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The primary purpose of the Orange County/Long Beach Chapter (OCLBASA) shall be to sponsor educational, professional, and scientific activities that benefit professional statisticians and students of statistics in the Orange County/Long Beach area. In parallel, this Chapter will devote itself to fostering the growth and development of the area’s statistical community and developing collaborative relationships with other scientific and educational organizations. Furthermore, this Chapter will work to develop a greater level of statistical awareness in the general public. Finally, as a chartered member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), this Chapter shall share the purposes of the ASA as defined in the Association's Constitution. 

Click to download: Orange County/Long Beach Chapter's Constitution and Mission Statements. 

Clinical Research Mini-Symposium

9/24/2026 from 9 AM - 1 PM

The Duck Club

15 Riparian View, Irvine, CA 92612

Webmaster

• Maintain this website and update its contents on a regular basis
• Help maintain the Chapter's social media accounts
• Attend Chapter’s Executive Committee and Leadership Council meetings

Chair of the Chapter Section on Statistical Education 

• Preside at meetings of the Chapter’s Section on Statistical Education.
• Collaborate with the VP for Academic Affairs for the planning and implementation of the annual High School AP Statistics Posters Competition.
• Assess the need and interest of OCLB area statistical educators to determine how the chapter may be more useful resource for four-year university, community college, and high school teachers of Statistics.

Newsletter Editor

• Publish Chapter Newsletters at minimum on a quarterly basis.
• Collect event report and photos from the leader of each event for newsletter.
• Attend Chapter’s Executive Committee and Leadership Council meetings

The Symposium is a 2-day event. It offers a great opportunity to socialize with fellow biostatisticians and hear from leading statistical and pharmaceutical/medical device experts from industry, academics and regulatory agencies on their experience and practice of bringing innovation to the development of drugs and devices. The symposium focuses on topics related to the latest landscape of drug/device development advances in methodology and applications related to complex innovation trial design. The Symposium also focuses on recent advances in the application of AI/ML methodologies in drug development. In addition, academic researchers and students will present their research on the above topics.

 For more information, please visit the official Symposium website.

Where: Renaissance Newport Beach Hotel - 4500 MacArthur Boulevard, Newport Beach, California, USA, 92660

When: February 24-26, 2027

Who should attend: Statisticians, Statistical Analysts/Programmers, Clinical Research Professionals, Clinical Trial personnel, Regulatory Affairs associates, academic researchers, students, or anyone interested in learning more about drug development and regulatory aspects.

How to register: TBD

Sincerely,

Gajanan Bhat

Chair, 2024 OC Biostatistics Symposium Committee

The Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter Award recognizes lifetime contributions to the OCLBASA Chapter's three-plank mission of Community Development, Career Development, and Academic Development. The award is named after the founding president of the Chapter, Dr. Robert "Bob" L. Newcomb. It was established in 2017 through the efforts of Dr. Gajanan Bhat.

Below is a list of the past awardees of the Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter:

1. Dr. Thomas Lin (awarded in January 2018)

2. Dr. Madeline Bauer (awarded in January 2019)

3. Mr. Harry Hiner (awarded in December 2019)

4. Dr. Gajanan Bhat (awarded in December 2020)

5. Dr. Michael Fahy (awarded in May 2022) 

6. Ms. Lindsay Brock (awarded in April 2023)

7. Mrs. Pamela Hsu (awarded in May 2024)

8. Dr. Harold Dyck (awarded in January 2025)

9. Dr. Dwight Wynne (awarded in July 2026) 

We are launching our Chapter's newest program: Online Practice Interviews. These interviews are based on the popular mock interviews at the Chapter's annual Careers Day for several years. We are offering three kinds of interviews.

• An interview based on one of three mock job descriptions (in Biostatistics, Business Analytics, and Data Science),
• If an interviewee is seeking a specific position and can provide the associated job description, we shall work to arrange an online practice interview based on that job description.
• If an interviewee is simply interested in one of a variety of professional roles in which statisticians are frequently employed and wants to learn more about the nature of that work, we shall work to arrange a conversation with someone with experience in at least one of those roles.

We have volunteer interviewers from Data Science, Biostatistics, Business Analytics, and Market Research.

If you can benefit from such an interview, please submit your request at
https://www.hinerpartners.com/surveys/ASAAAP/login.html

Volunteers support all Chapter activities. If you or someone you know would be willing to volunteer as an online practice interviewer, please have that person complete our Online Interview Volunteer Survey at

https://www.hinerpartners.com/surveys/ASAVAP/login.html