Instructor: Julie Evans
Company: CDISC
Courses Taught: Intro to BRIDG, Global Approach to Accelerating Medical Research
Julie Evans is currently Senior Director, Technology Services at CDISC. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in Computer Science.
Julie has worked with CDISC for more than 10 years. During that time, she has been a member of and provided support for the SDS, ADaM and ODM teams. For the past several years, she has worked mostly on the BRIDG project, representing CDISC on the BRIDG Semantic Coordination Committee.
Instructor: Smita Hastak
Company: Samvit Solutions
Courses Taught: BRIDG Deep Dive
Smita Hastak is co-founder and CEO of Samvit Solutions, a health care consulting company focused on requirements analysis, systems modeling and data standards development. Smita has been a modeler and an analyst on the Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) Model since the early days of this CDISC Domain Analysis Model. She is a member of BRIDG Semantic Coordination Committee (SCC) which is responsible for harmonizing the domain semantics from all BRIDG stakeholder’s initiatives into BRIDG for a common shared representation of the clinical research. Smita has more than 17 years of systems analysis and design experience in the health care domain. This includes over 12 years working in the cancer clinical research community on various analysis and software development projects and 5 years in state Medicaid and bio-surveillance software initiatives. She has served in many lead and senior roles at Unisys, Oracle and ScenPro over the past years.
Instructor: Wendy Ver Hoef
Company: Samvit Solutions
Courses Taught: BRIDG Deep Dive
Wendy Ver Hoef is a senior systems analyst at Samvit Solutions, a health care consulting company focused on requirements analysis, systems modeling and data standards development. Wendy has been a modeler and an analyst on the Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) Model since 2007 and is a member of BRIDG Semantic Coordination Committee (SCC). She has participated in the harmonization of several CDISC standards into BRIDG and lead the harmonization efforts for numerous other BRIDG contributors. Wendy has more than 10 years of systems analysis and design experience in the health care domain, predominantly in the cancer clinical research community, but also in pharma initiatives. In her earlier career, she gained analysis, design and programming experience in other industries such as DoD and video-on-demand. Prior to joining Samvit, she worked in the consulting division at Oracle for 14 years and for the last 8 years was a Senior Analyst at ScenPro, Inc.