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PMWS: A Snapshot of Clinical Pharmacology Workflows With R

Saturday, September 9th | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT | Larch | CE: 6

Co-chairs
Daisy Zhu, PharmD, PhD, Clinical Pharmacology Lead, Immunology & Inflammation, Pfizer Inc
Tao Long, PhD, Clinical Pharmacologist, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd

Target Audience

This Workshop will be useful for beginner to intermediate-level R users and can range from doctorate-level students (MD, PharmD, PhD) to postdoctoral fellows and early-stage professionals. The audience should have a foundational understanding of how to leverage pharmacometrics skills to inform drug development decisions. The target audience may either handle clinical data on a daily basis or are interested in enhancing their skills in applying state-of-the-art data and pharmacometrics analysis methods in drug development and patient care.

Educational Objectives
  1. Learn about R, selected R packages and their applications in data processing and pharmacometrics analysis in early and late stages of drug development;
  2. Apply R packages to support drug development by noncompartmental, pharmacometric/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) and exposure-response modeling;
  3. Describe how R Shiny apps can be used to optimize standard pharmacometrics analysis.

A Broad Overview of R: Everything You Need to Know About R & Its Utilization in Data & Pharmacometrics Analysis in Clinical Drug Development
Daisy Zhu, PharmD, PhD, Clinical Pharmacology Lead, Immunology & Inflammation, Pfizer Inc

R in Data Manipulation/Wrangling/CleaningVisualization
Michael Neely, MD, Professor of Pediatrics & Clinical Scholar, Keck School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Univ of Southern California

R in Non-compartmental Analysis
William S. Denney, PhD, Chief Scientist, Human Predictions LLC

R in Pharmacometric/Pharmacodynamic Modeling & Simulation
Wenping Wang, PhD, Senior Director, Pharmacometrics, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd

R in Concentration-QTc Analysis
Tao Long, PhD, Clinical Pharmacologist, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd

Development of Pharmacometrics Applications Using R Shiny
Eliford Kitabi, PhD, Pharmacometrician, US  Food & Drug Administration

Discussion, Questions & Answers, Learner Feedback & Evaluations