PharmaSUG 2012 Interactive Schedule Grid

Welcome to the PharmaSUG 2012 Interactive Schedule Grid. Use the links below to jump to a portion of the schedule, then click on a paper title to view the abstract and other details!

(Revised May 20)

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Monday Early PM

Monday Late PM

Tuesday Early AM

Tuesday Late AM

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Tuesday Late PM

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Monday AM

Section	9:15 AM	9:30 AM	9:45 AM	10:00 AM	10:15 AM	10:30 AM	10:45 AM	11:00 AM	11:15 AM	11:30 AM
Applications Development	A Standard SAS Program for Corroborating OpenCDISC Error Messages		SAS® Data Query and Edit Checks with HTML5		SAS® Programming Tips, Tricks and Techniques				How Readable and Comprehensible is a SAS® Program? A Programmatic Approach to Getting an Insight into a Program
Coders Corner	Use Your Cores! An Introduction to Multi-core Processing with SAS	Automatic Version Control and Track Changes of CDISC ADaM Specifications for FDA Submission	Identifying New and Updated Records in a Subject Listing	Using Skype to run SAS programs	Watermarking and Combining Multiple RTF Outputs in SAS ®	Automation of Comparing ODS RTF outputs in Batch using VBA and SAS	The Application of Variable-Dependent Macros on SDTM Conversion	Calculating Time-to-Event Parameters Using a Single DATA Step and a RETAIN Statement	Short-circuiting PROC COMPARE: Techniques for Focusing Dataset Comparisons	Efficiently Trim Character Variable Lengths to Fit Data, Reduce Dataset Size
Data Visualization and Graphics	A Multifaceted Approach to Generating Kaplan-Meier and Waterfall Plots in Oncology Studies		Creating SAS® Report Outline Using the Output Delivery System for Online Review		Building Reports and Documents in SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.2®: How to Create a Single Document from Multiple Reports and Tasks				Easy-to-use Macros to Create a Line Plot with Error Bars Including Functions of Automated Jittering and Adjusting Axis Ranges
Hands-On Workshops	Ready To Become Really Productive Using PROC SQL?
Management and Support	If You Can’t Learn It From a Book, Why Are You Reading This?				A CareerView Mirror - Another Perspective on your Work and Career Planning		Giving Data a Voice: Partnering with Medical Writing for Best Reporting Practices		Legacy SDTM Domain Development on the Critical Path - Strategies for Success
Statistics and Pharmacokinetics	Computing Initial Values for Pharmacokinetic ML Nonlinear Regression via genetic algorithms and parallel genetic algorithms		Using SAS® to Calculate Noncompartmental Urine Parameters		Pattern-Mixture Models as Linear Combinations of Least Squares Means from MMRM with Delta Method Variance Estimation				Arriving ‘Normally’ at t-Test for a Treatment Combination
Techniques and Tutorials - Foundations	The SAS® DATA Step: Where Your Input Matters				What to Do with a Regular Expression		Macro Quoting to the Rescue: Passing Special Characters		Get SAS®sy with PROC SQL

Monday Early PM

Section	1:15 PM	1:45 PM	2:15 PM	2:45 PM
Applications Development	Migrating to a 64-bit Operating System: Quick Pointers	Maximize the power of %SCAN using the WORDSCAN utility	Enabling Analytics: Integrating and Automating the Clinical Data Analysis and Reporting Process
Data Standards and Quality	Considerations in the Submission of Exposure Data in an SDTM-Compliant Format		Transform Incoming Lab Data into SDTM LB Domain with Confidence	Ir-RECIST-ible
Hands-On Workshops	An Introduction to the Clinical Standards Toolkit and Clinical Data Compliance Checking
Management and Support	Managing a Team of Veteran Programmers – Some Tips for Discussion		Managing a Blended Programming Staff of Permanent Employees and Contingent Workers	Consulting: Critical Success Factors
Statistics and Pharmacokinetics	Automated Forward Selection for Generalized Linear Models with Categorical and Numerical Variables using PROC GENMOD	Application of Meta-Analysis in Clinical Trials	Leverage SAS/Genetics Package to perform Biomarker Drug Response Analysis on Pharmacogenomic Data.	A SAS® Macro for Biomarker Analysis using Maximally Selected Chi-Square Statistic With Application in Oncology
Techniques and Tutorials - Advanced	Programming With CLASS: Keeping Your Options Open		PIPE Dreams: Yet Another Tool for Dynamic Programming	Using SAS Colon Effectively
Techniques and Tutorials - Foundations	Building the Better Macro: Best Practices for the Design of Reliable, Effective Tools		Merge vs. Join vs. Hash Objects: A Comparison using "Big" Medical Device Data	Validating SAS Macros and Updated SAS Version

Monday Late PM

Section	3:30 PM	4:00 PM	4:30 PM	5:00 PM
Applications Development	The Application of SAS Perl Regular Expression in Clinical Trial Studies - Batch Processing SAS Programs	A SAS® Tool to Allocate and Randomize Samples to Illumina® Microarray Chips	Why the Bell Tolls 108 times? Stepping Through Time with SAS®
Data Standards and Quality	SAS File Design: Guidelines for Statisticians and Data Managers	Avoiding a REL-WRECK; Using RELREC Well	Seven New SDTM Domains for Medical Devices
Hands-On Workshops	Using the SAS® Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.4 for define.xml creation
Management and Support	Building a Team of Remote SAS® Programmers	How to Keep the Project on Budget in the Clinical Trial Study	A Comparison of Two Commonly Used CRO Resourcing Models for SAS/ Statistical Programmers	Managing Programmers across the Great Divide: An Odyssey in managing CRO's, in Big and Small Pharma, Biotech and Pharma and in NJ, CA and Boston.
Statistics and Pharmacokinetics	Communicating Clinical Trial Safety Results the Statistical Graphic Way
Techniques and Tutorials - Advanced		Diverse Report Generation with PROC REPORT	Exploring DATA Step Merges and PROC SQL Joins
Techniques and Tutorials - Foundations	Using the New Features in PROC FORMAT		Making Your SAS® Data JMP® Through Hoops	Reading and Writing RTF Documents as Data: Automatic Completion of CONSORT Flow Diagrams

Tuesday Early AM

Section	8:00 AM	8:15 AM	8:30 AM	8:45 AM	9:00 AM	9:15 AM	9:30 AM	9:45 AM
Applications Development	Innovative Techniques: Doing More with Loops and Arrays				Using JMP® Partition to Grow Decision Trees in Base SAS®		Program Development with SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS/Connect in a Combined PC and UNIX Environment
Coders Corner			Importing Excel ® File using Microsoft Access ® in SAS ®	Automatic Detection and Identification of Variables with All Missing Values in SDTM/ADaM Datasets for FDA Submission	An Efficient Method to Create Titles for Multiple Clinical Reports Using PROC FORMAT within a DO Loop	Techniques for Improvising the Standard Error Bar Graph and Axis Values Completely Through SAS Annotation.	Quick Data Definitions Using SQL, REPORT and PRINT Procedures	Reporting Outliers in Data: A Macro to Identify and Report Distant Data Points
Data Standards and Quality	Creating Analysis Data Marts from SDTM Warehouses				Panel Discussion - Data Standards
Hands-On Workshops	An Introduction to Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®
Health Outcomes and Epidemiology	Multiple Techniques for Scoring Quality of Life Questionnaires		7 Steps to Insights Using SAS: Progression Free Survival		Tumor Assessment using RECIST: Behind the Scenes		Are You Discrete? Patients' Treatment Preferences and the Discrete Choice Experiment
Management and Support	Coaching the Individual SAS Programmer: Generalist vs. Specialist				Connect with SAS® Professionals Around the World with LinkedIn and sasCommunity.org
Techniques and Tutorials - Foundations	Getting Your Data in Shape With PROC TRANSPOSE				Simplifying Effective Data Transformation Via PROC TRANSPOSE

Tuesday Late AM

Section	10:15 AM	10:30 AM	10:45 AM	11:00 AM	11:15 AM	11:30 AM
Applications Development	From InForm EDC Data to SAS Datasets using SAS Clinical Data Integration – Real Time				Experience of Generating an XML file and Uploading Serious and Frequent Adverse Events to ClinicalTrials.gov
Coders Corner		One Macro Call to a Table with both Frequency and Summary Elements from a Subject-Level Dataset	Don't have a "Week" Report	Beyond %LET: Building a GUI to Pass Run-Time Parameters to SAS Programs Using VBScript and HTML Applications	Identifying and Verifying Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events and Concomitant Medications by Date Specificity	A Macro to Indent and Hyphenate Lengthy Text in PROC REPORT
Data Standards and Quality	SDTM Domain Mapping with Structured Programming Methodology		Generating SUPPQUAL Domains from SDTM-Plus Domains		Multiple Applications of ADaM Time-to-Event Datasets
Data Visualization and Graphics	Statistical Graphics for Clinical Research Using ODS Graphics Designer				Is the Legend in your SAS/Graph(R) Output Still Telling the Right Story?
Hands-On Workshops	SAS® Macro Programming Tips and Techniques
Health Outcomes and Epidemiology	Using the SAS System as a bioinformatics tool: a macro that calls the standalone Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) setup				ESTIMATING RISK IN THE PRESENCE OF UNREPORTED ZEROS IN THE DATA
Techniques and Tutorials - Foundations	The Use and Abuse of the Program Data Vector				The Use and Abuse of the Program Data Vector - Examples

Tuesday Early PM

Section	1:15 PM	1:45 PM	2:15 PM	2:45 PM
Applications Development	A SAS Macro Utility to Append SAS-Generated RTF Outputs and Create the Table of Contents	Creating Define.pdf with SAS® Version 9.3 ODS RTF	Is Your Failed Macro Due To Misjudged "Timing"?
Data Standards and Quality	Considerations in the Submission of Pharmacokinetic (PK) Data in an SDTM-Compliant Format		“Analysis-ready” – Considerations, Implementations, and Real World Applications	Creating Integrated Summary of Safety Database using CDISC ADaM : Challenges, Tips and Things to Watch Out For.
Data Visualization and Graphics	Creating Statistical Graphics in SAS®
Hands-On Workshops	SDTM, ADaM and define.xml with OpenCDISC(R)
Industry Basics	SAS Enterprise Guide Best of Both Worlds – Is it Right for You?		Metadata: Some Fundamental Truths
Techniques and Tutorials - Advanced	Why Does SAS Say That? What common DATA Step and Macro Messages Are Trying to Tell You		Perl Regular Expressions in SAS® 9.1+ - Practical Applications	Supplementing Programmed Assisted Patient Narratives (PANs) with Graphs Using SAS
Techniques and Tutorials - Foundations	Rediscovering the DATA _NULL_ for Creating a Report, And Putting That Text File Into RTF Format In a Single Datastep		PROC REPORT Unwrapped: Exploring the Secrets behind One of the Most Popular Procedures in Base SAS® Software

Tuesday Late PM

Section	3:30 PM	4:00 PM	4:30 PM	5:00 PM
Applications Development	Clinical Laboratory Results, Old and New Pains	OpenCDISC Plus	Database Tectonics: Assessing Drift in Analysis Data
Data Standards and Quality	Building Flexible ADaM Analysis Variable Metadata	A Complex ADaM dataset? Three different ways to create one.	Common Misunderstandings about ADaM Implementation
Data Visualization and Graphics	Taming the Box Plot	Gilding the Lily: Boutique Programming in TAGSETS.RTF	Don't Gamble with Your Output: How to Use Microsoft Formats with ODS
Hands-On Workshops	Creating the ADaM Time to Event Dataset: The Nuts and Bolts
Industry Basics	Panel Discussion - Industry Basics		Problem with your SAS Program? Solutions abound!	Programmer's Safety Kit: Important Points to Remember While Programming or Validating Safety Tables
Techniques and Tutorials - Advanced	A Cup of Coffee and PROC FCMP: I Cannot Function Without Them		Checksum Please: A Way to Ensure Data Integrity!
Techniques and Tutorials - Foundations	Atypical Applications of PROC TRANSPOSE		Cross-Platform Data Migration in a Clinical Environment	Interesting Technical Mini-Bytes of Base SAS – From DATA Step to Macros

Wednesday AM

Section	8:00 AM	8:15 AM	8:30 AM	8:45 AM	9:00 AM	9:15 AM	9:30 AM	9:45 AM	10:15 AM	10:30 AM	10:45 AM
Applications Development	Making a List, Checking it Twice: Efficient Production and Verification of Tables and Figures Using SAS		CDISC SDTM Conversion in ISS/ISE Studies: Tools		Things Dr Johnson Did Not Tell Me: An Introduction to SAS® Dictionary Tables				Accessing Microsoft Excel Workbook Cell Attributes from within SAS		Let’s Compare Two SAS® Libraries!
Coders Corner	Figure Out Your Programming Logic Errors Via DATA Step Debugger	Need a Hand to Locate Your Variables in an Entire Library?	Formats in another format	The Power of Using Options COMPLETETYPES and PRELOADFMT	“V” Can Transpose: Transposing Data Sets Using Functions	Sending Emails in SAS® to Facilitate Clinical Trial	A Mean Way to Count, Enumerating the Values of Multiple Variables Using Formats with the MEANS Procedure	Using File Modification Date Comparisons to Alert StudyTeams of Potential SAS Program Revisions Between Shared Folders	Macro to Combine Listing and Descriptive Statistics Table in One Report	Determining and Reporting Significant Decimal Places for Continuous Data in Mixed Form	Export SAS data to Excel in SAS® Drug Development
Data Standards and Quality	CDISC ADaM Application: Does All One-Record-per-Subject Data Belong in ADSL?				Harnessing the Power of SAS ISO 8601 Informats, Formats, and the CALL IS8601_CONVERT Routine				Experiences in Leading a Company-Wide First CDISC Filing from a Programming Perspective		An Innovative ADaM Programming Tool for FDA Submission
Data Visualization and Graphics	Personalized Risk Graphs for Intervention Trials – in Technicolor! Using PROC GKPI and CALL EXECUTE to Get the Job Done		Waterfall Charts in Oncology Trials - Ride the Wave		Proficiency in JMP Advanced Visualization				iRobot: Listing Creator
Hands-On Workshops	Doing More with the Display Manager: From Editor to ViewTable - Options and Tools You Should Know
Industry Basics	Adapt and Survive: Implementing the new ICH Development Safety Update Report (DSUR)		Using a Picture Format to Create Visit Windows		Could Have, Would Have, Should Have! Adopting Good Programming Standards, Not Practices, To Survive An Audit.				Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) and How They Impact Biostatistics and Statistical Programming Groups		You Could Be a SAS® Nerd If . . .
Techniques and Tutorials - Foundations	A Hitchhiker's Guide for Performance Assessment & Benchmarking SAS® Applications				Comparing Datasets: Using PROC COMPARE and Other Helpful Tools				The Greatest Hits: ODS Essentials Every User Should Know

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