Fan Gao
Background and experience
Fan was part of ZS’s R&D excellence team. She led the digital and decentralized clinical trials practice area within clinical development and client engagements in the North region. She collaborated with clients, using real-world data, to strengthen the value of their pipeline assets and bring digital solutions to improve clinical trial design and execution.
Fan has experience bringing cross-functional teams together to transform business process using a data and analytics-based approach. She has worked with pharmaceutical companies on improving customer engagement with digital solutions and accelerating clinical programs with decentralized clinical trials.
Fan was a contributor to ZS’s thought leadership around decentralized clinical trials and was a ZS leadership representative for the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance.
Prior to joining the R&D excellence practice, Fan worked as global client service lead for biopharma companies at ZS. Her focus was to help companies use data, analytics and technology to develop insight generation capabilities and improve operational excellence.
Education
Ph.D. in psychology, University of Chicago
M.S. in statistics, University of Chicago
B.S. in psychology, Beijing University