About Don Hopkins

Don received his scientific training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the department of psychology. He was an experienced software developer when he arrived at UNC and put those skills to use helping faculty researchers and dissertation candidates with complex statistical programming problems.

After completing his doctoral work Don spent ten years at Rho, Inc., a provider of high quality clinical research services. As Director of Software Development, he gained expert knowledge of clinical trials data management, FDA regulations on the use of computers for clinical trials, and emerging standards in the pharmaceutical industry.

Don has been an invited speaker on data quality issues at conferences of the Drug Information Association and the Southeast SAS Users Group. He has authored SOPs, training materials, user manuals, on-line help systems, grant proposals, software development plans and specifications, technical standards, software validation audits, and articles for peer-reviewed scientific journals.

He is also an excellent teacher and trainer. He has designed teaching materials and taught courses in a variety of settings, including undergraduate courses in psychology and computer science, staff seminars on application software, and training programs for new hires involved in programming and data management.

Don lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife, Jenny Campbell, their son Nate, two dogs and two cats.