Careers Committee

Careers Director: Kimberley Hacquoil

The objective of the Careers Committee is to provide career related events and topics for statisticians and programmers within the pharmaceutical industry.

Explore content created by the Careers Committee by visiting our homepage.

The committee is split into sub-committees that each have their own areas of focus. Read about each committee below.

 

Careers and Academic Liaison Committee (CALC)

Chair: Amanda Darekar

The Careers and Academic Liaison Committee (CALC) focus on providing events and content related to university outreach activities. Through working directly with universities and students, we provide information to individuals interested in careers as either statisticians or statistical programmers within the industry. 

Our activities include:

  • Organising careers events for university students (MEDMathS and the PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event)
  • Publishing a twice-yearly student newsletter
  • Providing student placement information
  • Awarding annual undergraduate student prizes
  • Developing and publicising the Medical Statistics Apprenticeship
  • Giving careers talks at universities
  • Attending regional and national careers events
  • Raising awareness of general issues such as cuts to MSc funding
  • Working with other organisations such as the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)

We are always on the lookout for people to help with our initiatives, for example giving a university careers talk or writing a profile about working in the industry. If you are interested in becoming involved in any of our activities and can spare even just a little bit of time, please get in touch with any of the committee.

If you have any careers related questions please feel free to contact us at careers@psiweb.org.

The committee meet 4 times a year to discuss current topics and agenda items.  

 

Schools Outreach Committee

Chair: Emma Crawford

The Schools Outreach Committee focuses on encouraging and supporting PSI members to engage in Schools Outreach activities. By empowering our PSI members with materials to take into schools, as well as fostering collaborations with relevant STEM engagement organisations, we aim to promote the opportunities of working in numerate careers in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry and hopefully inspire the future workforce to continue with their studies in STEM subjects. 

Our activities include:

  • Promoting benefits of engaging in school outreach activities
  • Raising awareness of numerate careers in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry
  • Facilitating an incentive program to reward PSI members that engage in outreach
  • Maintaining a knowledge library of materials to take into schools
  • Developing and running interactive workshops for schools
  • Attending and organising regional and national STEM events
  • Fostering collaborations with relevant STEM engagement organisations

If you have any schools outreach related questions please feel free to contact us at careers@psiweb.org.

You can find more about Schools Outreach here.

 

PSI Introduction to Industry Training (ITIT) Committee

Chair: Zelie Bailes

The ITIT committee organise the yearly Introduction to Industry Training course (ITIT), which has been running for over 30 years. We work with various companies to give statisticians and statistical programmers new to the pharmaceutical industry an overview of the industry and the complete drug development process.

Our activities include:

  • Organising the ITIT course each year, which consists of 6 separate 2-day sessions throughout the year.

We are always on the lookout for contacts across the industry who may be able to support the course by hosting a session. If you are interested in learning more about hosting a session, please reach out to any of the committee members.

If you have any questions, you can contact the ITIT chair Zelie Bailes at zelie.a.bailes@gsk.com

You can find more information on the ITIT course here.

Upcoming Events

PSI VisSIG Wonderful Wednesday Webinar Series (2023)

Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.

PSI Webinar: Application of Bayesian Methods in Confirmatory Trials

This webinar consists of three presentations providing examples of where Bayesian methods have been used within confirmatory settings.

PSI Launch & Lifecycle SIG Webinar: Do you want to stay single? Considerations on single arm trials in the post-regulatory space

We will present the most frequently asked questions in the post-marketing space, the reasons why SATs are not able to address these questions, and how statisticians might reasonably influence decision makers to consider alternatives.

PSI Training Course: Missing Data

This course will introduce participants to the key concepts and methods relevant for analysing clinical trials when some data are missing.

PSI Scientific Meeting: Patient-focused drug development

The meeting will consider the importance of patient-centric input into regulatory and HTA decision-making discussing the latest developments in the field and presenting industry examples.

PSI Book Club

The next book we are reading is "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey. This is a classic in the personal development genre.

PSI Pre-Clinical SIG Webinar: Adjusting Experimental & Statistical Approaches throughout Preclinical development pathways

PD Dr. Tölch will present a framework to foster efficient evidence generation in preclinical experiments and will illustrate the proposed approach using examples from various projects. This will be followed by Q&A.

PSI Vaccine SIG Webinar: A Vaccine Statistician’s Journey in Designing and Analyzing Monoclonal Antibody Studies

Our speaker will share her experience in extending/innovating methodology and concepts developed in vaccine statistics to the analyses of pre-efficacy and efficacy trials of monoclonal antibodies.

PSI Careers - MEDMathS: Medicine Empowered by Data, Maths and Statistics

A careers talk about medical statistics and how it plays a crucial role in developing new medicines

PSI Journal Club: Bayesian Approaches in Efficacy and Safety

Please join us to hear Kristian Brock and Ying Yuan present their recent work for our next Journal Club webinar, as sponsored by Wiley.

PSI Training Course: Sample Sizing for Clinical Trials

This course describes calculations for sample size estimation in the design of clinical trials. It will highlight how the objectives of a clinical trial will impact on sample size calculations. The course is a practical course and all methods will be illustrated with examples and case studies.

PSI Biomarkers SIG Webinar: A promising adaptive biomarker-based design strategy for early phase and machine learning as an enabler of precision medicine!

In this webinar, you will get to know how an innovative adaptive design can increase the probability of success of your early phase clinical trial as well as hear the latest and greatest of the Machine Learning workstream from the Biomarkers ESIG.

PSI Scientific Meeting: Master Protocols - Industry, Academic, and Regulatory Perspectives

This one-day event will establish a forum to engage with colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds who are actively working on effective master protocol design, analysis, and execution.

PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event

This event is aimed at students with an interest in the field of Medical Statistics, for example within pharmaceuticals, healthcare and/or medical research.

PSI Career Young Virtual Meet (Q4 2023)

This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.

PSI Webinar(s): Causal inference in Clinical Trials

Over the course of two sessions, a panel of 8 esteemed speakers will give an introduction to the topic, followed by a presentation of case studies & interactive panel discussion.