presented papers at PharmaSUG, MWSUG (mid-west) and CinSUG (Cincinnati). She has been programming with SAS for about 15 years and enjoys sharing SAS tricks with others. |
| JIAN (DANIEL) HUANG (FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE) |
Daniel Huang is currently a Senior SAS Programmer in Forest Laboratories Pharmaceutical, in NJ. He has 4 years experiences in SAS programming in pharmaceutical and clinical research industry. He has a B.S. degree of medicine from Shanghai Medical University and a M.S. degree of Epidemiology & Biostatistics from McGill University. Daniel has developed several macro programs which aim to reduce programming time, increase the output accuracy and improve the work efficiency. |
| Joseph J. Hantsch (Takeda Pharmaceuticals) |
JJ Hantsch is a senior statistical programmer at Takeda Pharamaceuticals with over 12 years of SAS experience. He has worked in all aspects of our industry: big pharma, small pharma, biotech, CRO, health economics and for a regulatory agency. He has lead numerous programming teams and both written and validated thousands of clinical trial tables, listings and graphs. |
| John He (Barr Laboratories) |
John He is currently working with Barr Labs as the manager of statistical programming. He has 13 years of experience of SAS programming. He has presented in SUGI, NESUG and PhilaSUG. He attended SAS user group meeting and conference regularly. |
| Dan Heath (SAS Institute) |
Dan Heath is a Systems Developer 4 with SAS Institute, Inc. He has been with the company over 11 years, working primarily on SAS/Graph and related software. |
| Dawn Hopper (SAS Institute) |
Dawn Hopper has been at SAS since 1998. She has worked with the SAS Global Certification Program during her entire career at SAS and has been instrumental in building the program from the ground up. Dawn holds a BSBA degree from East Carolina University, with a concentration in Marketing. She is married with 2 children and resides in Cary, NC. |
| Jade(xiqun) Huang (Merck & Co.) |
Jade Huang :Sr Scientific Programmer at Merck & Co., Inc. |
| John R. Iwaniszek (Stat-Tech Services, LLc) |
John Iwaniszek is Director of Programming and Study Services at Stat-Tech Services, LLc. He has worked in the field of Clinical trials for over 13 years. He has been a SAS programmer for over 19 years. His expertise is in production programming and developing software for efficient creation of tables, listings, figures, and statistical packages. He has promoted the use of CDISC data standards in analysis data set design and developed programming tools to exploit CDISC standards. |
| Lex Jansen (TAKE Solutions Inc.) |
Lex Jansen is a Senior Director, Clinical Information Systems at TAKE Solutions. He has 16 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry with excellent technical skills in SAS programming and systems integration. Special interests include SAS application development and implementing CDISC. His expertise is in integrating SAS with other leading technologies such as PDF, XML, Microsoft Office, to support electronic submissions. In Lex’s present role at TAKE Solutions Inc. his responsibilities include overseeing development of software product and processes around clinical data standards initiatives (CDISC). Additional responsibilities include developing the toolsets, processes, sales support efforts, client implementations and support. Lex maintains a website (www.lexjansen.com) that contains already more than 8000 links to papers that were presented at all major SAS User Group conferences (SAS Global Forum, PharmaSUG, NESUG, PhUSE, ...). |
| Meera G. Kumar (Sanofi-aventis) |
Meera Kumar has been involved with the Pharmaceutical industry for more than 10 years. She has worked with many leading companies and is an expert is SAS. Her interests include algorithms and mathematical analysis. Her approach to SAS programming is therefore driven not by just a need to write a working program but by an additional drive to design an elegant and computationally effective algorithm and code. She holds a Masters in Statistics from Rutgers University. She has presented at other conferences as well. |
| Madan G. Kundu (i3 Statprobe) |
Author is a biostatistician with 2 years of working experience and currently working in i3 Statprobe. Author has already one paper published with PharmaSUG in the last conference. |
| Adam LaManna (Howard Proskin and Associates, Inc.) |
A SAS user of 4 plus years, also keep active with SAS through participation in the local SAS users group (Genesee Valley SAS Users Group) where I am treasurer. When not programming, I play ice hockey, serve on two Boards for non-for-profit entities, and attend various functions with my wife Rachel. |
| Kirk Paul Lafler (Software Intelligence Corporation) |
Kirk Paul Lafler is consultant and founder of Software Intelligence Corporation and has been programming in SAS since 1979. As a SAS Certified Professional and SAS Institute Alliance Member (1996 – 2002), Kirk provides IT consulting services and training to SAS users around the world. As the author of four books including PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS (SAS Institute. 2004), he has written more than two hundred peer-reviewed papers and articles that have appeared in professional journals and SAS User Group proceedings. Kirk has also been an Invited speaker and trainer at more than two hundred SAS International, regional, local, and special-interest user group conferences and meetings throughout North America. His popular SAS Tips column, “Kirk’s Korner of Quick and Simple Tips”, appears regularly in several SAS User Group newsletters and Web sites, and his fun-filled SASword Puzzles are featured in SAScommunity.org and newsletters. |
| R. Scott Leslie (Medimpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.) |
Scott Leslie is a Health Outcomes Researcher for MedImpact Healthcare Systems, with 8 years of SAS experience in the pharmacy benefits and medical management field. Scott holds a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Loma Linda University. He has presented his research at local, regional, and international SAS conferences. |
| Shiqun Li (MiniMax Information Services) |
Stan has many years of SAS experience. He has advanced skills on SAS/Intrnet, SAS/Graph and SAS macro. He has served as a biostatistician and a data analyst/programmer for several health care industries and pharmaceutical companies. Currently, he is a consultant at Novartis, NJ. |
| Qin Lin (Applied Clinical Intelligence, LLC) |
Qin is a certified SAS programmer with more than 5 years of SAS programming experience. Currently, Qin is the Programming Project Lead in Applied Clinical Intelligence, LLC, Bala Cynwyd, PA.. She received M.S. in Management Information Systems from Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University. |
| Xiaoyu Liu (Novartis Oncology) |
Xiaoyu (Sean) Liu SAS programmer in Novartis Oncology, March 2006 - Present |
| Yanmei Lu (Datameans) |
M.S in Statistics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 09/01- 01/03. M.S in Applied Economics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 09/99 –10/02. |
| Melissa R. Martinez (Ba Research International LP) |
Melissa Martinez recently joined i3 Statprobe in Austin, Texas as a statistical programmer. Previously, she worked as the statistician and SAS programmer for Ba Research International - Cetero Research in Austin, Texas, where she performed statistical analysis of pharmaceutical research data and was responsible for all SAS programming and validation. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of Houston – Clear Lake with a degree in Mathematics. This is her third time attending PharmaSUG. |
| William F. McCarthy (MMRI) |
William McCarthy is a Principal Statistician at Maryland Medical Research Institute (MMRI). He is the head of Clinical Trial Statistics and SAS Programming. MMRI provides clients with innovated statistical and SAS programming solutions to complex problems generated by real-world clinical trial design and data analysis requirements. |
| Paul D. McDonald (PRA International) |
Paul D. McDonald, MBA, is a SAS Certified Professional and Senior Analysis Programmer at PRA International in Lenexa, Kansas. He can be reached by phone at (913) 410-2109 or by e-mail at mcdonaldpaul@praintl.com. |
| John Morrill (Celgene Corporation) |
John is a Manager of Statistical Programming at Pharmion in Overland Park, Kansas. He first used SAS in 1985 and has used it full-time in the pharmaceutical industry since 1998. |
| David Olaleye (SAS Institute) |
David Olaleye works as a Senior Analytical Consultant at SAS, and has fifteen years of experience providing SAS programming services, analytical modeling and statistical consulting services for life sciences and biomedical research companies. His areas of specialty and competence include clinical trial data analysis design and reporting, developing complex statistical algorithms for signal detection of adverse drug events, statistical routines for identifying trends and patterns in large clinical, vaccine and epidemiological databases. |
| Alexander (Sandy) H. Paternotte (PPD, Inc) |
Sandy Paternotte has been in various leadership positions over the last 20 years, from project leadership to staff management to recently more broadly scoped organizational, strategic, and leadership development responsibilities. Sandy worked in manufacturing for GE for 17 years until leaving in 2001 to pursue a career in the Pharmaceutical industry, joining PPD, Inc. where he works today as Director in PPD's global Biostatistics division. Sandy has over 12 years of SAS programming experience, and over 22 years of various programming language application development experience. |
| Joe Perry (Perry & Associates Consulting) |
Joe Perry has supported SAS development tasks in the the aerospace, telecommunications and biotech/pharmaceutical industries in support of a wide array of SAS and statistical tasks. He has spent 20 years developing applications using SAS AF and macro as well as performing a wide array of other programming tasks that use SAS products as diverse as SAS: OR, QC, STAT, GRAPH, AF and BASE. |
| David J. Polus (COMSYS) |
After long stints in the golf and automotive industries, Dave has spent the last 18+ years as a clinical SAS programmer. He's very proud to be part of the COMSYS family for the past five years, and is helping to get the COMSYS Clinical brand launched. |
| Abraham T. Pulavarti (Icon Clinical Research) |
Abraham Pulavarti is a SAS Programmer Analyst II at Icon Clinical Research. He has earned MBA from Pace University, New York and BS in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University, India. He is an experienced SAS user. |
| Lawrence Rasouliyan (ICON Clinical Research) |
Lawrence Rasouliyan is a Research Manager, Statistical Analysis at ICON Clinical Research. He has over 9 years of SAS experience in the management and analysis of observational and health-related data and has worked on a wide variety of disease and healthcare topics. Lawrence holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. |
| Dongmin Shen (Schering-Plough Corp) |
Dong-Min Shen has over 20 years of programming and database experiences. He is currently working as a Data Management Group leader in Pharmaceutical Science Division, Schering-Plough Research Institute. |
| Parag Shiralkar (Eliassen Group) |
Parag Shiralkar 1-330-256-1582, pshiralkar@gmail.com Professional Profile: • Strong knowledge of clinical reporting processes, and domains. Experienced clinical SAS® programmer for various types and phases of clinical trials. • Thorough understanding of various data standards, and familiarity with reporting system environment. Experience in managing programming staff, and ability to address technical and process related issues. • Education in statistics, business administration, management, and process improvement techniques. Certified CDISC® professional, and certified SAS® programmer. Professional Experience: Sr. Technical Manager: Current (Apr 2008)- Eliassen Group, New London, CT. Responsibilities: • Ensure adequate performance, timely delivery, and quality output of programming services delivered by teams of SAS programmers. • Develop management reporting tools, and models to analyze metrics components and to standardize and optimize the delivery processes. • Serve as a training manager and coordinator for IT issues associated with functional services programming staff. |
| Dimitri Shvorob (Vanderbilt University) |
Dimitri Shvorob is a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University, and extensively uses SAS for his dissertation research. Dimitri is a SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, and a winner of the 2007 SAS Student Ambassador competition. |
| Carey G. Smoak (Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.) |
Carey has more than 25 years’ experience using SAS. He currently works for Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. as a manager of SAS programmers. He is team leader of the CDISC SDTM Device sub-team and has given several presentations at PharmaSUG, SUGI, the Bay Area SAS Users Group and the Bay Area CDISC Network. |
| Dirk Spruck (Accovion) |
Dirk joined Accovion as a senior statistical Programmer in 2003 and was recently promoted to Head of Statistical Programming for Accovion, Marburg. He as over 15 years of experience with SAS in the pharmaceutical industry working on clinical trials phase I to IV. Dirk has been a steering committee member for the Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange - PhUSE - and chaired the annual PhUSE 2007 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Mirjana Stojanovic (Duke University Medical center) |
Mirjana Stojanovic works as an IT Analyst for the Cancer Center Biostatistics Department of Duke University Medical Center. She has been in her current position since September 2004. Her current responsibilities involve developing and maintaining a SAS macro library and SAS format library for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) cooperative clinical trials Statistical Center. Her programmer responsibilities include editing databases, preparing reports for ongoing clinical studies, and creating analysis files and patient summary reports. Ms. Stojanovic has Bachelor degree in Statistics and Computer Science from University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She worked more than 15 years at Statistics Serbia as Statistical Analyst. During that period she designed and implemented several statistical surveys mainly in the area of Labor Statistics. She also analyzed and presented results of those surveys to the clients in Serbian government. In the USA, she has worked as a SAS programmer for RTI, Parexel International, and UNC CH School of Nursing. She gained valuable experience using SAS software in three different areas (Survey, Clinical trials, and Education). She has attended many SAS seminars, SUGI, SESUG, and PharmaSUG conferences and has used opportunities to update her knowledge at several workshops. This is her second presentation at Pharmasug. Mirjana Stojanovic, IT Analyst 1314 Pebble Creek Crossing, Durham, NC 27713 E-mail: mirjana.stojanovic@duke.edu Web site: http://www.MirjanaStojanovic.com/ Phone: (919) 450-0554 home (919) 668-9337 work Contact Preference (Work/Home): Work Work Address and Phone: 2424 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705 Home Address and Phone: 1314 Pebble Creek Crossing, Durham, NC 27713 Phone: (919) 450-0554 home (919) 668-9337 work |
| Maura Stokes (SAS Institute) |
Maura Stokes is an R & D Director in the Statistical Applications Department. She is the development product manager for SAS/STAT software. She is the co-author of the SAS Press book Categorical Data Analysis Using the SAS System. Maura received her DrPH from the University of North Carolina in 1986 and has been working at SAS since 1985. |
| Michael F. Stout (DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company) |
Michael Stout works for a medical device company and has been using SAS software for over 15 years. He is currently working as the SAS Programming Team Lead at DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, where he manages a team of SAS programmers that support post-market and regulated clinical trials. |
| Brian K. Varney (COMSYS) |
Brian Varney has been a SAS consultant, trainer, and technical manager for over 17 years with the COMSYS Business Analytics Practice, a SAS Alliance Gold Member. Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he keeps busy with providing SAS training, consulting support and business development (plus a few hours a week for soccer). He has worked mostly in the Pharmaceutical industry but also has worked in industries such as medical device, manufacturing, insurance, entertainment and telecommunications. |
| Carol R. Vaughn (sanofi-aventis) |
Carol Vaughn has worked in the pharmaceutical industry in statistical programming for 12 years. She is currently a Manager in the Biostatistics and Programming Department for sanofi-aventis. Over the last several years she has worked extensively in preparing CDISC SDTM and ADaM compliant datasets, developing Define.xmls and annotating CRFs to SDTM. Carol earned a M.S. in Psychometrics from Stevens Institute of Technology. |
| Peter Villiers (SAS Institute) |
Peter Villiers is a senior software developer at SAS, and he has worked there for the last 12 years. He works in the Pharmaceutical Software Development group and is responsible for applying clinically relevant functionality to SAS's data integration software. Peter is also active within the CDISC organization and is a member of the ODM and CRT-DDS groups, as well as acting as a liaison with a CDISC FDA pilot. Prior to joining SAS, Peter worked for Boehringer Ingelheim UK Ltd where he was part of a team that built and supported a clinical data management system and a corporate adverse event reporting system. |
| Wei Xu (Boston Scientific) |
Over 11 years in clinical trials data analysis, with experience in data management and statistical (SAS) programming. Responsibilities include construction of SAS user data sets, implementation of statistical analyses, production of patient listings, summary tables, and annotated graphics. Have served as a lead statistical programmer, interacting with statisticians, data management, project management, and external clients. |
| Lin Yan (Merck & Co., Inc) |
Lin Yan has 8 years SAS programming experience for phase I /II/ III clinical trails in oncology, diabetes, cardiovascular, immunology, bone biology, neuroscience, … therapeutic areas. |
| Aiming Yang (Merck & Inc.) |
Aiming Yang is currently working at Merck & Co., Inc., as a Sr. Statistical Programmer. She holds PhD degree of Genetics and Statistics Masters' from Northern Illinois University, She has been using SAS since 1996. |
| Hamed Zahedi (University of Louisville) |
Hamed Zahedi has a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Esfahan in Iran and is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He has won an award to present his work at M2006, F2007 and SESUG 07 and is a 2007 SAS Student Ambassador. He is awarded a student scholarship to attend SESUG 2007. His dissertation work is focused on analytics in the healthcare industry. |
| Cynthia Zender (SAS Institute) |
Cynthia Zender has been with SAS since 1996 as an instructor and course developer. She currently serves as the Curriculum Manager for the Report Writing and Output Delivery System curriculum. She has over 20 years' experience programming and reporting with SAS in a number of different industries such as Education, Public Utility, Telecom, Litigation Support, and Research Support (clinical studies and survey analysis). |
| Jay Zhou (Amylin) |
Jay is a director of Statistical Programming at Amylin where he supervises a group of SAS programmers to support Clinical, Pre-clinical, Global Safety, Medical Affairs, Quality, and Regulatory. Jay has more than 16 years of SAS programming experience. He has contributed many papers to PharmaSUG conferences. |
| xingshu Zhu (Merck) |
Xingshu Zhu is a Statistical Programmer Analyst at Merck &Co. Inc. in Blue Bell. She has 8+ years of SAS programming experience in pharmaceutical industry. Prior to that, she worked in the academia doing research for several years. She received a M.S degree in Applied Statistics from Villanova University and a Ph.D degree in Molecular Science and Physics from Southern Illinois University. |
| vineet jain (Smith Hanley Consulting Group) |
Vineet Jain is a Statistical programmer with 2.5 year SAS programming experience in Pharmaceutical Industry and working with Smith Hanley Consulting Group as a consultant. He completed M.S. in Math & Stats in summer, 2005. Also, he is a SAS certified Advanced Programmer. |
| xinping c. wu (Baxter) |
Xinping Cindy Wu is a Sr. Statistical Analyst in Baxter BioScience, Baxter HealthCare International since July, 2003.Her expertise include Phase I, II and III clinical trial analysis, ISS and ISE experience, SAS/GRAPH, SQL, PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE, ODS OUTPUT, and DATA manipulation. |