Stanford Medicine’s Longevity and Healthy Aging Research Consortium and ACTS present a talk by Holly A. Massett, PhD, Director, Office of Clinical Research, National Institute on Aging
Holly A. Massett, PhD, is Director of the Office of Clinical Research (OCR) at the National Institute on Aging (NIA). OCR is responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, and monitoring of best practices to comply with federal clinical research regulatory and policy requirements and achieve planned recruitment and inclusion goals. Dr. Massett has 20 years of expertise in strategic planning and implementation of national recruitment and retention efforts to support accrual to early and late phase clinical trials, with an emphasis on inclusion of underrepresented populations and community-based outreach. She has overseen the evaluation of clinical trial infrastructure programs to improve efficiencies and increase performance, including national clinical trial cancer networks, trial pre-activation protocol processes, central IRB, and corrective action planning.
Dr. Massett is responsible for the development and implementation of NIA’s Clinical Research Operations & Management System (CROMS), a national informatics system to track and manage NIA’s clinical trial portfolio performance in real-time. Dr. Massett has over 35 years of professional experience in program evaluation, consumer research, and social marketing. Prior to NIA, she spent 15 years at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) working with its early and late phase treatment clinical trial network systems and was Associate Director of NCI’s Office of Market Research and Evaluation. Prior to serving in the federal government, Dr. Massett was Vice President of Health Research at Porter Novelli; and held senior research positions at RTI International and the Academy for Educational Development (now FHI360). Dr. Massett received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Health Communication with a secondary emphasis in intercultural communication and anthropology.
