Instructors
Nancy Dreyer, PhD, MPH, FISPE
Founder, Dreyer Strategies LLC, United States
Nancy Dreyer is Chief of the Scientific Advisory Board at OM1, and brings her experience having served as Chief Scientific Officer at IQVIA Real World Solutions, Global Chief of Scientific Affairs at Outcome Sciences and Quintiles, and CEO of Epidemiology Resources Inc. Her expertise includes patient-generated information, electronic health records, health insurance claims, and data linkage, including collaboration with regulators and HTA. Widely published, she is a Science and Policy Advisor to DIA and a member of the Real-World Evidence Leadership Team for ISPOR. She is a Fellow of ISPE and DIA, an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Trustee of Brandeis University.
Mary Jane Geiger
Vice President and TA Lead, Drug Development Services, ICON, United States
MJ Geiger is VP & CV lead for ICON’s Drug Development Services providing scientific, operational and therapeutic expertise spanning the development continuum from concept through development to post-approval activities. She is involved in the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium, serving as Co-Chair of the Scientific Oversight Committee and Program Chair of a Real World Evidence CV Safety Think Tank.
Alan Brookhart
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
M. Alan Brookhart is a Professor of Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill. His research is focused primarily on the development and application of statistical and epidemiologic methods for studies of prescription medications, vaccines, and other exposures using large clinical and healthcare utilization databases. In this area, he has made contributions to the development of quasi-experimental approaches that can be used to estimate causal effects in the presence of unmeasured or poorly recorded confounding variables. He has also been involved with the development of propensity score and marginal structural model methodology and has also developed new epidemiologic approaches for studying patterns of use medications and healthcare services.
Norman Stockbridge, MD, PhD
Director, Division of Cardiology and Nephrology, OND, CDER, FDA, United States
Norman Stockbridge, MD, PhD has been in FDA/CDER's Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products since 1991 and has been its Director since 2004.