Professor Stephen Senn, BA, MSc, PhD, CStat, FRSE

Statistical Consultation for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Services

• Planning of clinical trials
• Planning of drug development programmes
• Project evaluation and prioritisation
• Regulatory advice and representation
• Data safety monitoring board advice
• Specialist analyses
• Statistical training

Qualifications

• BA Economics and Statistics, Exeter, 1974
• MSc Information Processing, Exeter, 1977
• PhD Statistics, Dundee, 1985
• Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society, 1993

Work Experience

• 3 years working as a statistician in the NHS, England (1975-1978)
• 9 years lecturer and senior lecturer in statistics in Scotland (1978-1987)
• 8 years as statistician and group head in the pharmaceutical industry in Switzerland (1987-1995)
• 8 years Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Statistics in England (1995-2003)
• 8 years Professor of Statistics in Scotland 2003-2011

Consulting Experience

• Over 25 clients in UK, mainland Europe and the USA
• Fifteen years experience of consulting
• Several clients in the top ten of the pharmaceutical industry

Honours

• George C Challis Award of the University of Florida for contributions to biostatistics, 2001.
• PSI Award for most interesting speaker in 25 years of PSI, 2002
• Awarded Honorary Membership of PSI, 2007
• Bradford Hill lecturer 2008
• Bradford Hill medal of the Royal Statistical Society 2009
• Awarded Honorary Membership of ISCB 2009

Publications

• Over 250 articles, reviews and letters in various scientific journals. On line publications list
• Monograph Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research, Wiley, 1993 (Second edition 2002)
• Monograph Statistical Issues in Drug Development, Wiley, 1997 (Second edition 2007)
• Monograph Dicing with Death, Cambridge, 2003
• Monograph Simplicity, Complexity and Modelling, Wiley, 2011

Research Interests

• Cross-over and n-of-1 trials
• Repeated measures and random effect models
• Bioequivalence and non-inferiority trials
• Meta-analysis
• Decision analysis and pharmacoeconomics
• Adjusting for baselines and covariates
• Modelling
• Randomisation and ethics
• Inference

Current Editorial Board Memberships

• Applied Clinical Trials 2000-
• Pharmaceutical Statistics 2002-
• Statistical Methods in Medical Research 1993-
• Wiley Statistics in Practice Series, Section Editor, Life and Biological Sciences, 2002-

Memberships of Learned Societies

• Royal Statistical Society
• PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry)
• Drug Information Association
• Swiss Statistical Association
• Swiss-Austrian Region of the International Biometrics Society
• American Statistical Association
• Royal Society of Edinburgh

Languages

· English (native)

· German (fluent)

· French (fluent)

Rates

Please contact Stephen Senn (see below) for details of rates

Contact Details

28a rue des romains
Strassen
L-8041
Luxembourg

Tel: +352 26313285
E-Mail stephen@senns.demon.co.uk
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This page last updated 26 November 2011