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Amanda Breeden

Amanda Breeden, CRA, oversees clincial research in the healthcare setting in the Denver, Colorado metro area. She utilizes a lean management system in the oversight and compliance of a $180M portfolio of grants and contracts. She is considered fully functional in lean management systems and serves on the Board of Directors for the Colorado Lean Network. As a professional research administrator for over 15 years, she is an active member of many research administration networks, societies, and associations where she presents on the intersection of Lean and Research Administration in clinical research and clincial trial management. She is a Certifed Research Administrator (RACC). Amanda received dual M.A. degrees from the University of Northern Iowa in Human Service Administration and Women’s/Gender studies. When she's not proselytizing the benefits of lean in the research administration sector, she can be found humming, “What do you do with a B.A. in English?” or stepping on the wayward Lego.

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