Holly Robertson, PhD, PMP

Senior Director, Advisory & Enablement Services, Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company

Holly Robertson is the Sr. Director of Advisory & Enablement Services within the Patient Cloud team at Medidata Solutions, with over 20 years of experience in pre-clinical and clinical research. Dr. Robertson obtained her PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, CO and conducted pre-clinical and translational research at both Duke University and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining Medidata, Dr. Robertson was at Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) where she led a multi-disciplinary team in developing operational strategies for decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). Most notably she was the project lead for the ADAPTABLE Study, a fully virtual study with over 15,000 patients enrolled. She is passionate about developing patient-centered technologies that improve the design and execution of clinical studies, ease patient participation, and accelerate commercial outcomes to improve patient health.