The Fourth Pacific Coast Statisticians and Pharmacometricians Innovation
Conference (PaSiPhIC) will be held in San Luis Obispo, California, on February
25 - 27, 2014.
The PaSiPhIC (Pacific Coast Statistician and Pharmacometrician Innovation
Conference) organizing committee is pleased to announce that registration is
now open. Registration fee includes lunches, Tuesday night banquet at Cafe Roma
in the historic Railroad Square, and daily on-campus parking. Students and
professional discounts are available. In addition, the PaSiPhIC organizing
committee is pleased to announce that poster submission is now open. We are
happy to see original pieces of work as well as encore posters.
As previously announced, our keynote speakers will be David Madigan, Professor
and Chair, Department of Statistics, Columbia University and Malcolm Rowland,
Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester. Registration includes two
extended tutorial lectures. The first one, "Meta-analysis in the 21st Century:
New Methodologies & Applications", will be delivered by I. Elaine Allen, PhD,
Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at UCSF, Mentor in Quantitative
Biosciences at UCSF and Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Entrepreneurship
at Babson College. The second one, "Monte Carlo Methods for Modeling and Data
Analysis" will be offered by Steven Kathman, PhD, with the Medical Sciences
Biostatistics Department at Amgen.
With the tutorials, the program will contain a mix of scientific sessions to
"narrow the distribution between stochastic scientists by bringing
Statisticians and Pharmacometricians together". Our committee selected several
relevant topics, among which: literate programming/dynamic report generation;
mixed-effects modeling of biomarker and efficacy data; imaging; QT interval
assessment methods; quantitative system biology; biosimilars; multi-criteria
decision analysis in comparing a new therapeutic to the competition;
physiologically-based pharmacokinetic models; exposure response analysis in
oncology.
Whether you are a practicing pharmacometrician, a card-carrying statistician,
or otherwise interested in PaSiPHIC, please plan to join us in the magnificent
scenery of Central California to share and listen to the latest drug discovery
and development science in an informal and vibrant setting - stay tuned!
For more information, bookmark: http://www.pasiphic.calpoly.edu and contact:
Brian Smith: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, Carl Peck:
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with your suggestions.