Linda currently serves as PCOA Lead working across Pfizer’s therapeutic categories addressing efforts to develop, validate and use COAs as endpoints for providing evidence of medical treatment benefit differentiation, labeling and value. Linda has served patients and the pharmaceutical industry for the past 20 years in similar roles at Wyeth, Janssen, Shire and Pfizer. Linda has developed and/or validated COAs across multiple therapeutic categories. Linda is trained as a statistician.

Dr. Papadopoulos serves as the Deputy Director (acting) of the Division of Clinical Outcome Assessment in the Office of New Drugs in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). The Division provides consultation to CDER’s Review Divisions as well as other FDA Centers on clinical outcome assessments (COAs) regarding their development, validation, interpretation and overall suitability to support labeling claims and also manages the COA drug development qualification program.