	The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (

 as Senior Director of Biomedical Informatics and Alliances. Dr. Becnel will focus on informatics technologies, especially the CDISC metadata repository, Shared Health and Research Electronic Library (SHARE), which houses all of the CDISC standards and ensure that CDISC research standards are relevant not only for regulated research but also for academic research centers and precision medicine.

 has been named senior vice president of marketing. He will lead the global marketing and business development teams for DIA. He most recently served in global roles as the Senior Director of Digital and Patient Engagement at Chimerix and Vice President of Investigator Education and Patient Engagement at Quintiles.

CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services 

	From left to right: Jeni White, Michael Romes, Meredith Dees, and Kate VanGilder.

	From left to right: Chris Kaas, Jeff Osterhaus, Michaela Heekin and Molly McKean

	The company also announced the following promotions: 

 to Assistant Manager, Clinical Systems Operations; 

 to In-House Clinical Research Associate; 

 to Assistant Director, Information Technology; 

 promoted to Senior Manager, Business Development Operations; 

 to Assistant Manager, Research Associates; and 

 its managing director of EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa). Hebenstreit  will be based at Medidata’s EMEA headquarters in London and head operational functions in the region. 

, a provider of transfer center and on-call scheduling technology healthcare solutions, has hired 

 as its Senior Data Scientist. Moore has received multiple awards for his work including a data mining project that used logistic regression to find Medicare billing errors. He most recently was Director of Service Analytics with Progrexion Marketing in North Salt Lake, UT.

 has appointed four senior executives to its Management Team. They include: 

 as Global Head of TalentSource staffing solutions, 

 as Global Head of Clinical Research Division and 

 as Vice President of Commercial Operations.

 has opened a new, larger 1,300 square meters depot site in St. Petersburg, Russia. It allows for the storage and distribution of a wide range of clinical trial materials with special requirements and conditions for storage, as well as distribution.

 has expanded its medical communications services into the Asia-Pacific region, and will be managed by teams in Tokyo and Singapore. These operations join the existing services in North America, Latin America and Europe.

 announced the expansion of its North American presence with the opening of an office in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.

 has been named to the 2016 CSO50 by IDG's CSO Magazine, and is in recognition of its Identity Management Solution, which introduced identity vetting, identity storage and identity synchronization to improve data quality for both existing and newly established users.

 is celebrating 20 years of clinical research excellence. Launched in 1996 by industry veterans Jodi Andrews and Inger Arum. To commemorate their anniversary, the company is launching

 Twenty for Twenty: ProTrials Celebrates Two Decades of Clinical Research Excellence. 

The storytelling initiative will profile a company milestone that occurred each year over the last 20 years on the company's LinkedIn and Facebook pages.

 has been named, for the fifth time, to the InformationWeek Elite 100, a list of the top business technology innovators in the United States. PPD’s technology features wearable or mHealth technology, and 

, its portfolio of solutions for clinical trial operations.

 announced that Covance Drug Development has received the Clinical & Research Excellence (CARE) Award for Best Sponsor-Focused Technological Development for its Xcellerate

 Monitoring solution, central monitoring. 

®, a global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, announced that Adam Darwich, PhD, has been appointed Certara Lecturer in Precision Dosing at the Manchester Pharmacy School at The University of Manchester in England. Certara has endowed this to advance teaching and research of modeling and simulation for individual dose optimization.

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