Karen Pieper graduated from the Master's program in Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1987. She worked as a statistician for a year in Chapel Hill on a contract with the Environmental Protection Agency. For the next ten years she worked on clinical trials and registry databases for what was then called the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease. For a year of that time, she was living on Northern California, telecommuting with Duke, and teaching introductory statistics at Humbolt State University. She left Duke in 1996 to work with Frank Harrell as he established the new Biostatistics program at the University of Virginia. A year later, she moved to Asheville, North Carolina and developed Pieper Statistical Consulting where she consulting with pharmaceutical and insurance companies, medical centers, academic centers, and taught a course in statistics at a local college.Karen is now back with the same Duke group, which has since changed its name to the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Her title is Manager of Clinical Operations. The role she was hired to fill is to allocate and supervise statistical resources for the manuscripts and presentations that are the products of clinical trials. She will discuss the types of roles she performs and some of the varied jobs she has had as a statistician. Bring your questions. This is a good opportunity to find out some of the opportunities available to one with a Master's Degree in the field of Statistics.
Undergraduate and graduate students in Statistics are especially encouraged to attend!!
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