Kerri Weingard is a founding partner and global chief operating officer at Verified Clinical Trials (VCT). VCT is the largest global research subject database to reduce dual enrollment and prevent protocol violations. Ms. Weingard is also the CEO and founder of Study Scavenger and Clinical Hero. Both companies are dedicated to clinical trial recruitment and education. Ms. Weingard, who is a nurse practitioner, holds a master’s degree in science from Stony Brook University. She, before creating VCT and Study Scavenger, has conducted over 500 clinical trials as a research administrator and sub-i ..read more

Ignacio Handal is the CEO at Clinicom Healthcare. Ignacio has completed a multitude of FDA phase I, II, & III studies in pharmaceuticals, and devices over two decades. In 2022 Ignacio was honored with one of the highest honors in Clinical Research, the Christine Pierre Clinical trials lifetime achievement award of which only 8 clinical researchers globally have ever been awarded.   Early in his career Ignacio, Co-Founded the 5th leading private CNS research site in the US called Harmonex Neuroscience research in 2003 that continues excelling to this day.   Ignacio and his team ha ..read more

Thomas Peterson has been in healthcare for approximately 17 years now. A vast majority of that experience is in clinical research. He has served in many capacities such as a Research Assistant, Study Coordinator, Senior Study Coordinator, Clinical Research Associate and now Senior Clinical Research Associate. He founded his own consulting company to assist anyone in the clinical research space that needs guidance. Thomas works within the oncology, neuro-oncology, rare disease, infectious disease spaces as well as pediatrics.  This week we discuss the shift from CRC to CRA, humanity in cli ..read more

Jason Palasota had always been passionate about improving the quality of clinical research services delivered to patients. He first got his feet wet working on the ground level as a site coordinator for Cetero Research, formerly known as Diabetes and Glandular Research. From there, he began to develop an even deeper respect for the industry and continued to pursue opportunities that would allow him to drive change. After working on the ground level, he was inspired to make an impact and improve the quality of clinical research services delivered to patients. Determined to bring about positive ..read more

Trained as a neuroscientist, Rohit Nambisan is a product executive with experience leading product development organizations in pharma, medical devices, personalized medicine, health IT, healthcare data and analytics, and AI. Prior to co-founding and leading Lokavant, Rohit was most recently the Head of Digital Product at Roivant and the Head of Product at Prognos Health. Rohit holds an M.S in Management and Engineering from MIT, an M.A. in Neuroscience from Boston University, and a B.A in Cognitive Neuroscience from UC Berkeley. In this episode we discuss fragmentation amongst study stakehold ..read more

Brittany Sloan is the Director of Black Research Matters, a safe space exclusively for Black people to learn more about research with the purposes of being becoming better-informed decision-makers thus strengthening the community by using knowledge as a tool to navigate the medical and healthcare systems. This episode is the conclusion of a 3 part series on the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments presented by Brittany. Brittany Sloan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitney-stewart-b9969326/ Learn more about our sponsor, Inato: https://go.inato.com/41YxjXY ..read more

Whitney Stewart is the director of clinical project management at Curebase. She has served the clinical research space for more than 10 years, and holds bachelors' degrees in Molecular and Cellular biology, and Italian Studies.  In this episode we discuss evidence standards for digital therapeutics and the recent Digital Therapeutics Alliance publication “Setting the Stage for a Fit-For-Purpose DTx Evidentiary Standard”. Whitney on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitney-stewart-b9969326/ Digital Therapeutics Alliance and Curebase release publication setting the stage for a fit-for ..read more

Amanda Santimaw is the Director of Clinical Research for the 9 locations of Arizona Arthritis & Rheumatology, plus 4 external physician locations. She is responsible for the oversight of over 180 current clinical trials, 17 Principal Investigators, 24 dedicated research staff working in rheumatology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, and internal medicine. She has 15 years of experience working in Phase I-IV clinical trials, observational studies, and retrospective data analysis. Amanda received both her Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Clinical Research Management from Arizon ..read more

Charles Fisher is the founder of Unlearn which is using AI to simulate potential health outcomes for individual patients. Charles is a scientist with interests at the intersection of physics, machine learning, and computational biology. Previously, Charles worked as a machine learning engineer at Leap Motion and a computational biologist at Pfizer. He was a Philippe Meyer Fellow in theoretical physics at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and a postdoctoral scientist in biophys.ics at Boston University. Charles holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University and a B.S. in ..read more

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