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10 clinical statistical programming experts
These ten professionals have held clinical statistical programming leadership roles at pharmaceutical and biotech companies. A reader can learn how drug developers organize statistical programming for clinical trials and regulatory submissions.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anand Gaspar
LinkedInExperience: Director, Head Statistical Programming · SUN PHARMA
Director, Head Statistical Programming at SUN PHARMA since 2024. Former Associate Director, Statistical Programming (2019–2023) and Manager, Statistical Programming (2016–2019) at IQVIA; the profile describes over 15 years of bio-statistical programming in the pharmaceutical and CRO industry with expertise in SAS programming and CDISC guidelines.
Deepak Pandarivasagan
LinkedInExperience: Statistical Programming Director · AstraZeneca
Statistical Programming Director at AstraZeneca since 2024 and former Statistical Programming Associate Director there (2021–2024). The profile also lists Senior Statistical Programmer II at AstraZeneca (2020–2021), Principal Statistical Programmer at GCE Solutions Inc. (2019–2020) and Manager - Programming at GSK (2018–2019).
Julie Yefchak
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Statistical Programming · Neurocrine Biosciences
Executive Director, Statistical Programming at Neurocrine Biosciences since 2021 and former Director, Statistical Programming there (2017–2021). The profile says this person built and scaled Statistical Programming from a 2-person function into an organization of 17 employees plus about 14 contingent worker and service provider resources, becoming department head.
Krishna Sivakumar
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director, Statistical programming · Gilead Sciences
Sr Director, Statistical programming at Gilead Sciences since 2023. At Gilead the profile also lists Director, Statistical Programming at Gilead Sciences (2019–2023), Assoc Director, Statistical Programming (2018–2019) and Sr Manager, Statistical Programming (2016–2018), and it describes SAS programming for Phase I through Phase III studies and support for regulatory submissions to FDA, PMDA and EMA.
Lisa Lyons
LinkedInExperience: Director, Statistical Programming, MAEP · Johnson & Johnson
Director, Statistical Programming, MAEP at Johnson & Johnson since 2024, a role the profile says is accountable for statistical programming strategy and delivery for Medical Affairs and Established Product work. Former Head Clinical Programming, Clinical & Statistical Programming at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (2020–2024).
Megha Agarwal
LinkedInExperience: Director Statistical Programming · Revolution Medicines
Director Statistical Programming at Revolution Medicines since 2026. Former Associate Director Statistical programming (2023–2026), Senior Manager Statistical Programming (2019–2023) and Manager, Statistical Programming (2016–2019) at Gilead Sciences; the profile describes SAS work covering report and graph generation and ADAM/SDTM standards.
Venky Chakravarthy, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Associate Director, Statistical Programming · Takeda
Associate Director, Statistical Programming at Takeda since 2020, where the profile says this person contributes to oncology clinical trials by overseeing a team of SAS programmers and ensuring delivery of data analysis and reporting. The profile also lists Principal Analyst at Bristol Myers Squibb (2005–2006).
Yu Yang
LinkedInExperience: Director of Statistical Programming · Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.
Director of Statistical Programming at Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. since 2023. The profile lists Manager to Director of Statistical Programming at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals (2013–2023) and describes leading statistical programming teams, developing SOPs and ensuring CDISC compliance, with a focus on SAS programming, clinical data analysis and regulatory submission support.
Yun Zhang
LinkedInExperience: Director, statistical programming · Moderna
Director, statistical programming at Moderna since 2025 and former Associate Director at Moderna (2023–2025). The profile describes SAS programming for SDTM, ADaM and TFL and preparing NDA/BLA submission packages, including define files, reviewer guides and BIMO outputs; it also lists Sr principal statistical programmer at Servier Pharmaceuticals (2022–2023).
ZiJie Yuan
LinkedInExperience: Director of Statistical Programming · Encoded Therapeutics Inc.
Director of Statistical Programming at Encoded Therapeutics Inc. since 2024. Former Associate Director of Statistical Programming (2023–2024) and Senior Manager, Statistical Programming (2020–2023) at Corcept Therapeutics; the profile describes SAS programming with CDISC standards, SDTM and ADaM specifications and programming, Pinnacle 21 compliance checks and define.xml.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's company size to yours, since building a programming group at a small biotech differs from leading one inside a large drug company with many studies. Also decide whether your question is about submission work, standards and tooling or the split between in-house staff and outside providers, and ask which of these the person has handled directly.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide how much statistical programming to keep in-house versus send to outside providers?
- 02What does your process look like for producing SDTM and ADaM datasets and outputs for a submission, and where do delays usually start?
- 03How are you thinking about moving programming work from SAS to R or other open-source tools?
Reaching clinical statistical programming experts
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Pick one of the 10 people on this page and choose "Book a paid call", or describe your project to find others. You offer a fee for a 15-minute call or a written answer, Instant Expert finds the person's work email and sends the invitation, and they decide whether to accept. The list covers 10 companies, including SUN PHARMA, AstraZeneca and Neurocrine Biosciences, based on profile data retrieved on October 4, 2026. Being listed here doesn't mean someone has agreed to take calls.
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