Keynote Speaker

Cheryl Coon, PhD

Vice President, Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Program

Critical Path Institute (C-Path)

Cheryl D. Coon, PhD, is Vice President of the Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Program at Critical Path Institute (C-Path). Dr. Coon is a psychometrician with over two decades of experience developing and evaluating COAs for use in constructing patient-centered endpoints.

Prior to joining C-Path, she was a consultant, advising sponsors on the use, analysis, and interpretation of COAs in clinical trials. Her experience includes the statistical analysis of COA endpoint data and the communication of psychometric and efficacy evidence to regulatory authorities and other stakeholders. Dr. Coon is a recognized thought-leader in the field of COAs and seeks to generate evidence that allows the benefits of new therapies to be clearly communicated to patients and clinicians for informing treatment decisions.

Dr. Coon received her PhD in Quantitative Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, during which time her research focused on item response theory and included early work on the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System.