Biostatistician

Katherine A. Kirkwood

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New Haven, CT 06510

434-***-****

Objective A challenging and rewarding position in clinical trials research that uses my background in biostatistics, biomedical engineering, and mathematics.

Skills • Statistical analysis in SAS and Minitab; limited R and Stata experience

• Programming experience in JAVA, C++, FORTRAN, MatLab

• Internal Auditing

Education Yale University

M.S. 2008

• Engineering Sciences

Sweet Briar College

B.S. 2004 Summa Cum Laude

• Mathematics

• Physics

• Phi Beta Kappa

• Honors Scholar

• Commonwealth Scholar

Experience

Biostatistician, VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center

August 2008– Present

• Conduct protocol-defined statistical analyses

• Conduct background literature research

• Calculate sample size estimates using multiple software packages and SAS macros

• Draft the biostatistical protocol sections

• Develop CRFs

• Draft Informed Consent documents

• Draft IRB submission documents

• Currently lead biostatistician planning CSP #586, a large, international trial with multiple funding sources

• Lead meetings with the PIs and funding agencies

• Draft extended Statistical Analysis Plans

• Develop Statistical Reports

• Trained and function as a lead internal auditor for the Coordinating Center

• Developed the Biostatistics Work Instructions as part of the Center’s ISO-certification process

• Currently working with the methodological core, a joint venture between the Coordinating Center and Yale University, to develop novel methods of analysis to handle informative missing data in repeated measures analysis and biased censoring in survival analysis.

Presentations and Publications

• “Application of the Schwartz-Christoffel Transformation to Solve Certain Dirichlet Problems” (poster), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, June 2002.

• “Effects of silver doping on chalcogenide glass for use in optical circuits,”Mid-Atlantic Conference on Undergraduate Scholarship Conference, Sweet Briar, VA, October 2002. Research conducted through the Research Experience for Undergraduates Program at the Institut de Microelectroniques, Electromagnetisme, et Photoniques in Grenoble, France, 2002.

• “Blood Glucose Fluctuation Characteristics in Type 1 vs. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus,” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, May 2003.

• “Development of large porous particles for drug delivery by inhalation,” Research Experience for Undergraduates Final Presentation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August 2003.

• “Development of large porous particles for drug delivery by inhalation laser work,” Mid-Atlantic Conference on Undergraduate Scholarship Conference, Sweet Briar, VA, October 2003.

• “Computational modeling of erbium-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers,” Mid-Atlantic Conference on Undergraduate Scholarship Conference, Sweet Briar, VA, October 2003.

• “Computational modeling of erbium-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers” (poster), American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 2004.

• “Effects of electrostatics on the colloidal glass transition,” Special Investigation Presentations as part of Master’s degree, Yale University, New Haven, CT, January 2005 and May 2005.

• “The VACS Risk Index Responds to Treatment Interventions and Is Highly Correlated with and Predictive of Mortality Events in the Optima Study” (poster), XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010), Vienna, Austria, July 2010.

• “The VACS Risk Index Responds to Treatment Interventions and Is Highly Correlated with and Predictive of Mortality Events in the Optima Study” (poster), Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami Beach, Florida August 2011 (accepted).

Professional Groups

• American Statistical Association

• Society for Clinical Trials

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