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Team Bios

CenterWatch's editorial, research, and management teams are highly-accomplished clinical trials and health care industry experts.

Editorial Team Bios

Steve Zisson
Editorial Director

For the past 10 years, Steve has covered contract research organizations, biopharmaceutical companies, and the eClinical technology space. Steve is responsible for the editorial direction of all CenterWatch newsletters, such as The CenterWatch Monthly, books, manuals, special reports, and ClinicalTrialsToday.com. An experienced journalist, Steve was previously a managing editor at health care publisher, HCPro. For many years, he worked as a daily newspaper reporter and has a B.A. from Salem State College.


Sara Gambrill
Senior Editor

For the past eight years, Sara has been writing features about international and domestic clinical research industry trends regularly for The CenterWatch Monthly and CWWeekly. She has also written special reports about various clinical research market regions. Sara holds a B.A. in Latin Literature from Bryn Mawr College and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College.


Molly Rowe
Senior Associate Editor

Molly joined CenterWatch last year as Senior Associate Editor. She is an experienced health care journalist, having spent six years covering public and private health care and pharmaceutical organizations and vendors. She received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Maine.


Research Team Bios

Tracy Trundle
Research Analyst

Tracy has been a part of CenterWatch for more than two years. In addition to contributing to editorial and market research projects, Tracy maintains the Drugs in Clinical Trials Database. She holds a degree in Biology from the University of Colorado.


Management Team Bios

David Heck
Senior Director of CTLS Sales

David has been with CenterWatch for nine years. He directs sales activities associated with web-based solution services to support patient recruitment strategies. With more than 15 years experience in the field of patient recruitment, David has been a speaker and panelist at many U.S. and international conferences on the topics of patient recruitment, Internet health seekers, data-driven study planning tools, and registry/results compliance programs. David graduated from Bowling Green University and received his graduate degree from the University of Cincinnati.


Rick Lavallee
Director of Inside Sales and Service

Rick has been with CenterWatch for six years. He oversees the sales of all CenterWatch publications, newsletters, database services, advertising, content licensing, and CenterWatch's career portal, JobWatch. Rick has spoken at several industry conferences on the topics of patient recruitment on the Internet and training resources for clinical research professionals. He holds both a B.S. and an M.B.A. from Western New England College.


Keli G. Bergman
Marketing Manager

Keli joined CenterWatch last year as Marketing Manager and has 15 years experience in the medical device industry serving as an owner of a medical device manufacturer and separately as a marketing-services provider. She supports the sales of CenterWatch products and services through customer-focused marketing mixes, brand awareness, and strategic brand positioning. She received a B.S. in Journalism/Mass Communication with a concentration in Advertising from Iowa State University.



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