Nutrition & Food Sciences

Biography

Prior to joining Duke University, Chow was the Director of TCOG (Taiwan Cooperative Oncology Group) Statistical Center and the Executive Director of National Clinical Trial Network Coordination Center. Prior to that, Chow also held various positions in the pharmaceutical industry such as Vice President, Biostatistics, Data Management, and Medical Writing at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA; Executive Director, Statistics and Clinical Programming at Covance, Inc., Director and Department Head at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Plansboro, NJ; Senior Statistician and Research Statistician at Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Division, Warner-Lambert Company, Ann Arbor, MI and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Rouses Point, NY. Through these positions, Chow provided technical supervision and guidance to project teams on statistical issues and presentations before partners, regulatory agencies or scientific bodies, defending the appropriateness of statistical methods used in clinical trial design or data analyses or the validity of reported statistical inferences. Chow identified the best statistical and data management practices, organizes and leads working parties for development of statistical design, analyses and presentation applications, and participated on Data Safety Monitoring Boards in clinical research and development. Chow's professional activities include playing key roles in many professional organizations such as officer, Board of Directors member, Advisory Committee member, and Executive Committee member. He has served as Program-chair, session-chair moderator, panelist and instructor faculty at many professional conferences, symposia, workshops, tutorials and short courses. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics. Chow is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Biostatistics Book Series at Chapman and Hall/CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group. He was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1995 and an elected member of the ISI (International Statistical Institute) in 1999. He was the recipient of the DIA Outstanding Service Award (1996), ICSA Extraordinary Achievement Award (1996), and Chapter Service Recognition Award of the American Statistical Association (1998). Chow was appointed as Scientific Advisor to the Department of Health, Taiwan in 1999-2001 and 2006-date. Chow was President of the International Chinese Statistical Association, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Chinese Pharmaceutical Affairs, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Statistics of the DIA.

Abstract

Abstract : Challenges in clinical nutritional research: How adaptive design can help?