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Kathryn Tucker, M.S.
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Kathryn Tucker, M.S. joined Statistics Collaborative in 2001. She is currently a member of the American Statistical Association, the Society for Clinical Trials, the International Biometrics Society (ENAR), the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and Mu Sigma Rho.
Since joining the company, Ms. Tucker has served as a project manager, coordinator, and programmer for various trials. She has assisted in writing protocols, prepared statistical analysis plans for several malaria vaccine trials, a cancer trial, and an epidemiological study, developed and audited numerous randomization schedules for single- and multi-center trials, and designed Case Report Forms and databases for several malaria trials. Ms. Tucker has also coordinated the preparation of and presented data safety monitoring reports for large, Phase III, multi-national studies of patients with cancer and for Phase I malaria vaccine trials. Ms. Tucker has also managed a food allergy trial, an epidemiological study of osteoporosis, and has worked on experimental designs and analyses of smaller, biomedical research projects.
Since 2004, Ms. Tucker has also served as the Director of Quality Assurance. She creates, revises, and maintains corporate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), trains employees on pertinent SOPs and regulatory guidelines, oversees the implementation of network security and documentation of employee training, and performs internal audits of various operational areas at SCI.
Prior to joining Statistics Collaborative, Inc., Ms. Tucker served as a consultant for the Statistical Consulting Center at Virginia Tech (2001); a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, where she taught introductory courses in Biological Statistics (1999-2001); an Applied Statistician at Corning, Incorporated, primarily focusing on quality control (1997-1999); a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech (1997); and a SAS programmer for the Virginia Water Quality Research Center (1997).
She received her B.S. in Statistics with a minor in Mathematics from Virginia Tech (1999) and her M.S. in Statistics from Virginia Tech (2000). She also participated in the 2001 Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.