Conference Committee

Priya started her career in Clinical Data Management for a little more than 12 years ago. She has held a variety of positions at Pharmaceutical companies, CROs and Pharma BPO&Consulting, with increasing responsibility that expands to SDTM & Clinical Data Analytics. In the recent past, she led an initiative to develop strategies for future roles in Clinical Data Sciences. She is associated with various volunteer organizations like CDISC and Pinnacle21 wherein  she is  actively involved in creating clinical data standards and ensuring that submission data is compliant to regulatory agencies . With her ongoing contribution in developing the Data Decision Metrics and Analytics she was identified as Co-Lead for “CDM Metrics & Analytics” DMEG at ACDM.

She is an active Conference Committee member and conducts hot topic discussions, webinars and manages newsletters and publications.

James serves as DCT Platform Consultant within Medidata’s Advisory Services team. He started his career in clinical research 10 years ago and has broad experience covering academic, CRO, vendor and sponsor organizations. Whilst working for a sponsor he led the implementation of new EDC and eCOA technologies; a project which earned second-place in ‘Innovation in Data Management’ at the ACDM awards in 2020.

James recently completed a Master of Science in Clinical Trials to further his understanding of the full landscape and has previously presented at ACDMi. His key interests include eCOA, emerging technologies and DCTs.

Stephanie started her career in clinical data management over 15 years ago on the Contract Research Organization (CRO) side of the industry. She has since then held various positions with increasing responsibility at CROs, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Stephanie has a comprehensive knowledge of databases from working on various clinical studies utilising pCRFs, ePRO and eCRFs (from study set up through to database lock) and has extensive experience in vendor oversight, working with FSP models and managing outsourced data management tasks. She has been exposed to a wide range of various therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious diseases, immunology, neuroscience and rare diseases (utility gene therapies) within data management.

Nickie has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 18 years. She has held a variety of positions within the industry and has spent the last 6 years working in Clinical Data Management. Nickie has worked from both the CRO and the Sponsor side and has worked on clinical trials spanning the latest oncology drugs through to consumer healthcare and medical devices. Nickie has been a member of the ACDM for several years and has presented at the conference. Nickie joined the ACDM conference organising committee around 3 years ago and last year took on the role of chair.

Ali works within the Clinical Operations team at Vitaflo International Ltd as Clinical Data Manager and is responsible for all aspects of data management for the Vitaflo clinical trial portfolio. She works cross functionally with internal and external study stakeholders to ensure that data management procedures and deliverables are met and performed in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and current regulatory and ethical requirements.

Ali has a wealth of clinical research experience having begun her data management career in 1996 and has previously worked in various data management roles in the pharmaceutical industry, academia, NHS and more recently for a specialised data management and biometrics Contract Research Organsiation (CRO).

Ali has been involved in the ACDM for many years, initially as a newsletter committee member, then Newsletter Editor and Chair.  Ali joined the conference committee in 2009, and apart from a short break, has been involved since.

A highly skilled leader with extensive Clinical Data Systems and Data Management experience from working in a large Contract Research Organisation, Pharmaceutical company, and academic Clinical Trials Unit. Decisive and proficient in leadership and management, including building, coaching, and motivating teams; with a professional and calm approach in times of pressure. Extensive project management of large multi-national and small studies, across a wide range of therapeutic areas and clinical phases; demonstrating good internal and international collaborative approaches whilst adhering to ICH and GCP Guidelines. 

 Experience of introduction of new systems and systems migration with stakeholders nationally and globally, with consideration for Business Continuity, Information governance, IT Security, Audit and Quality management.

 Chair of the UK CRC Information Systems Operational Group.

Jas has over 25 years in the life sciences and clinical technologies – particularly within clinical systems, linked to data collection and management. Having started his career as a data manager when clinical trials were predominantly done on paper, Jas has seen the industry evolve and develop over the years and gained a deep understanding and experience of working with most eClinical / CDMS solutions used in the industry and end to end clinical trial processes. Currently, Jas follows keenly the influence of omics data and its impact on clinical trials of the future and precision medicine.