Nicky Dodsworth

Nicky is Vice President, Global Quality Assurance for Premier Research, a Contract Research Organisation that assists biopharmaceutical and medical device companies develop their therapies and devices especially in the areas of paediatric medicine and rare diseases. She has more than 20 years of experience in global clinical trials mainly in the development, maintenance and oversight of quality management systems. As an active member of the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP), she was appointed Chair of the Education Working Party in 2011. Nicky also runs an accredited European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) Workshop on Quality Awareness in Clinical Study Report Development. More recently she became a member of the Research Quality Assurance, West & Wales Organising Group which promotes information exchange at a regional level. In 2009 Nicky became a Chartered Scientist with the Institute of Clinical Research (ICR), an award from the Science Council in the UK. Currently she is Co-Chair of the GCP Forum for ICR and a member of the editorial board of the CRfocus journal.