Note:Poster presentations will happen on Day 3 from 08:30 - 10:30 and 13:00 -14:00

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

18-Sep-2014 – Conference Day 1

10:00 – 10:45

Registration

10:45 – 11:00

Welcome address

	Track 1 – Emerald 1 & 2	Track 3 – Emerald 3
11:00 – 13:00	Clinical Topics - Practice	Programming Utilities
Session 1	(1) Individual Contributor to Team Lead: Ways to build an effective team – Gloria D’Souza	(5) Use of Standard Programs Use of SAS functions and its effectivness across Clinical Data - Satish Honrao
	(2) Is your Liver Safe? (Not asking the Alcoholics!) – Deepak Yeole	(6)Utility to Archive, Update SAS programs during an ongoing study Refresh! - Vidya R
	(3) Challenges in Analyzing Quality of life (QOL) Questionnaires- Sugunesh Sivalingam	(7) Talaash- Search the bug before the bug bugs you - Sujoy Ghosh, Megha Agarwal
	(4) Is Your Data Set Really Validated: Beware of “Blind-Fold” Validation – Neha Mohan, Gayatri Karkera	(8) Automated Log Analyzer Dashboard - Palanisamy Mohan
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch

	Track 1 – Emerald 1	Track 2 – Emerald 2	Track 3 – Emerald 3
14:00 - 15:30	Clinical Topics - Practice	Data Standards	Programming Utilities
Session 2	(9) Decoding RT-qPCR data – Pubali Mattoo	(12) New implementations in Trial summary SDTM v3.1.3 - ParimalaPriyadharsini .R	(15) How to use Perl Regular Expression in Clinical data with basic examples - Harsha Chaitanya Vurugonda
	(10) Dealing with missing data in clinical trials: regulatory recommended approaches and programming techniques- P V V Satyanarayana K, Sugata Das	(13) Different approaches in Creation and Validation of Define.xml- Bhanumathi	(16) R programming environment for Text Analytics - Manish Pathak
	(11) Case study on DSUR Report - Ramkumar	(14) SDTM metadata driven missing value checks - Satheesh Kantam	(17) Kindly put on your 3D arrays for this feature - Anish Shah
15:30 – 16:00	Tea Break
16:00 – 17:30	Clinical Topics - Techniques	Data Standards	Programming Utilities
Session 3	(18) Implementation of SAS Reports for Data Cleaning- Soujanya Konda	(21) ADaM implementation: Vertical Limit - Korak Datta, Vishnu Bapunaidu	(24) How to assure reviewer code is not copy of programmer code in parallel programming - Sanganabasvaraj
	(19) TIBCO SpotfireÂ® Graphics: Faster, Intuitive, Reliable and Effective representation of data- Ajay Daparthi	(22) Demystify ADaM Specification Creation with a Case Study Approach - Abhinav Jain	(25) SAS SQL with humorous and coolest approach - Sadanand Deshmukh
	(20) Pooling strategy of clinical data - Kishore Kumar Paramkusham	(23) Creating Time to Event Dataset in ADaM way - Ashish Suresh Aggarwal
17:30 – 18:15	IASCT - Annual General Body Meeting (Emerald 3)
19:00 – 22:00	Evening Reception – Emerald 1, 2, 3

19-Sep-2014 – Conference Day 2

	Track 1 – Emerald 1	Track 2 – Emerald 2	Track 3 – Emerald 3
08:30 – 10:30	Clinical Topics - Techniques	Statistical Topics	Programming Utilities
Session 1	(26) Meta-Analysis on continuous measures - Ranjan Tiwari	(30)Generalized Estimating Equations - Ajay Singh	(34) Smart R programming concepts to optimize memory (RAM) consumption and execution time - Achintya Roy
	(27) Building a Smarter Mart - Maithilee Singh, Anuradha Tirumalaraju	(31) Requisite of Predictive Modelling in Pharmaceutical Industry - Priyanka Dhage	(35) ODS DOCUMENT & PROC DOCUMENT: A new method for appending TLFs and creating Table of contents in SAS - RavisekharJayanti
	(28) A Naive Approach to Improve Productivity while programming for Tables involving Cross frequencies - Diganta Bose	(32) Cox vs Kaplan for Survival Analysis - Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan	(36) SCL ( A super-sized Macro)- Ganga Satish Reddy
	(29) Analysis of Immunohistochemistry (IHC) data in Clinical trials - Prabhakar Munkampalli	(33) Data Mining on Completed Clinical trials - Senthilnathan Ramanathan	(37) SAS Data through web pages - Irfan Ali Khudawand
10:30 – 11:00	Tea Break
11:00 – 13:00	Clinical Topics - Practice	Data Standards	Graphics
Session 2	(38) Data integrity and Traceability On Clinical data processing- Ramakrishna Dundu	(42) Metadata - core of clinical trial - Kameshwari Peri	(46) Generating ‘FOREST PLOT’ effectively - ShravanMotupally, Mahesh Bandi
	(39) Risk Based Monitoring in Clinical Trials- Vivek Tamrakar	(43) Challenges Faced on SDTM Data Conversion for On-going Trials - Thamaraiselvan	(47) Customizing graphs using Graph Template Language (GTL) - Syed Feroz, Farheen Syed
	(40) ‘HOW LONG’ it would achieve…..- Praveen Krishna Nukala	(44) Journey of Legacy data to TLF not my way not your way......The CDISC way - Pradeep Kumar, Gloria Dsouza	(48) Understand. Annotate. Analyze - Jenny James, Shruthi Bidre Vijayakumar
	(41) Comparison of Tumor evaluation criteria - WHO vs. RECIST - Hariprasad S	(45) Where do you find your responses? - Pranav S, Periasamy K., Vinay Mahajan	(49) Funnel and Forest plots: Challenges in creating them and "R" solution - PreritPancholiya
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 22:00	Sightseeing Tour

20-Sep-2014 – Conference Day 3

08:30 – 10:30

Poster Exhibition (Pre-function Area)

10:30 – 11:00

Tea Break

	Track 1 – Emerald 1	Track 2 – Emerald 2	Track 3 – Emerald 3
11:00 – 13:00	Clinical Topics - Practice	Clinical Topics - Techniques	Management
Session 1	(50) Social Media and public database usage for prediction of SAEs and AEs safety database transparency- Siva Rama Krishna Sidda	(54)Analyzing Adverse Events Differently- Harish Kumar	(58) Building blocks - Boot camp for macro programmers - RashmiBaligidad
	(51) Transition from “hands-on” statistical programmer to leading a team of Statistical Programmers- Nishanth N	(55) Calculation and comparison of CTCAE grades – indeed a challenging task in oncology trial - Ratandeep Pandey	(59) An innovative unified meta-analysis tool for health outcomes research - Subhajit Gupta
	(52) Look into Survival Analysis From a Different Angle- Abhramoy Mandal	(56) Extracting and Validating your CRF annotations (-- Achieving Efficiency through SAS) - SenthilkumarKaruppiah	(60) What Happened to my Data?! - Harivardhan J
	(53) Comparator outcomes profile: need for an informed assessment of secondary outcomes for conducting post-launch observational studies in the HE&OR setting- Sameer Gokhale	(57) Spotfire integration with Python / R to enable decision sciences - Harsha Urlam	(61) An Alternative dynamic way to Import Multiple Excel files with Multiple Worksheets into SAS - Saurabh
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	Valedictory talk – Anand S (Emerald 1, 2, 3) “Patterns of analysis for large scale data”
15:00 – 15:45	Closing session (Emerald 1, 2, 3)