Dennis W. King, PhD
President & CEO/Senior Statistician

Dennis W. King is President and Founder of STATKING Consulting Inc., Cincinnati, OH. During his tenure as President, STATKING Consulting has become a nationally known Contract Research Organization providing a large array of clinical study services for regulatory approval studies. Over the past 30 years as a statistical consultant, he has provided expertise on experimental design and data analysis for clinical studies to hundreds of pharmaceutical and medical device clients. Dr. King has interacted with FDA personnel at FDA committee meetings and FDA scientific advisory committee meetings on behalf of his clients. He has served as statistician on Data Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) on a number of clinical trials. He has taught industry short courses and given talks at clinical thought leader events such as the Conference on Stent Technologies. His expertise in statistical methods extends across various therapeutic areas including antidepressants, osteoporosis/HRT drugs and a variety of medical devices including stents and catheters. He received his PhD in statistics in 1988 from Texas A&M University.

Roderick L. Lashley, BS
Executive Vice President

Roderick L. Lashley is Executive Vice President for STATKING Consulting Inc., Cincinnati, OH. Mr. Lashley has led the statistical programming and data management sections of STATKING Consulting Inc. since 1994. He is a Certified SAS Programmer with expertise in all SAS products and the SAS macro language. Mr. Lashley has been active in CDISC and has given presentations at professional meetings such as DIA's Clinical Data Management Conference and the Pharmaceutical SAS Users Group Meeting. He has developed SOPs for all data management related processes. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics in 1982 from Case Western Reserve University.

Clare Geiger, RN
Director of Data Management

Clare Geiger is Director of Data Management for STATKING Consulting, Inc. Ms. Geiger has over twenty five years of combined experience within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Ms. Geiger manages a team of data management professionals that are responsible for all EDC and paper-based data management activities at STATKING.

Prior to her current position at STATKING, Ms. Geiger served as a Project Manager and Section Head of Quality Assurance at STATKING. In that position, she was responsible for the writing and maintaining of STATKING SOPs and other quality assurance tasks. As a Project Manager, Ms. Geiger managed internal cross functional teams in the execution of data related services.

Prior to joining STATKING, Ms. Geiger managed projects for pharmaceutical and contract research companies, ensuring company compliance to global regulatory requirements, managed a staff of associates responsible for all safety reporting, established staff training programs and provided global support to a pharmacovigilance software system. Ms. Geiger is a registered nurse.

Scott D. Horton, MS
Director of Statistical Programming

Scott D. Horton is Director of Statistical Programming for STATKING Consulting, Inc. Mr. Horton has over 17 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Horton currently oversees a department of statistical programmers that are responsible for all of statistical programming and data management programming activities for SCI.

Mr. Horton has been either the statistician or statistical programmer for numerous clinical studies. He has written hundreds of programs to analyze clinical data in a variety of therapeutic areas (including Anesthesia, Analgesia, Central Nervous System, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive System, Osteoporosis, and Oncology). Mr. Horton has also lead data management activities at three organizations prior to joining SCI. He has overseen the design, development, and implementation of data management plans, databases, data entry screens, and logic checks in support of clinical trials. Mr. Horton received an M.S. degree in statistics in 1990 from Brigham Young University and a B.S. in statistics in 1988 from Brigham Young University.

Jeff Osterhaus
Senior Contracts Manager

Jeff Osterhaus is the Senior Contracts Manager for STATKING Consulting, Inc. Mr. Osterhaus is responsible for all contracts negotiated between SCI and its clients. Mr. Osterhaus assists with marketing efforts and various other special projects. Mr. Osterhaus has a background in cost accounting and financial analysis and has been in the clinical research industry for the last 9 years. Prior to joining SCI, Mr. Osterhaus was a cost accounting manager and a project financial analyst with Kendle International, Inc. In those roles, Mr. Osterhaus managed the revenue and investigator accounting processes as well as supported project leaders and functional team leads in budget management with an emphasis on preparing changes in scope. Mr. Osterhaus received a B.S. degree in finance in 1994 from Miami University.