The US Connect 2022 in Atlanta welcomed 500+ attendees from 120 different companies for an event full of unparalleled learning opportunities and exposure to the hottest industry topics.
Hear from Karen Curran, Connect Chair, for her summary of the event and note to the attendees.
“The US Connect, being the first in-person conference since 2019, was quite a feat, and beyond exciting – thank you to everyone for attending. It was an event like no other, with new and innovative ways to learn, share and present ideas.
The feedback has been outstanding, and the value of seeing everyone in person alone is priceless. PHUSE Connect conferences really have an amazing balance of technical content, strategic leadership insight and hands-on learning, and this year we also saw the additional value of leveraging our mindset.
The panel collaborations, the guest speakers, the Hands-on Workshops, the PHUSE/FDA Innovation Challenge and zooming in our Ukrainian PHUSE colleagues live from Ukraine were some of the amazing highlights of this conference!
Meeting with people I hadn’t seen in 15 years, seeing my PHUSE Committee members face to face and getting to know a slew of new people I can’t wait to partner with in the future all made a great conference even better. It was refreshing to be around people again!
I would like to give a special thank you to the PHUSE Office and the Board of Directors for their navigation of the challenging COVID landscape while also pushing us to drive innovative ways to connect, learn and share ideas; my Co-Chairs and all the Committee members, for helping to create an innovative conference (long gone are the days of presentation after presentation – we altered the conference format and it was pretty damn cool); and, lastly, the ‘rockstars’ who volunteered Monday night, for helping bring together a memorable week in Atlanta.
I am delighted to pass the Conference Chair torch to Michael Rimler, and his Co-Chairs Karnika Dalal and Bhavin Busa, and am ecstatic to be going to the US Connect 2023 in Orlando. I hope to see you there!”
Karen Curran, US Connect 2022 Chair
Best in Conference Winners
PHUSE are pleased to announce that on behalf of the Best in Conference winners, we have made a significant donation to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal to support the work they are doing in providing food, water, shelter and medical assistance to those in Ukraine and its neighbouring countries.
AS10: Bias in Machine Learning: Your Responsibilities as a Programmer – Jim Box, SAS
DH05: Necessity is the Mother of Invention! Experiences and Innovation from Studies in COVID-19 – Matt Jones, Veramed and Amanda Lopuski, GSK
DS05: Programming and Reporting on a Master Protocol in Cell and Gene Therapy – Rabia Ahmad and Amit Jain, GSK
DS08: Standards Governance Strengthened by MDR Technology – Maria Sekac & Ken Stoltzfus, ICON
DV01: Non-Random Circular Jittering Algorithm Using Trigonometric Functions for Scatter Plots of Ordinal Outcomes with Overlapping Points – Michael Pannucci, Regeneron DV07: Fast and Curious: Reusability with Standardized Dashboards for Safety and Study Follow-up – Jeroen Gielen and Roman Radelicki, SGS Health Science
ET04: Our Technical Implementation of Scrum and Kanban – Ari Siggaard Knoph and Kristian Troejelsgaard Nielsen, Novo Nordisk
ET14: Statistical Programming Operational Review Dashboard – Kathleen Harkins and Shuqi Zhao, Merck
OS02: R Got This! Delivering a Complete Statistical Package Using R – Alice Ehmann and Michael Rimler, GSK
OS12: Applications of the R Package Validation Framework and {valtools} – Ellis Hughes, GSK
PD02: The Future Is Now – Ellen Asam and Amy Gillespie, Merck
PD05: Navigation of Professional Development Planning Through the Performance Appraisal Process – Parag Shiralkar, Sumptuous Data Sciences
RM01: Advancing RBQM Strategy with Enterprise-level Quality Risk Analytics, NLP/AI, and Immersive Technologies – Vera Pomerantseva, ZS Associates
SS03: Timber! Creating Logs and Addins for Audit-ready R Code – Benjamin Straub, GSK
SS04: Reports Made Easy with Macros – Prashanthi Selvakumar, Innovateclin Solutions
Poster Presentation Winner:
PP02: Bivariate Analysis Dataset Structure (ADBIVAR): Analysis-ready Dataset Structure for Bivariate Analysis Based on BDS Principles – Toshio Kimura & Michael Pannucci, Regeneron
Innovation Challenge Winners:
Pillar 1 = IC01: Identifying Signals and Similarities in Multiple Datasets Using Graph-based Machine Learning Algorithms – Kostiantyn Drach & Sergey Glushakov, Intego Group
Pillar 2 = IC06: Methodology to Help Generate Robust Data for Providing Better Clinical Outcomes to Increase Equity to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research – Federico Concas & Keele Wurst, GSK
Pillar = 3 IC14: A Mobile Solution to the Collection and Reporting of Clinical Trial and Real-world Data – Quingying Lu & Bridget McGinn, IBM
Feedback Survey:
Here at PHUSE, our Community's feedback is extremely valued and we love to hear about our attendee's experiences at PHUSE events.
Congratulations to Paula Jackson, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, for winning the survey completion prize. We would like to give a big thank you to Paula, and all the other survey respondents for taking the time to provide their feedback to helps us shape future events.
