Richard Kay receives Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine Presidents Medal
20th Nov 2019
Richard has been awarded the Presidents Medal of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine for his 'Outstanding Services to Pharmaceutical Medicine'. The medal was awarded at the Faculty Annual Dinner on November 13th, 2019.
Here is the announcement in full.
Dr Richard Kay
Dr Richard Kay is well known amongst pharmaceutical physicians, as a distinguished statistician, who provides extensive consultancy and training services to the pharmaceutical industry under his banner of RK Statistics Ltd.
After spending 15 years in academia at the Universities of Salford, Heidelberg and Sheffield, he set up his first company, S-Cubed, in 1989, which subsequently merged, in 1997, with Parexel International. He held the position of Vice-President at Parexel and was Worldwide Head of Statistics and Statistical Programming from 1999 to 2004. In 2005 he left Parexel to focus on his core interests through RK Statistics Ltd.
Dr Kay has been visiting Professor at the School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University since 2010. His connections with pharmaceutical medicine also began there several years before, and he has taught medical statistics and critical appraisal modules on the Postgraduate Course in Pharmaceutical Medicine to countless FPM members and colleagues.
Dr Kay undertakes a wide range of work intimately connected with all aspects of medicines development: from training courses for statisticians and non-statisticians, as an independent member of Data Monitoring Committees and Data and Safety Management Boards across all phases of clinical development in a large variety of therapy areas, and as Statistical Consultant on the design and analysis of clinical studies in support of regulatory submissions. He is also a section editor of the Pharmaceutical Statistics journal.
For over twenty years he has been integral to the development of the curriculum for Pharmaceutical Medicine Specialist Training (PMST), and for the statistical and data management content and update of the Syllabus for Pharmaceutical Medicine, from which courses, curricula and examinations are derived. This is a contribution of great importance to the international development of Pharmaceutical Medicine as a discipline and for the development of professionals and specialists in the field.
Dr Kay has equally quietly stamped his authority, charm and very professional approach on statistics for non-statisticians in practice. Learning from doing, theory into practice are Dr Kay’s trademarks, and he has endeared himself to his students as an exceptional and memorable communicator and practitioner of this fundamental area of our practice, difficult though it is to the mathematically-challenged!
For over two decades Dr Kay has been at the heart of Pharmaceutical Medicine, FPM, the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine and PMST, ensuring that our data and their interpretation and communications are factual, unbiased and well-balanced. For these contributions to Pharmaceutical Medicine, Dr Richard Kay is awarded the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine President’s Medal.
Richard has been awarded the Presidents Medal of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine for his 'Outstanding Services to Pharmaceutical Medicine'. The medal was awarded at the Faculty Annual Dinner on November 13th, 2019.
Here is the announcement in full.
Dr Richard Kay
Dr Richard Kay is well known amongst pharmaceutical physicians, as a distinguished statistician, who provides extensive consultancy and training services to the pharmaceutical industry under his banner of RK Statistics Ltd.
After spending 15 years in academia at the Universities of Salford, Heidelberg and Sheffield, he set up his first company, S-Cubed, in 1989, which subsequently merged, in 1997, with Parexel International. He held the position of Vice-President at Parexel and was Worldwide Head of Statistics and Statistical Programming from 1999 to 2004. In 2005 he left Parexel to focus on his core interests through RK Statistics Ltd.
Dr Kay has been visiting Professor at the School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University since 2010. His connections with pharmaceutical medicine also began there several years before, and he has taught medical statistics and critical appraisal modules on the Postgraduate Course in Pharmaceutical Medicine to countless FPM members and colleagues.
Dr Kay undertakes a wide range of work intimately connected with all aspects of medicines development: from training courses for statisticians and non-statisticians, as an independent member of Data Monitoring Committees and Data and Safety Management Boards across all phases of clinical development in a large variety of therapy areas, and as Statistical Consultant on the design and analysis of clinical studies in support of regulatory submissions. He is also a section editor of the Pharmaceutical Statistics journal.
For over twenty years he has been integral to the development of the curriculum for Pharmaceutical Medicine Specialist Training (PMST), and for the statistical and data management content and update of the Syllabus for Pharmaceutical Medicine, from which courses, curricula and examinations are derived. This is a contribution of great importance to the international development of Pharmaceutical Medicine as a discipline and for the development of professionals and specialists in the field.
Dr Kay has equally quietly stamped his authority, charm and very professional approach on statistics for non-statisticians in practice. Learning from doing, theory into practice are Dr Kay’s trademarks, and he has endeared himself to his students as an exceptional and memorable communicator and practitioner of this fundamental area of our practice, difficult though it is to the mathematically-challenged!
For over two decades Dr Kay has been at the heart of Pharmaceutical Medicine, FPM, the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine and PMST, ensuring that our data and their interpretation and communications are factual, unbiased and well-balanced. For these contributions to Pharmaceutical Medicine, Dr Richard Kay is awarded the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine President’s Medal.