ABOUT THE BOOK...
I Was Born in a Shack by Alligator Creek…
“My story is an account of growing up on tenant farms in Southwest Georgia—the son of hardscrabble, sharecropper parents that had only five years of formal education between them. Paid In Full is the story of the life journey of a child that came of age on a Georgia tenant farm in the 1950s. It is also a story that follows the journey from sharecropping to university classrooms and to the upper ranks of the pharmaceutical industry’s boardrooms prior to returning to Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, to establish a college of public health. While there are some works that detail the plight of poor black sharecroppers in the South, this might be one of only a very few that examines the role of poor white tenant farmers during that era. My book is a story of adversity, determination, achievement, philanthropy, loss, and love—a triumph of human will over circumstance.”
– Karl E. Peace, Ph.D
OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION
Publisher: Plowboy Press LLC
Published: 2008
Format: Hardbound, 435 pages
ISBN: 978-0-615-19479-0
All Copies of the Limited Run of “Paid In Full”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Karl E. Peace is currently the Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar (GCCDCS), Senior Research Scientist and Professor of Biostatistics in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University. He is the architect of the MPH in biostatistics and founding director of the Center for Biostatistics in the JPHCOPH. He holds the Ph.D. in biostatistics from the Medical College of Virginia, the M.S. in Mathematics from Clemson University, the B.S. in Chemistry from Georgia Southern College, and a Health Science Certificate from Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Peace’s first career was that of teaching and research at the university level. He previously taught at Georgia Southern College, Clemson University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Randolph-Macon College, where he was a tenured professor of Mathematics. He holds or has held numerous adjunct professorships: at the Medical College of Virginia, the University of Michigan, Temple University, the University of North Carolina, and Duke University.
Dr. Peace’s second career was in research, technical support and management in the pharmaceutical industry. He held the positions of Senior Statistician at Burroughs-Wellcome, Manager of Clinical Statistics at A.H. Robins, Director of Research Statistics at SmithKline and French Labs, Senior Director of GI Clinical Studies, Data Management and Analysis, at G.D. Searle, and Vice President of World-Wide Technical Operations at Warner Lambert/Parke-Davis. He then founded Biopharmaceutical Research Consultants, Inc. (BRCI), where he held the positions of President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Peace has made pivotal contributions in the development and approval of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, to prevent and treat gastrointestinal ulcers, to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, to treat anxiety, depression and panic attacks, to treat hypertension and arthritis, and several antibiotics.
He is or has been a member of several professional and honorary societies, including the Drug Information Association, the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society, the Biometric Society, Technometrics, the American Society for Quality Control, Biometrika, the American Statistical Association, and Kappa Phi Kappa. He is a past member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, National Research Council, National Academy of Science.
Dr. Peace is the recipient of numerous citations and awards: (1) Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, (2) Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), (3) Tito Majaries Lifetime Achievement Award from the Philippine Statistical Association. (4) Statistics Section of the APHA, (5) the Distinguished Service Award of the Drug Information Association, (6) Star and Featured Alumnus, School of Basic Sciences, and Founder’s Society Medal from the Medical College of Virginia, (7) College of Science and Technology Alumnus of the year, Alumnus of the year in private enterprise, Presidential Fellowship Award, and the First Recipient of the prestigious President’s Medal for outstanding service and extraordinary contributions, all from Georgia Southern University, (8) Deen Day Smith Humanitarian of the Year Award, and (9) several meritorious service awards from the American Society for Quality Control and the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS). He is past Chair of the Biostatistics Subsection of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA), the Training Committee of the PMA Biostatistics Subsection, the Biopharmaceutical Section of the ASA, Founder and Chair of Workgroup Activity of the BPS, and is Founder and Chair of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS).
Dr. Peace founded BASS in 1994 to provide an opportunity for biopharmaceutical professionals to share insight to common biopharmaceutical problems in a timely manner, and to provide a source for funding endowments to support graduate work in biostatistics. Attendees and presenters at BASS derive from academia, the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. government, particularly the Food and Drug Administration. Endowments have supported forty students in attaining the MPH or PhD in biostatistics.
Dr. Peace has a lengthy record of philanthropy to education. He has created twenty-one endowments at five institutions. Fourteen of these are at his undergraduate alma mater, Georgia Southern University, including five for students from his native Baker County, Georgia (two of these honor his high school mathematics teacher, Mr. Bill Tom Reeves, and principal, Mr. Joe Vines, and three honor his son, sister and brother). Three are at his PhD alma mater, the Medical College of Virginia. Two are at the PhD alma mater of his late wife, the University of California at Berkeley. One is at Randolph-Macon College and one is under the umbrella of the International Chinese Statistical Association. In addition, at Georgia Southern University, he endowed the first Eminent Scholar Chair, endowed the JPHCOPH – the first school of public health in the University System of Georgia, and endowed the first Eminent Scholar Chair in Public Health. He also established the first Endowed Chair in Biostatistics at UCB: the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Chair. These endowments have supported more than one hundred fifty students in various degree seeking programs.
Dr. Peace has also given generously in terms of time and money to various organizations in their fight against the war on cancer. These include the American Cancer Society, the Georgia Cancer Coalition, the Southeast Georgia Cancer Alliance and the Southwest Georgia Cancer Coalition.
His work has been published extensively in pharmaceutical, statistical, medical and scientific literature. He is the author or co-author of over one hundred articles and five books and the editor or reviewer of several peer-reviewed journals, including the founding editor of the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, now in its sixteenth year. One of his books: Biopharmaceutical Statistics for Drug Development has been translated into several foreign languages including Japanese, and has been used extensively as ‘the bible for drug development’ in the Japanese pharmaceutical industry. He has given over one hundred and fifty invited presentations worldwide in the scientific, statistical, medical and pharmaceutical arenas.
PRAISE FOR "PAID IN FULL"
“Paid In Full, the autobiography of Karl Peace, is an inspiring and powerful story of the triumph of the human spirit. Filled with honesty and insight, he tells of his rise from South Georgia sharecropper son to the heights of success and recognition. Yet, this is much more than just another Horatio Alger story. While Dr. Peace has certainly risen above his circumstances, his life is one of giving more than getting and the power of generosity to change lives. Paid In Full is an inspiration and a guide to success — and a good story well told.”
RANDY SOUTHERLAND
FREELANCE WRITER, ACWORTH, GA
“Paid In Full is an inspirational story of one man’s journey to overcome the challenges of life in order to make a difference in the lives of others. This is the story of a modern day hero. Faced with hardships, discrimination, and emotional loss, Karl Peace’s journey is a testimony of what a person can accomplish when they devote themselves to the pursuit of excellence. Moreover, his many acts of compassion and genuine care throughout his life’s journey for those who are less fortunate speak volumes about his character. Paid In Full provides a wonderful example to our society about putting others before oneself, a value that seems to have gone by the wayside in our modern day society.”
CHARLES J. HARDY, PH.D.
DEAN JIANN-PING HSU COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, STATESBORO, GA
“Paid In Full is a MUST READ for anyone who wants to understand the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. This is an insider’s view of one of the most powerful and productive segments of the world’s economy. Karl Peace is a mathematical genius who applied his unique skills to develop statistical models that helped revolutionize the drug development process. Along the way Karl made a fortune but when his wife was tragically dying of breast cancer he committed his life to philanthropy trying to use his drug earnings to advance public health. Karl’s success story is infinitely more compelling because societal norms dictate that it should have never happened. I have practiced community medicine for nearly thirty years in the tiny rural county of his birth. Baker County has only 4,000 citizens, is one of the nation’s poorest and most rural counties, and Karl’s family was at the bottom of the heap. Neither parent finished grade school. His father was an abusive sharecropper. Somehow fate determined genius would be born to this family in a one room shack without running water, electricity or even screens on the windows. Nurtured by an endless supply of maternal love, a teacher who recognized his spark of genius and an indomitable will, Karl beat the odds to become one of America’s “Best and Brightest.” Hollywood has never made this movie, as no one would believe it could happen in real life! I had to see it with my own eyes and now you can also. Yes, the American Dream can still happen…Paid In Full describes how.”
JAMES HOTZ, MD
(AKA "DOC HOLLYWOOD"), AUTHOR, WHERE REMEDIES LIE
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