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Stacy Hurt, M.H.A., M.B.A.
Chief Patient Officer
Explore end-to-end solutions throughout development — from portfolio optimization and regulatory strategy, to Phase I-IV clinical trials, market access planning, and more.
Our team optimizes your portfolio utilizing integrated expert clinical, regulatory, and market access strategies, enabling earlier and more informed risk-reward decisions.
Our multi-disciplinary early phase approach accelerates the path to proof of concept by integrating diverse expertise to optimize study design, generate robust clinical evidence, and reduce gaps between development phases.
We deliver whole-study solutions with integrated strategies that ensure safety, data integrity, and regulatory compliance. We design patient-informed protocols that remove participation barriers, accelerate enrollment, and increase the likelihood of successful drug launches.
Our team of former regulators and HTA professionals provide tailored regulatory, compliance, and market access strategies across specialized therapeutic areas, creating customized pathways to maximize global market reach throughout your product's lifecycle.
We enhance your product's value story through post-approval studies and holistic lifecycle management services that satisfy regulators and payers while building stakeholder trust and maximizing your drug's market impact throughout its entire lifecycle.
We bring together experienced cross-functional experts to implement best practices, process simplifications, and technology standardization that accelerate timelines and improve quality.
Get the personal, responsive, and committed approach of a small CRO, with all the benefits of a large CRO, to help you develop life-changing treatments for patients.

Clinical Trialblazers
Step into the world of biotech leaders and hear the untold stories behind their journeys to bring breakthrough innovations to life.
Utilize our expertise across therapeutic areas, combining innovative trial designs, leading clinical and regulatory expertise, global reach, and a passion for changing patient lives.
Our team delivers high-quality clinical trials through forward-thinking medical expertise across multiple indications by combining strategic insight with operational excellence to support programs of all sizes.
Our infectious disease and vaccines cro services help treat and prevent life-threatening illnesses. Learn how our team of experts can aid in any complex trial.
Discover our inflammation and immunology CRO services. We bring agile support and a unique MOA-driven model to inflammation and immunology.
Parexel is a leading Oncology CRO with more than 80 ex-agency regulators and nearly 2,500 sites globally. Learn more about our oncology indications.
As a leading neuroscience CRO, we leverage global site relationships, specialized resources, and indication-specific expertise to accelerate breakthroughs in neurological and psychiatric treatments for patients worldwide.
Our experts help you stay at the forefront of the industry — and ahead of change.

Optimizing the clinical research workforce: An industry analysis by Parexel
At the heart of Parexel sits the world’s most unique insight-generation engine: our people.
Thinking about joining a clinical trial? Learn the drug development process, what it’s like to participate, how to find a trial, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Clinical trials provide patients with access to innovative investigational treatments that advance medical research. Participation requires careful consideration that weighs both the benefits and risks.

Patient Stories
Clinical study participation represents a deeply personal decision with potentially far-reaching impact, as evidenced by these inspiring individual stories that highlight both the life-changing potential for participants and the broader advancement of healthcare for all.
Want to collaborate with us to offer clinical trials at your site? We would welcome the opportunity to discuss.

Enabling successful sites
Our Enabling Successful Sites thought leadership series pairs site representatives with clinical operations experts to identify root causes of investigative site challenges and develop collaborative solutions.
We are one of the largest CROs in the world, speeding life-changing medicine to market by engaging patients With Heart™. Learn about who we are, what we do, and what we believe.
With decades of biopharmaceutical leadership experience and a deep dedication to patients, our executive team drives us forward in delivering better trials, faster.
Find key information on our policies, strategies, pay data, and more.
Explore end-to-end solutions throughout development — from portfolio optimization and regulatory strategy, to Phase I-IV clinical trials, market access planning, and more.
Our team optimizes your portfolio utilizing integrated expert clinical, regulatory, and market access strategies, enabling earlier and more informed risk-reward decisions.
Our multi-disciplinary early phase approach accelerates the path to proof of concept by integrating diverse expertise to optimize study design, generate robust clinical evidence, and reduce gaps between development phases.
We deliver whole-study solutions with integrated strategies that ensure safety, data integrity, and regulatory compliance. We design patient-informed protocols that remove participation barriers, accelerate enrollment, and increase the likelihood of successful drug launches.
Our team of former regulators and HTA professionals provide tailored regulatory, compliance, and market access strategies across specialized therapeutic areas, creating customized pathways to maximize global market reach throughout your product's lifecycle.
We enhance your product's value story through post-approval studies and holistic lifecycle management services that satisfy regulators and payers while building stakeholder trust and maximizing your drug's market impact throughout its entire lifecycle.
We bring together experienced cross-functional experts to implement best practices, process simplifications, and technology standardization that accelerate timelines and improve quality.
Get the personal, responsive, and committed approach of a small CRO, with all the benefits of a large CRO, to help you develop life-changing treatments for patients.

Clinical Trialblazers
Step into the world of biotech leaders and hear the untold stories behind their journeys to bring breakthrough innovations to life.
Utilize our expertise across therapeutic areas, combining innovative trial designs, leading clinical and regulatory expertise, global reach, and a passion for changing patient lives.
Our team delivers high-quality clinical trials through forward-thinking medical expertise across multiple indications by combining strategic insight with operational excellence to support programs of all sizes.
Our infectious disease and vaccines cro services help treat and prevent life-threatening illnesses. Learn how our team of experts can aid in any complex trial.
Discover our inflammation and immunology CRO services. We bring agile support and a unique MOA-driven model to inflammation and immunology.
Parexel is a leading Oncology CRO with more than 80 ex-agency regulators and nearly 2,500 sites globally. Learn more about our oncology indications.
As a leading neuroscience CRO, we leverage global site relationships, specialized resources, and indication-specific expertise to accelerate breakthroughs in neurological and psychiatric treatments for patients worldwide.
Our experts help you stay at the forefront of the industry — and ahead of change.

Optimizing the clinical research workforce: An industry analysis by Parexel
At the heart of Parexel sits the world’s most unique insight-generation engine: our people.
Thinking about joining a clinical trial? Learn the drug development process, what it’s like to participate, how to find a trial, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Clinical trials provide patients with access to innovative investigational treatments that advance medical research. Participation requires careful consideration that weighs both the benefits and risks.

Patient Stories
Clinical study participation represents a deeply personal decision with potentially far-reaching impact, as evidenced by these inspiring individual stories that highlight both the life-changing potential for participants and the broader advancement of healthcare for all.
Want to collaborate with us to offer clinical trials at your site? We would welcome the opportunity to discuss.

Enabling successful sites
Our Enabling Successful Sites thought leadership series pairs site representatives with clinical operations experts to identify root causes of investigative site challenges and develop collaborative solutions.
We are one of the largest CROs in the world, speeding life-changing medicine to market by engaging patients With Heart™. Learn about who we are, what we do, and what we believe.
With decades of biopharmaceutical leadership experience and a deep dedication to patients, our executive team drives us forward in delivering better trials, faster.
Find key information on our policies, strategies, pay data, and more.
A globally recognized advocate within the patient community, Stacy champions Parexel’s patients-first culture. She ensures that patients and caregivers have a seat at the table to translate their lived experience and recommendations into improvements in the drug development process at its earliest stages. Stacy champions accessibility to clinical research by expanding the definition of diversity to ensure that people with disabilities have an equitable chance at better treatments, improved outcomes, and cures.
Work Experience
Stacy is an award-winning 25-year pharma executive with experience in functional areas such as sales, marketing, training, operations, and physician practice management. She is a frequent conference speaker and industry influencer, always championing patient involvement in clinical research, for example, as a member of the Global Annual Meeting Program Committee for Drug Information Association (DIA). Stacy is also co-chair of the board of the American Cancer Society Northeast Region (Pittsburgh market).
Education
Stacy holds a bachelor’s degree in labor and industrial relations from Penn State University and master’s degrees in health administration and business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Stacy Hurt was included on Fierce Pharma's 2023 Fierce 50 list. Stacy was recognized as a Patient Advocacy Honoree for all of her efforts in amplifying patient voices in the clinical research and development space.