Vice President, eClinical Service Delivery, Sitero

As Associate Vice President of Clinical Data Systems and Services at Sitero, Dr. John manages Mentor EDC/ePRO, eConsent, Clinical Data Management and Biostatics offerings. Dr. John is a senior clinical research leader with over 20 years of global leadership experience. She has worked with a wide array of global pharma companies, CROs, and FSPs and has been involved in building up and managing multiple clinical domain teams. She is passionate about clinical data management and its evolution and has presented/chaired sessions in multiple industry forums such as DIA and SCDM. Prior to working at Sitero, Dr. John worked with Clario, Bioclinica, and Accenture in leading large global teams delivering clinical services.

Senior Vice President, Rave Platform Technology, Medidata

Wayne Walker is Senior Vice President, Rave Platform Technology (including Rave EDC, Medidata Designer, Rave Imaging, Rave RTSM, Rave Coder, and Rave Safety Gateway) at Medidata. His responsibilities include the strategy, development, and delivery of these products across all Research & Development disciplines. Before joining Medidata, Wayne spent 12 years overseeing Product Management for clinical technology used by Data Management and Biometrics at PRA Health Sciences, which included oversight of Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, on-premise deployed environments, and in-house developed solutions. 

Senior VP Biometrics, Spaulding Clinical

Brian Thornton brings strong leadership experience in the areas of biometrics, clinical and functional service provider (FSP) relationships to Spaulding Clinical.  Brian has a M.S. in Statistics and has a proven track record of driving quality and delivery in a manner that has exceeded customer expectations.

Brian provides strategic and tactical direction for the company’s biometrics activities for all projects including statistics, programming, data management, and medical writing.  He is also responsible for building and managing client FSP relationships and partnerships within Biometrics at Spaulding Clinical. 

Executive Director, Clinical Data Sciences, Pfizer

As the Oncology and Rare Diseases Therapeutic Area Lead in the Clinical Data Sciences (CDS) organization at Pfizer, Catherine Célingant leads a team of Clinical Data Scientists and Data Managers responsible for timely and high-quality data management deliverables supporting the Pfizer Oncology and Rare Diseases portfolios.  

Catherine has over 25 years of experience in Data Management, Clinical Informatics, and Medical Operations. Prior to joining Pfizer, Catherine worked at Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, where she successively led the Clinical Data Management and Clinical Systems, Medical Systems Innovative Technologies and Operations, and Medical Business Operations functions. Catherine also worked at Accenture, Wyeth, Genetics Institute, and MTRA (AAI). Over the years, Catherine has been involved in several PhRMA, eClinical Forum and Transcelerate-sponsored groups working with other bio-pharmaceutical sponsors, regulators and other stakeholders to facilitate the adoption of research-enabling technologies such as EDC, ePRO, and eSource. Catherine holds a M.A. in Linguistics from Cornell University and an undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Bordeaux, France.