Mastering Statistical Programming: Journey, Skills, Challenges, and Future Insights | Episode 10

Episode Summary

In this episode of the Verisian Community Podcast, we welcome Sunil Kumar Pusarla to share his journey and insights from over 20 years in statistical programming. Sunil discusses the skills and traits essential for success as a statistical programmer, addressing the challenges and pressures that professionals face today. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining high-quality standards, even under tight deadlines, and compares the distinct cultures and expectations of big pharma versus smaller biotech companies. Sunil also explores how technological advancements are reshaping the role of statistical programmers and offers his vision for how the field will evolve over the next decade, including the new skills that will become crucial in the future.

Biography Sunil Kumar Pusarla

He acquired base and advanced SAS certifications as well as a couple of R certificates from HarvardX. He presented a few papers on SAS user conferences on techniques to help clinical and statistical programmers. His career at Omeros started as a SAS programmer and now he is leading the department as Sr. Director of Statistical Programming. He was involved in 4 successful regulatory filings and 3 of them got drug approvals.

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