PSI Career Young Event - October 2025

Joint PSI/EFSPI Visualisation SIG 'Wonderful Wednesday' Webinars

Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.

AIMS SIG - Open-Source Lunch Bites

Topic: R Package Basics. Our monthly webinar series allows attendees to gain practical knowledge and skills in open-source coding and tools, with a focus on applications in the pharmaceutical industry. This month’s session, “R Package Basics,” will introduce the fundamentals of working with R packages—covering how to install, load, and manage them effectively to support data analysis and reproducible research. The session will provide a solid starting point, clarify common misconceptions, and offer valuable resources for continued learning.

PSI Mentoring 2026

Date: Ongoing 6 month cycle beginning late April/early May 2026 Are you a member of PSI looking to further your career or help develop others - why not sign up to the PSI Mentoring scheme? You can expand your network, improve your leadership skills and learn from more senior colleagues in the industry.

PSI Book Club Lunch and Learn: Communicating with Clarity and Confidence

If you have read Ros Atkins’ book The Art of Explanation or want to listen to the BBC’s ‘Communicator in Chief’, you are invited to join the PSI Book Club Lunch and Learn, to discuss the content and application with the author, Ros Atkins. Having written the book within the context of the news industry, Ros is keen to hear how we have applied the ideas as statisticians within drug development and clinical trials. There will be dedicated time during the webinar to ASK THE AUTHOR any questions – don’t miss out on this exclusive PSI Book Club event! Haven’t read the book yet? Pick up a copy today and join us. Explanation - identifying and communicating what we want to say - is described as an art, in the title of his book. However, the creativity comes from Ros’ discernment in identifying and describing a clear step-by-step process to follow and practice. Readers can learn Ros’ rules, developed and polished throughout his career as a journalist, to help communicate complex written or spoken information clearly.

PSI Training Course: Effective Leadership – the keys to growing your leadership capabilities

This course will consist of three online half-day workshops. The first will be aimed at building trust, the backbone of leadership and a key to becoming effective. This is key to building a solid foundation. The second will be on improving communication as a technical leader. This workshop will focus on communication strategies for different stakeholders and will involve tips on effective communication and how to develop the skills of active listening, coaching and what improv can teach us about good communication. The final workshop will bring these two components together to help leaders become more influential. This will also focus on how to use Steven Covey’s 7-Habits, in particular Habits 4, 5 and 6, which are called the habits of communication. The workshops will be interactive, allowing you to practice the concepts discussed. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. There will also be reflective time where you can think about what you are learning and how you might experiment with it.

Speaker	Biography	Abstract
Judith Anzures-Cabrera, Roche	Judith, a statistician with 17 years at Roche, has worked on several therapeutic areas, focusing on Parkinson's Disease since 2019. Judith represents Roche at the Estimands Implementation Working Group where she has supported the implementation of the “Estimands Academy for Trial Teams”. Prior to Roche, she worked at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge and obtained her PhD from the University of Warwick.	Unmasking Estimands: A Hands-On Workshop for Curious Statisticians Are you a young statistician navigating the exciting world of clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry? Curious about the buzzword "estimand" and how it could make or break your study? Join us for an engaging and interactive session where we’ll crack open the estimand framework, unravel its importance, and explore how it influences clinical trial design. You'll dive into a real-world example that brings estimands to life, and roll up your sleeves to brainstorm the right questions to ask a Clinical Scientist based on specific trial objectives. As a bonus, you’ll hear how my favorite soup links to the estimand framework in the most unexpected way. Curious? Come along to find out!
Lizzi Pitt, GSK	Lizzi’s interest in the pharmaceutical industry started with a placement year during her maths and stats degree at Bath; Lizzi spent the year in a pre-clinical statistics group at Pfizer. She continued at Bath, joining the SAMBa doctoral training centre (Statistical Applied Mathematics at Bath). This consisted of an MRes followed by a PhD and appealed to her because it had a strong focus on industry collaboration. Lizzi’s PhD topic was optimising first in human trial designs. During her studies she undertook several summer placements, at UCB, Roche and a data science consultancy which greatly improved her R skills. After a brief post-doctoral position, Lizzi joined the statistical innovation group at UCB. Just under three years later she moved to a similar role at GSK, where she’s currently working. Lizzi has been volunteering within PSI Careers since 2021 and currently chairs the universities section.
Ellie van Vogt, Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU)	Ellie is a current NIHR Doctoral Fellow at Imperial College London, researching the use of causal machine learning for analysing heterogeneous treatment effects (HTEs) in randomised clinical trials (RCTs). They are interested in understanding how and when causal machine learning can be used in RCTs, how these methods extend to competing risks analyses, and how HTE results can be validated within adaptive RCTs. Ellie studied mathematics at Oxford University (2017-20), during which they completed a statistical research methods internship at Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU). Funded by an NIHR pre-doctoral fellowship (2020-22), Ellie completed an MSc in Health Data Analytics and Machine Learning at Imperial College London and then researched methods for estimating HTEs in critical care trials at ICTU. Before starting their PhD in 2023, Ellie worked as a network meta-analysis statistician at Imperial, and as a research assistant in machine learning for clinical trials collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute and MRC Clinical Trials Unit. During their PhD, Ellie has undertaken an internship at Novartis in Basel, Switzerland, in the advanced methodology and data science team, investigating HTE model selection techniques for RCTs.
Jemma Greenin, Veramed	Jemma Greenin is a Senior Statistician II with a strong foundation in pharmaceutical statistics and early-phase clinical research. She began her journey at the University of Bath, completing a placement year at Eli Lilly where she joined the PSI CALC team. Following this, she earned a Master’s degree from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and went on to join Veramed. At Veramed, Jemma works across a range of therapeutic areas in Early Phase studies and actively contributes to the PSI Careers Young Statisticians group, having previously lead the group.

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