President and
Membership Coordinator: Laural Wilkes,
CCRC
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Laura has been in clinical
research for 20 years. She is currently working in the Graduate Medical Education Research
Program at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center as the Research Regulatory Affairs Coordinator.
She is a graduate of the Clinical Research Coordinator Certificate Program at Gateway. She has
served on the board of the Phoenix Chapter of ACRP for the past 10 years and has been a certified
CRC with ACRP for the past 9 years. |
Past President:
Katie Gano, BS, CCRP
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Katie has
been in research since 2002 and currently works in Cancer Clinical Research at the Mayo Clinic
Arizona
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Vice President: Brian
Dischler, Regional CRA

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Brian
has worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a Medical Writer,
CRA Manager and Project Manager. He has been a member of the Phoenix Chapter ACRP since 2002, and been
on the Board of Directors since 2007.
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Secretary: Arpita Patel,AS, BS,
CRC
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Arpita has
beenin Clinical Research for 5 years, and currently works at BannerThunderbird MedicalCenter. She has a widespread health care and research experience, including Research
Coordinator as well as Data Specialist for Oncology studies. She recently completed a CRC program
at GatewayCommunity
College and an Internship program at Tgen
in Scottsdale, Arizona. |
Sponsorship
Coordinator: Yvonne
Cahill, RN, BSM, CRC
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Yvonne holds a Registered
Nursing license in British Columbia, Canada. Yvonne has an extensive business background,
including being a CEO at a medical distribution company. Yvonne recently completed a CRC
program at Gateway Community College and an Observership program at Mayo Clinic in
Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Website
Coordinator/Webmaster: Sandy J.Wong, MPA
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Sandy has a Masters in Public
Administration for Health Services Management from Golden Gate University in San Francisco,
California. She's designed websites since the
late 90s and has held positions as data coordinator and social science research assistant at
university hospitals, first with UCSF and later at
Stanford’s Prevention Research Center. She has done data coordination and regulatory at St. Joseph's Hospital
and the Cardiovascular Research Division of Mercy
Gilbert Medical Center respectively.
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Education
Coordinator: Fadi Hattendorf,
MS,
CRC, CRA
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Fadi is a
Biomedical Engineer, has worked for medical device companies. She has recently completed the
GateWay Community College CRC program. |
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