Project Data Sphere: Clinical Trial Data-sharing in Cancer to Accelerate Innovation and Enhance Patient Health
Track
:
Track 03: Innovative Partnering Models and Outsourcing Strategies
Program Code:
331
Date:
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Time:
10:15 AM to 11:45 AM
EST
Location:
104AB
CHAIR
:
Angela L. Lightfoot, (SCHNON), Director, OnDemand Health and Life Sciences Consulting, SAS Institute Inc., United States
Angela Lightfoot has been with SAS for fourteen years serving as Director of SAS OnDemand Health and Life Sciences Consulting with primary responsibilities for SAS Drug Development, Clinical Data Integration and other SAS health and life science solutions.
SPEAKER
(S):
Charles Hugh-Jones, MD,MRCP (SPKNON), Chief Medical Officer, Sanofi, United States
Ronit Simantov, MD (SPKNON), Senior Director, US Medical Affairs, Oncology, Pfizer Inc, United States
Dr. Ronit Simantov trained in hematology and medical oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and held various clinical research and development roles at Bayer, CuraGen, and OSI before joining Medical Affairs at Pfizer Oncology, where she currently leads the US team.
Joel Beetsch, PhD (SPKNON), Vice President, Patient Advocacy Group, Celgene Corporation, United States
Dr. Beetsch, VP of Patient Advocacy in Celgene’s Corporate Affairs Dept., leads the global development & execution of a coordinated patient-focused Advocacy strategy working w/multiple patient, provider, payer, & policy organizations to foster safe & effective solutions to healthcare challenges.
Description
Project Data Sphere is a cancer data-sharing collaboration supported by over 30 pharmaceutical companies, academic institutes, and advocacy organizations with one goal: To safely and openly share clinical trial data to advance our understanding of cancer therapy.