Before rejoining Health Decisions, Dr. Cross was Senior Manager of Clinical Operations for CV Therapeutics, leading a multidisciplinary program team with responsibilities encompassing safety, regulatory and medical matters, data management, biostatistics and clinical operations. She earlier served as Manager of Clinical Affairs and Project Manager at Health Decisions, as an Assistant Research Professor and Research Associate at the Duke University Medical Center, and as an NIH Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Dr. Cross was awarded a DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy) from the University of Oxford in the UK in 1996 and a BA in Biochemistry, also from Oxford, in 1993. She serves as a reference for Nature Drug Discovery, American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs, American Journal of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research, Circulation, and Circulation Research.