Heather Ruuska
Heather is a results-driven leader with 19 years of clinical research Industry experience with deep expertise in full-service and FSP strategic pricing and contracting. Her background includes senior leadership, sponsor and clinical contract development and negotiation, vendor management, process improvement, budget tool development, and analysis, cost/price modeling, proposal writing, strategic development, and team building. Heather is responsible for the development and negotiation of sponsor agreements, including direct pricing negotiations, along with leading the contracts team in the development of budgets and legal contracts for full-service CRO, Corelab, and CRU services for clinical trials Phase I-III. She is also a senior-level reviewer for legal contracts, CDAs, MSAs, change orders, consulting agreements, and work orders. She attained her Bachelor of Arts in Professional and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.