PharmaSUG 2026, Boston, MA, May 31 - June 3, 2026:

• ET-412. An Experience Using R, SASSY and Tidyverse For Clinical Trial Analysis, From A SAS Programmer Perspective

PharmaSUG 2025, San Diego, CA, June 1-4, 2025:

• PO366 Slamming Datasets Together, Without Hurt, Using SAS, R and Excel

PharmaSUG 2024, Baltimore, MD, May 19-22, 2024:

• PO-324 Plotting Data by US ZIP Code

PharmaSUG 2023, San Francisco, CA, May 15-17, 2023:

• QT-239 Taming the Large SAS(r) Dataset by Splitting it Up

PharmaSUG 2021, Virtual, May 24-27, 2021:

• EP-182 Mashing Two Datasets Together
• AP-184 Thwarting Nasties
• AD-185 Generating the Demographics and Adverse Event Tables Using Excel and VBA

PharmaSUG 2019, Philadelphia, PA, June 16-19, 2019:

• AD-278 Creating a DOS Batch File to Run SAS Programs
• PO-277 Flagging On-Treatment Events in a Study with Multiple Treatment Periods
• PO-282 Joining the SDTM and the SUPPxx Datasets

PharmaSUG 2018, Seattle, WA, April 29 - May 2, 2018:

• BB23: Beyond MERGE for Combining Datasets
• HT02: A Collection of Items from a Programmers' Notebook (co-author with Cecilia Mauldin from Biogen)

SESUG 2017, Cary, NC, November 5-7, 2017:

• Setting the Percentage in PROC TABULATE
• Creating a DOS Batch File to Run SAS Programs
• Mapping Participants to the Closest Medical Center

PharmaSUG 2017, Baltimore, MD, May 14-17, 2017:

• DV09: Mapping Participants to the Closest Medical Center
• TT14: Defensive Programming -- Tips and Techniques for Producing that Dataset, Table, Listing or Figure First Time

PharmaSUG 2016, Denver, CO, May 8-11, 2016:

• SP10: "I Want the Mean, But not That One!"
• TT14: Setting the Percentage in PROC TABULATE

BASUG, Cambridge MA, December 3, 2015:

• Calculating the Percentage Using PROC TABULATE

PharmaSUG 2015, Orlando, FL, May 17-20, 2015:

• TT08: A Collection of Items from a Programmers' Notebook (co-author Cecilia Mauldin, Independent Consultant, Chapel Hill, NC)
• TT16: PROC PRINT the Granddaddy of all Procedures, Enhanced and Still Going Strong!

PharmaSUG 2014, San Diego, CA, June 1-4, 2014:

• BB19: Defensive Programming, Avoiding the Big Mistakes
• SP10: Our Survival Confidence Intervals are not the Same!
• TT15: Ma, How Long Do I Cook The Turkey For?

WUSS 2013, Las Vegas, NV, November 13-15, 2013:

• Our Quartiles Don't Agree!
• Ma, How Long Do I Cook the Turkey For?
• Plot Those Earthquakes!
• Creating a DOS Batch File to Run SAS Programs

NESUG 2013, Burlington, VT, September, 08-11, 2013:

• A Many to Many Merge, Without SQL?
• Removing Dummy Records From A Directory Of Datasets

PharmaSUG 2013, Chicago, IL, May 12-15, 2013:

• BB11: Four Useful VBA Utilities for SAS(r) Programmers
• SP08: Oh Quartile, Where Art Thou?
• TF19: SQL, HASH Tables, FORMAT and KEY= -- More Than One Way to Merge Two Datasets

NESUG 2012, Baltimore, MD, November 11-14, 2012:

• Avoiding the "Ooh Nasty"
• Plotting Earthquake Events Using SAS/GMAP and Data From the USGS
• Rediscovering the DATA _NULL_ for Creating a Report, And Putting That Text File Into RTF Format In a Single Datastep
• Adding Control to Your Data Using SAS System and Dataset Options

WUSS 2012, Long Beach, CA, September 5-7, 2012:

• Countdown of the Top 10 Ways to Merge Data
• PROC PRINT - the Granddaddy of all Procedures, Enhanced and Still Going Strong!
• Rediscovering the DATA _NULL_ for Creating a Report, And Putting That Text File Into RTF Format In a Single Datastep

PharmaSUG 2012, San Francisco, CA, May 13-16, 2012:

• PO02: Does NODUPKEY Select the First Record in a By Group?
• TF13: Rediscovering the DATA _NULL_ for Creating a Report, And Putting That Text File Into RTF Format In a Single Datastep

NESUG 2011, Portland, ME, September 11-14, 2011:

• >DS09: PROC PRINT - the Granddaddy of all Procedures, Enhanced and Still Going Strong!
• SA05: Baseball with Popcorn, Statistics and SAS - What A Mix

PharmaSUG 2011, Nashville, TN, May 8-11, 2011:

• CC13: Beyond the Comma Delimited File for Bringing Data into a SAS Dataset
• TT06: You Want that Program to Run on the PC in New Jersey and the Unix in Basel, without Modification??
• TU05: A Many to Many Merge, Without SQL?

NESUG 2010, Baltimore, MD, November 14-17, 2010:

• PO07: You Want the Program to Run on the PC in New York, Unix in London, and That Nutty System in Manchester, without Modification??
• CC13: Making an RTF file Out of a Text File, With a Single Datastep

PharmaSUG 2010, Orlando, FL, May 23-26, 2010:

• TU06: Countdown of the Top 10 Ways to Merge Data
• CC14: Making an RTF file Out of a Text File, With SAS

NESUG 2009, Burlington, VT, September 13-16, 2009:

• PO13: 9 Ways to Join Two Datasets

SAS Global Forum 2009, Washington, D.C., March 22-25, 2009:

• 197-2009: Merging Data Eight Different Ways
• 209-2009: Using SAS System and Dataset Options to Control Your Data

NESUG 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, September 14-17, 2008:

• BB12: Cryptography, The Art of Disguising The Written Word
• PO19: Merging Data Seven Different Ways

PharmaSUG 2008, Atlanta, GA, June 1-4 2008:

• PO26: Avoiding the "Ooh Nasty"
• TT03: Adding Control to Your Data Using SAS System and Dataset Options (Best Paper Award)

NESUG 2007, Baltimore, MD, November 11-14 2007:

• CC14: Controlling SAS Datasets Using SAS System and Dataset Options (or I need to track the data!)
• PO08: Calculating the Quartile (or why are my Quartile answers different?)

PharmaSUG 2007, Denver, CO, June 3-6 2007:

• PO14: Finding Duplicate Records in a SAS Dataset
• TT02: Comparing ODS RTF Output Files in Batch Using SAS (or, 500 ODS RTF Documents to Compare in 15 minutes!)
• Calculating the Quartile - an additional paper presented at the request of the Coders Corner Section Chair

Other Presentations:

These are some of the papers I have presented at different local meetings...

• 5 minutes - Four Ways of Merging PATDATA with other Datasets
• Pumping up the Pixels!
• Commenting SAS Code
• Making Changes in Data Easier for the Statistician to See
• How to Build the Kaplan-Meier Curve from the Ground Up
• Five minutes - ISO 8601 Dates and Times
• Avoiding Some Pitfalls
• Some Unexpected Results with PROC SORT and NODUPRECS
• "Ma, How Long Do I Cook the Turkey For?" (or "Show me a Table and a Graph done using ODS RTF!")