Varuna Astha

Highly accomplished and driven senior-level Biostatistician with a broad knowledge of statistical techniques for various types of clinical trials and real world evidence(RWE) study design and research projects. With an in-depth knowledge of SAS & R programming, including CDISC, SDTM and AdaM, I excel at designing and overseeing clinical trial production of data sets and tables, figures and listings(TFLs).I am a skilled verbal communicator and can explain complex statistical concepts to non-statisticians.

Successfully provided biostatistics support to clinical trials and real world evidence(RWE) research studies in a variety of therapeutic areas including genetic disorders/rare diseases, infectious diseases, allergy & immunology, gastroenterology, and oncology leading to IND and NDA submissions and/or poster, abstract, and manuscript publication in reputed medical journals.

Mendoza,T., Dueck, A., Shi, Q., Ma, H., Claire, J., Yi, Q., Cleeland, C. "The Significant Contribution of Pain in Determining the Health Status of Patients with Multiple Myeloma." American Society of Hematology (ASH) - 57th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL; December 5-8, 2015

Ford-Johnson, L., DeLuca, J., Claire, J., Elovic, E., Lengenfelder, J., & Chiaravalloti, N.D. (in press). "Cognitive Effects of Modafinil in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Clinical Trial." Rehabilitation Psychology.

Hreha, K., D'Souza, N., Keller, T., Claire, J. Y, Barrett, A. (2015) Inter-rater Reliability of the Kessler Foundation Neglect Assessment Process (KF-NAP): Effects of Training Students. 41st NJOTA Annual Conference, Hillside, New Jersey

Oyawusi, M., Levy, B., Gentile, A., March, G., Hreha, K., Pagaoa-Cruz, G., Masmela, J., Galletta, E., Holman, S., McKenna, C., Claire, J.Y., Barrett, A. (2015) Medication Self-Administration after Stroke - American Academy of Neurology 67th Annual Meeting (AAN), Washington, DC

Rudell, E., Peterson, P., Claire, J.Y., & DeLuca, J. (2012) Cognitive Dysfunction in MS: Education Translates Science into Practice. Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Alverzo, J., Barrett A.M., Chen, P., Frisina, P.G., Hedeman, R., Kutlik, A., Lellella, M., McKenna, C., & Claire J.Y. (2011) Factors Correlated with Falls in Inpatient Stroke Patients. 6th Annual North East Cerebrovascular Consortium (NECC) Educational Summit, Boston, MA

McKenna, C., Alverzo, J., Chen, P., Claire, J.Y., Frisina, P.G., Kutlik, A., Oh-Park, M., Lellella, M., & Barrett, A.M. (2013) Prediction of Fall Risk Upon Admission to an Inpatient Stroke Unit, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR) Annual Assembly and Technical Exhibition, National Harbor, MD

Castilla-Puentes, R., Claire, J.Y., Bromberger, J., Perel, J.M., & Matthews, K. (2003) Depressed Women Have Elevated Coagulation Factors in Midlife. The American Psychiatric Association Preliminary Program Session: Women's Health

Acar EU, Choset H, Claire Y, Schervish M (2002). Path Planning for Robotic Demining: Robust Sensor-based Coverage of Unstructured Environments and Probabilistic Methods, accepted, International Journal of Robotics Research

Claire Y, Schervish M, Choset H (2002). Probabilistic Hierarchical Spatial Model for Mine Locations and its Application in Robotic Landmine Search. Proceedings of 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2002.

Claire Y, Schervish M, Acar EU, Choset H (2001). Probabilistic Methods for Robotic Landmine Search (II), Proceedings of 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2001.

Acar EU, Claire Y, Choset H, Schervish M (2001). Path Planning for Robotic Demining and Development of a Test Platform, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, 2001.

Choset H, Acar EU, Claire Y. Schervish M (2001). Sensor Based Coverage for Demining: Exact Cellular Decompositions and Uncertain Detectors, Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, 2001.

Claire Y, Schervish M, Acar EU, Choset H (2000). Probabilistic Methods for Robotic Landmine Search (I), Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4195: Mobile Robots XV and Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies VII. Technical Report

Claire Y. (2000), Hierarchical Modeling of Arsenic Concentrations at Entry Points in US Public Drinking Water Supplies, Technical Report 739, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University.

• · Certified in Public Health (CPH) by the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE).
• · Certified Peer Reviewer by Researcher Academy at ELSEVIER.
• · Good Clinical Practice certification issued by CITI.
• · HIPAA Privacy certification issued by CITI.
• · Investigators/Research Staff certification issued by CITI.
• · Biomedical Responsible Conduct of Research certification issued by CITI.
• · Rave EDC Essentials for Clinical Research Coordinators issued by Medidata Academy.
• · Advanced Rave EDC for Site Users issued by Medidata Academy.
• · EDC Inspection Readiness for Clinical Sites issued by Medidata Academy

• · SAS 9.4 (PC), SAS Life Science Analytics Framework (LSAF), R/ RStudio
• · nQuery, PASS
• · MS SQL, Tableau, REDCap
• · Microsoft Office