For Colleen, protocols are puzzles. Her clinical research career has broken protocols apart in various ways from source documents to patient pipelines to budgets. She has worked on marketing, SOPs, MOPs and contracts for two R01 multi-site studies. She is adept at identifying institutional barriers. It takes at least one dedicated PI or a strong study coordinator needed to shepherd a study to success. After 20 years of various academic research roles, she joined a CRO as a clinical research associate. Most nights home she can be found curled up on the couch with her sweetheart, Patrick, and hound dog, Taco.