The Effective Statistician Academy - The Effective Statistician

Mission and Vision

The Effective Statistician Academy helps statisticians and data scientists in healthcare to reach their potential and lead great science.

It brings together experts from all fields who can support statisticians and data scientists in the four areas it takes to be an effective statistician:

Leadership – leading yourself and others with and without formal authority as a manager
Innovation – understanding statistical methodology to apply the appropriate techniques for solving statistical challenges
Knowledge – knowing business and industry facts and trends
Excellence – working efficiently and effectively in a sustainable way

As a student of The Effective Statistician Academy, you will get professional support via online, hybrid and offline solutions. Explore the different courses and become a member of this community.

As a trainer of The Effective Statistician Academy, you will participate in the revenue of the course and increase your and your companies visibility in the wider community. You bring the knowledge, the Academy takes care of the rest. Contact Alexander Schacht, if you want to become a trainer.

The Effective Statistician Academy provides high quality and sustainable services to both students and trainers. It is based on proven online solutions for creating and promoting training. A dedicated team helps the trainers to create their courses and takes care of the promotions. The Academy reaches this level of quality and reliability by charging students fair prices and appropriately participating the trainers in the revenue.

The Academy is open for collaboration with non-profit organizations. Please reach out to Alexander Schacht for such collaborations.

Instructors:Alexander Schacht is a Statistician and the Executive VP of Launch and Commercialisation Data Sciences at Veramed. Alexander studied mathematics and received his PhD in biostatistics on non-parametric statistics from the University of Göttingen in Germany. He has authored more than 70 scientific manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and regularly speaks at international conferences, such as PSI and EADV.

With more than 20 years of experience working as a statistician in healthcare, Alexander is working primarily on phase IIIb and IV (RCT, observational studies, HTA submission, commercialisation work) with some regulatory work, as well as some work within the early phases of clinical development.

Alexander is interested in a broad range of methodological areas with a specific focus on helping pharmaceutical and biotech companies make better, data-driven decisions. In fact, this keen interest saw Alexander become the chair of the EFSPI/SPI SIG on benefit-risk, founder and chair of the data visualisation SIG and the Launch and Lifecycle SIG. Alexander has also served PSI as a board director responsible for communications.

Gary Sullivan currently consults as a Leadership Specialist and Statistical Scientist for my company Espirer Consulting since March, 2018. Before this, I was the Senior Director for Non-Clinical Statistics at Eli Lilly and Company, where I worked for 28 years. I also worked as a technical statistician in Non-Clinical Statistics for the first half of my career at Eli Lilly.

I led the development and instruction of the first leadership course at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2014.. I’ve provided leadership training to over 300 professionals in statistics and other fields, both at Eli Lilly and within the ASA. In addition, I’ve authored several articles and a book chapter on leadership for statisticians.

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Pittsburgh, and both a Master’s and Doctorate in Statistics from Iowa State University.