Cynthia J GirmanCynthia Girman, DrPH, FISPE, is founder and President of CERobs Consulting, LLC, which provides consulting services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry on study design and scientific methods for real world observational studies, comparativeeffectiveness research and pragmatic randomized clinical trials. Dr. Girman is a seasoned epidemiologist with strong interest in biostatistical and observational methods, and the bulk of her 40+ year career has been in the pharmaceutical industry. Her undergraduate and doctoral training was at UNC and her MS in Applied Statistics and Computer Science is from Villanova University. She has led multi-institution academic collaborations, published extensively and reviewed for numerous peer-reviewed medical journals. As Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health, she collaborates on methodology research, gives guest classroom lectures and mentors numerous doctoral candidate graduate research assistants and post-doctoral fellows. Dr. Girman was an elected Board member 2015-2020 and is a fellow of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and she annually teaches in the pragmatic randomized clinical trials (pRCT) pre-conference course. In September 2014, Dr. Girman was the first industry member nominated to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Methodology Committee, on which she actively contributes along with their Clinical Trials Advisory Panel. Currently, Dr. Girman consults on study design, protocol development and analytic methods for real world evidence, such as registries, post-authorization safety studies, natural history studies, comparative effectiveness research, pragmatic randomized clinical trials, and external control groups for rare diseases. She also consults on endpoint strategies for randomized clinical trials, including patient reported outcomes, clinician assessments and expert review panels, as well as patient engagement and qualitative research. Read More Read Less