2020 Orange County Biostatistics Symposium
Date: 13-14 Mar 2020
Title: Leveraging Data to Shape the Future of Clinical Development
Venue: Allergan Auditorium, 2525 Dupont Drive, Irvine, CA
This 2-day symposium is a great opportunity to hear from leading statistical and clinical experts from industry and FDA on the experience and practice of leveraging data in decision making for clinical development in drug and devices. The symposium focuses on topics such as real-world data backed clinical development, new FDA initiatives such as 21st century cures act, master protocols and innovative trial design, real-world data analytics and machine learning, regulatory submission data preparation, etc. Day 2 includes a Bayesian mini-symposium and focuses on academic-industry collaboration in new methodology, research efforts and provides an opportunity for new graduates to learn industry transition from academics.
Key speakers: Lisa LaVange, Former FDA/UNC; Rob Scott, Abbvie; Donald Berry, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Ivan Chan, Abbvie; Dan Jeske, UCR, Susan Jerian, Oncord
Program Overview:
Day 1: 8 - 12AM – Keynote session and panel discussions; 1 – 5PM – Invited and contributed topics in clinical/statistics and data science/analytics
Day 2: 8 - 10:30AM – Industry-Academic Collaboration; 10:30AM – 1:30PM – Bayesian mini-symposium in honor of Jim Press; 12:30 – 2PM Student Research
For more information on what the symposium focuses on, please listen to the podcast with symposium chair and co-chairs using the link below.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOzVKfStayg
Podbean: https://podofasclepius.podbean.com/e/s01-bonus-episode-leveraging-data-for-clinical-development-the-oc-biostatistics-symposium/
(It's also available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Podchaser.)
Registration: Space is limited, Please visit
OCLBASA website for program details and registration (
community.amstat.org/oclb/events/calendar)------------------------------
(on behalf of)
Gajanan Bhat, PhD
Chair, Section on Biopharmaceutical Statistics, OCLBASA
Vice President, Clinical Science/BDM, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
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Glen Wright Colopy
DPhil Oxon
Data Scientist at Cenduit LLC, Durham, NC
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