Darwinians
The person the company is named after
Who is Charles Robert Darwin?
The largest U.S. pharmaceutical firm by market cap
What is Johnson & Johnson?
ACO
What is an Accountable Care Organization?
This is the second largest IDN in Arizona by net patient revenue
What is HonorHealth?
An experimental procedure in which the experimenters but not the subjects know the makeup of the test and control groups during the actual course of the experiments
What is a single-blind?
The name of Darwin's ship
What is the HMS Beagle?
Pfizer's development partner in the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine
What is BioNTech?
NCCN
What is the National Comprehensive Cancer Network?
This multi-state IDN owns United Surgical Partners International (USPI)
What is Tenet Healthcare?
The Excel text function to join two or more text strings into one string
What is CONCATENATE?
This animal helped Darwin form his theories of natural selection and evolution
What are Darwin's Finches? (Fun fact: They're not actually finches but birds of the tanager family)
The company that recently exercised an option to develop a cancer vaccine with Moderna
What is Merck?
SOW
What is a Statement Of Work?
This is the president and CEO of Geisinger
Who is Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD?
This occurs when a researcher fails to reject a null hypothesis that is actually false
What is a Type II error? (false negative)
Darwin's recent placing on the Inc. 5000 list
What is 1,710?
Excluding COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, this was the best selling drug of 2021 globally
What is Humira (adalimumab)?
NCQA
What is the National Committee for Quality Assurance?
With 1,547 licensed beds, this is currently the largest hospital in the U.S.
What is Jackson Memorial Hospital?
The probability that a test of significance will correctly detect a deviation from the null hypothesis
What is statistical power?
The name of Darwin's seminal work
What is On the Origin of Species?
Excluding COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, this was the best selling cancer drug of 2021 globally
What is Keytruda (pembrolizumab)?
HER2
What is Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor 2?
This landmark report on medical errors was issued by the Institute of Medicine in 1999
What is, "To Err is Human"?
This general term describes what occurs when "systematic error [is] introduced into sampling or testing by selecting or encouraging one outcome or answer over others"
What is bias?
The original company name
What is Darwin Advisory Partners?
This Swiss city is a biotech hub with numerous firms large and small maintaining offices
What is Basel?
TPA
What is a Third-Party Access agreement?
The oldest medical school in the U.S.
What is the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania? (1765)
The z-score associated with a p-value of 0.05
What is +/- 1.96?
The name & acronym of John's first company
FaxWatch Inc (FWI)
Moderna initiated its first-in-human mRNA flu vaccine dosing in this year
What is 2015?
CBER
What is the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research?
The current Under Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Who is Dr. Shereef Elnahal?
A trial that contains an experimental treatment, an active reference treatment, and a placebo
What is a 3-arm trial?
The year Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands
What is 1835?
This company, no longer independent, was once America's oldest and largest drug maker
What is Parke-Davis?
SGLT2
What is Sodium-GLucose coTransporter-2?
The oldest hospital in the U.S.
What is NYC Health+Hospitals/Bellevue? (1736)
This is one of the most commonly used and widely known methods to correct for multiple comparisons in statistical testing
What is the Bonferroni correction?
This person first used the phrase, "survival of the fittest"
Who is English philosopher Herbert Spencer?
The year that amendments were passed to strengthen the FDA process following the thalidomide disaster
What is 1962? (Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments)
NIDDM
What is non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus? (type II diabetes)
Originally named the Asylum for the Insane, this is the largest psychiatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School
What is McLean Hospital?
The first randomized controlled trial was conducted for this illness in 1946
What is tuberculosis?
This is the final resting place of Charles Darwin
What is Westminster Abbey?
The current director of the FDA's Oncology Center of
Excellence
Who is Richard Pazdur, MD?
ERCP
What is endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography?
The city where in 1899, eight hospital superintendents met and formed a group which would become the American Hospital Association
What is Cleveland?
This statistical method popular in clinical research is based on a theorem named after its creator, an English statistician who died in 1761
What is Bayesian inference? (Thomas Bayes & Bayes' Theorem)