Dr. Valerie Durkalski is on faculty in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and holds membership in the International Biometric Society, The Society for Clinical Trials and the American Statistical Association, and serves on the ITV review committee for NIMH. She is also the Associate Director of MUSC's Data Coordination Unit, a clinical data management and statistical center located in Charleston, SC.

Dr. Durkalski received a B.S. in Biology from Tulane University, an M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management from Emory University, and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. She has over seven years experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials with a focus in digestive diseases and neurosciences. Her research has focused on the analysis of clustered binary data and the design and analysis of non-inferiority clinical trials. She lectures frequently on topics related to clinical trials. For more informaion, email info@cbrintl.com or durkalsv@musc.edu.

Selected peer-reviewed publications include