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11:30am EDT

#520 POS: Professional Poster Session II

Tuesday June 16, 2026 11:30am - 1:30pm EDT

Component Type: Session

Professional Posters provide an opportunity for methodology (“how to”), case study, and research to be presented to a diverse group of scientific professionals who are actively involved in the discovery, development, and lifecycle management of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and healthcare-related products.

Speakers

Melissa Bechtel

Director, Expanded Access Strategy and Process Standards, Pfizer, United States

Melissa Bechtel is Director of Expanded Access, overseeing strategy and process standards for global and local programs that provide timely access to patients with serious or life-threatening conditions. She has worked in Expanded Access since 2015 and continues to expand her exp... Read More →

Walter Bender

Chief Scientific Officer, Sorcero, Inc., United States

Esther Borteye

Risk Management Fellow, United States

Esther Borteye, PharmD, is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and currently serves as a Risk Management Fellow at Pfizer. She supports pharmacovigilance activities and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies across therapeutic areas, including assessing safety data, contributing... Read More →

Joan Cheung

Principal Consultant, Epista Life Science, United States

Joan Cheung is a Senior Consultant at Epista Life Science where she leverages new technologies for digital transformations in the life sciences. Since her Doctor of Pharmacy from St. John’s University, she gained technical project and product management skills in Regulatory Affairs... Read More →

Linda Chiou

Senior Manager Medical Information, LEO Pharma, United States

Linda Chiou is a Senior Medical Information Manager at LEO Pharma with more than 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience. She is passionate about advancing Med Info through innovative uses of technology and AI to improve day-to-day operations, communication, and engagement... Read More →

Adam Clarke

Innovation Manager, Bristol Myers Squibb, United States

Adam Clarke works on the Patient Safety Evolution team at Bristol Myers Squibb. He seeks to enhance collaboration, develop AI enabled safety, and develop digital health approaches that illuminate benefit–risk in new ways. He holds dual BS degrees in Chemistry and Biology and began... Read More →

Viviana Coppo

IRB Principal Chair, WCG, United States

Viviana Coppo is a licensed pharmacist in the U.S. and Europe, with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Turin. She has a strong background in the pharmaceutical industry, clinical research, and community pharmacy. She has over 20 years of experience in cross-functional... Read More →

Vamsidhara Dhulipala

Senior Director, Global Regulatory Affairs at GSK, GSK, United States

Vamsi currently works as a Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs at GSK. Prior to that Vamsi worked as a Director/Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs from 2013 to 2022 and as a toxicologist from 2004 o 2013 at Merck Research Labs. He has experience with all phases of drug development... Read More →

John Diaz-Decaro

Founder, Black Swan Causal Labs, United States

John D. Diaz-Decaro, PhD, MS is a pharmacoepidemiologist and real-world evidence strategist with expertise in real-world evidence, observational study design, and AI-enabled evidence generation. He served as Senior Director and Lead Epidemiologist at ModernaTX, directing a global... Read More →

Ron Fitzmartin

Principal Consultant, Decision Analytics, United States

Ron Fitzmartin is a Principal Consultant at Decision Analytics. Previously, Ron was Senior Advisor in the Data Standards Branch, Office of Regulatory Operations, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA. He provided policy and strategy consultation on electronic regulatory... Read More →

Karen Hinkle

Associate Director, Medical Writing, Boehringer Ingelheim , United States

Karen Hinkle, Ph.D., is Associate Director of Medical Writing at Boehringer Ingelheim where she specializes in developing patient-facing regulatory documents for clinical trials, including Informed Consent Forms. She has a PhD in Physiology from the University of Michigan with a research... Read More →

Neda Jiveh

Medical Information and Review Fellow, Pfizer, United States

MIDHUN RAJ K

Associate Director, Signal Management, IQVIA, India

Pharmacovigilance professional, with bachelor's in pharmacy and master's in data sciences with 15+ years of working experience in drug safety surveillance industry with a special focus on its quality management aspects. Worked with number of pharmaceutical, biological and medical... Read More →

Rohit Kadam

Researcher, TCS ADD, TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED, INDIA, India

Edward Kim

Analyst, FDA, United States

Edward is a clinical safety and surveillance research liaison and senior reviewer in the Office of Generic Drugs. He conducts and develops research and multifunctional projects to study drug safety and data-driven public health improvements. Prior to his nearly 17 years at FDA, Edward... Read More →

Hyeonmin Kwon

Assistant Manager, Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management (KIDS), Korea, Republic of

Hyeonmin Kwon is currently working at the Korea Institute of Drug Safety & Rist Management(KIDS) as a pharmacist. She earned a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Kangwon National University. Currently, she is part of the Office of ADR Relief, engaged in the causality assessment of... Read More →

Joseph Laudano

Medical Director, IQVIA, United States

Joseph B. Laudano BS Pharm, Pharm D – Medical Director, IQVIA Inc. Joe has over 35 years’ experience in Pharma. Before joining IQVIA, he was VP, Medical Affairs at Pharmaspectra, VP Medical Affairs at Alliqua Biomedical and Senior Director of Medical Affairs & Global Head of Publication... Read More →

SAMIR LEDADE

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Canada

Samir Ledade is an Associate Director, Medical Writing Operations at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, based in Mississauga, Canada. He has over 16 years of experience in regulatory medical writing, clinical development, and pharmacovigilance within global pharmaceutical organizations. His... Read More →

Po-Hung Lee

Associate Reviewer, Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), Taiwan

Ji Li

Reviewer, Division of Clinical Outcome Assessment, OND, CDER, FDA, United States

Dr. Ji Li is a primary reviewer at the Division of Clinical Outcome Assessment at the U.S. FDA. Dr. Li reviews the use of clinical outcome assessments in IND/NDA/BLA applications that are intended to support labeling claims of medical product development programs. Dr. Li also reviews... Read More →

Linghui Li

Associate Director, Takeda, United States

Anran Liu

ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, FDA, United States

Anran is a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. FDA, CDER Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, conducting research in pharmacovigilance and drug safety surveillance. She earned her PhD in Biostatistics from SUNY Buffalo in August 2024, where she developed approaches for adverse event... Read More →

ChiaPing Liu

Senior Technical Specialist, Taiwan Food and Drug Administration, Taiwan

Ms. Liu has received her bachelor degree in pharmacy from Taipei Medical University and later acquired her pharmacist certificate. She has received her master degree in Law from National Cheng Chi University. She has been serving in Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) these... Read More →

Kristi Malone

Lay Language & New Media Medical Writer, Boehringer Ingelheim, United States

Kristi is a lay language medical writer at Boehringer Ingelheim. She specializes in plain language regulatory writing including authoring informed consent documents. Kristi has more than 20 years of clinical trial experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Julia Mauro

Project Specialist, DIA, United States

Kristen Miller

Health Scientist Policy Analyst, Office of Medical Policy, CDER, FDA, United States

Kristen Miller is a Health Scientist Policy Analyst with the Office of Medical Policy (OMP) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where she manages Real-World Evidence (RWE) Analytics for the Center of Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). She oversees public-private collaborations... Read More →

Namareq Musa

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Pfizer, United States

PharmD graduate and a first-year U.S. Medical Information Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pfizer in Heme/Onc

Carolina Navas

COA Manager, IQVIA, Spain

I am an oncology scientist with training as a medical veterinarian and a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, with over a decade of experience across academia and industry in Europe and the United States. I have contributed to multiple high-impact publications in oncology and... Read More →

Jonathan Norman

Director, Localization & Scale Management, YPrime Inc., United Kingdom

Isaac Nyarko

Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Advertising and Promotion, Merz Aesthetics, United States

Isaac Nyarko, MS, MPH, is a Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs, Advertising and Promotion, specializing in ad-promo compliance for pharmaceuticals and medical devices in the U.S. and Canada. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Regulatory Science at the University of Southern... Read More →

Feisal Othman

Benefit Risk Assessment Lead, Bristol Myers Squibb, United States

Feisal Othman is a drug safety and benefit–risk assessment professional with over 15 years of experience across healthcare, patient safety, and regulatory science. He currently serves as a Benefit Risk Assessment Lead at Bristol Myers Squibb, where he leads the development and application... Read More →

Sahishnu Patel

Associate Director, AI and Automation R&D, Synterex, United States

Sahishnu Patel, PhD, is Associate Director of AI and Automation R&D at Synterex, where he leads the design, validation, and responsible deployment of AI-enabled medical and regulatory solutions. His work focuses on building high-impact generative and agentic systems, advancing scalable... Read More →

Amit Patel

CEO, Octozi, United States

Amit Patel is the co-founder and CEO of Octozi, an AI company automating clinical data workflows for pharma sponsors. Previously he was a product leader at GoogleX and Meta developing new AI platforms. He is a graduate of Stanford University and lives in New York City.

Su Qiu

Director, Head of Medical Translation, Beone Medicines, China

Dr. Su Qiu is Director and Head of Medical Translation at BeOne Medicines. With over 15 years of experience in medical translation, Dr. Su has delivered high-quality simultaneous interpretation at more than 2,000 international medical conferences. She built BeOne Medicines’ in-house... Read More →

Mohit Raizada

Director - Signal Management Services, IQVIA, India

Dr. Mohit Raizada is the Director and Head of Signal Management Services in the Lifecycle Safety department at IQVIA, India. He is an expert in signal management and has successfully onboarded, led, executed, and completed complex signal management projects for various companies... Read More →

Anuradha Roy

Senior Vice President, One Vector, United States

A seasoned leader with 25+ years of experience advising clients on creating value through business transformation leveraging technology while keeping focus on compliance and quality. Anu started her career as a product manager, collaborating with different departments on scaling up... Read More →

Takahiro Sakai

Chief, Clinical Research Coordinating Section, National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan

JOB EXPERIENCE: April/2011 to present National Cancer Center Hospital East JAPAN(NCCHE) /Clinical Trial Management Office/Clinical Research Coordinator(CRC), chief EDUCATION: Master of Pharmacy QUALIFICATIONS: Association of Clinical Research Professionals(ACRP) certified CRC

Steven Thompson

Founder, Nextrial AI, Brazil

Chansonida Uk

Post-Doctoral Medical Affairs Fellow, CSL Seqirus/Northeastern University, United States

Chansonida J. Uk, PharmD, is a Post-Doctoral Medical Affairs Fellow at CSL Seqirus with over three years of experience across Medical Affairs, public health, and HealthTech. She has a strong background in immunology and vaccine science, supporting Medical Information, publications... Read More →

Yukino Umeki

Reviewer (Biostatistics), Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Japan

Rishi Verma

Medical Director, Roche & Stethy, Australia

Rishi is a Physician and medical director who worked in the Life science industry. He has led and supervised various Clinical Trial programs across the world. Rishi is also the Director of Stethy an AI automation platform for the life science to improve safety and compliance across... Read More →

Khaled Yahiaoui

Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs- Operations, Merck & Co., Inc., Canada

Khaled is Associate Director, Regulatory Operations at Merck Canada, with 16 years' experience in regulatory operations. He specializes in global electronic regulations, holds a Regulatory Affairs Certification from RAPS, and lectures on electronic submissions at the University of... Read More →

Takayuki Yasuda

Statistical Programmer, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan

Takayuki Yasuda has been serving as a Statistical Programmer in the Biometrics department at Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. since 2020. He worked in the CRO industry from 2014 to 2020. Since 2024, he has been leading an initiative on implementing generative AI in the clinical development... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 11:30am - 1:30pm EDT
Exchange The Pennsylvania Convention Center 1101 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA

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