Clare Guilding PhD, MBBS

Clare Guilding is Dean of Academic Affairs at Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, on secondment from the School of Medical Education at Newcastle University UK. Her BSc (Hons) and PhD degrees are in neuroscience from Edinburgh University and she spent eight year conducting postdoctoral neuropharmacology research before moving into medical education in 2011. She held numerous education roles in Newcastle University UK, including MBBS Deputy Degree Programme Director and co-lead for the Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescribing strand. Her medical education research interests lie in curriculum development and innovations in teaching. Clare played a crucial role in developing The British Pharmacological Society’s new undergraduate pharmacology curriculum and was instrumental in the development of Newcastle University’s new MBBS clinical pharmacology, therapeutics and prescribing curriculum.