William Irish, PhD, has over 15 years' experience in managing statistical and programming staff in health research. He brings to RTI knowledge and expertise in planning, studying, and reporting on health-outcomes research, and multisite epidemiologic and large database studies. Dr. Irish has extensive experience at RTI Health Solutions in the application of statistical analyses to pharmaceutical development projects. He has played a key role in clinical development, clinical trial protocol design and analysis, statistical analysis plans, randomization and blinding procedures, sample size estimation and data management (data validation and quality assurance). In the pharmaceutical industry, he has been a leader in the Phase II/III development of successful drugs and devices and responsible for all statistical aspects of submission, including interaction with regulatory agencies. He has collaborated with clinical investigators internationally in study design and analysis, implemented large-scale database analysis efforts, and directed analysis/programming teams. |