Expert Qualifications
This expert has decades of experience in pre-clinical through Phase IV research. Apart from standard statistical methods, he has special expertise in adaptive methods, recurrent event methods, experimental design, assays, mathematical modeling and simulation, data-mining and super-computer applications. As an independent statistician he serves on numerous data and safety monitoring boards and regularly interacts with FDA and EMA personnel on behalf of his clients. With more than 80 publications, book chapters, and presentations in the field of biostatistics, he is a consummate expert in the field who shares his expertise as an adjunct professor of biostatistics at a major southeastern university. Formerly, he served as a lecturer and professor in biostatistics at the University of Stockholm, where he earned his doctorate.
Bio Snapshot
- Location: NC
- BS, Stockholm's Samgymnasium
- BS, Business Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computing, University of Stockholm
- PhD, Statistics, University of Stockholm
- Former, Chair, Clinical Trials Methodology from a Statistical Point of View
- Former Chair, Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, Biostatistics and Data Management
- Former President, Swedish Society for Medical Statistics
- Chief Statistical Advisor to the Nobel Prize Committee for Medicine or Physiology, 1975 -1982.
- Member, Adverse Event Management Group, AstraZeneca's Clinical Information Systems
- Member and former Chair, Statistical Consulting, American Statistical Association
- Member, International Advisory Committee, University of North Carolina (Greensboro)
- Lecturer, Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences in statistical clinical trials methodology
- Recipient, Professional Mentor Recognition Award, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts
- Former, Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Stockholm
- Former, Senior Biostatistician, AstraZeneca
- Former, Director, Biostatistics, AstraZeneca
- Former, Director, Biostatistics and Data Management Division, PAREXEL International Corporation
- Former, Vice President, Biostatistics and Data Management Division, PAREXEL International Corporation
- Former, Head of the group for oncology and preclinical biostatistics, Amgen
- Former, Director, Biometrics, Clinical Development, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Former, Senior Director, Biometrics, Drug Evaluation and Approval, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Former, Director, Biometrics, Clinical Development, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Current, Adjunct Faculty Member and Professor of Biostatistics, a NC univeristy
- Current, Course Director of Biostatistics, a GA univerisity
- Current, President, a private biostatistic consultancy
