Meg Valnoski - President
As President of Theradex for over 20 years, Ms. Valnoski has led Theradex operations including full service trial support throughout the US, EU and Asia. Ms. Valnoski oversees regulatory affairs in the US collaborating with Theradex's lead clinical scientists and EU regulatory experts to provide clients global development strategies for oncology drug products ranging from standard cytotoxic approaches to targeted combinations. She works closely with the diverse team of experts within Theradex to support the ongoing efforts to increase knowledge and the technical tools necessary to ensure the successful execution of your clinical trial. She facilitates communication between the clinical trial management staff and systems developers to ensure that clients have both the knowledge and the tools available to manage all phases of oncology trials across regions. Ms. Valnoski draws upon extensive experience interacting with clients and the regulatory authorities in the development to help clients navigate through the changing regulatory environment driven by the evolution of personalized treatment approaches.
Ms. Valnoski works with the company senior leadership to support collaborations that provide clients with combined benefit of long term clinical development and project execution experience.
Barry Anderson, M.D., Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, Global Clinical Operations
At Theradex, Dr. Anderson acts as the medical and safety monitor for commercial phase I, II and III trials. He supervises the Clinical Operations teams and helps sponsors devise strategies for new agent evaluation and protocol development. Additionally, Dr. Anderson supervises Theradex's Clinical Trial Monitoring Service team that reviews and audits early phase studies conducted by the National Cancer Institute. In the CTMS role, Dr. Anderson interacts with staff at the NCI Clinical Trials Monitoring Branch and Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program.
Dr. Anderson joined Theradex in 2007, after serving as a Senior Investigator at the Clinical Investigations Branch of the NCI Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program for eight years. While at NCI he worked closely with extramural NCI-supported investigators in the design, conduct and oversight of phase I, II and III cancer clinical trials conducted by the NCI Cooperative Groups. He served on numerous Data Safety Monitoring Boards for national cancer trials and was a leader in the development of the NCI-supported Pediatric Central IRB. Dr. Anderson was also an assistant professor and clinical attending in the Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant at the Lombardi Cancer Center of Georgetown University for five years prior to joining the NCI. His experience with clinical patient care and the design and implementation of large, multi-institutional cancer treatment studies has provided Dr. Anderson with significant exposure to the scientific, regulatory and clinical aspects of contemporary cancer clinical trial conduct. Dr. Anderson received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Lehigh University, a Ph.D. in Immunology from Duke University Medical Center and his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He trained in pediatric medicine at Northwestern University and completed a fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and HIV research at the National Cancer Institute Pediatric Branch.
Richard S. Ungerleider, M.D. - Senior Vice President, Clinical Research Affairs
Dr. Ungerleider provides expert advice in the design and conduct of phase I, phase 2, and large-scale pivotal oncology clinical trials, and participates in developing the research plans for pilot and laboratory-translational studies. He provides scientific leadership and medical guidance to clinical operations personnel at Theradex. Prior to joining Theradex in 2001, Dr. Ungerleider had been Chief of the Clinical Investigations Branch at the NCI for over a decade in which role he was responsible for the Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program. His career in the U.S. Public Health Service spanned twenty-seven years, the last twenty-five of which were spent at the NCI. Dr. Ungerleider's involvement in policy development to improve the conduct of oncology clinical trials provided him with extensive exposure to the scientific, regulatory, and industrial communities and familiarized him with the different interests of each.
Dr. Ungerleider received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the State University of New York at Binghamton's Harpur College, and his medical degree from New York University. He trained in pediatric medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at Stanford University, and underwent fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Stanford and the National Cancer Institute Pediatric Branch. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and the Sub-Board of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology.
Susan Davey - Vice President, Technology
As Vice President of Technology, Ms. Davey is responsible for leading Theradex's technology organization and managing the company's extensive portfolio of innovative and user-friendly software products. A 20 year veteran of the technology industry, she joined Theradex in 2012. Ms. Davey played a key role in expanding the Theradex technology organization and translating unmet needs in the pharmaceutical industry into word-class technology solutions. Before joining Theradex, she held increasingly senior leadership positions across a variety of industries including media, marketing, telecommunications, healthcare, and pharma.
Henry Durivage, Pharm.D. - Senior Director, Pharmacovigilance and Regulatory Affairs
Dr. Durivage oversees and manages all aspects of Theradex pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs operations. Dr. Durivage provides direct oversight of Theradex pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs staff, implementation and operation of the Oracle, Argus drug safety database and development of pharmacovigilance and regulatory services training curriculum. Dr. Durivage also leads and manages all of Theradex's research integrity projects, which have included conducting and reporting of "for-cause" or requested clinical oncology research compliance audits, providing advice on hospital and academic center clinical oncology research operations, assisting cancer centers prepare for NCI cooperative group audits and leading the conduct and reporting of National Cancer Institute-requested study monitoring, auditing and response verification projects. In his 12 years of experience at Theradex, Dr. Durivage has also led quality assurance audits at most of the NCI-designated cancer centers, served as project manager for two industry-sponsored pivotal trials and several phase I first-in-man clinical trials.
In addition to his experience at Theradex, Dr. Durivage brings an additional 11 years of experience as the director of clinical trial operations at two NCI-designated cancer centers and 12 years of experience as an oncology pharmacist. Dr. Durivage managed many components of institutional oncology clinical research including, but not limited to, determining feasibility of research projects, allocation of resources, budgeting resource needs with pharmaceutical sponsors, and establishing performance benchmarks to measure the impact of improvement initiatives. Dr. Durivage has also served as a member of cancer center scientific review committees, medical school institutional review board and chairman of a cancer center data and safety monitoring committee.