Registration Open for PaSiPhIC

1st Annual PaSiPHIC (Pacific Coast Statisticians and Pharmacometricians Innovation Conference) -- Narrowing the distribution between stochastic scientists by bringing Statisticians and Pharmacometricians together Event Dates: Monday June 14 - Wednesday June 16 City: San Luis Obispo State: California Country: USA To find out more and register please visit our web site www.calpoly.edu/~pasiphic Keynote Speakers: Joga Gobburu - Director of Pharmacometrics at the Food and Drug Administration Stephen Senn - Professor at the University of Glasgow Department of Statistics Traditionally, biostatistics has played a central role in assuring validity of pharmaceutical testing by formalizing the rigorous empirical analysis, summarization and statistical interpretation of experimental and observational data. The emerging science of pharmacometrics, building on the biostatistical traditions, provides additional powerful approaches for mechanistic quantification of the various aspects of drug therapy, including efficacy, safety, clinical pharmacology, variability among patients and the influence of pharmacotherapy on disease progress. Both statistics and pharmacometrics interface with other scientific areas such as biology and physiology, engineering, mathematics and computer science and, while sharing several commonalities between themselves, they have evolved as complementary disciplines. The purpose of this conference is to provide statisticians and pharmacometricians a forum to share pertinent information concerning the application of these disciplines to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and translational research in biomedical sciences. The conference will include both introductory and advanced information, appropriate for both beginners and experts. The preliminary program includes brief tutorials on the sciences of statistics and pharmacometrics, as well as scientific sessions organized by experts in the field, including: Benefits from Pharmacometrics; Drug Safety and Pharmacometrics; Inference from Multiple Data Sources; Handling Incomplete Information; Impact of Emerging Technologies on PK-PD; Case Studies: Pharmacometricians and Statisticians Working in Partnership; Increasing Flexibility in Model Building; and Career Development for Pharmacometricians and Statisticians. Participants will be able to choose to attend 2 of 4 brief tutorials (each 3 hours in length.) Instructors for these tutorials include A Statistics Primer for Pharmacometricians (or Things You May Have Missed in Your Statistics Education That May Be Useful) Brian Smith - Biostatistics Director, Amgen, Inc. Mechanistic Drug Concepts for Clinical Trials Carl Peck, MD - Adj. Professor UCSF; Chairman NDA Partners Pharmacometrics for Statisticians Brenda Cirincione - Director Pharmacometrics, Amylin Stochastic Methods in Pharmacometrics Serge Guzy, Ph.D. - President, CEO, POP_PHARM; Inc. Rada Savic - Stanford Registrants will receive 2 continental breakfasts, 3 lunches, and 1 dinner. The registration fee will be $399. A minimum of 50 registrants are needed by May 1st to ensure that the conference will take place. Organizing Committee: Andrew Chow, Brenda Cirincione, Charles DuMond, Ying Lu, Carl Peck, Mark Peterson, Bob Smidt, Brian Smith, Chi-Hse Teng, Paolo Vicini, and Ouhong Wang Contact Brian Smith for more details Phone: 805 447-1378 Email: [email protected]