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DPHARM: Disruptive Innovations

Date: Sep 16, 2025 - Sep 17, 2025

Location: Philadelphia, PA

2025 DPHARM Advisory Board

Strategic Advisory Group Steering Committee

Kamran Ansari
SVP, Global Clincial Development and Operations, Pfizer

Pablo Arriagada
VP, Head of Clinical Customer Engagement and Operations, APAC and Head of Women's Healthcare Nucleus Clinical Development, Bayer

Brett Bishop
Global Vice President, Novo Nordisk

Penny Carlson
Head, Global Clinical Development Operations, Takeda

David Carruthers, PhD
VP, Biopharmaceuticals R&D Clinical Operations, AstraZeneca

Nick Hodges
Head of Global Clinical Operations, J&J

Peyton Howell
CEO, Parexel

Bari Kowal
SVP, Development Operations, Portfolio Management & Biostatistics Data Management, Regeneron

Siân Ratcliffe
SVP, Head of Quantitative Sciences and Development Operations, Biogen

Rosemary Rebuli
Head, Global Clinical Operations, AI, Novartis

Jennifer Sheller
SVP, Head of Global Clinical Trial Operations, Merck

Angela Deluca, MBA, PMP
AVP, Head, Global Study Operations, Amgen

Industry Advisors

Murray Abramson, MD, MPH
SVP, Head of Clinical Development, Precision Biosciences

Tara Aldoory
Head of Clinical Trial Delivery, Biogen

Mo Ali
Head of Business Reporting and Analytics, Astellas

Mary Brantner
Senior Director, Progam Optimization and Innovation, Insmed

Kimberly Barnholt
Executive Director, Evidence Generation, Genentech

Bob Bois
Innovation Program Director, Novartis Biomedical Research Clinical Sciences and Innovation

Mary Branter
Insmed

Elspeth Carnan
VP, Head of Trial Delivery Support, BMS

Taras Carpaic
Executive Director, Innovation and Process Improvement, Amgen
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Karen Correra
VP, Clinical Development Operations, Boehringer-Ingelheim

Amy Cramer
Director, Data Acquisitions, IDAR, Data Management and Central Monitoring, Johnson & Johnson

Jenn Curry
Head, Patient Engagement Capabilities, Biogen
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Charmaine Demanuele
VP, R&D Data Science and Digital Health, Neuroscience, Johnson & Johnson Innvoative Medicine

Amanda Donovan
Director Emerging Priorities and Innovation, Global Development Organization, Takeda

Tom Dougherty
RWE Strategy Lead, Diabetes and Obesity, Novo Nordisk

Marie Emms
Head, Patient Engagement and Recruitment, BMS

Homan Faraji
Head of Clinical Operations Group and Clinical Trial Innovation, Otsuka

Christie Fry
Director, Strategic Tech Innovation, Clin Dev Solutions, AbbVie

Patrick Gee
Patient Advocate

Sean Lynch
Innovative Capabilities Head, Innovative Trial Operations, Novartis

Syed Waseem Haider, PhD
Global Head of eClinical Business Intelligent Automation and Life Data Sciences, Merck

Eileen Hughes
Sr Mgr Site Partnerships, CSL

Joseph Kim MBA
​​​​​​​Chief Strategy Officer, ProofPilot

Adama Ibrahim
VP, Digital Strategy and Change Management, Novo Nordisk

Youssef Idelcaid, MBA
Head of AI Research Center [ARC], Drug Development, Gilead Sciences

Bill Illis
Global Head, Collaboration and Technology Strategy, Novartis

Venky Iyer
Director, Team Lead, Data Strategy and Enablement, Pfizer

Hassan Kadhim
Head of Clinical Operations and Development Business Capabilities, Vertex

Mitchell Katz
SVP, Global Clin Ops, Kyowa Kirin

Shameer Khader
Global Head, Computational Biology Cluster, Precision Medicine and Computational Biology, R&D, Sanofi

Joe Kim
Chief Strategy Officer, Proof Pilot

Julien Kroll
Strategic Lead, Digital Health and Real World Science, Bayer

Sarah Krug
Founder and Exec Director, Health Collaboratory/Cancer 101

Sylvie Kruyner
Director, DCT Operations, Bayer

Joseph Lengfellner
Senior Director, CR Informatics and Technology, Clincial Research Administration, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Stephen Lutsch
Senior Director, Team Lead, Clinical Trial Digital Innnovation, Genmab

Sean Lynch
Clinical Innovation Head - Innovative Trial Operations, Novartis

Katie Madden
Director, Digital Health Process Optimization, GSK
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Subha Madhavan
VP and Head of AI/Ml, Quantitative & Digital Sciences, R&D, Pfizer

Barry Nelson
Patient Advocate
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Jessica Perry
Sr Director, Trial Optimization, Kymera Therapuetics

Valerie Reynaert
VP, Global Clinical Operations, Immunocore
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Dennis Salotti
Executive Director & Head of Clinical Outsourcing & Innovation, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
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Mark Scullion
CEO, Atlas Clinical Research

Nick Slack
Chairman and CEO, The START Center for Cancer Research

Bryan Spielman
Chief Growth Officer, Advarra

Lauren Sunshine
Diretor Product Management, Digital Health, BMS

Tony Taylor
Director, Clinical Study Patient Platform and Decentralized Clinical Trials, AbbVie

Mark Travers
VP, Head Global Clinical Trial Operations, Regions and Regional Operations, Merck

Donna Usiskin
Chief Strategy Officer, New Enterprise Ventures

Taylor Uttley
Senior Director, Head of Strategy & Operations, Data Strategy & Solutions, Vertex

Tracy Vanderslice
VP & Head, Clinical Operations, Oncology, Gilead

Andrew Vigario
Senior Clinical Country & Site Lead, Biogen

Kelly White
Head, Global Trial Optimization, Merck

Doug Schantz
SVP, Clinical Operations, AskBio

Yusuf Ghadiali
Executive Director, Head of Clinical Trial Business Operations, Global Clinical Operations and Planning, Daiichi Sankyo

Alice Donnelly, MBA
SVP, Clinical Operations Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Pamela Fearon, MBA
VP, Global Study Operations, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc

Gina Schweizer
Vice President, Head of Strategy, Operations and Analysis & Reporting, Genmab

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