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Experience

Aug-06 – present	Principal Statistician		A & L Consulting, LLC 371 Millwood Ave Roseville, MN 55113

Founded A & L Consulting, LLC.

Jan-06 – Aug-06	Principal Statistician / Statistics Supervisor		Medtronic Gastroenterology and Urology 4000 Lexington Ave N Shoreview, MN 55126
Sep-04 – Jan-06	Senior Statistician

Participated in the design of clinical trials using sound and appropriate statistical methodology. Collaborated with internal colleagues and external investigators to evaluate and report on the safety, efficacy and marketability of products and therapies. Participated in writing study reports, abstracts, manuscripts, and other documents. Prepared and wrote statistical analysis plans, wrote statistical programs. Interacted with FDA statistical and/or medical reviewers to negotiate appropriate study designs, address specific issues, and defend analytic approach. Reviewed/consulted numerous physician sponsored clinical research and marketing research protocols. Interacted with KOLs and physician consultants on therapies, clinical research and statistics. Worked in business development cross-function team. The go-to statistician for both statistics and therapy outcome. Educated clinical team and promoted statistical thinking in the design of clinical studies. Hired and built a team of three clinical statisticians. People supervisory and project management.

Jul-04 – Sep-04	Senior Biostatistician		3M Pharmaceuticals 3M Center, St. Paul, MN 55144
Jul-02 – Jun-04	Advanced Biostatistician

Provided consultation and supports to drug discovery department on study design and statistical data analysis; Defined statistical aspects of protocol design, such as trial design, sample size, and analysis method; Designed and executed effective and expeditious SAS programs to generate statistical results; Assigned statistical programming tasks to SAS programmers; Interpreted and documented key statistical results, and effectively communicated to team; Interacted with other statisticians, clinical research associates, data management team, medical writers and physicians to facilitate completion of assignments.

Aug-01 – May-02	Statistician (Half Time)		Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, VA Medical Center Minneapolis, MN 55417

Applied statistical models and methods for Center's research projects; Consulted investigators/physicians on the application of statistics in medical and health science research areas.

Aug-97 – Aug-01	Research Assistant		Limnological Research Center University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455

Stable isotope research; mathematical/statistical modeling of hydrology and atmosphere exchange and climate change.

Sep-93 – Aug-94	Software Trainer		Beida Software, Inc. Beijing, P. R. China. 100871

Taught Excel and developed Excel Visual Basic applications for accounting/finance/marketing.

Computing Skills

SAS, S-PLUS, R, VB/VBA, SQL, EXCEL, Web Design, Oracle, Oracle Clinical

Education

M.S., Biostatistics	May-02	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
M.S., Environmental Biology	Jul-97	Peking University, Beijing, China

Currently enrolled in Biostatistics PhD program (Part Time) at University of Minnesota, Twin Cites, MN.

Professional Affiliations

Member of the American Statistical Association

Publications

• Journal Articles

Erin M. Warshaw, Ross Jon Wohlhuter, An Liu, Sarah A Zeller, Rachel A Wenner, Sacharitha Bowers, Julie C Schultz, H. Irving Katz, Calogera L McCormick, Anne Parneix-Spake (2006), “Results of a randomized, double-blind, vehicle-controlled efficacy trial of pimecrolimus cream 1% for the treatment of moderate to severe facial seborrheic dermatitis,” Submitted to Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, September, 2006.

Sharone K. Askari, Sarah E. Schram, An Liu, Ann K. Bangerter, Erin M. Warshaw (2006), “Evaluation of prospectively-collected, presenting symptoms of biopsy-proven melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and seborrheic keratosis in an elderly population,” Submitted to Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, August, 2006.

Wenner R, Askari SK, Cham PMH, Kedrowski DA, Liu A., Warshaw EM (2006), “A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial of duct tape for the treatment of common warts in an adult population,” Accepted by Archives of Dermatology, August, 2006

Juan P. Jaimes, An Liu, Sachin Bhardwaj, Erin M. Warshaw (2006), “Optimizing reproducibility for clinical studies involving patch testing and application of topical preparations,” To appear in Dermatitis, June 2006.

Sachin Bhardwaj, Juan P. Jaimes, An Liu, Erin M. Warshaw (2005), “A double-Blind, randomized, placebo-controlled pilot study comparing topical immunomodulating agents and corticosteroids for treatment of experimentally induced nickel contact dermatitis,” Submitted to Dermatitis, December, 2005

Joan M. Griffin, James K. Struve, Dorothea Collins, An Liu, David Nelson, Hanna E. Bloomfield (2006), “Long term clinical trials: how much information do participant retain from the informed consent process?” Contemporary Clinical Trials, 27, 441-448.

Chap T Le, Patricia M. Grambsch, An Liu (2005). “Estimation of cancer drug potencies and relative potencies from in vitro data,” Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 15, 903-912.

Warshaw, E., Liu, A., Jerstad, K., Lee, G., Larson, K., Farrell, A., Bailey, J., Nelson, D. (2003), “Pilot evaluation of a convenient and cost-effective method of patch testing,” American Journal of Contact Dermatitis, 14, 15-19.

• Abstracts, Oral and Poster Presentations

A complete list of 5 abstracts and 5 oral/poster presentations are available upon request.

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