Michael Goedde

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VP, Global Data Operations, ICON plc

Michael Goedde

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VP, Global Data Operations, ICON plc

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Michael Goedde is a Certified Clinical Data Manager with 30+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.He started his career in 1990 at Hoechst, a predecessor company of Sanofi, in Frankfurt (Germany). After supporting numerous submissions and leading programs through all stages of clinical development, Michael then chose to join the Aventis Headquarters in Bridgewater, New Jersey (US) in 2001 as a Global Project Data Manager and Global Therapeutic Area Lead for Oncology and Neurology.

After leaving Sanofi-Aventis in 2005 he joined Kos Pharmaceuticals in Florida for 2 years before accepting the position of Senior Director of Clinical Data Management at Human Genome Sciences (HGS) in Rockville, Maryland. After the GSK takeover of HGS in 2012, he joined MedImmune(Astra Zeneca) as Head of CDM, where he re-built the CDM department. In 2014 he decided to join PAREXEL International as VP, Global Data Operations, where he worked for 4 years and led a global group of 850 CDMs, DB-Programmers and Statistical Programmers. Michael joined PRA Health Sciences (now ICON) in 2018 as Head of Global Data Operations and held this position until 9/2023. Michael holds a degree in Computer Sciences and Mathematics and served on the Board of Trustees for the Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) from 2017-2021.

He has presented and chaired sessions on numerous occasions at conferences including an invitation from the FDA in 2010 to present on “Industry Best CDM Practices” at the Center’s Bioresearch Monitoring course.