Thanks to everyone who presented a paper at PharmaSUG 2015. There were many outstanding paper presentations. The section chairs awarded the status of Best Paper to the following papers:
Applications Development
AD05. Have SAS Annotate your Blank CRF for you! Plus dynamically add color and style to your annotationsSteven Black, Agility-Clinical Inc., Carlsbad, CA
Beyond the Basics
BB18. Not Just Merge - Complex Derivation Made Easy by Hash ObjectLu Zhang, PPD, Beijing, China
Career Planning
CP04. CRO, TLF, SOP? OMG!: A Beginner’s Guide to the Clinical Research OrganizationMandy Bowen, INC Research, Wilmington, NC
Otis Evans, INC Research, Wilmington, NC
Stephen Terry, INC Research, Wilmington, NC
Data Standards
DS07. The Best Practices of CDISC ADaM Validation Checks: Past, Present, and FutureShelley Dunn, d-Wise, Morrisville, NC
Ed Lombardi, Agility Clinical, Carlsbad, CA
Data Visualization and Graphics
DV02. Creating Sophisticated Graphics using Graph Template LanguageKaitlyn McConville, Rho, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
Kristen Much, Rho, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
Healthcare Analytics
HA05. A General SAS® Macro to Implement Optimal N:1 Propensity Score Matching Within a Maximum RadiusKathy H. Fraeman, Evidera, Bethesda, MD
Industry Basics
IB11. Proc Compare: Wonderful Procedure!Anusuiya Ghanghas, inVentiv International Pharma Services Pvt Ltd, Pune, India
Rajinder Kumar, inVentiv International Pharma Services Pvt Ltd, Pune, India
Management and Support
MS05. Development of a Clinical SAS University Training Program in Eastern EuropeErfan Pirbhai, Experis, Kalamazoo, MI
Sergey Glushakov, Intego Group, Maitland, FL
Posters
PO19. Macro to Read Mock Shells in Excel and Create a Copy in Rich Text FormatRakesh Mucha, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN
Jeffrey Johnson, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN
Quick Tips
QT26. Keyboard Macros - The most magical tool you may have never heard of - You will never program the same again (It's that amazing!)Steven Black, Agility-Clinical Inc., Carlsbad, CA
QT42. Automating Clinical Trial Reports with ODS ExcelXP Tagset
John O’Leary, Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, CT
Statistics and Pharmacokinetics
SP05. Using ANCOVA to Assess Regression to the MeanKathryn Schurr, M.S., Spectrum Health – Healthier Communities, Grand Rapids, MI
Submission Standards
SS02. Japanese submission/approval processes from programming perspectiveRyan Hara, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
Techniques and Tutorials
TT01. Team-work and Forensic Programming: Essential Foundations of Indestructible ProjectsBrian Fairfield-Carter, inVentiv Health, Cary, NC