Lisa Ensign, a biostatistician and clinical science expert, brings over two decades of experience to her senior director of statistics role at Medidata Solutions. With an MS in Biostatistics from Harvard University and a PhD in Clinical Science from the University of Colorado, she has a strong aptitude for analytical approaches and improving the efficiency and rigor of clinical trials. Her specialties include clinical and postmarket surveillance trials, risk-based monitoring, pharmacovigilance, machine learning, text mining, and creating software system development. Cynthia's work focuses on creating synthetic controls and architecting unified clinical system data models to improve data quality management. In addition, she also teaches ethics and responsible conduct of research at University of Colorado.