Dr. James Buchanan is presently an independent drug safety consultant. Dr. Buchanan began his industry career at Genentech where he worked for 9 years in the areas of medical information and drug safety. He subsequently established the drug safety departments at Gilead, Tularik and Nuvelo. Dr. Buchanan next served at BioSoteria as the head of the medical and safety consulting group. Dr. Buchanan is currently president of Covilance, LLC, a drug safety consulting service. He is also a co-lead of the American Statistical Association Biopharmaceutical Safety Working Group Interactive Safety Graphics taskforce that is developing novel, open-source interactive graphical tools to identify and evaluate safety issues during drug development.

Greg served in the Navy and taught HS math and physics before earning his PhD in biostatistics from the University of Texas. He co-led a crossfunctional company initiative at Merck to develop and implement the Aggregate Safety Assessment Planning (ASAP) process. His research on blinded safety monitoring procedures is being developed in collaboration with statistical and clinical scientists at several pharmaceutical companies (including AbbVie and Merck). Greg co-leads, with Mary Nilsson and Scott Proestel, the PHUSE Safety Analytics working group; he established (with Bill Wang) the ASA Biopharm Safety Monitoring working group; and he pioneered the joint DIA-ASA Interdisciplinary Safety Evaluation (DAISE) scientific working group.