Lauren Deborah Harrison, Ph.D.

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Orange, NJ 07050

(cell) 973-***-**** (home) 973-***-****

acyhmi@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Rutgers Univ. 1998 Information

Systems & Communication

M.L.S Rutgers Univ. 1990 Information

Science

Certificate Bloomfield College 1984 Scientific Programmer

Analyst

B.S. Howard University 1977 Biology/Chemistry

EMPLOYMENT

Roche Translational & Clinical Research Center/ Roche Innovation Center NY, New York City, NY 10016

2012 - 12/2016 Senior Data Scientist, Pharma Research & Early

Development

Responsibiities:

Develop, evaluate, and implement retrieval and analysis tools (text, data

mining and visualization) .Development and enhance existing controlled

vocabulary (thesauri and ontologies ). Identify and evaluate new

information sources, databases, applications & techniques. Analyze

information retrieved from text mining applications (Linquimatics)

Retrieval and analysis of high quality information from databases,

literature and competitors for R&D processes and projects.Provide in-

depths analyses, reports, recommendations mandatory for strategic

decisions (go/no-go decisions in R&D projects, licensing, etc.) in

particular at relevant decision points

Hoffmann - La Roche Inc, Nutley N.J. 07110

2011- 2012 Senior Scientist, Scientific Information

Management

2007 - 2011 Manager/ Head - Non PR Services - In Silico Science

2005 - 2007 Manager/ Research Partner

2002 - 2005 Manager, Library & Information Science/Site Head

Information Science

1998 - 2002 Principal Information Scientist

1997 - 1998 CEO, Virtual Company - Discovery Information

Services

1996 - 1997 Senior Information Scientist

1989 - 1996 Information Scientist

1986 - 1989 Associate Information Scientist

1983 - 1986 Senior Medical Information Associate

1979 - 1983 Medical Information Assistant

Responsibilities: Provide information for new applications, litigation

cases and for due diligence

Provide competitive intelligence search services; current awareness

search services; chemical and intellectual property search services; end-

user electronic database services; new database product trials and

product library system collection management services and/or proprietary

information services.

SKILLS

Information systems and web based information products

7 Extensive knowledge of ProQuest, Scopus, Web of Science,

Quosa, Endnote

8 Web Based Project/team Support Alerting service for Non Preclinical

Research (2005 to present

. XML process for Drug Safety Bibliography production for

regulatory reporting (2005 to present)

9 Web based Project Support/Alerting Service for Preclinical Research &

Discovery (1998 - 2004) which is still being used to support D2K projects

today.

. PUBMED with Custom Linking - 2003

. Global Product Literature Monitoring Service/Database

[ROSCOPES] for use by employees of Roche and all its

subsidiaries (1996-2000)

. [ADVERSE DRUG REPORTS IN PRINT & CASE REPORTS IN

PRINT] (1995-2000) for improved reporting to the Drug

Regulatory agencies.

. EMSCOPES and Literature Monitoring Alerting Service [THE

STRATEGIC PRODUCT INFORMATION BULLETIN] (1995).

. HEALTHSCOPES [Health Economics/ Pharmacoeconomics

Literature Alerting Service ] (1993 to 1997).

Web Design

. Work with QUOSA Information Manager, a tool that

maps/import xml data from literature databases and retrieves

not only the database record but the full text in either pdf

or html. The tool also allows the export xml bibliographic

record metadata and pdf (fulltext) articles into tools for

text mining such as I2E Enterprise Text mining Software -

Liguimatics (2006 to present)

. Tool also allow for concept clustering for identification of

key articles

. Exxprienced in creating a virtual libraries with QUOSA from

which Api's for Sharepoint Content Management System have

been developed

Information/Systems Architecture

13 Experience in utilizing the semantic web for searching

14 Experience working with taxonomies such as MESH, Malimet, Emtree, UMLS

for information system design and usability

15 Designing news/alerting tools through use of APIs for Sharepoint and

Touchpoint Content Management Systems

. Relational Databases: Oracle, SAS

Communication

Clinical Indexing and Abstracting

. 10 years experience indexing clinical trials for product

information database CLEAR (1986-1996).

. Created customized clinical/ pharmacokinetic indexing

schema for Elsevier Publishing Indexers as part of

ROSCOPES Product Literature Contract Specifications

(1998).

Publications:

. Harrison, L. (2013). Information Analysis in Digital

Library Environments: Lessons Learned in Pharma. In C.

Cool, & K. Ng (Eds.)Recent Developments in the Design,

Construction, and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case

Studies (pp. 87-92). Hershey, PA: Information Science

Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2991-2.ch005

. Harrison, Lauren (2009). Review: The role of the

Information Center in Mission Critical Regulatory

Submissions: A Pharmaceutical Case Study. CapLits: Bulletin

of the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division of the

Special Libraries Association. vol 25 issue 2 page 20

. Harrison, L.D. et al (2001). A lexical approach to text

mining for the integration of genomic information. IN:

Cathy Wu [EDS]: Proceedings of the Atlantic Symposium on

Computational Biology and Genome Information Systems &

Technology, Regal University Center, Durham, N.C., USA.

. Harrison, L.D. (1998). The impact of thesauri on

information retrieval. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, the

State University of New Jersey.

. Harrison, L.D. (1992) Implementing the MALIMET Thesaurus on

TRIP/TDBS. Information Services and Use, 12(4) 327-343.

. Harrison, L.D. (1992) Reducing barriers to the utilization

of literature at Hoffmann La Roche Inc. Drug Information

Journal, 26(3), 433-443.

Presentations/Posters:

. Harrison, L.D (2016). Text Mining for Genes, Gene Families

and Protein Domains in ClininicalTrials.gov . 2016 SLA

Annual Conference

. Harrison, L.D,. (2011 ) Information Science in PhRMA -

Information Analysis Past and Present [pic]Guest Lecturer,

Palmer School of Library & Information School C. W. Post

Campus Long Island University, Brookville NY

. Harrison, L.D,. (2010 ) Information Science in PhRMA -

Trends Past and Present [pic]

Guest Lecturer, Palmer School of Library & Information

School C. W. Post Campus Long Island University,

Brookville NY

. Harrison, LD (2009) Impact of Quosa on Quality of

Alerting/Searching Service and Recommendations for

Improvements, Global Information Science Meeting

. Harrison, L.D. (1995) The impact of information use in the

context of pharmaceutical research and development. IN:

Edward Fox, Peter Ingwersen and Raya Fidal [EDS]:

Proceedings of the 18th Annual International ACM SIGIR

Conference on Research & Development in Information

Retrieval (SIGIR/1995), Seattle WA; NY:ACM Press p. 371.

. Honorarium from Elsevier Science Publishers to speak on

partnerships in in-house database development at their

International User's Meeting (1991).

Strategic Team Leadership/Membership

. Director, Association for Information Science and Technology

2013-2016

. Served on Elsevier Science Publishers EMBASE Advisory Board

(1987).

. Served as Chair of the NJ Association for Biomedical Research

Information Science Consortium Editorial Board Chair for a

compendium of alternative animal testing searching (2003-

2004).

19 Served as a scientific resource on Discovery & Development teams for

the following business areas: Marketed Products, Global

Pharmacovigilance, Oncology, Virology, Inflammation, Metabolic Disease

providing competitor information, patents, news, biomedical & marketing

information analysis (1979 - Present)

20 Served as as the Nutley representative on the Global Scientific

Information Resources Leadership Team (2005- 2007).

. Currently serving as Research representative on the Records

Management Steering Committee (2004 - 2007).

21 Served as Global Chemistry Vendor Management Team Chair (2003-2004)

liaising with customer groups, vendor companies and management in support

of contract negotiations to meet both user needs and budget constraints.

22 Served as the Nutley representative on the Global Information Science

Core Team, Global Research Informatics (2002-2004).

. Served as alternate representative for Research on the

Nutley Intranet Steering Committee (2003-2004) as job

responsibilities included development and support of Library

and Information Sciences, Preclinical & Development

Department Web pages (2002-2004).

. Served as a member of the Oncology Target Discovery Team (

2000-2002) providing information alerts and searches

supporting both Oncology projects and proposals.

23 Served on Product Marketing Teams (Acitretin, Accutane, Midazolam 1995-

1998).

Project Management

. Managed a team of Information Scientists providing project

support for Discovery Research projects (2002-2004)

Budget Management

Successfully managed budget ($4,000K) on target (2002-present).

Contract Negotion

Negotiated site contracts for information tools 1989 to 1998 (eg. ProCite,

Embase, ProQuest for desktop/end users)

Performance Management

30 Transitioned skills of library staff (FTE=14) skills from paper

environment to electronic environment - HTML /Webpage development

training for all staff (2004).

31 Negotiated outsourcing of various projects to vendor companies &

independent contractors and University Interns (2002-present).

ACHIEVEMENTS

Conference Co-Chair & Proceedings Editor ( 2016 ) Proceedings of the 2016

Annual Meeting of the Society for Information Science & Technology,

Copenhagen Denmark October 14-21, 2016.

Program Chair, Association for Information Science & Technology, Health

Informatics Special Interest Group (2009 - 2011)

President, Roche Employees of African Descent (2012)

Tutor of the Year - Essex County NJ, Literacy Volunteers of America (2011)

Cabinet Representative, American Society for Information Science, Medical

Informatics Special Interest Group (2005-2007).

Leadership Committee, Association for Information Science & Technology

(2004-6).

Chair, Association for Information Science & Technology, Medical

Informatics Special Interest Group (2004).

Webmaster, Association for Information Science & Technology, NJ Chapter

(2003).

Chair, New Jersey Chapter, Association for Information Science &

Technology, (2002).

ROCHE SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD from Clinical Investigation for Literature

Searches and Database Design in Support of Midazolam Supplemental NDA

(1996).

ROCHE SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD for contributions to the SIS Needs

Assessment Task Force (1996).

Certificate of Recognition for Leadership from the Association for

Information Science & Technology (1996).

ROCHE BLACK ACHIEVER AWARD (1992).

OUTSTANDING YOUNG WOMEN OF AMERICA (1991).

MEMBERSHIPS

American Society for Information Science

Special Library Association

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