Background
Helms, Ronald William was born on October 30, 1941 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
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Helms, Ronald William was born on October 30, 1941 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
Bachelor in Mathematics, University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1963. Master of Arts in Computer Science, University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1969.
Lab assistant, programmer agricultural research laboratory University Tennessee, Oak Ridge, 1963—1964, assistant director computation center, instructor department mathematics Knoxville, 1964—1966. Lecturer, assistant professor to professor, professor emeritus department biostatistics University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1968. Chairman, chief science officer Rho, Inc., since 1984.
Associate director central patient registry the lipid research clinics program University North Carolina, 1971—1974, director, principal investigator, statistics and data management center, 1973—1975, associate director Guatemala food wastage and sanitation cost-benefit methodology project, 1974—1978, director biometry core the lung injury by childhood infections project, 1978—1991, statistician, psychosocial responses to cleft lip and palate treatment, 1989—1991. Consultant State of Alaska, Juneau, Anchorage, 1983—1986, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Attorneys at Law, Washington, Glaxo Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Institute Nutrition Central America and Panama, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Inter-American Institute Agricultural Sciences, San Jose, Costa Rica, Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, New York, Marion Merrell Dow, Kansas City, Kansas, Merck, Sharpe, & Dohme, Philadelphia, Nabisco, East Hanover, New Jersey, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, New York City, Ralston Purina, St. Louis, Beecham Laboratories, Bristol, Tennessee, Smith, Kline & French, Philadelphia, SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, Syntex, Inc., Palo Alto, California, World Health Organization, Geneva, Cambridge NeuroSci., Massachusetts, Cato Research, Ltd., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Clinical Research International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuria, Brasilia, Brazil, Federal Institute of Public Health, Belgrade, First Brands Corporation, Danbury, Connecticut, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco.
Fellow: American Statistical Association (ad hoc committee on membership 1981, board directors 1988-1990). Member: SAS Users' Group International (chair 1977-1977), ASA Statistical Computing Section (program chair 1980, chair 1982), Association Computing Machinery, American Statistical Association National Program Committee, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics Statistics, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, American Statistical Association Biopharm. Section (chair, committee on symposia 1985-1986, program chair 1986-1987, Best Paper award 1992, 1993), Food and Drug Administration Biopharm.
Section (member executive committee 1986-1990), Society Clinical Trials (board directors 1991, chair electronic communications committee 1995-1996), Food and Drug Administration Biopharm. (member planning committee 2003-2004), Drug Information Association (biostatistics special interest area committee 2002-2004, chair, database standards subcommittee 2003-2005), International Statistical Institute, Delta Omega, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Mary Wagner; children: Laura Elizabeth, Russell Wagner.