Kuang-Kuo Gordon Lan

Dr. Lan received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics (1974) from Columbia University. After his Ph.D., Dr. Lan worked at NIH as a Mathematical Statistician (1980-1989), Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at George Washington University (1989-1995), Senior Technical Advisor/Distinguished Scientist at Pfizer (1995-2002), Research Fellow at Sanofi-Aventis (2002-2005) and Senior Scientific Director at Johnson & Johnson (from 2005 until retiring in January 2019). He is serving as the Sr. Statistical Advisor. Dr. Lan has published over 70 research papers on statistical methods in medical research and has given over 230 invited talks at universities and professional meetings worldwide. His most notable contribution is the development, with Dr. David DeMets, of the alpha spending approach to the design and interim analysis of clinical trials. He is also a co-author (with Drs. Mike Proschan and Janet Wittes) of the guiding book titled “Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials: A Unified Approach”, which is widely used by industry and academia as a textbook in clinical trial design. Gordon was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1992, and Fellow of the Society of Clinical Trials in 2009.