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PSI Introduction to Industry Training (ITIT) Course - 2025/2026

An introductory course giving an overview of the pharmaceutical industry and the drug development process as a whole, aimed at those with 1-3 years' experience. It comprises of six 2-day sessions covering a range of topics including Research and Development, Toxicology, Data Management and the Role of a CRO, Clinical Trials, Reimbursement, and Marketing.

Joint PSI/EFSPI Visualisation SIG 'Wonderful Wednesday' Webinars

Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.

Urgent Meeting: Medical Statistician Apprenticeship Scheme

The UK government have recently announced that level 7 apprenticeships must be fully funded by the employer from January 2026, for any apprentice over the age of 21. With funding for MSc's at an all time low, and universities courses facing closures, the apprenticeship scheme remains as important as ever, as a tool to encourage new statisticians into our industry. In this dedicated meeting, Valerie Millar (chair of the apprenticeship scheme) will provide full updates on the government changes and seek feedback and ideas from employers, universities and apprentices on how to keep this scheme successfully running for many years to come.

PSI Webinar: Methodology and first results of the iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium

This 1-hour webinar will be an opportunity to hear about the methodology and first results of the iRISE consortium. iRISE is working towards a better understanding of reproducibility and the interventions that work to improve it. At the end of the presentation there will also be the opportunity to ask questions.

One-day Event: Change Management for Moving to R/Open-Source

This one-day event focuses on the comprehensive management of transitioning to R/Open-Source, addressing the challenges and providing actionable insights. Attendees will participate in sessions covering essential topics such as training best practices, creating strategic plans, making the case to senior management, and managing both statistical and programming aspects of the transition.

PSI Vaccines SIG Webinar: Challenges in Estimating Vaccine Effectiveness Against Progression to Severe Disease

This is a free webinar on Challenges in Estimating Vaccine Effectiveness Against Progression to Severe Disease.

PSI Book Club - The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence

Develop your non-technical skills by reading The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins and joining the Sept-Dec 2025 book club. You will be invited to join facilitated discussions of the concepts and ideas and apply skills from the book in-between sessions.

PSI Training Course: Pediatric Extrapolation

This course is aimed at biostatisticians with no or some pediatric drug development experience who are interested to further their understanding. We will give you an introduction to the pediatric drug development landscape. This will include identifying the key regulations and processes governing pediatric development, a discussion on the needs and challenges when conducting pediatric research and a focus on the ways to overcome these challenges from a statistical perspective.

PSI Career Young Virtual Event (Q3 2025)

This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.

EFSPI/PSI Causal Inference SIG Webinar: Instrumental Variable Methods

The webinar is targeted at statisticians working in the pharmaceutical industry, and the objective is to 1) provide a basic understanding of IV methodology including how it relates to causal inference, and 2) present two inspirational pharma-relevant applications.

PSI Career Young Virtual Event (Q4 2025)

This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.

Speaker	Biography
Christy Mazzarisi	Innovative and accomplished Quality Systems Professional with a broad background in Pharmaceutical and Laboratory sciences with over 17 years industry practice. Overall background includes building and leading global teams across functions in the biotech and pharmaceutical space. She is passionate about continuous improvement activities and consistently building quality into each area of our lives by providing coaching, mentoring and professional support to team members, employees, and many others across industries who want to develop their leadership skills. Chair of Women in Quality group for the American Society for Quality, where she supports building the female leadership pipeline and building the future of success across various industries (automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, technology, etc.) Advocate and Gala Committee Member for the Tourette’s Association of America, Advocate for Make-A-Wish NJ and Powershift Ambassador for Shark Tank’s Daymond John.
Paul Frewer	Paul has been a statistician in the industry for over 25 years, working for Eli Lilly, GSK, Ipsen and AstraZeneca. His initial experiences were as a statistician on post-marketing studies and since then has slowly moved backwards through the phases to his current role in early clinical development.He has worked across most therapeutic areas and has specialized solely in oncology for the past 15 years. He joined AstraZeneca in 2012 and is now a Biometrics Team Leader in the Early Oncology Statistics team. He supports multiple different compounds in the oncology therapeutic area across many studies from Phase I up to Phase IIb. He has published on the AZ decision making framework and presented several times on the topic at conferences over the last few years.
Chrissie Fletcher	Chrissie is the Vice President of Speciality and Primary Care Statistics at GSK. She has worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry for over 30 years and has experience of developing and commercialising new medicines in a variety of clinical disease areas across all phases of clinical development. Chrissie is actively engaged in statistical societies, pharmaceutical trade associations and initiatives relating to the Pharmaceutical Industry such as driving innovation in clinical trials and sharing implementation experiences of the estimand framework. She is an advocate and champion for diversity, equity and inclusion where she supports a variety of Women Leadership programs.

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