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| Sunil Gupta and Mandyam Srirama at Quintiles offer guidance on making the most of training for statistical programmers
For the past few years, pharmaceutical and biotech industries have enjoyed healthy growth that has created a unique opportunity for SAS programmers. Not only did the industry demand an increase in numbers of these skilled personnel, there were also new requirements for more advanced statistical programming skills for tasks such as the identification of difficult study-related data issues, and the programming and validation of more complex tables, lists and graphs. With a severe shortage of SAS programmers with clinical knowledge, experience and an abundance of skilled SAS programmers from other fields, pharmaceutical companies and CROs needed to re-evaluate their staff orientation and training programmes to better meet the needs of the new environment. |
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Sunil K Gupta is the Associate Director of Statistical Programming at Quintiles in Thousand Oaks, CA. He has been using SAS® software for over 14 years and is a SAS Base Certified Professional. He was the programme chair for the Western Users of SAS Software conference in 1998 and a speaker at numerous SAS User Group International and regional conferences as well as corporations. Sunil has over 50 publications to his name, and, in addition, he teaches the SAS course Best Practices in SAS Statistical Programming for Regulatory Submission.
MK Srirama, Senior Director, Biostatistics at Quintiles in Thousand Oaks, has over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and CRO industry. Prior to joining Quintiles in 2004, Srirama had an extensive career with Warmer-Lambert/Parke-Davis, where he held several positions of increasing responsibility in their Biometrics Division, ultimately serving as Director of Biostatistics. In addition, he also previously worked for over six years for a leading CRO in establishing and growing its Biostatistics Department. Dr Srirama has a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of California, US. |
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