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

Statistical Consultancy 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)
• Head of Statistics Group in publicly funded health research institute, Luxembourg (2011-2018)

Consulting Experience

• Consultant in statistics to the pharmaceutical industry since 1995
• Over 60 clients in UK, mainland Europe and the USA
• 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 Lecture, London School, of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2008
• Bradford Hill medal of the Royal Statistical Society 2009
• Awarded Honorary Membership of ISCB 2009
• John Nelder Lecture, Imperial College London, 2013
• Fisher Memorial Lecture , Glasgow, 2017
• Global Fellow in Medicines Development of the IFAPP, 2020
• Adrian Root Memorial Lecture, 2024

Publications

• Over 300 articles, reviews and letters in various scientific journals. Google Scholar Page
• Monograph Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research, Wiley, 1993 (Second edition 2002)
• Monograph Statistical Issues in Drug Development, Wiley, 1997 (Second edition 2007, Third Edition 2021)
• Monograph Dicing with Death, Cambridge, 2003 (Second Edition, 2022)
• Monograph Simplicity, Complexity and Modelling, Wiley, 2011

Research Interests

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

Current and Recent Editorial Board Memberships

• Applied Clinical Trials 2000-
• Statistical Methods in Medical Research 1993-
• Faculty of 1000 2003-
• Wiley Statistics in Practice Series, Section Editor, Life and Biological Sciences, 2002-2019

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 Biometric Society
• American Statistical Association
• Royal Society of Edinburgh
• International Society for Clinical Biostatistics
• Luxembourg Statistical Society

Languages

· English (native)

· German (fluent)

· French (fluent)

Rates

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

Contact Details

Tel: +44 (0)7811166929
E-Mail stephen@senns.uk

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This page last updated 10 July 2024