Head of Data Management and Central Monitoring of J&J Innovative Medicine.

Ward Lemaire is the Head of Data Management and Central Monitoring of J&J Innovative Medicine, accountable for all Data Management and Central Monitoring deliverables in the J&JIM portfolio and defines and shapes the Data Management and Central Monitoring Strategy.

Ward is a member of the Board of Trustees of SCDM with specific focus on the Corporate Partnership, the GCDMP working group and the global expansion program.
Ward holds a master’s degree in Cell and Gene Biotechnology and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Biological sciences and is in the industry for 20 years.

Ward has lived in 3 continents; originally from Belgium but has also lived and worked out of China and now located in the US for the last 8 years out of Springhouse, PA.
In his free time, Ward coaches basketball and loves spending quality time with his family.

GVP, Data Strategy, Medidata Solutions.

Patrick Nadolny has over 30 years of industry experience across pharmaceutical, device and biologics as well as technology development. He is a pragmatic leader focusing on technology, innovation, strategic planning, change management, and the setup of new capabilities.

In addition to his SCDM Chair role, he leads the SCDM innovation committee, which recently released 3 reflection papers on the evolution of Clinical Data Management toward Clinical Data Science.

Company

Business Lead Clinical Data Reporting &
Visualization Environment, Bayer

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Company

Director, Clinical Data Science, ICON

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Twenty-five years of biotechnology, microbiology and clinical trial data management.  Areas of focus include recombinant, subunit, attenuated and whole cell bacterin and viral vaccines, cellular therapy, oncology, gout and biosimilar studies as well as monoclonal therapies.  Significant exposure to global team leadership, project management and data operations functional management support for local and global team members, including clinical data coordinators, clinical data scientist leads and functional managers.  Active member of Society of Clinical Data Management, working as conference co-chair for 2020 through 2023 annual general meetings as well as board of trustees member 2022 through 2024 working as academic committee liaison.