Archives: Speakers

Cécile Pascaretti holds a doctoral degree in Pharmacy from the University of Limoges, France. She is in Merck Healthcare for 22 years and was heading various quality positions locally in France and then globally covering GMP and GDP aspects.
Cécile is in charge of the Supply Chain and Distribution Quality Management for Merck Healthcare. In this role, she is taking care of all the GDP topics especially external supplier management and qualification – validation.
She is also Deputy Responsible Person for Merck Healthcare France.

Aryana Hosseinkhani is the Director of Patient Cloud at Medidata, a Dassault Systemes Company. She completed her education at University of California, Davis in Genetics and shortly after began working as a bench scientist in stem cell research. Aryana began her clinical research career at Science 37 around 7 years ago, as the third employee and a founding partner.  At Medidata she focuses on product and patient communications in patient facing technologies.  She believes that when sponsors, sites, and patients have optimized experiences, drug development timelines can be expedited and clinical research can become an option for more people.  Aryana is passionate about the value of  research and seeing it through from the bench to the real world. Over her career, she has focused on disruptive and innovative technologies that can simplify clinical trials for patients, sites and sponsors.

Tom Lemberg is the Founder & CEO of Curebase. Tom’s career has focused entirely on healthcare and life science software development, spanning the cloud EMR space, precision oncology, and clinical trial decision support. He is a Y Combinator alum from 2018, and has led Curebase’s growth to 25 customers and $19M in venture funding. In 2022, he was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for making positive global change in healthcare. Prior to founding Curebase, Tom worked in product management for EMR data integrations, clinical trial matching engines, and tumor board workflows at Syapse, a real-world evidence startup in San Francisco. Tom received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in computer science and molecular and cellular biology, and has a deep passion for applying a lifetime of software experience to the toughest problems in health and medicine.

Mike Keens leads operational performance and growth strategies for Anju Software. Mike brings more than two decades of experience in drug development clinical and commercial operations at organizations that include ADial Pharmaceuticals, Syneos, Firma Clinical Research, and Icon PLC. His expertise includes driving the rapid growth of Clinical Trial and DCT business units supporting studies in more than 60 countries. Keens holds an M.S. in Public Health Sciences and a B.S. in Biology & Psychology and has been recognized by PharmaVOICE magazine as one of the Top 100 Inspiring People in Pharma. He also holds memberships in the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP).

Dave is an entrepreneur and technology innovator. He is known for pioneering the fields of A.I.-based medical decision-support, Training Analytics, and Virtual Patient Simulation (VPS).

Dave’s last company, TheraSim, launched the world’s first successful online VPS system for physicians and trained over 500,000 doctors in every country on Earth. TheraSim built the world’s largest network of computer-based clinical simulation sites in Africa in support of the USAID and the CDC’s HIV-treatment effort. TheraSim was acquired by WebMD in 2014.

Since then, he has focused his passion for technological innovation and learning systems in the field of clinical trials, helping sponsors make their studies more accurate and efficient through finding the right technology mix such as virtualization, performance management and applied behavioral sciences to produce the most effective, lasting, and engaging results for clinical trials.

Dave has always valued the interconnectedness of our vastly changing world, and has traveled to over 70 countries for his global health work and for cultural development outreach through music.