Sabine Weitzmann

• Management of country managers in Western Europe • Responsible for resource planning and target achievement • Point of contact for first service providers and local CROs • Responsible for compliance with quality standards • Active participation in inspections and audits • Study protocol feasibility assessments with key investigators • Process optimisation as member of international teams • Interface management with different stakeholders

• Coordination and implementation of global clinical trials • Starting-up and continuous development of the region • Hiring and management of local project leaders and clinical research staff • Close collaboration with local CROs and global first service providers • Quality check visits at study sites, check of visit reports • Site Feasibility and site selection • Contract preparation and negotiations • Submissions to ethics committees and Federal Office for Radiation Protection

• Coordination and implementation of global clinical trials in Germany and Austria. • Management of local project leaders CRAs and study assistants • Submissions to ethics, Federal Office for Radiation Protection • Training of CRAs as well as of study teams at trial centres • Planning and monitoring the study budget • Planning and conducting national investigator meetings

• Project management of clinical trials for various sponsors • Monitoring at trial centres (site feasibility, initiation and monitoring visits, final visits) • Participation in Audits and Inspections (FDA, orthopaedics: class III medical device) • Training investigators and study nurses in the respective studies • Data entry, data cleaning and coding AEs and SAEs

• Nurse in various disciplines: interdisciplinary intensive care; orthopaedics, paediatric centre for severe burns, surgery • 1986: Nursing diploma examinations • Krankenhaus vom Roten Kreuz, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: study in general nursing

Degree in technical biology, specialising in microbiology and biochemistry Final degree: Diploma in Biology, grade: "very good" (A-level)

Academic high school with general high school diploma and university entrance qualification (adult education)