PaSiPhIC 2014: Second Announcement, Plenary Speakers and Short Courses The Fourth Pacific Coast Statisticians and Pharmacometricians Innovation Conference (PaSiPhIC) will be held in San Luis Obispo, California, on February 25 - 27, 2014. The organizing committee has been working hard to put together another excellent program for next year's meeting. Conference registration now includes two extended tutorial lectures as part of the program. The first one, "Meta-analysis in the 21st Century: New Methodologies & Applications", will be delivered by I. Elaine Allen, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at UCSF, Mentor in Quantitative Biosciences at UCSF and Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Entrepreneurship at Babson College. The second one, "Monte Carlo Methods for Modeling and Data Analysis" will be offered by Steven Kathman, PhD, with the Medical Sciences Biostatistics Department at Amgen. We have previously announced that our keynote speakers will be David Madigan, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, Columbia University and Malcolm Rowland, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester. With the tutorials, the program will contain a mix of scientific sessions to "narrow the distribution between stochastic scientists by bringing Statisticians and Pharmacometricians together". Our committee selected several relevant topics, among which: literate programming/dynamic report generation; mixed-effects modeling of biomarker and efficacy data; imaging; QT interval assessment methods; quantitative system biology; biosimilars; multi-criteria decision analysis in comparing a new therapeutic to the competition; physiologically-based pharmacokinetic models; exposure response analysis in oncology. Please contact us (http://www.pasiphic.calpoly.edu/committee.html) with topics that interest you or if you would like to volunteer as a speaker for the themes listed above. Whether you are a practicing pharmacometrician, a card-carrying statistician, or otherwise interested in PaSiPHIC, please plan to join us in the magnificent scenery of Central California to share and listen to the latest drug discovery and development science in an informal and vibrant setting - stay tuned! For more information, bookmark: http://www.pasiphic.calpoly.edu and contact: Brian Smith: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, Carl Peck: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with your suggestions.
