Jane Hart has worked in the Clinical Research Industry for over 22 years, with 5 of those years in the Medical Device Industry. She joined KCI in 2017 leading the Clinical Operations, Data Management, Biostatistics and Global Safety departments. Her team is focused on generating evidence to support the safe and effective use of KCI products primarily through company sponsored and investigator sponsored research. Jane started her career in Australia working in breast cancer research and relocated to the US 17 years ago. She is experienced with executing pre and post market studies globally for both drug and devices. Highlights of studies she has managed include FDA approval of a nanocoated cardiac stent, hormonal therapy for breast cancer and chemotherapy for hematological malignancies.
Jane is currently a member of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) and is PMP certified with the Project Management Institute. In addition, Jane is a graduate of Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Patrick T. Moran is the founding board member of the Texas Cannabis Industry Association. Beginning October of 2013, he started to apply his professional experience to the emerging cannabis industry. He maintains Texas State Bar licensure and invested time & energy into the last three Texas legislative sessions, to help advance cannabis law reform. Mr. Moran is also founder and CEO of Pebble Global Holdings (www.pebble.life) an emerging bio-pharmaceutical company committed to natural plant solutions that include CBD-based products. Coming from a family with three generations of medical professionals on his mother’s side and six generations of industrial-scale agriculture & entrepreneurship on his father’s, he has led the company’s R&D, guided overall strategy and successful fundraising. Post Texas Hemp legalization, he is now helping advise TCIA coming into the 2020 elections and using the results of Pebble’s in-house clinical trial to inform subsequent larger scale studies.
After several years in the rescue service, Jakob Böttger specialized in the field of rescue engineering. As head of planning and deployment of the fire brigade, he is primarily active in risk assessment and in the derivation of measures in emergency plans for railway incidents. These include projects at the Lötschberg base tunnel, the Gotthard and Ceneri base tunnel and a number of smaller tunnels operated by BLS Netz AG.
