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Dr. Peace's first career was that of teaching and research at the University level. He previously taught Mathematics at Georgia Southern College, Clemson University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Randolph-Macon College, where he was a tenured professor of mathematics. He holds or has held numerous adjunct professorships: at the University of North Carolina, Duke University, the Medical College of Virginia, Temple University and the University of Michigan. Dr. Peace's second career was in research, technical support and management in the pharmaceutical industry. He held the positions of Senior Statistician at Burroughs-Wellcome, Manager of Clinical Statistics at A.H. Robins, Director of Research Statistics at SmithKline and French Labs, Senior Director of GI Clinical Studies, Data Management and Analysis, at G.D. Searle, and Vice President of World-Wide Technical Operations at Warner Lambert/Parke-Davis. Dr. Peace founded Biopharmaceutical Research Consultants, Inc. (BRCI), where he held the positions of President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer. BRCI is a contract research organization (CRO) providing a full line of services attendant to the research and development of pharmaceutical compounds, particularly with regard to the conduct of clinical (trial) investigations. Dr. Peace has made pivotal contributions in the development and approval of drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease, to prevent and treat gastrointestinal ulcers, to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, to treat anxiety, depression and panic attacks, to treat hypertension and arthritis, and several antibiotics. Dr. Peace is a member of several professional and honorary societies, including the Drug Information Association, the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society, the Biometric Society, Technometrics, the American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), Biometrika, and the American Statistical Association. He is a past member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, National Research Council. National Academy of Science. He is the recipient of numerous citations and awards: (1) Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), (2) the distinguished service award of the Drug Information Association, (3) Star and Featured Alumnus, School of Basic Sciences of the Medical College of Virginia, (4) Alumnus of the year in private enterprise, awarded by the Alumni Association of Georgia Southern University, (5) Alumnus of the year, awarded by the College of Science and Technology of Georgia Southern University, and (6) several meritorious service awards from the American Society for Quality Control. He is or has been Chair of: the Biostatistics Subsection of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA), the Biopharmaceutical Section of the ASA, the Training Committee of the PMA Biostatistics Subsection, and is Founder and Chair of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS). Dr. Peace founded BASS in 1993, to provide an opportunity for biopharmaceutical professionals to share insight to common biopharmaceutical problems in a timely manner, and to provide a source of funding to support graduate work in Biostatistics. Attendees and presenters at BASS derive from academia, the pharmaceutical industry and the US government, particularly the Food and Drug Administration. BASS represents a first-rate educational opportunity. Since its inception, BASS has raised approximately $400,000.00, with which endowments at the Medical College of Virginia and Georgia Southern University have been created. These endowments have supported 10 students with their biostatistics graduate programs: 9 BASS Fellows at MCV have completed their Ph.D. in Biostatistics (plus one with an MD degree), all of who are employed in the pharmaceutical industry, and 1 BASS Fellow at GSU. Dr. Peace is a reviewer or editor of several journals, including: Biometrics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics, Communications in Statistics, the Drug Information Journal, the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Journal, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Gastroenterology. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, now in its fourteenth year. He has contributed heavily to the medical, scientific and statistical literature by authoring or co-authoring over 150 articles and five books. Dr. Peace's responsibilities at GSU include the recruitment and mentoring of students in the new graduate program, Master of Public Health with emphasis in Biostatistics (MPHB). This program focuses on the design, analysis, interpretation and reporting of experiments that collect health related data. The program prepares individuals to function as applied biostatisticians in health related fields, particularly in the biopharmaceutical industry or governmental agencies. In addition, Dr. Peace established the Center for Biostatistics (CB), which allows consulting and hands-on training experiences for MPH Biostatistics faculty and students. Dr. Peace also provides biostatistical collaboration and support through the CB in support of the goals of the Georgia Cancer Coalition. Dr. Peace's research interests include (1) methodology pertinent to clinical trials, particularly cancer trials, (2) improving efficiency in the development of anticancer drugs, (3) making cancer clinical trials more attractive to patients, (4) and survival analysis methodology. Dr. Peace's dissertational research was in the area of maximum likelihood estimation and efficiency of hypothesis tests on survival parameters.
The content of personal and other unofficial home pages is not sanctioned by Georgia Southern University and does not represent official information or opinions of the University.Karl E. Peace, Ph.D. is solely responsible for the contents of this page.
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