Key Personnel

Dennis W. King, PhD

Dennis W. King, PhD
President & CEO

Dennis W. King is President and Founder of STATKING Clinical Services, Cincinnati, OH. During his tenure as President, STATKING 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

Roderick L. Lashley, BS
Executive Vice President

Roderick L. Lashley is Executive Vice President for STATKING Clinical Services, Cincinnati, OH. Mr. Lashley has led the statistical programming and data management sections of STATKING 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

Clare Geiger, RN
Director of Data Management

Clare Geiger is Director of Data Management for STATKING Clinical Services. 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.

Jeff Osterhaus

Jeff Osterhaus
Senior Contracts Manager

Jeff Osterhaus is the Senior Contracts Manager for STATKING Clinical Services. Mr. Osterhaus is responsible for all contracts negotiated between STATKING and its clients. Mr. Osterhaus assists with marketing efforts and various other special projects. Mr. Osterhaus has a background in project accounting and financial analysis and has been in the clinical research industry since 1999. Prior to joining STATKING, Mr. Osterhaus was a project 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.

 
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