Katherine E. Giacoletti, M. Statistics Merck & Co., Inc.

Katherine has worked as a statistician in the Pharmaceutical industry for 20 years and has expertise across the product lifecycle, from non-clinical product and process development through validation and commercial supply, as well as all stages of clinical development from First in Human through licensure and beyond. Katherine is highly skilled in a wide range of statistical methodologies, including Bayesian modeling and prediction, and has the expertise to choose the best methodology to meet both scientific and business demands. She earned her Masters of Statistics at North Carolina State University, with a focus in biostatistics, and before starting in Pharma she worked in survey research at the Research Triangle Institute. Katherine lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and daughter and 2 cats, and in her spare time is a dancer and a teacher of Scottish dancing.