Dr. Leah Christl is Executive Director, Global Biosimilars Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory and R&D Policy at Amgen. She serves as head of the global regulatory affairs team within GRAAS with responsibility for development and execution of global regulatory strategy for Amgen’s biosimilars portfolio. Dr. Christl also leads the global biosimilars regulatory and R&D policy with responsibility to develop and advance Amgen’s policy positions. Prior to joining Amgen, Dr. Christl served as the Director of the Therapeutic Biologics and Biosimilars Staff at the US FDA. Dr. Christl received her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathobiology – Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Science from the Medical University of South Carolina.

Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS currently serves as the Director of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, where since 2005 he has been responsible for the Center’s programs in adverse event surveillance and analysis, pharmacoepidemiology, risk management, and medication error prevention. In this capacity, he is involved in both the premarket and postmarket regulation of drugs and therapeutic biologics, and in the implementation of the drug safety provisions of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act and other initiatives.

Dr. Eichler is responsible for coordinating activities between the European Medicine Agency's (EMA) scientific committees and giving advice on scientific and public health issues. Prior to joining EMA, Dr. Eichler was professor and chair of clinical pharmacology and vice-rector at the Medical University of Vienna. Other positions held include President of the Vienna School of Clinical Research and co-chair of the Committee on Reimbursement of Drugs of the Austrian Social Security Association.

Prior to joining CTTI, Ms. Okun led a consultancy firm that specialized in projects related to patient and public involvement in research, care, policy, and socially accountable ethics. From 2013 to 2019, she served as vice president of the online patient research network PatientsLikeMe (PLM) where she was responsible for the company’s patient advocacy initiatives, contributed to health policy discussions at the national and global level, and was PLM’s liaison with government and regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Brenda Crowe is an Associate Vice President in Statistics at Eli Lilly and Company. She has more than 25 years of pharmaceutical industry experience. She obtained a PhD in Statistics from the University of Toronto. She has worked extensively with both clinical trials and observational studies. She has participated in or led several expert teams. As examples, she was a co-chair of the cross-industry Safety Planning, Evaluation and Reporting team, and served as the lead editor of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences report on meta-analysis of safety data. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Mick Foy has been with the MHRA for more than 35 years, he is a member of the MHRA’s Executive Committee and has recently been appointed Director of Delivery . Amongst his responsibilities is to drive initiatives to introduce new and improved services to stakeholders. Mick is SRO for the SafetyConnect and RegulatoryConnect programmes. He also leads MHRA efforts to build PV capabilities in other countries particularly low and middle income countries as part of a global initiative with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Marni Hall is Vice President of Regulatory Science and Strategy for IQVIA Real-World Solutions, providing scientific oversight and strategic direction on the expanded use of real world evidence for regulatory and other uses, by applying her expertise in regulatory science, drug safety, and patient-centricity. Following her role as Director of Regulatory Science in CDER’s Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, she served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development, Informatics, and Policy at PatientsLikeMe. Dr Hall received her training in biochemistry and molecular epidemiology at Columbia University, and currently serves as Vice Chair of Board of Directors of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Claudia Manzo, PharmD is the Director of the Office of Medication Error Prevention and Risk Management, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology (OSE), FDA. She has over 20 years of drug safety experience and in her current role she directs review staffs (~125 FTEs) that advise and review Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), REMS Assessments, REMS Modifications, Proprietary Names, Human Factors Studies, and Medication Errors for drugs and biologic products regulated by CDER.

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, is the Robert J. Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine, and Policy, and Director of the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. He is a physician-economist who focuses on quality and value in health care including payment reform, real-world evidence and more effective drug and device innovation. He is former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. He was previously Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a faculty member at Stanford University.

Jamie Portnoff is a Founder and Partner at Truliant Consulting. Prior to founding Truliant Consulting, Jamie served as Vice President, Business Transformation at Foresight Group International AG and Senior Director and Global Practice Leader at IQVIA. Jamie held various pharmacovigilance operations and compliance roles at Elan Pharma and Hospira. Over the course of her consulting career, Jamie has led and supported large and small-scale transformation projects in pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs and manufacturing. Jamie graduated from Northwestern University and holds her Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC-US).

KellieTaylor is currently the Associate Director of the Office of Medication Error Prevention and Analysis in the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s (CDER) where she is responsible for the Center’s programs in risk management and medication error prevention. She provides oversight, coordination, and technical expertise for the pre- and post-marketing activities involving medication error prevention and analysis regulated drug and drug/device products, human factors studies, proprietary names, and the nonproprietary naming convention for biological products.

Lesley Wise has over 20 years of experience in pharmacovigilance both in medicines regulation at the MHRA, and in the pharmaceutical industry as vice-president and global head of Risk Management Centre of Excellence and Pharmacoepidemiology where she worked closely with colleagues to ensure a companywide approach to Benefit - Risk Management and to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements. Lesley has been working as an independent consultant to the pharmaceutical industry for the last seven years and has liaised regularly with regulators, including meetings with PRAC, CHMP and FDA.

Greg served in the Navy and taught HS math and physics before earning his PhD in biostatistics from the University of Texas. He co-led a crossfunctional company initiative at Merck to develop and implement the Aggregate Safety Assessment Planning (ASAP) process. His research on blinded safety monitoring procedures is being developed in collaboration with statistical and clinical scientists at several pharmaceutical companies (including AbbVie and Merck). Greg co-leads, with Mary Nilsson and Scott Proestel, the PHUSE Safety Analytics working group; he established (with Bill Wang) the ASA Biopharm Safety Monitoring working group; and he pioneered the joint DIA-ASA Interdisciplinary Safety Evaluation (DAISE) scientific working group.

Dr. Jaclyn Bosco Global Head of Epidemiology in Real World Solutions at IQVIA, is responsible for driving real-world evidence (RWE) generation for regulators, clinicians, patients and payers using passive and primary data collection through clinicians and person-generated health to support the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biologics, and medical devices from early clinical development through the post-approval phase. She identifies the best approach for capturing data on a global scale as well applies local approaches to address market-specific needs. As a thought leader in real world research, she is invited to speak at international congresses and sits on scientific advisory boards and committees.

Ms. Bulliard has over 20 years’ experience in conducting real-world & late-phase studies, patient registries, safety studies, and other specialized real-world programs for orphan drugs, disease and medical device studies including studies measuring effectiveness of risk minimization measures. With an extensive global portfolio, specialising in post-authorisation safety studies, she has conducted many large and successful programs for a wide range of life science and healthcare organizations. Michelle is responsible for real-world evidence program strategy translating evolving methodological observational research standards into effective delivery strategies.

Qualified as a pharmacist in 1981 and started her career in hospital pharmacy. In 1983 she specialised in Drug Information Services and moved to Kuwait to set up and run the first National Drug Information Centre. On her return to the UK, Vicki spent the next four years in community pharmacy. In 1996 Vicki joined GlaxoWellcome and started her career in pharmacovigilance. In 2002 she moved to AstraZeneca UK Ltd as the Drug Safety Manager moving on to become Head of Drug Safety & Medical Information. Vicki joined Abbott in 2005 as European Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (EU QPPV). In 2013 moved to AbbVie as EU QPPV and Head of Affiliate Safety Excellence (ASE) and is now VP, Pharmacovigilance Excellence and I-QPPV.

Dr. Francis is the Director of the Data mining and Informatics Evaluation and Research Group in the Office of Translational Sciences, CDER, FDA.In that capacity he directs a trans-disciplinary group of senior sciences to test, create and operate data analysis program facilitating the efficient use of scientific methods to evaluate complex data information in order to make regulatory decisions for drug approval and drug safety.

E. Stewart Geary, MD, is Global Safety Officer at Eisai Co., Ltd. He is a Councilor of the Japanese Association of Pharmaceutical Medicine and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Pharmaceutical Medicine. A member of CIOMS XII, he also served on the CIOMS VII Working Group on the Development Safety Update Report, CIOMS VIII on Signal Detection, CIOMS on Standardized MedDRA Queries, CIOMS IX on Medicinal Product Risk Management and CIOMS Working Group on Drug-Induced Liver Injury. Dr. Geary is a DIA Fellow, a Fellow of the Academy of Physicians in Clinical Research and an IFAPP Global Fellow in Medicines Development. He earned a BA from Harvard and MD from Stanford Medical School.

Barbara Morollo has over 20 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industry with specific focus on the Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management challenges in the clinical development of rare disease, gene therapy and advanced therapeutics. As a practicing registered nurse, her prior clinical experience encompassed a broad range of critical care settings. She is currently Head, Pharmacovigilance at Corbus Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage company focused on treating inflammatory and fibrotic diseases by targeting the endocannabinoid system.

Janet Wittes is President of Statistics Collaborative, a company that consults on design of clinical trials. She has participated in many Data Safety Monitoring Committees for government and for industry. Her research deals with statistical monitoring of randomized trials.