Greg Ball, Ph.D.
Safety Data Scientist, ASAPprocess
Greg has 38 years of strong leadership, managing people and projects; including 13 years as a traditional Statistician (MD Anderson, Applied Logic Associates, Quintiles, and Astellas) and 11 years as a Safety Data Scientist (AbbVie, Merck, and ASAPprocess). He served in the Navy and taught high school math and physics before earning his MS in Statistics from Purdue and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Texas. He co-led a company initiative at Merck between Clinical Safety and Safety Statistics to develop and implement the Aggregate Safety Assessment Planning (ASAP) process. His research on blinded safety monitoring procedures is being developed in collaboration with statistical and clinical scientists at several pharmaceutical companies (including AbbVie and Merck).
To advocate for aggregate safety assessments and cross-disciplinary scientific engagement, Greg partners in leading the following groups some of which he established: the PHUSE Safety Analytics working group; the ASA Biopharm Safety Monitoring working group; and the joint DIA-ASA Interdisciplinary Safety Evaluation (DAISE) scientific working group.