Dear Colleagues,
The JSM 2012 in San Diego is soon approaching, so it is our pleasure to invite you to attend our upcoming invited panel session at this conference - "Solo Consulting: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".
The session will take place on Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM in Room 31A of the San Diego Convention Centre (CC), located at 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101.
The session will feature the following distinguished panelists: - William B. Fairley, Analysis & Inference, Inc.
- David Ray Bristol, Statistical Consulting Services Inc.
- MaryJo O. Smith, Ypsilon Associates
- Michael Chernick , Lankenau Institute for Medical Research
- Heather Krause, Datassist
Biographical sketches of each panelist are enclosed at the end of this e-mail. Please make a note of the e-mail address of each panelist in case you would like to follow up with them after the session.
The abstract for our invited panel session is as follows:
"Solo statistical consultants are the first to admit that this profession has its fair share of the good, the bad and the ugly. The good aspects of solo consulting touch on continued professional growth, building rewarding and enriching relationships with clients and colleagues and achieving professional success. The bad aspects include uncertainty regarding the source of the next project and the burden of professional or personal isolation. The ugly aspects tap into client conflicts, project failures and ethical disputes. This session will provide an honest yet constructive look into all three aspects of statistical consulting by means of personal stories, experiences, insights and advice shared by the seasoned panel members. Regardless of whether or not they are sole practitioners, consultants attending this session will walk away feeling that they are not alone in experiencing the three facets of statistical consulting and knowing that they could immediately adopt some steps to enhance their chances of experiencing the good side of consulting and minimize the risk of experiencing the downside of consulting."
The session is featured in the online JSM Program at http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2012/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=303833.
We are looking forward to seeing you at our session in San Diego and to receiving any questions you might have related to this session!
Sincerely,
Isabella R. Ghement, Ph.D.
Session Chair for the Invited Panel Session "Solo Consulting: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", JSM 2012
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Biographical Sketches of Panelists
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Will Fairley
E-mail: wfairley@analysisandinference.com
Will Fairley was a founder of Analysis & Inference, Inc. in 1979. Since then he has worked solo at times, but through the firm, and more often with partners and/or staff, sometimes out of his house and more often from offices. Today his partner, Alan Salzberg, who is also the CEO, works from New York and Will from Philadelphia.
Will has a PhD in statistics from Harvard. Fred Mosteller was his thesis adviser on the topic, "Roots of Random Polynomials." He taught statistics and worked in state government before starting Analysis & Inference. The firm consults for a varied clientele of business, government, and law firms. He has published over forty articles in applied statistics and been active in ASA.
David Ray Bristol
E-mail: drbris1@gmail.com
David Bristol has been an independent consultant (currently as President, Statistical Consulting Services, Inc.) for more than 8 years and was a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry for over twenty years, at various companies. Most recently he was Director of Biostatistics and Statistical Programming at Purdue Pharma in Cranbury NJ. Previously he was Director of Biometrics at Parke-Davis (now Pfizer) in Ann Arbor MI, after having positions of increasing responsibility at four other companies. He has served as President of the Princeton-Trenton Chapter of the ASA and served as Treasurer and on the Program and Symposium Committees for the NJ Chapter of ASA for several years during the 1990s. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 statistical articles, primarily on clinical trials methodology.
MaryJo O. Smith
E-mail: drmaryjosmith@gmail.com
Dr. MaryJo O. Smith received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Evaluation, Statistics, and Research Design from the University of Minnesota in 1999. She has a Master of Education degree in Adult, Higher, and Community Education from Montana State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Administrative Management Sciences and Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University. Since 1999, MaryJo has been the Senior Research Scientist and co-founder of Ypsilon Associates. She specializes in Evaluation, Statistics, and Research Design. Additionally, MaryJo is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with the Master of Science in Technical Management (MSTM) program. For fourteen years, she worked in the computer field, from programmer to director of data processing. Her varied background allows her to think holistically thereby allowing the programs that she supports to grow in areas that are important to their organization.
Michael Chernick
E-mail: ChernickM@MLHS.ORG
Dr. Chernick received his PhD in statistics from Stanford University in 1978. He has worked his entire career in industry but has also done part-time teaching and currently teaches an online course on the bootstrap at statistics.com. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a member of the International Biometrics Society, the Royal Statistical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society. He has published two editions of his book "Bootstrap Methods" and has authored or coauthored two introductory biostatistics books and "An Introduction to Bootstrap Methods with Applications to R". These books were published by Wiley. He currently is under contract with Naum Khutoryansky to publish a text on adaptive designs. All these books are published by Wiley. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Editorial Board member for the Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operations Research and has published over 40 articles on statistics and statistical research in medicine and engineering. He has worked in the aerospace industry, insurance business, done energy research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and for the last 17 years worked on clinical trials for medical device and pharmaceutical companies. At the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Dr. Chernick provides statistical support for clinical trials in oncology, cardiology and electrophysiology as well as providing input to grant proposals to the Sharpe-Strumia Foundation and the National Institutes of Health in support of advanced research methods with animal models and molecules. He also has his own private consulting business.
Heather Krause
E-mail: heather@datassist.ca" target="_blank">heather@datassist.ca
Heather Krause is a professionally trained statistician with years of working on complex research problems for nonprofit and ngo organizations. She has a graduate degree in statistics and an honours degree in quantitative sociology. Her emphasis is on combining strong statistical analysis with clear and meaningful communication.
She is a member in good standing of the American Statistical Association, the Statistical Society of Canada, the Caucus for Women in Statistics, the Canadian Evaluation Society and the American Evaluation Association.
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Isabella Ghement
Ghement Statistical Consulting Co.
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