PharmaSUG offers a speaker-sharing program for regional and local SAS users groups meetings on a first-come/first-serve basis. There are limited funds available for this program.

If a group is interested in acquiring a speaker for their meeting, they should submit a list of at least three choices from the best papers from the previous year's PharmaSUG conference. PharmaSUG will work through this list and attempt to secure one of these papers to be presented at your event. The following expenses will be paid by PharmaSUG for the author. It is expected that the requesting group will provide the registration to the event for the speaker.

• Transportation to the event
• Lodging - limited to the duraton of the conference which may include 1 day before and/or 1 day after

The list of best papers for the 2011 conference is below. Requests for speakers should be sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Applications Development

AD16. Creating reference amplicons and genotyping using the SAS System
Kevin Viel, Saint Joseph’s Translational Research Institute, Atlanta, GA

CDISC

CD13. Trials and Tribulations of SDTM Trial Design
Fred Wood, Octagon Research Solutions, Wayne, PA
Mary Lenzen, Octagon Research Solutions, Wayne, PA

Coders Corner

CC18. SYMply PUT: GET the most out of SYMPUTX and SYMGETN
Robert Howard, Veridical Solutions, San Diego, CA

CC22. Importing and Parsing Comments From a PDF Document With Help From Perl Regular Expressions
Joel Campbell, PPD, Inc., Wilmington, NC
Ryan Wilkins, PPD, Inc., Wilmington, NC

Data Management

DM01. Building a Hosted Statistical Computing Environment: Is it Possible?
John Leveille, d-Wise Technologies, Raleigh, NC, USA

Industry Basics

IB05. Similarities and Differences in SAS Programming Among CRO and Pharmaceutical Industries
Sandra Minjoe, Octagon Research Solutions, Wayne, PA
Mark Matthews, i3Statprobe, Indianapolis, IN

Statistics and Pharmacokinetics

SP04. Implementation of Pattern-Mixture Models Using Standard SAS/STAT Procedures
Bohdana Ratitch, Quintiles, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Michael O’Kelly, Quintiles, Dublin, Ireland

Technical Techniques

TT03. Creating Customized Patient Profiles using SAS ODS RTF and PROC TEMPLATE
Andrea Ritter, Biostatistics, Quintiles Inc., Morrisville, NC

Tutorials

TU09. Using the ADaM Basic Data Structure for Survival Analysis
Nancy Brucken, i3 Statprobe, Ann Arbor, MI
Sandra Minjoe, Octagon Research, Wayne, PA
Mario Widel, Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA