Leadership-in-Practice Committee (LiPCom)

Purpose

  • Provide visibility to existing leadership development initiatives within the Biopharmaceutical Section (BIOP)
  • Promote and enable interactive leadership development training programs
  • Bridge the gap between BIOP leadership development programs and other ASA leadership initiatives

Documents

Current Members 

  • Veronica Bubb
  • Andy Chi
  • Abie Ekangaki
  • Lisa Chiacchierini Lupinacci
  • Rakhi Kilaru
  • Qing Li
  • Yabing Mai (2026)
  • Claude Petit (2024)
  • Shanthi Sethuraman
  • Vincent Tan
  • Hongwei Wang
  • Richard C. Zink (2025)

Activities

Year

Conference

Type

Session Name

Participants

 

 

 

 

 

2025

SIP

PA

Panel on How to Join/Explore Pharma

Claude Petit

 

JSM

SC

Quick-thinking, Confident, Communicative, and Collaborative: Fundamentals of Applied Improvisation for (Bio)Statisticians and Data Scientists

Richard Zink

 

LiPCom

W

It is Never too Early to Think About Statistical Leadership

Richard Zink

 

DISS

SC

Quick-thinking, Confident, Communicative, and Collaborative: Fundamentals of Applied Improvisation for (Bio)Statisticians and Data Scientists

Richard Zink

 

 

 

 

 

2024

NIC/ICSA

S

Are You a Statistical Leader?

Claude Petit, Yabing Mai, Jennifer Sugg, Hongwei Wang

 

RISW

PS

Statistical Leadership in the AI/ML Space

Simon Davies, Abie Ekangaki, Haoda Fu, Meng Hu, Claude Petit

 

BIOP

W

It is Never too Early to Think About Statistical Leadership

Richard Zink

 

SIP

PA

Panel on How to Join/Explore Pharma

Qiqi Deng, Dacheng Liu, Steve Gilbert, Tony Jiang, Claude Petit, Lei Wang, Thomas Zhou

 

JSM

RT

Statistical Leadership in the AI/ML Space

Abie Ekangaki

 

LiPCom

WS2

Workshop in Applied Improvisation in Leadership and Communication (Raleigh, NC)

Jill Eickmann, Rakhi Kilaru, Richard Zink

 

LiPCom

W

Leading Oneself, Leading Others, Leading an Organization

Shanthi Sethuraman

 

 

 

 

 

2023

NIC/ICSA

PL

Will AI Change the Future of Biostatisticians?

Claude Petit

 

BPSS

PO

Introducing LiPCom

Andy Chi, Vincent Tan

 

JSM

SC

Communication for Impact

Shanthi Sethuraman

 

ENAR

PA

Foundational Leadership Skill Development for Early Career Professionals

Veronika Bubb, Yu Du, Kelly Huang, Claude Petit, Kentaro Takeda, Liwen Wu

 

 

 

 

 

2022

JSM

SC

An Outstanding Supervisor: Leading for Motivation, Innovation, and Retention

Shanthi Sethuraman

 

 

 

 

 

2020

RISW

SC

Statistical Leadership: From Concepts to Practice

Veronica Bubb, Abie Ekangaki, Rakhi Kilaru, Lisa Chiacchierini Lupinacci

 

 

 

 

 

IS: Invited Session, PA: Panel, PL: Plenary, PO: Poster, PS: Parallel Session, RT: Roundtable, S: Session, SC: Short Course, TH: Town Hall, W: Webinar, WSX: X-hour Workshop.

BPSS: Boston Pharmaceutical Statistics Symposium, DISS: Duke-Industry Statistics Workshop, ENAR: Eastern North American Region of International Biometric Society, JSM: Joint Statistical Meetings, NIC: Northeastern Illinois Chapter, RISW: Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop, SIP: Statistics in Pharmaceuticals.

Past Members

  • Emily Butler

Past Chairs

  • Yabing Mai, 2026
  • Richard C. Zink, 2025
  • Claude Petit, 2024
  • Veronica Bubb, 2023
  • Rakhi Kilaru, 2022
  • Lisa Chiacchierini Lupinacci, 2021
  • Abie Ekangaki, 2019-2020