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MetrumRG is excited to welcome Dick Brundage, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FISoP, FCP as Principal Scientist II and a member of MetrumRG’s Science Advisor group. As a Science Advisor, Dick will provide strategic support and technical guidance for clients and staff during the planning and execution of our quantitative-based decision support services.  He will also enrich MetrumRG’s open-source training materials and long-standing commitment to pharmacometrics education.  

Welcome back to our blog series: Employee Spotlights! MetrumRG values our employees as both team members and individuals. This series features new employees each month and provides professional and personal insight, so we can celebrate our individuality and commonalities. 

Welcome to the second edition of our new blog series: Employee Spotlights! MetrumRG values our employees as both team members and individuals. This series features new employees each month and provides professional and personal insight, so we can celebrate our individuality and commonalities. 

We're excited to announce our new blog series: Employee Spotlights! MetrumRG values our employees as both team members and individuals. This series features new employees each month and provides professional and personal insight, so we can celebrate our individuality and commonalities. 

Each February, Metrum Research Group raises awareness for our fight against rare diseases. We kicked off February by highlighting a few of these rare diseases, sharing the effects of the diseases, and the hope MetrumRG's work efforts provide.

Over the course of the last decade, a variety of methods have been proposed for fitting pharmacometric models to outcomes with constrained pharmacodynamic scales. One approach is to model the residual distribution as a Beta distribution (methods that employ this strategy are referred to broadly as "Beta regression" methods.) There are several reasons why one might choose to NOT use Beta regression in pharmacometrics: 

A remote workforce inspired creativity as Metrum Research Group found ways to remain committed to our mission to fight disease through community outreach. Employee efforts over the past several months have included food and toy donations, an employer-match of employee donations to Direct Relief for COVID-19 efforts, and support for the Alzheimer’s Association and the Lupus Foundation of America. MetrumRG employees also had the opportunity to continue support for the National Society of Black Engineers by reviewing resumes and conducting mock interviews with students. 

Metrum Research Group is excited to be a founding sponsor of the recently launched Connecticut chapter of Women In Bio (WIB).  WIB is a national organization supporting diversity and inclusion for women in the life sciences. Founded in 2002, WIB’s mission is to educate, engage, and empower women from the classroom to the boardroom. The organization’s pillars are Young Women In Bio’s STEM programming, the Boardroom Ready program, The Entrepreneur Center, and WIB’s growing Mentorship community.

When the world changed in March due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and many people began to feel disconnected, MetrumRG stepped up to keep our team members engaged with each other and with our mission to improve health and defeat disease. Since we could not partake in our normal outreach efforts of collecting food, working on a Habitat for Humanity project, or even just sharing a meal together, creativity came into play. 

MetrumRG is proud to continue to be an educational resource for our community by offering open, free pharmacometrics training through a variety of mediums. The range of courses and training content, listed here: metrumrg.com/courses/, includes a series of courses that were intended to progress from introductory through more advanced topics according to "MI" course number, e.g., MI210 (intro to pharmacometrics modeling and simulation) would be completed prior to MI212 (intermediate/advance topics), etc.

We have since added several "special topic" courses. In general, these are likely best done after completing the "MI" courses.

We also encourage individuals to periodically check our github site (github.com/metrumresearchgroup) -- we often post our workshop materials to this site.  For example, the hand-outs/slides for the two workshops we taught at ACoP10 (Fall 2019) have been posted here: