Steve Zisson is managing editor at CenterWatch, which publishes newsletters and market research on the clinical research industry. For the past 10 years, he has covered public and private contract research organizations, trial management organizations, biotech companies, pharmaceutical companies, and life sciences technology vendors.

Sara Gambrill is Senior Editor at CenterWatch. For the past six years, she has been writing features about the clinical research industry regularly for both CWWeekly and The CenterWatch Monthly. She specializes in international clinical research markets, regulatory change, and European and domestic trends. She is author of The Emerging Markets in Clinical Research, a collection of in-depth features and original research and analysis organized around the topic of emerging clinical research markets. She was also the chief editor of CenterWatch's popular Clinical Research Training Series, which includes Protecting Study Volunteers in Clinical Research, Becoming a Successful Clinical Research Investigator and others.

Mary Jo Lamberti is currently Senior Manager of Market Intelligence at CenterWatch and has been with CenterWatch for five years. She has had extensive experience conducting research and evaluation in a variety of areas both in academia and in industry. She has also been a speaker at many industry conferences and has published articles in Applied Clinical Trials, Good Clinical Practice Journal, and New Directions for Program Evaluation. Dr. Lamberti has also taught psychology courses at Boston University, where she holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in psychology from Boston University.

Stephen DeSantis is the Senior Associate Editor at CenterWatch where he covers emerging trends in the clinical trials, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries. Stephen researches and writes on such areas as EDC, personalized medicine, trends in biotech drug development and healthcare-related IT. He also tracks investigational drugs in development and helps provide market intelligence for the greater biopharmaceutical industry.

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