Paula Brown Stafford to help direct strategy for global data standards
consortium
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiles
Transnational Corp. today announced that Paula Brown Stafford, Executive
Vice President, Global Data Management, has been elected to the Board of
Directors of CDISC, an industry consortium that leads the development of
data standards to improve medical research.
CDISC, the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, is an open,
multidisciplinary non-profit organization that has established worldwide
industry standards to support the electronic acquisition, exchange,
submission and archiving of clinical trial data and meta-data for medical
and biopharmaceutical product development. The CDISC board sets strategic
direction for the organization.
"Pricing pressures are forcing the pharmaceutical industry to seek out
partners for non-core activities, and CDISC is in the perfect position to
implement industry standards for the management of patient data," Stafford
said. "I look forward to using my experience working with the leading
pharma and biotech companies to assist CDISC in leading the industry to
reduce or eliminate duplication of processes and systems and improve the
efficiency of the drug development process."
C. David Hardison, Ph.D., Vice President, Life Sciences, Science
Applications International Corporation, and Chairman of the CDISC board,
welcomed Stafford. "Paula's wealth of experience in a global Contract
Research Organization will be a valuable addition to this outstanding team.
I am sure the board will benefit from her expertise in data management and
biostatistics, and we're very glad to have a representative of Quintiles, a
founding member of CDISC."
Stafford joined Quintiles in 1985 as a biostatistician and has held a
number of positions of increasing responsibility within the company,
including roles in project management in the U.S. and in Europe, business
development, scientific operations and general management. She holds
Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Health degrees from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Bio-Imaging Technologies,
Inc., a publicly held provider of medical imaging management services for
clinical research, and is a member of the Board of Visitors in the
Department of Psychology, School of Medicine, at UNC-Chapel Hill.
About Quintiles
Quintiles Transnational Corp. is powering the next generation of
healthcare by providing a broad range of professional services in drug
development, information, financial partnering and commercialization for
the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. With 16,000 employees and
offices in more than 50 countries, it is focused on providing
customer-centric solutions that are the gold standard of the industry. For
more information, please visit the company's Web site at
http://www.quintiles.com.
SOURCE Quintiles Transnational Corp.
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