Debbie Merrill Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Senior project director managing a consortium comprised of pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers and government agencies (NHLBI), supported by the COPD Foundation. Goal is to qualify biomarkers for COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) by integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources, and submitting dossiers to the FDA and/or.

Princeton, NJ

Senior leader for Corporate Project implementation and Research and Development Benchmarking

Divisional implementation lead for COMET program, a business process re-engineering project implementing standard practices for Order to Cash, Supply Chain Management, Financial Business Management, Source to Settle and HR. Include development and deployment of SAP on a global basis.

Designed and established PMO (Program Management Office). Hired 13 people into the group and served as department head. Capabilities included internal metrics development and external benchmarking, External competititve intelligence (research), project management standardization and best practices, project management for governance committees, Development.

Increasing responsibility in the research PM group.Exec Director: 2001-2005Sr Director: 1999-2001Director: 1996-1999Coordinator / Sr Project Manager: 1992-1996Led group of >50 PM and resource professionals, setting dept. direction, assigning resources for all phases of drug development, and executing change and continuous improvement projects. --Governance.

Held positions of increasing responsibility in Clinical Research, focusing on cardiovascular and OTC drug development. Managed several successfully launched compounds through all phases of development. -- **protocol design and authoring, **clinical site selection and monitoring, **management of clinical investigator meetings and **preparation of study.

--Managed Compassionate Use program (>3,000 patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias) for anti-arrhythmic compound. Prepared summary report for inclusion in NDA.--Coordinated clinical program for investigational antidepressant agent. Responsibilities included protocol design and operational execution, on-site data monitoring/quality assurance.

Conducted and analyzed in vitro and in vivo experiments in animal models to assess antiarrhythmic activity of experimental compounds (Langendorf rabbit heart preparation, mouse fibrillation model, Harris ligated dog model)

Mba, Management, Marketing

B.A., Biology, Psychology

Mba, Management