FIORD 2024 Attendees

Meet the Attendees of FIORD 2024

FIORD 2024 Attendees 

 Academia

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Laura Balzer

Associate Professor, Biostatistics, UC Berkeley

Issa Dehabreh

Associate Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jean Feng 

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco

Els Goetghebeur

Professor, Statistics, Ghent University

Larry Han

Assistant Professor, Health Sciences, Northeastern University

Chris Holmes 

Professor, Biostatistics, University of Oxford

Theis Lange

Professor, Statistics; Department Head of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
Andrew Mertens Researcher Data Analyst and Instructor, UC Berkeley
James Peng PhD Student, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Maya Peterson Professor, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Romain Pirracchio Professor, Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, UC San Francisco; Chief, Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Zuckerberg SF General Hospital
Rachael V. Phillips Biostatistician, CTML, UC Berkeley
Kara Rudolph  Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Columbia University
Xu Shi Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Sky Qiu  PhD Candidate, Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Mark van der Laan Professor, Biostatistics and Statistics, UC Berkeley; Co-Founder at TL Revolution
Kelly Van Lancker Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science & Statistics, Ghent University
Richard Wyss Assistant Professor & Lead Investigator, Harvard Medical School
Zafar Zafari 

Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

 The Forum for Collborative Research 

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Mengxi Bai Research Data Analyst, The Forum for Collaborative Research

Christopher Berry

Senior Events and Operations Manager, The Forum for Collaborative Research

Veronica Miller

Director, The Forum for Collaborative Research

Margot Yann

Senior Computational and Data Science Research Specialist, The Forum for Collaborative Research

 Government

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Lauren Dang Mathematical Statistician, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Dean Follman

Assistant Director for Biostatistics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Salina Waddy

Associate Director, CTSA Clinical Affairs, NCATS

Ken Wiley 

Chief, Clinical Research Resources Section National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), NIH

 Industry-Other

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Charlie Barr Chief Medical Officer, Adaptic Health

Jie Chen

Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer, Elixir Clinical Research

Susan Gruber

Co-Founder, TL Revolution; Founder, Putnam Data Sciences

Emre Kiciman

Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Gilmer Valdes

Director of Clinical AI and Associate Professor, Moffitt Cancer Center

 Regulatory

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Edward Bein

Statistician, Division of Biometrics VII, Office of Biostatistics, OTS, CDER, FDA

Stephen Duffield

Associate Director, RWE Methods, National Institute of Health Care Excellence (NICE)

Tala Fakhouri

Associate Director, Data Science and AI Policy, FDA

Hector Izurieta

Associate Director for Novel Clinical Investigations, OVRR, CBER, FDA

Hana Lee

Senior Statistical Reviewer, OB, OTS, CDER, FDA

Jie Li

Associate Director for RWE, FDA
Catherine Lerro Senior Pharmacoepidemiologist, FDA
Yun Lu Deputy Division Director, FDA
Pallavi Mishra-Kalyani Deputy Director, Division of Biometrics V, Office of Biostatistics, FDA/CDER
Lei Nei  Director, Division of Biometrics IV, Office of Biostatistics, CDER, FDA
Gene Pennello  Senior Statistician, DIDSR, CDRH, FDA
Donna Rivera  Associate Director of Pharmacoepidemiology, FDA
Daniel Rubin Statistician, Division of Biometrics IV, Office of Biostatistics, OTS, CDER, FDA
John Scott Director, Division of Biostatistics, OBE, CBER, FDA

 Kaiser Permanente DoR/HRI

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Jen Nelson Director of Biostatistics and Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Romain Neugebauer

Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Northern California

 Pharma

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Demissie Alemayehu Vice President, Pfizer Inc.

Ramin Ebrahimi

Senior Director, Biostatistics, Gilead Sciences

Weili He

Distinguished Researcher, Head of Medical Affairs & Health Technology Assessment Statistics, AbbVie

Martin Ho

Senior Director, RWE Platform, Pfizer

Marla Husnik

Senior Director, Neuroscience Therapy, Teva Pharmaceuticals

Irfan Khan

Global Medical Evidence Generation Lead, Sanofi

Kajsa Kvist

Scientific Vice President, Novo Nordisk
Stephen Lake Vice President, Head of Quantitative Sciences, Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Jingyi Li Biologist, Eli-Lilly Pharmaceuticals
Carrie Nielson Director, RWE Generation Innovation Unit, Gilead Sciences
Henrik Ravn  Senior Statistical Director, Novo Nordisk
Andy Wilson  Head of Innovative RWD Analytics, Parexel International
Di Zhang Associate Director, RWE Statistics Lead, Teva Pharmaceuticals
Zhiwei Zhang Senior Director, Gilead Sciences