Abigail Dirks is a Data Scientist at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Tufts CSDD) where she specializes in analyzing large datasets pertaining to all aspects of industryfunded drug development performance including protocol design complexity, investigative site burden and experience, risk-based quality management (RBQM) adoption, clinical research associate (CRA) performance, decentralized clinical trials (DCT) use and impact, patient recruitment and retention and study volunteer participation burden. Abigail has published the results of her studies in peer-review journals including Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory Science and Clinical and Translational Science. She has also presented at major industry conferences including Clinical Trials in Oncology Conference and the Xpectives Health Summit and as a keynote speaker at the Society for Clinical Research Sites Global Summit and the Citeline Awards. She received an MS in Health Informatics and Analytics from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA and a BS in Data Science and Mathematics from St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT.