Speaker Profile: Harris Koffer, Pharm.D

Dr. Harris Koffer is President and Chief Operating Officer for Research Pharmaceutical Services (RPS), a clinical research organization providing services to the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in support of clinical drug development.

Prior to joining RPS, Dr. Koffer served as Vice President, Clinical Trials and Pharmaceutical Business Development, for Quest Diagnostics; Vice President and General Manager of Covance Clinical Services and President of Covance Periapproval Services. In these roles, he was responsible for global central laboratory services as well as full service clinical research and development capabilities for Phases 1 through 4 of drug development.

In addition to over 28 years of experience in clinical drug development, he has served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacy in Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

Dr. Koffer has published and presented numerous papers in the fields of cardiovascular clinical pharmacology and pharmacoeconomics.

He earned both a BS in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and completed a Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Harris Koffer will be presenting MMAX: Development, Evolution, Growth and Maturation of a Large, Integrated Drug Development Solution along with Jim Dannemiller, M.S., Wednesday, April 29 at 9:15.