Ronald S. Waife is President, Waife & Associates, Inc., a change management consultancy focusing on clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry. Since 1993, Waife & Associates has been helping health care companies build competitive advantage through process improvement and technology. The company has served over two hundred clients, including biopharmaceutical research sponsors, CROs, AROs, technology vendors and investors. Services include clinical operations and drug safety process improvement, technology strategy, Organizational Preparedness™ for technology and process implementation, virtual executive services in clinical operations and CDM, vendor selection and implementation management, general management of application development projects, and investor advising.

Mr. Waife is also Executive Director of The Clinical Research Executive Forum®, a seminar series for industry executives exploring how to improve the clinical research process. He has been Chair of the Editorial Board of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP), the first Chair of its Technology Forum, and writes a bimonthly column for their Monitor. He also wrote a regular column on process improvement for Applied Clinical Trials.

Mr. Waife's previous experience includes a decade of executive positions in high technology, and a decade in international public health. Mr. Waife has also been an instructor and facilitator in Total Quality Management (TQM) techniques, and is a frequent lecturer at international conferences.

Mr. Waife is listed in the PharmaVOICE 100 for 2008, and received The Meritorious Service Award from the ACRP in 2006. He previously won numerous awards for medical education filmmaking.

Mr. Waife received his undergraduate degree in social and behavioral sciences from The Johns Hopkins University, and his masters in public health from Harvard.