Ryan B. Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Expert resource and advocate for translational biomedical research bridging the gap between science and operations to help scientists achieve their project goals, clinically and pre-clinically.• Serve as Program Manager for internally funded international translational cancer research consortium in partnership with Stand Up To Cancer (Van Andel Institute-Stand Up To Cancer Epigenetic Dream Team). Work with team and institutional executive leadership to develop and operationalize strategic plans.• Oversee program's finances; multi-million dollar budget.• Collaborate with clinicians and scientists within consortium on daily basis.• Work closely with VAI's biobank in developing collection kits, lab manuals, shipping logistics, and clinical site biospecimen processing.• Work with clinicians and scientists in pre-clinical phase in arranging relationships with pharma, CDAs/NDAs, MTAs, etc.• Assist with upload of correlative research data to cloud based data repository.• Oversaw onboarding and training of new project managers.• VARI IRB member 7+ years.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Assist in managing Van Andel Institute-Stand Up To Cancer Epigenetics Dream Team clinical trials.• Independently manage, facilitate and monitor daily activities of multiple clinical trials and perform a variety of duties involved in collection, compilation, documentation and reporting of clinical research data.• Collaborate with project team leaders, PIs, collaborating investigators/institutions, pharmaceutical industry sponsors, and VAI Business Development to facilitate project proposal development and start-up.• Support VAI leadership and in goals and objectives of clinical research project management and operations.• Work with Pathology and Biorepository Core and project team leaders to develop, organize and track correlative specimen collection, processing, and conduct of downstream assays.• Assist with coordination of developing and implementing correlative studies and bio-banking.• Manage subject recruitment tracking process for trials in keeping with project goals/milestone.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• IRB Specialist II -- Develop and revise IRB forms and checklists -- Assist investigators will IRB submissions -- Perform a preliminary review of all IRB submissions -- Perform IRB education and training -- Assisted/maintain Alion HRPP Accreditation -- Assisted in AAHRPP Accreditation• IRB member (2 years)• Conflict of Interest Specialist II -- Manage the COI-Smart software and assist with disclosures -- Review the disclosures with Legal Counsel for assessment of COIs -- Develop management plans for significant COIs

Allegan, Mi

• Raw materials testing in the raw material confirmation group• LIMS to enter the lab results electronically • Trained on performing various chemical tests, which include: -- GC/GC Headspace -- Impurities -- HPLC -- Potentiometric titrations -- Water (Karl Fischer) -- UV-Vis -- Specific gravity -- Refractive index -- Bulk density/tap density/screen tests/micron air jet -- FT-IR/NIR -- Heavy metals• Work with a lab team to prioritize testing and achieve the daily testing goals to meet customer needs.• Mentor new employees and work with them in situations where they need guidance.• Team leader on a Lean Sigma company project • Use Perrigo’s SOPs and the USP/NF to do daily chemical testing.• Have done method validation/method transfers • Revise Perrigo's specifications and test methods

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Kept a safe environment for residents and staff and applied the program set in place by Pine Rest with help from my team members• Interacted and built relationships with the residents and provided crisis management• Medication certified and passed residents' medications• Mentored new employees and helped them with daily tasks

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• On the Med/Surg clinical research team and coordinated clinical research trials• Assisted my team members with their research trials • Responsible for independent patient interactions and documentation relative to research studies.• Handled, collected, recorded, and managed research data and specimen• Audited my team members’ studies I prepared and submitted documents to the Institutional Review Board on a regular basis, which included:-- AE/SAE reporting-- Protocols-- Consents-- Applications for Human Research-- Modifications-- Continuing Reviews-- Reportable New Information FormsI worked on various clinical research trials, some included:• An FDA drug trial with Pfizer as the sponsor. This drug trial was a randomized, double blind, parallel-group study of cardiovascular safety in osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis patients with or at high risk for cardiovascular disease comparing Celecoxib with Naproxen and Ibuprofen. I was the primary coordinator on this study and our site was one of the highest enrolling. I went through a Pfizer audit successfully. • Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker Study where vials of blood are collected, so a company can look at the biomarkers in the blood and see if the biomarkers they found can detect pancreatic cancer early. I helped the primary coordinator on this study by ways of consenting patients, collecting blood specimen, and transporting the blood specimen.• Humanitarian Use Device study where Onyx HD-500 LES is used for brain aneurysms that are too large for surgical clipping. I was the primary coordinator on this study. I wrote the consent for this study and started this study from the ground up with a physician. • An MRI study where they are looking at new software to see if it is comparable to the existing MRI sequence. We were trying to see if the new sequence, which is significantly quieter, could give as good of imaging as the current MRI sequence.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Sciences, General

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Social Sciences