Pat Wozniak joined Advanced Clinical Research Services (ACRS) in 2007. She has been charged with creating and leading a statistical programming group that will provide a full range of statistical services to the pharmaceutical industry.

Pat has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 13 years, and has 25 years of statistical consulting and SAS programming experience. She has published over 60 articles in refereed journals.

Prior to joining ACRS, Pat was an Associate Director, Statistics, at Abbott Laboratories, where she worked for 13 years. She provided statistical support for clinical trials in psychiatry, neurology, gastroenterology, urology, and anesthesia. Most recently, she led a team of statisticians that supported a portfolio of Neuroscience compounds in all phases of development. Pat interacted with medical, clinical, data management, regulatory, licensing, SAS programming, and commercial teams, as well as with key opinion leaders in several therapeutic areas.

While at Abbott, Pat received a Chairman’s award for her contributions to a New Drug Application (NDA) and three President’s awards. She also received a Life Cycle Management award for innovation for her contributions to the design and implementation of the first Bayesian Adaptive Randomization trial to be conducted at Abbott.

Prior to joining Abbott, Pat was Associate Professor of Statistics at Louisiana State University. During her 12 years at LSU, she taught graduate-level statistics courses, supervised graduate students, and was a statistical consult for the Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the LSU Agricultural Center.

Pat received her B.A. degree in Psychology from Michigan State University. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, and a Masters of Applied Statistics degree from Louisiana State University.