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Dr. Joann L. Data
Drug Development Consultant
Home base in Corona Del Mar, CA
B.S. ’66 Purdue University; M.D. ’70 Washington University; Ph.D. ’77 Vanderbilt University
Joann L. Data, M.D., Ph.D., is currently working as a drug development consultant for several biopharmaceutical companies and universities. She has recently retired from Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where she held several senior management positions that include Senior Vice President of Corporate Assignments (June 2005-December 2005) and Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance (August 1999 to June 2005). While at Amylin, she provided regulatory and clinical consulting services to Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as Senior Vice President of Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs in 2002 -2003, and to Allergan Pharmaceutics from 2003-2005. She served on the Board of Directors of Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation from 2001 – 2008.
Data previously served as Executive Vice President of Product Development and Regulatory Affairs for CoCensys Inc. Her experience also includes several positions at the Upjohn Company, including Corporate Vice President for Worldwide Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs and Project Management, and a number of positions at Hoffmann-La Roche, including Vice President of Clinical Research and Development. Data has been an adjunct assistant professor in medicine and pharmacology at Duke University Medical Center and at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Data received her BS from Purdue University, her MD from Washington University School of Medicine and her PhD from Vanderbilt University. She conducted her internship and residency in internal medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and held a fellowship in clinical pharmacology and an instructorship in medicine and pharmacology at Vanderbilt University before beginning her pharmaceutical career.
Data is a member of several medical societies including the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology Therapeutics of which she was President in 1994 and received The Henry W. Elliott Distinguished Service Award in 2003. Has authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications and is currently working on a chapter for a book on Principals of Clinical and Translational Research.