Sandra N Deygoo, MS, CCRP
Yonkers, NY 10710 ******.******@*****.***
Education & Training
MS Health Services Management/Administration (Honors) 2006
Mercy College, New York
MPA Health and Financial Management (20 credit) 2000-2002
New York University, Wagner School of Public Service, NY
BS Health Administration/Health Services Policy and Planning 1998
New York University, NY
Employment
Program Manager (12 years) 2004-Present
Division of infectious disease, Dept. of Pediatrics, New York School of Medicine
Research Coordinator (15 years) 1989 – 2004
Division of infectious disease, Dept. of Pediatrics, New York School of Medicine
Promoted to Program Manager in 2005
Research & Study Experience
Primary liaison between the sponsor, CROs, sites, project team, related vendors, funding agency and regulatory authorities
Study Specimen lab processing and management
Oversee clinical quality and lead Quality Assurance Review for over 1,086 study patients visit
Ensures the trials adhere to GCP, International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines and sponsor internal policies and procedures to fulfill all federal and local regulations
Data management and experienced with many different data entry systems for Pharmaceutical companies and NIH
Responsible for studies from initiation to closeout
Manage and coordinate over 80 complex NIH Protocols for both Treatment and Observational studies.
Manage and coordinate over 20 treatment Pharmaceutical (e.g. Merck, Sanofi, Pfizer, Gilead, Glaxo Smith Klein, Chiron, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Wyeth, Medtronics, Regeneron) studies for Device, Hepatitis B &C, HIV, Skin infection and Well-child vaccine studies.
Oversee the operations of the Pediatric HIV unit at Metropolitan Hospital (sub-unit of NYU)
Patient contact/care
Strategic planning Experience
Develop short and long range strategic plans for the Division with the Division Director
Develop and maintain salary, capital, operational and research budget of over 2-3 million/yr.
Lead cross-functional project execution and closeout
Development of corrective action plan of audit findings
Responsible or annual renewal of the division grants
Grantsmanship for the Division – involved in grant support writing of over $35M
Managerial & Coordinating Experience
Develop a cost breakdown for protocols documenting monthly expenditures to the sponsor/CRO
Community Advisory Board Liaison for the HIV Uninfected and Affected Children Project
Management of financial operations for the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Managed the daily office operations including hiring, training, and overseeing personnel; inventory control of products as well as accounting
Conducted weekly meeting with staff to forecast resources needed for study visits
Responsible for Staffing
Supervisory & Training Experience
AIDS Training Grant Administrator and ensure timelines are maintained and monitors performance
Hire, orient, train, direct, develop and evaluate research staff.
Managed a staff of 9; nurses, research assistants, data managers and laboratory personnel with supervision authority over all clinical research
Delegation of work assignments to staff
Consultant 2005 – 2008
Dept. of Psychiatry, New York School of Medicine
Device Trial (Medtronics) for depressed patients
Regulatory compliance
Data management
Study closeout
Areas of Expertise
Direct patient contact
SOPs Implementation
FDA regulatory knowledge
Clinical Trials
Managerial
GRANTS Writing SUPPORT
Effective Trainer of Personnel
Budgeting
Research & Development
Financial Management
GCPs Execution
Protocol development
Certifications & Memberships
Vice Chair for the Study Coordinator’s group for the Pediatric HIV AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS)- Present
As the Vice Chair of the Research Study Coordinator’s group, my role is to work with the Chair to identify what barriers sites are facing to enroll into studies and what resources are not available to meet deadline expectations. These barriers are then reported back to the Executive Group for resolutions.
FIELD REPRESENTATIVE: International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Group (IMPAACT) (Past)
As a member of the Protocol Team, the Field Representative is responsible for the development and simplicity of specific patient management sections of the protocol both nationally and internationally so that sites can comprehend and adhere easily at each visit. I also worked with the data management team to develop case report forms for data collection.
Mentor of Research coordinators at NIH/NICHD funded sites (Past)
My role as a mentor is to work with new study coordinators at other NIH/NICHD funded sites, to help them become familiar with the sponsor’s guidelines and their institutions SOP for the proper conduct of clinical research
A Member of the IMPAACT Protocol Evaluation Committee (PEC) (Past)
As a member of the Protocol Evaluation Committee, I was responsible for reviewing protocols in development, simplify the consent form and to make sure the schedule of evaluations capture all procedures listed in the protocol. I also gave recommendations how difficult will it be to accrue based on the population being studied
GCP and HSP (Current)
Hazardous Shipping Certificate
SoCRA Certified 02/2007
Publications
K. Gadow, M. Chernoff, S. Nachman, P. Williams, P. Brouwers, J. Heeston, J. Hodge, V. DiPoalo, N.S. Deygoo, Co-occurring psychiatric symptoms in children perinatally-infected with HIV and peer comparison sample; J Dev Behav Pediatr 31:116 –128, 2010.
M. Chernoff, S. Nachman, P. Williams, P. Brouwers, J. Heeston, J. Hodge, V. DiPoalo, N.S. Deygoo, K. Gadow: Mental Health Treatment Patterns in Perinatally HIV-Infected Youth and Controls, Pediatrics 127(2):627-636, 2009.
P.L. Williams, M. Chernoff, K. Angelidou, P. Brouwers, D. Kacanek, N.S. Deygoo, K.D. Gadow, and S. Nachman (IMPAACT P1055 Study Team) Participation and retention of youth with perinatal HIV infection in mental health research studies: the IMPAACT P1055 Psychiatric Co-morbidity Study; Journ Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 63(3):401-409, 2013.