MCLEAN, Va., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that Dr. David Hardison has joined SAIC as corporate vice president responsible for business development within SAIC’s Life Sciences office. Hardison has spent over 25 years working at the intersection of biopharmaceuticals, health care delivery, performance improvement, and information technology (IT) in both executive and board-level roles. He comes to SAIC most recently from First Consulting Group, where he served as vice president with global responsibility for the Life Sciences Consulting Practice.
Prior to that, in 1993, Hardison served as vice president of Continuous Improvement and chief information officer at Carolina Medicorp (now Novant Health), a large integrated delivery system, where he pioneered information technology-enabled performance improvement methods. In 1987, Hardison served in executive roles at the Hospital Corporation of America as a founding member of the Quality Resource Group and Quorum Health where he founded the Quorum Center for Continuous Improvement. Prior to that, Hardison served as a senior scientist at Eli Lilly and Company, and played a significant role in obtaining global regulatory approval for Prozac.
Hardison currently is a member of the boards of directors of the global Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), the North Carolina Public Health Foundation, and the University of North Carolina Board of Visitors. He also served a decade on the board of directors of Wheaton Franciscan Services, a $2+ billion health system in the Midwest.
Hardison received his bachelors of science from Vanderbilt University with High Honors in Math and Computer Science, and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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