Speaker Profile

Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, IQVIA; Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Biography
Her current work is focused on regulatory use of real-world evidence for decision making. She leads IQVIA’s Center for Advanced Evidence Generation, where they develop and implement innovative approaches to minimally interventional and non-interventional studies. She also directs a large community-based registry designed to study COVID-19. A Fellow of both the Drug Information Association (DIA) and the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology, she is widely known for her thought leadership, particularly in terms of understanding when real-world evidence is fit for purpose. She received DIA’s 2019 Global Inspire Award for Author of the Year for “Advancing a framework for regulatory use of real world evidence: When real is reliable,” and is an elected member of DIA’s Scientific Advisory. She served for many years as a standing consultant to the National Football League Health & Safety Executive Committee, and continues to lead work on injury analytics for NFL and NBA.


Talk
Real-world Evidence Offers a Path to Precision Medicine
Advances in precision medicine will come from capturing and aggregating vast amounts of data about molecular markers, treatments and outcomes that can be used to shape insights about comparative treatment effectiveness and dosing schedules, but how do we know what evidence we can trust and when?


 Session Abstract – PMWC 2022 Silicon Valley