Michael O'Kelly

Michael O’Kelly is Senior Director in the Center for Statistics in Drug Development  (CSDD), Innovation, Quintiles. He has over twenty years experience in clinical statistics: ten as a project statistician, followed by eleven in research and consulting. His doctorate was in the area of applied statistical modelling, and this is reflected in two of his current research areas - missing data in clinical trials, and model based drug development  (MBDD). O’Kelly has worked with colleague Bohdana Ratitch and has published on straightforward ways of implementing sophisticated sensitivity analyses. O’Kelly and Ratitch’s implementations have recently been accepted by regulators, and are now being used by project statisticians in Quintiles and in several other pharmaceutical companies. O’Kelly is a member of the DIA Scientific Working Group on Missing Data.