Suzanne Carlson MA, MFA is President of ABSD Associates LLC. She is an independent medical writing consultant with 12 years of exclusive specialization in clinical trial disclosure and transparency for pharmaceutical companies throughout the United States. Her expertise encompasses both advisory and operational support, including disclosure program audits, onsite training, process development and improvement, and preparing study results and registration records for clinical trial registries. Suzanne’s prior consulting roles include regulatory writer, global competitive intelligence analyst, continuing medical education program editor, and scientific supervisor for international advisory boards and medical symposia.

Kelly is the Director of Clinical Trial Transparency and Disclosure at Pfizer where she provides strategic and operational expertise to support the disclosure of clinical regulatory documents pertaining to Pfizer-sponsored interventional trials on public websites.

Patrick holds a BS in Biology from Penn State University. His clinical research work experience includes data monitoring, regulatory affairs and clinical trial disclosure. Patrick contributed to developing the ClinicalTrials.gov reporting program for the NCI-Designated UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. Since April 2017, he has held a newly created position with the University of Pittsburgh, to develop and manage a program of education and compliance monitoring related to ClinicalTrials.gov.

Francine Lane is the VP of Global Transparency at TrialScope and the Chair of the DIA Clinical Trial Disclosure Community. In her day job, Francine is responsible for helping TrialScope customers meet and exceed current disclosure expectations globally, giving them the tools they need to meet all the requirements in this evolving industry. Francine also dedicates her time building relationships with external stakeholders – including sponsors, investigators, regulators, and transparency and patient advocates – to help align the goals and expectations of these groups, as well as help identify more consistent ways sponsors can meet industry standards. Prior to her current role, Francine served as Director of Product Management at TrialScope.

Robert Paarlberg is Principal of Paarlberg & Associates LLC, a consultancy specializing in regulatory policy, regulatory intelligence and global clinical trial disclosure strategy and operations. Prior to founding Paarlberg & Associates LLC, Bob worked at Pharmacia (Upjohn) and UCB. Bob is former Chair of DIA’s Clinical Trial Disclosure Community. Bob has more than 40 years of pharmaceutical industry experience with the vast majority of his experience in US and international regulatory affairs. Bob has been active in the clinical trial disclosure and transparency space since 2005.

Nancy Williams is an Associate Director in the Regulatory Submission Management Organization at Janssen Pharmaceutical. She specializes in data transparency and document-level submission publishing activities and has 21 years of experience in the industry. Nancy contributed to development of processes to support data transparency regulations, such as Policy 0070 and PRCI. She is a member of EFPIA Clinical Research Expert Group Data Transparency pillar and is co-leading a transparency sub-team focusing on operational processes for deployment of EU CTR. In her free time, Nancy enjoys gardening, swimming, and spending time with her rescued Manchester Terrier. She received her BS in Information Tech from Villanova and Capella Universities.

Merete Joergensen holds an MSc in Statistics and an MBA in Management of Technology. She has more than 30 years of experience in Clinical Research. From 2004 she has been building up the area of Clinical Trials Disclosure in Novo Nordisk A/S. She is now working as independent Clinical trials transparency expert. Prior she headed up Biostatistics in Novo Nordisk A/S for 15 years and worked 7 years as a Clinical Statistician at the medical faculty at Copenhagen University. Further she has served as Clinical Trials Transparency pillar lead, under the Clinical Research Expert Group in EFPIA.

Stephen is a founding member of Real Life Sciences, Inc. (RLS), a software as a service company that automates the extraction, integration and analysis of unstructured patient data for life sciences organizations. Stephen brings over a decade of experience in natural language processing and machine learning, including product development and analytics roles in pharmacovigilance, outcomes research and clinical data management. Since 2015, Stephen has overseen the development of RLS' lead product ARARA, which supports EU Policy 0070 and 0043 disclosure requirements through automated redaction and anonymization of clinical study documents.

Cathal Gallagher is the Associate Director of Clinical Transparency & Trial Disclosure at Regeneron, with over a decade of experience in clinical trial data technology. Specialising in data and document transparency, Cathal develops and implements technical solutions to ensure compliance with EMA Policy 0070 and Health Canada’s PRCI. Known for his strategic approach and dedication to regulatory compliance, he advocates for transparency as a cornerstone of ethical research. Cathal’s interests include blockchain technology, fitness, and continuous self-improvement.

Sarah Lyons is a Vice President responsible for IQVIA’s Data Transformation & AI Platforms serving healthcare and life science organizations globally with capabilities spanning privacy-enhancing technologies, natural language processing, and AI-enabled language solutions. In addition to serving clients worldwide, she participates in multiple industry forums and consortiums to promote data sharing across the healthcare ecosystem. Sarah was previously the head of Privacy Analytics, an IQVIA company specializing to privacy solutions for enabling the safe and responsible uses of data.

Niamh McGuinness is a technical lead with Privacy Analytics’ Clinical Trial Transparency (CTT) business unit, having joined the company in 2016. Her team specializes in statistical anonymization of clinical trial assets - both structured individual patient data and clinical trial documents. Drawing on her academic research background, Niamh has helped develop Privacy Analytics’ CTT methodology and proprietary toolsets, contributing to the ultimate goal of protecting patient privacy while also preserving the utility in clinical data.

Ms. Shalaby has 30 years of experience in the clinical research and drug development industry. Throughout those 30 years, she held several writing roles including lead author and contributing writer for investigator’s brochures (IBs), phase 2 and phase 3 clinical study reports (CSRs), investigational new drug applications (INDs), new drug applications (NDAs), study protocols, informed consent forms (ICFs), and plain language summaries (PLS). She has experience in the therapeutic areas of pediatrics, neonatology, pediatric and adult oncology, hematology, gastroenterology, pulmonary and respiratory diseases, genetic diseases, cardiology, multiple sclerosis, and rare diseases. She is the functional lead for PLS at Synchrogenix.

Deborah Collyar is founder and president of Patient Advocates in Research (PAIR), “where research meets reality.” Her leadership in patient engagement and advocacy started in the 1990s after her first cancer diagnosis. She applies business leadership, IT, communication and strategic skills to bridge gaps between scientists, medical providers, payers, governments, and patients. Deborah has vast research experience in translational, clinical, epidemiology, health outcomes, and health delivery fields while working with academia, federal agencies, companies, non-profits, and patient communities. Key patient insights are delivered throughout development, clinical trials, results reporting, data-sharing, standards, genomics, and into practice.

Rebecca Li, PhD, is the Executive Director of Vivli and on faculty at the Center for Bioethics at the Harvard Medical School. Previous to her current role she was the Executive Director of the MRCT Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard for over 5 years and remains a Senior Advisor at the Center. She has over 25 years of experience spanning the entire drug development process with experience in Biotech, Pharma and CRO environments. She completed a Fellowship in 2013 in the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. She earned her PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Chan is a clinical epidemiologist and skin cancer surgeon at Women’s College Hospital, Toronto. He is the Phelan Senior Scientist at Women’s College Research Institute and Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto. His research focuses on developing ways to improve the quality and transparency of clinical trials, as well as preventing and managing high-risk skin cancer. Dr. Chan leads the international SPIRIT initiative to improve the quality of trial protocols. He helped launch the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform and currently chairs its Advisory Panel. He is also an Institute Advisory Board member for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Jolie Dobre is UX Researcher and Designer who has led user engagement, research, and design activities for government and private sector clients. Jolie’s areas of expertise include contextual inquiry, remote user testing, heuristic evaluation, human-centered design, analytics and accessibility. She has supported legacy systems modernization efforts for multiple agencies including the VA, TTB, and BSEE. She has published original research in journals and conference proceedings related to her work on clinical care team collaboration and electronic Health record use. Jolie combines her background in front-end web development and graphic design to inform her work, creating effective designs that balance technical, business, and user needs.

Scott has 15 years of experience with clinical trial disclosure, initially working for smaller sponsors as a one-person clinical trial disclosure department, to later operating in larger organizations, serving as an expert in summary results reporting and clinical document redaction/anonymization for public disclosure. Scott is designated as a CTIS subject matter expert by the EMA and serves as EuropaBio representative for the EU Clinical Trials Regulation.

Dr. Anna M. Fine joined the National Library of Medicine, NIH in 2018 and is Acting Director of CinicalTrials.gov. She leads the scientific, policy, regulatory and outreach activities related to the operation of ClinicalTrials.gov, including the modernization initiative. Her previous experience includes over a decade of service in stakeholder engagement, adverse drug event reporting, and supervisory roles at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Prior to that, she was Chief of Pharmacy Services at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. Dr. Fine has a PharmD from Northeastern Univ. and an MS in psychopharmacology from William James College. She completed a postgraduate year two drug information residency at Stanford Hospital.

I am responsible for the preparation of clinical trial documents for publication, overseeing anonymization of private participant information and redaction of confidential commercial information. I have been in the data transparency space for more than 5 years, with previous experience as a medical writer in the neurosciences and a drug discovery scientist in reproductive health. I have worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 25 years.

Dr. Arnold is a staff scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, and a results subject matter expert for ClinicalTrials.gov. She is participating in efforts to modernize the ClinicalTrials.gov website and the Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS) database. She also contributes to the development of educational materials and trainings intended to facilitate the successful completion of results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. She received her PhD in Biological Chemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and conducted post-doctoral research at the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD.

Ruediger Pankow holds a university degree in Biology and is a Regulatory Affairs professional with more than 17 years of experience in the clinical research and trials regulatory space, mostly in the CRO industry. His specific area of expertise is the EU Clinical Trials Regulation 536/2014 (EU CTR) and EU CTR implementation at industry level, including for his past employer Parexel. Since 2019 he has been continuously involved for ACRO as an industry stakeholders' representative (sponsor product owner / external SME) in EMA's Clinical Trial Information System (CTIS) delivery project, and is DIA instructor of EMA's CTIS sponsor end user training programme.

She is currently working with industry sponsors to develop and implement diversity in clinical trials efforts.

Nicole has over 22 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and has been involved with Clinical Trial Disclosure and Transparency since 2013. She is currently the Director of Clinical Trial Transparency at Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals and oversees clinical trial registration and results disclosure, plain language summary development and redaction of clinical documents.

Tab Hoda is a Senior Manager at Amgen and manages the Clinical Trials Disclosure team. She brings years of industry experience including in data management and as a site coordinator. Tab is a foreign medical graduate with an M.B.B.S degree.

Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in NYU School of Medicine and President of Bioethics International. She is also the Creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard, an index that ranks new drugs and pharmaceutical companies on their ethics and public health performance to help recognize good practices in companies, improve trustworthiness, and incentivize change where needed. Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Miller was based at Duke University and Harvard University. Dr. Miller serves on NYU’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Stem Cell Research Oversight board, and J&J-NYU Compassionate-Use Advisory Committee (monitor).

Jenny found her niche in Clinical Trial Transparency in 2007. A former wildlife biologist, Jenny transitioned to scientific publishing before entering the industry sector in the regulatory space in the early 2000s. She spent 10 years in Basel Switzerland, much of that time leading the Trial Disclosure activities at Hoffmann La-Roche, moving back to the US in 2015 to continue her career. Jenny is the Director of Clinical Trial Disclosure and Transparency at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.

Christina Robinson currently leads the team modernizing the ClinicalTrials.gov website at the National Center for Biotechnology Information within the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. She is a contractor with ICF and joined ClinicalTrials.gov in 2020. Prior to joining ClinicalTrials.gov, she spent 15 years in pediatric clinical research, first supporting research documentation and later leading web-based research communications.

Jeppe joined Novo Nordisk in 2015 and prior to his current role worked as a specialist in Clinical Reporting and Disclosure. He has 15+ years of experience from the pharmaceutical industry, primarily from Regulatory and Clinical working with Enterprise Content Management, Digitalisation, Information Management and Data Privacy. He was responsible for implementing EMA Policy 070 in Novo Nordisk. Since 2018 he has been the Principal R&D Data privacy Specialist, responsible for driving and aligning Novo Nordisk’s privacy by design/default efforts across the global R&D organisation. He was the track lead for TransCelerate’s “Privacy framework for clinical data reuse”. Jeppe holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Science.

Catina O’Leary, PhD, is President and CEO at Health Literacy Media (HLM), a St. Louis based nonprofit that develops and distributes health literate and accessible health and science communications with a wide range of global partners. Before joining HLM in 2012, Catina was Assistant Professor at Washington University School of Medicine. She currently serves as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy, as the Secretary General of the International Health Literacy Association, and on the Board of Rankin Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital.

David Peloquin is a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP where he is a member of the firm’s health care group. He focuses his practice on advising academic medical centers, life sciences companies, and information technology companies on issues related to human subjects and animal research, data privacy (including both U.S. and EU data privacy), and Medicare/Medicaid and other third-party payor reimbursement issues. He frequently writes and speaks on topics related to each of these areas. He also serves as a community member of the Institutional Review Board at Mass General Brigham in Boston. Prior to attending law school, David worked as a project manager for a leading supplier of electronic medical records.