Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization 
Target PharmaSolutions
Gender Female
Joy Peter is the Associate Director of Hepatology Research at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL where she oversees the clinical, fiscal, and regulatory operations of a very active liver research program of more than 30 active studies with annual revenue of $2.0M.
She is also the Associate Director for the Hepatitis C Therapeutic
Registry and Research Network (HCV-TARGET), a large international network of more than 50 academic and community investigators partnered with the FDA and HCV patient advocacy groups to follow outcomes and rapidly inform clinical practice in patients treated for HCV.
Joy was a key member in developing the HCV-TARGET network and study processes generating more than $27M in funding over 4 years. Joy earned her Bachelor of Science inNursing degree from California State University Hayward and began her career in Hepatology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA in 1996 working as a research nurse in both the Digestive Diseases Section and the Comprehensive Hemophilia Program. Her primary clinical and research interest is HCV.
She is a contributing author on publications in hepatitis C, PBC, and NASH and has been an invited speaker on HCV for both non-profit and industry-sponsored programs. She is a member of AASLD and EASL and has served on the AASLD Education Committee and Education Oversight Committee. She also Chaired the Associates Committee from 2011-2013 and currently Chairs the Midlevel Professionals Abstract Review Panel.
