Kestrel Consultants
Data quality and standards training for clinical research and development.
Kestrel passionately believes that understanding
data standards and data quality is
key to high quality clinical research and development.
Our cutting edge clinical research and development training programs teach you:
- Data Standards: Understand and apply consistent principles and processes to optimize your data design capture, management databasing, analysis, reporting, and regulatory submission.
- Data Quality: Learn innovative techniques for building quality into your studies and targeting the high risk issues that pose the greatest threat to your data while streamlining error identification and resolution.
Our team has many decades of experience in clinical research and development, particularly in standards and quality. Our staff were early members of CDISC CDASH, currently serve on its management board and co-lead the CDISC Medical devices standards team. We have a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of the CDASH model and its interpretations. Kestrel is a CDISC Registered Solution Provider for CDASH.
We offer webinars as well as custom on-site classes, which are cost-effective solutions to today’s training requirements. These educational sessions provide the tools for you to:
- Maximize the quality and reusability of your clinical data
- Improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your clinical studies
- Meet regulatory requirements for clinical data submission
Meet our Instructors:
Kestrel's courses are developed and presented by highly qualified industry professionals who bring you novel perspectives and pioneering techniques to maximize your educational experience.
Kit Howard is a recognized expert on clinical data standards and data quality with over 20 years of experience in these fields.
Kit is a thought leader in standards and quality, frequently challenging the biopharma industry to rethink their assumptions and providing alternative solutions that improve quality, efficiency and cost. She has published extensively on these topics, and frequently presents at industry conferences.
Jonathan Andrus is currently Vice President, Data and Study Operations for BioClinica, Inc. In this role he is responsible for study design, study development, quality control, data management and SAS. Additionally, Jonathan is the Chair of the DIA's eClinical SIAC, Immediate Past Chair of the Society for Clinical Data Management and serves on the CDISC Advisory Board.
Jonathan is a certified clinical data manager (CCDM), certified quality auditor (CQA) and has a Master's degree in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs from Temple University's Graduate School of Pharmacy and has a bachelor's degree from Temple University.
