scientific design, conduct, analysis & reporting of clinical trials

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David DeMets

David L. DeMets, PhD is currently Professor and former Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.  Since receiving his PhD in 1970, he has been active in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials in several disease areas.  He spent ten years (1972-1982) at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.  In 1982, he joined the University of Wisconsin and developed the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics.  He has co-authored four texts, Fundamentals of Clinical Trials, Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials: A Case Studies Approach and Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials: A Practical Perspective, and Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials.  He has served on numerous NIH and industry-sponsored Data Safety and Monitoring Committees for clinical trials in diverse disciplines.  He served on the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association, as well as having been President of the Society for Clinical Trials and President of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the Biometric Society.   In addition he was Elected Fellow of the International Statistics Institute in 1984, the American Statistical Association in 1986, the Association for the Advancement of Science in 1998, the Society for Clinical Trials in 2006 and the American Medical Informatics Association in 2008.

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