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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. 

Q4 Meeting

11/18/2024 from 6 - 9 PM

The Duck Club, Irvine, CA

RSVP to the Q4 meeting here!

Secretary

• Create and distribute Chapter meeting minutes.
• Distribute via email Chapter newsletters, election reports, event announcements and, as requested by the President, other information/materials (e.g., ASA Chapter Chatter, job advertisement) of relevance or interest to Chapter members.
• Support logistical planning and ensure smooth activities of all Chapter-organized events.

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 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 2025 Biostatistics Symposium.

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

When: February 21 & 22, 2025

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

Pamela Hsu

We are excited to announce Pamela Hsu as the winner of 2024 Robert Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter award!  Pam exemplifies the 3-plank mission of the Chapter to receive this honor. 

She has been a Chapter member for the last 10 years and part of the Executive Committee for more than 6 years. She has played a role in almost every aspect of our Chapter activities including the planning and organizing of events. Moreover, she was the Chapter VP of Membership and has also significantly contributed to the upkeep of the Chapter website for many years. 

In contribution to the statistical community service mission, she has continuously supported logistics for one of our largest events, Careers Day, by manning registration, reviewing resumes, and mentoring.

Pam is one of the pioneers of the Orange County Biostatistics Symposium that started in 2019.  She was the Chair of the Data Science section at multiple events and was instrumental in organizing these symposiums. She was involved in event promotion, bringing in sponsorship, speakers, developing brochures, preparation of registration materials, and much more.

Regarding her academic achievements, Pam has been in senior leadership roles in various pharmaceutical companies and has supported development and approval of multiple drugs by quality clinical data analysis and regulatory submissions. 

Pam has had a major positive impact on our Chapter for a decade and is a model chapter member. We are honored by her enthusiasm and commitment to our mission!

NOTE:

The Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter Award was established in 2017 through the efforts of our most recent past president, Dr. Gajanan Bhat. The Fellow of the Chapter is named after the first president of the OCLBASA Chapter, Dr. Robert “Bob” L. Newcomb. The Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter Award aims to recognize outstanding member contributions toward the Chapter’s Mission.

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)

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