The Future of the Education of Clinical Trial Statisticians What Changes are Needed?

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The Future of the Education of Clinical Trial
StatisticiansWhat Changes are Needed?

• Distinguished Panel
• Christy Chuang-SteinBob ONeillKarl PeaceJanet
  WittesMarvin Zelen

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Evolution

• Role of the statistician
• Technical ? Strategic
• Statistical methodology development
• Impact of powerful computing
• Theory ? simulation
• Automation should not replace critical thought
• Application of new methods
• Impact in areas beyond analyses (where most
  formal training resides)
• Design, monitoring, interpretation, reporting
• Need for more effective communication with
  non-statisticians
• Whats the question?
• Communicating important concepts
• Need for more medical/biological knowledge
• E.g., genomics

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Issues for Discussion

• Training Leaders
• Evolution of regulatory processes in China,
  Japan, and other places