MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - Key Persons
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- Senior Project Management Director / Program Coordinator II, Department of Public Health Sciences
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- Project Manager / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
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- Biostatistician / Research Associate, Department of Public Health Sciences
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- Biostatistician / Senior Research Associate, Department of Public Health Sciences
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- Project Management Director / Program Coordinator II, Department of Public Health Sciences
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Phase II-IV clinical trials; drug and device trials
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- Associate Director DCU / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
- Associated Director of the Data Coordination Unit in the Department
Catherine Dillon MS, is the Associated Director of The Data Coordination Unit in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She received her MS in Clinical Trial Administration from George Washington University in 2015. As the Associate Director of the DCU, she provides oversight and direction for the clinical trial operation activities conducted within the unit and across collaborations. She has overseen a broad range of project, data, and regulatory management activities for more than 70 phase I-IV protocols including multi-site, international, industry and federally funded, acute and exception from informed consent trials.
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- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
- Senior Biostatistician / Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences
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Phase II-III clinical trials; drug and device trials
Christy Cassarly, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She received her PhD in Biostatistics from MUSC (2017). Dr. Cassarly serves as the statistical PI or co-I of both NIH-funded, multicenter Phase II and III clinical trials as well as smaller exploratory clinical trials spanning disease areas of stroke and neurological rehabilitation. As a recent graduate, her dissertation work focused on the analysis of longitudinal ordinal measures. Current research interests include development of adaptive trial designs, futility designs, and measurement validation.
Experience:
.NET web and Windows application development
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- Data Management Director / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
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- Senior Data Management Director / Program Manager I, Department of Public Health Sciences
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Population Health, Behavioral Health, Clinical Trials, Clinical Healthcare
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- Biostatistician / Research Associate, Department of Public Health Sciences
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- Project Management Director / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
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- Biostatistician / Research Associate, Department of Public Health Sciences
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- Associate Director of Trial Operations / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
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- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the DPHS
- Senior Biostatistician / Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences
Experience:
Phase II-III clinical trials; drugs and device trials
Jordan J. Elm, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the DPHS and is also a biostatistician for the DCU. She is funded by the NETT Network Statistical and Data Management Center and the NINDS Neuroprotection Exploratory Trials in Parkinson's Disease (NET-PD) Statistical Center. She has been involved in the design, conduct, and analysis of multi-center, randomized phase II and phase III clinical trials in the areas of Parkinson's disease, stroke, and emergency medicine. The development of adaptive trial designs, futility designs, measurement validation, and approaches to measuring neuroprotection in Neurology are areas of active research interest.
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- Data Management Director / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
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- Project Management Director / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
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- Assistant Director of Information Systems
Experience:
Clinical Trial Management System development
Research:
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- Biostatistician / Research Instructor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Experience:
Phase II-III clinical trials; drugs and device trials
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- Data Management Director / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
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- Data Management Director / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
Experience:
Clinical Trials, Database Management and Analysis
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- Data Management Director / Information Systems / Business Analyst II / College of Medicine
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- Biostatistician / Research Instructor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Experience:
Phase II-III clinical trials; drugs and device trials
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- Data Management Director / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine
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- Associate Director of Biostatistics / Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences
- Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department
Renee Martin, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Biostatistics Section Head for the Data Coordination Unit. She has extensive experience and expertise in the planning, implementation and analysis of Phase I-III clinical trials. With emphasis in stroke therapies and aneurysm repair, she serves or has served as an unblinded statistician for several NINDS-sponsored and industry-sponsored. Dr. Martin has served as the primary statistician and statistical PI for the ALISAH, LARGE, ENACT trials and the Phase I trial of N-acetylcysteine in maternal chorioamnionitis to decrease inflammation in the fetal brain and improve neurologic outcomes (CHORIO). Dr. Martin also serves as the primary statistician for the Characterization of Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenosis using High-resolution MRI (CHIASM) Study and the CTA Spot Sign Score in Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage (SCORE-IT) Study which focus on MRI and/or brain imaging for prediction of clinical outcomes rather than therapeutic interventions, and she has participated as a statistical member of the NINDS-appointed DSMB for the ARUBA trial of arteriovenous malformation and currently serves on the Core DSMB for the NINDS NeuroNEXT projects. Dr. Martin also works collaboratively with DCU faculty/students to publish on methodological issues in clinical trials, such as covariate imbalance and adaptive randomization in clinical trial designs and statistical aspects of interim analysis.
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- Professor of Biostatistics in the Department
- Senior Biostatistician / Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences
Experience:
Phase I-III clinical trials; Experimental design and statistical methods for assessing dose response
Sharon Yeatts, PhD, is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She received her MS in Statistics from the University of South Carolina (2002) and her PhD in Biostatistics from Virginia Commonwealth University (2006). As a faculty member in the Data Coordination Unit, Dr. Yeatts is involved in the design, conduct, and analysis of multicenter clinical trials in neurological disorders and emergency medicine. Dr. Yeatts is co-PI of the Data Coordinating Center for the SIREN (Strategies to Innovate Emergency Care Clinical Trials) network. She is PI of the DCC for several clinical trials conducted within the SIREN network: C3PO (Clinical Trial of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma of Outpatients), ICECAP (Influence of Cooling Duration on Efficacy in Cardiac Arrest Patients), and BOOST-3 (Brain Oxygen Optimization in Severe TBI Phase-3). Dr. Yeatts is also PI of the Data Management Center for SATURN (Statins in Intracerebral Hemorrhage), conducted within the StrokeNet network. Dr. Yeatts actively serves on grant review panels as well as DSMBs and is Statistical Editor of Stroke.
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- Director DCU / Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences
- Professor of Biostatistics in the Department
Valerie Durkalski, MPH, PhD, is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the Director of The Data Coordination Unit. She received her M.P.H. from Emory University (1996) and her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from MUSC (2001). As Director of the DCU, she collaborates on several large multicenter clinical trials in various therapeutic areas and has published and presented on various topics related to the design and conduct of multicenter trials. Currently, she is co-PI of the Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC) for the NINDS sponsored Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trial Network (The NETT Network) and PI of the SDMC for the NIDDK sponsored Acute Liver Failure Study Group (ALFSG). In addition to these roles, Dr. Durkalski has research interests in non-inferiority trials as well as the implementation and analysis of adaptive trial designs.
Experience:
.NET web and Windows application development
Job Titles:
- Data Management Director / Department of Public Health Sciences / College of Medicine