Lex Jansen has been appointed senior consultant, Clinical Data Strategies, Octagon Research Solutions. In his new role, Mr. Jansen will serve as a consultant on Clinical Data Interchange Standard Consortium (CDISC) Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) implementations for pharma and biopharma organizations. Mr. Jansen will offer guidance on the use of data integration technologies and best practices to convert electronic clinical data into CDISC SDTM compliant format.
   
Mr. Jansen has nearly 20 years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Octagon, he was the senior director, Clinical Information Systems at TAKE Solutions where he consulted with clients to help them with their CDISC SDTM implementations and designed a SAS toolset to support SDTM implementations. He also spent 16 years at Organon where he was responsible for the global biometrics SAS infrastructure and served as technical lead for the CDISC Implementation Team, project lead and technical lead for Organon’s CDISC SDTM Late Stage Conversion Project and a core member of the SDTM-based data warehouse project. He is a member of the CDISC, Operational Data Model (ODM) team and a member of the editorial board of the journal, Pharmaceutical Programming.