(WAYNE, PA, August 20, 2008) — CEO & Chairman Jim Walker of Octagon Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer and leading provider of breakthrough software and services to the life sciences industry, today announced the appointment of Lex Jansen as senior consultant, Clinical Data Strategies. In his new role, Mr. Jansen will serve as a consultant on Clinical Data Interchange Standard Consortium (CDISC) Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) implementations for pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations. Mr. Jansen will offer expert guidance on the use of data integration technologies and best practices to convert electronic clinical data into CDISC SDTM compliant format.
Mr. Jansen has nearly 20 years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Octagon, he was the senior director, Clinical Information Systems at TAKE Solutions where he consulted with clients to help them with their CDISC SDTM implementations and designed and developed a SAS toolset to support SDTM implementations. He also spent sixteen years at Organon in global biometrics where he was responsible for the global biometrics SAS infrastructure and served as technical lead for the CDISC Implementation Team, project lead and technical lead for Organon’s CDISC SDTM Late Stage Conversion Project and a core member of the SDTM-based data warehouse project. Mr. Jansen has experience leading SDTM implementation projects and infrastructure design projects. He is a member of the CDISC, Operational Data Model (ODM) team and a member of the editorial board of the journal, Pharmaceutical Programming. Mr. Jansen is a frequent presenter at SAS User Group conferences.
“Leadership in the field of electronic data standardization requires a unique combination of domain expertise and technological acumen that is highly sought after and very difficult to find,” stated Dave Evans, CIO, Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. “Lex embodies these qualities along with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We welcome him to our team and look forward to his contributions.”
“Octagon has a reputation for leading the industry with a visionary approach to drug development processes,” noted Mr. Jansen. “I feel privileged to be a part of a company that continues to be so innovative in their view of how clinical data standards can potentially transform the clinical data lifecycle and the drug development process.”
About Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. Octagon is a pioneer and leading provider of breakthrough software and services to the life sciences industry. Octagon’s eCTD, and CDISC solutions provide the people, process and technology required to optimize drug development from data collection to submission. Our regulatory, clinical, process and software offerings provide a unique combination of deep domain knowledge, cross-functional electronic submission expertise, a holistic process approach, and integrated solutions. Octagon is headquartered in Wayne, PA, with European headquarters in Berkhamsted, UK. Octagon’s EDC Operations are located in Mountain View, CA. For more information please visit www.octagonresearch.com.
