The Need for Standardization and CDISC:
Insights from The University of Alabama, The University of Utah & CDISC

Rhonda has over 30 years of experience in global clinical and standards development. She works with global stakeholders, including regulatory authorities, pharma, vendors, academics and SDOs in collaborative initiatives that extend and connect the CDISC standards. Their ultimate underlying goal is to work towards getting treatments to patients that need them.

Coretta has nearly 20 years’ experience in clinical trials management. She provides oversight and coordination on all aspects of clinical research projects. Coretta is responsible for coordinating and overseeing data collection and quality assurance, as well as developing reports and presenting evaluation findings to internal and external stakeholders. In data analysis, her role involves manipulating data, performing validation and edit checks, programming clinical data, automating data loads and analysis and ensuring rigorous quality controls. She develops methods for standard operating procedures (SOPs) and case report forms (CRFs) and is now leading the way in the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and standards adoption at UAB.

Russell Telford, MAS, MA, BA is a Biostatistician at the University of Utah. He has more than nine years of experience in clinical research and eight years of experience in education. He currently serves as the Director of Biostatistics and Clinical Data Management. Prior to his current role, Russell was the Biostatistics Manager and a Biostatistician providing direct support to clinical research projects. He has expertise with a wide variety of systems and processes related to Good Clinical Data Management Practice (GCDMP) and statistical methods. Russell leads both clinical data management and statistical staff that provide direct support to research projects.

Ed Chappell has been working as a Solutions Consultant with Formedix for over 13 years. He has authored and now presents Formedix’s training courses for SEND, SDTM, Define-XML, ODM-XML, Define-XML and Dataset-XML. Ed was heavily involved in the development of the ryze dataset mapper and works closely with customers on SDTM dataset mapping. As an expert in clinical data programming, Ed also supports customers with Interim Analysis (IA) SDTM and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) SDTM clinical trial submissions.

Mark Wheeldon is the Founder and CEO of Formedix. He is an active supporter of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) which Formedix has been a member of since its inception two decades ago. Mark is a member of the CDISC Industry Advisory Council (CAC), and strongly believes that a more efficient end-to-end clinical trial process lies in the successful implementation of data standards and clinical trial automation technologies.