Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington

Short Courses Taught for Industry, Government, and/or Statistical Societies:

The website for RCTdesign.org contains handouts and video recordings of selected short courses taught on the design, monitoring, and analysis of clinical trials. That site will continue to be updated as additional materials become available.

The following links below provide access to presentations and materials as appropriate for short courses taught some time ago. If the link is grayed, the materials are not yet available on this site.

Design, Analysis, and Monitoring of Group Sequential Clinical Trials
Bay Area Chapter of the ASA, Palo Alto, June 7, 2001 (1 day course)
Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta, August 6, 2001 (1 day course)
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, October 23, 2001 (1 day course)
Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, August 12, 2002 (1 day course)
Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, August 5, 2003 (1 day course)
Puget Sound Chapter of the ASA, Seattle, August 27-28, 2001 (2 day course)
Insightful, Inc., Basel, Switzerland, February 17-19, 2003 (3 day course)
Course Page (Basel 2003)

(Frequentist and Bayesian)
Evaluation of Group Sequential Clinical Trial Designs
FDA, March 30, 2004 (Half day course)
Course Page

Data Monitoring Committees: Statistical Issues
Axioresearch, Inc., Berkeley, March 25, 2003 (Half day course)
Course Page

Survival Analysis: Analysis of Right Censored Time to Event Data
Southern California Chapter of the ASA, Long Beach, May 1, 2004 (1 day course)
Course Page

Applied Regression Analysis
VA ERIC, Seattle, June 23-27, 2003 (10 hour video course)
Streaming Video (UWTV Series Epidemiology Applied Regression Analysis)