Fred Wood has been active in leading the development of CDISC standards since 1999. He is one of the principal contributors to the CDISC Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM), and is a founding member of the SDS Team (1999) and the SEND Team (2002); he led or co-led both teams for many years. Fred created the first SEND domains in 2002.
Fred has been an independent consultant since 2021. Prior to that, he had a number of management roles in various companies, including Vice President for Consulting Services at TalentMine (2018-2020), lead for the Data Standards Consulting Group within Accenture's Accelerated R&D Services (2006-2017), and Global Data Standards Manager for Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals (1998-2006). Fred has a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and a B.S. from Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts.