The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Presented by Gary Sullivan and Alexander Schacht This is an announcement episode of an upcoming free webinar. Learn more about this webinar and register for it at theeffectivestatistician.com/webinar.

Goal setting for statisticians Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! With some nice drinks in our hands, we welcome the new year and commit to new year resolutions. We set our personal goals and pretty soon, we’ll have discussions at work about business related goals. This episode will help you to not only be ready for the discussions with your supervisor, but also give you tools to reach the goals with better probability than the usual vague new years resolutions.

The Christmas episode Click here for the homepage of the episode! Happy Christmas! This episode is the last one in 2018 and we will distil the best of the last 40 episodes for you in this Christmas edition of the podcast. It has been anamazing journey and we will talk about the challenges and the learnings as well as the achievements of the podcast itself. Thus, you’ll get a behind the scenes look into the podcasting work.

Actionable advise and background information Click here to find the homepage of the episode. KOLs play a major role in the health sector and professionally working together with them will boost your career! This episode provides you with lots of insights and tips. In this episode, we talk about how the interactions between pharma companies and KOLs look like which rules are important and how you as a statistician should comply with these about practical tips of building relationships with KOLs about opportunities to work with KOLs and about mindset topics in engaging with KOLs

Interview with Chrissie Fletcher and Mouna Akacha Find the episode homepage here! If you ask someone within the pharma world of statisticians on what is the hottest topic, you most likely will just get: Estimands! Many scientific events, conference sessions, publications and presentations are organized around this topic. Thus, I'm super happy, that we have Mouna and Chrissie on the podcast as they have presented about this topic at various occasions. In this episode, you will learn about the importance of the concept itself and it’s implications the terminology of the estimand framework and how it relates to missing data terminology

Keep the meeting under control, achieve what you want, and impress the participants Click here to visit the homepage of the episode! Have you ever been proposing or defending a project in a larger meeting - maybe even with senior management - and it didn't go as smoothly as you would like? Or do you prepare yourself for such a meeting and you feel unsure about what to expect? Then this episode will help you!

Click here to find the homepage of the episode! Same procedure every year - the year end review as part of the performance management appears on your calendar. Are you worried about filling in forms? Do you feel like this is not adding value? In this episode, we give you practical tips how to master the review like a pro.

Interview with Gary Sullivan Click here to find the homepage of the episode. We're launching a new leadership course next year and in this episode, we go into some key questions about statisticians and leadership. We cover the following topics: What is a good definition for leadership?Why should technical statisticians worry about developing leadership skills?What happens, if you have limitations in the leadership skills?What should the mindset of a statistical leader be?When should statisticians start thinking about developing their leadership skills?

The biggest challenges in the HTA process and how to address them: Interview with Carsten Schwenke Click here to visit the homepage of the episode! Today, regulatory approval doesn't ensure anymore, that patients benefit from new therapies. As statisticians, we also need to ensure access and reimbursement for new treatments in the different markets around the world. The process to gain this access and reimbursement in Germany comes with very specific challenges. Yet, due to the large impact of Germany on other countries via the complex reference pricing system and the size of the population of Germany, we must understand these topics. Andreas Schwenke gathered experiences across therapeutic areas with many companies since the start of the new process in Germany. This makes him the most experienced and best connected statistician in the world for this topic. By listening to this interview, you will get an understanding of the importance of the HTA process in Germany, learn about key processes and stakeholders to reach successful reimbursement, get an overview about common challenges, and learn when and how to address these issues.

Interview with Andreas Sashegyi Click here to get to the homepage of the episode. We're all making decisions to optimize our studies. Optimizing project plans across different studies presents further challenges. But how to increase the overall portfolio of a company given its limitations leads yet another set of challenges. Knowing how decisions are taken at this top level helps to understand the bigger picture and why this sometimes implies sub-optimal decisions on a study or compound level. Another big learning from these complex interactions are the influencing skills needed to work with senior and diverse teams. Only a few statisticians in the industry work in these areas and Andreas Sashegyi is of these.