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2011 - 12 - 06 Prof. Stephen Senn, New head of the Competence Center in Methodology and Statistics (CCMS)
“A statistician is one who prefers true doubts to false certainties.”
Originally from Switzerland, Stephen Senn was until recently Professor of Statistics at the University of Glasgow and has been nominated as Head of the Competence Center in Methodology and Statistics (CCMS) at CRP-Santé.
At the CCMS, Prof. Senn will work on intelligent approaches to personalising medicine: “My view is that at the moment the mechanistic bottom up approach has dominated, from the lab to the practice”. “What is needed is more realism in our approach to medicine by thinking of the patient rather then by staring at test-tubes”.
Prof. Stephen Senn who was Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Statistics at University College London from 1995-2003, has also worked in the Swiss pharmaceutical industry, as a lecturer and senior lecturer in Dundee and for the National Health Service in England. He is the author of the monographs Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research (1993, 2002), Statistical Issues in Drug Development (1997, 2007), Dicing with Death (2003) and over 200 scientific publications. In 2001 Stephen Senn was the first recipient of the George C Challis award for Biostatistics of the University of Florida, in 2008 he gave the Bradford Hill lecture of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in 2009 he was awarded the Bradford Hill Medal of the Royal Statistical Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an honorary life member of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI) and the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics.
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