Ilana Dew was promoted to Manager, Medical Writing and Program Management! Since joining IMPACT in 2016, she has demonstrated amazing writing and client management skills. She has worked on a variety of challenging and complicated projects including difficult CSRs, protocols, briefing books, and INDs. She's also doing program management work with a new early phase virtual client and has already impressed them with her organizational skills and knowledge. Ilana has proven to be a phenomenal mentor for many of our writers, spending countless hours teaching them critical skills for success with their clients. She also started the Junior Writer's Forum to help with IMPACT's continuing education.

Christine (Chrissy) Cierpial was promoted to Senior Office Manager! Since joining us in 2014, she has progressed to become an indispensable member of the IMPACT team. Chrissy supports a wide variety of functions critical to the efficient functioning of the company, including facilities management, supply ordering, finance, payroll, business development, and human resources. Much of what Chrissy does is not outwardly visible to everyone (other than our CEO), but you can assume that anything positive that happens around IMPACT has her fingerprints on it. And I'm sure we can all agree that Chrissy can organize one heck of a company event!

Ryan Overcash was promoted to Senior Clinical Research Scientist! Ryan joined us in 2016 and endured a lengthy stint as a narrative project manager, a role during which he developed great mentorship skills. Ryan's easy going attitude is much appreciated by those who have worked with him. Ryan took over safety reporting for an IND, during which he developed a great rapport with the client and brought in new medical writing business. Ryan's other project experiences include numerous protocols, an unwieldy IB (for multiple years), pharmacokinetic and nonclinical modules of an sNDA, and several CSRs. Ryan has become a reviewer for protocols and will be leading his first   Lunch-N-Learn this year.  

Cheryl Ainslie was promoted to Senior Clinical Research Scientist! Cheryl joined us last year and has quickly established herself as a consummate professional and very capable member of our team. Cheryl has worked on a variety of projects including a module 2.7.4 document, a troublesome CSR, and a "unique" CSR supplement. In recent months, Cheryl passed her RAC exam, began reviewing CSRs, seamlessly transitioned onto an IND safety reporting project, and co-founded the IMPACT on Literacy Book Club! Cheryl is also helping to develop a statistics Lunch-N-Learn. Despite being part of some difficult projects, Cheryl has remained cool, calm, and collected while always finding time to help others.

Amanda Preston comes to IMPACT from Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN. She has experience conducting, presenting, and publishing basic medical science and clinical research. In her time away from work, she enjoys running and hiking with her dog, Shelly.

Kelly McMillan was formerly a Science Writer for the Duke Hospital Department of Pediatrics. She spent several years in China as a research assistant working on HIV vaccines. She loves science fiction and travel, and is fluent in Mandarin and Spanish. In her free time, she is a fiction writer and coaches a girl's soccer team in Durham.

Our new QC Specialist, Kelly D'Arezzo comes

to us from ICON Clinical Research, where