April was a busy month for the Southern California Chapter. On April 9, the chapter held its 30th Annual Workshop in Applied Statistics at California State University, Long Beach. The event featured Alex Dmitrienko, a research advisor to Eli Lilly and Company, who gave a talk titled “Key Multiplicity Issues in Clinical Trials.”

The workshop reviewed key multiplicity issues arising in clinical trials—including analysis of trials with multiple endpoints, dose-control comparisons, and subgroups—and presented traditional multiplicity adjustment methods as well as recent advances in this area. It also discussed regulatory considerations and software implementation of multiplicity adjustment methods using SAS and R software. More than 50 attendees participated from industry, government, and academia. Representatives from SAS and Chapman & Hall/CRC also were present.

The chapter held its annual Careers Day in Statistics at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, on April 23. The event featured panel sessions in the morning with nine panelists from industry, government, nonprofit organizations, and academia who discussed the career opportunities, challenges, and requirements in their respective fields. This was followed by a career fair in the afternoon, during which exhibitors chatted with meeting participants and discussed, among other things, job openings at their organizations, what their organizations do, and what they do. More than 70 undergraduate and graduate students from universities across Southern California attended.