Director, Advanced analytics and Research optimization
Advarra
Wendy Tate, PhD, MS, GStat, is the Director of Research Operations at Advarra. Wendy’s work is focused on the evaluation of clinical research operations, including the development and testing of quantitative methods to measure and assess protocol feasibility, study activation, and workload. Her passion is to provide helpful and meaningful processes and tools to clinical research professionals that streamline clinical research practices and better the clinical research enterprise as a whole. Prior to Advarra, Wendy spent 15 years at the University of Arizona in various roles within human laboratory, human subjects protection, and clinical research roles, including leadership roles with the IRB and Cancer Center clinical trials office. She received her MS in Applied Biosciences and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences with an emphasis in Pharmaceutical Economics, Policy, and Outcomes and a minor in Epidemiology from the UA.