Lu Larham has worked in pharmacovigilance for over 14 years and is a Director of Global Safety at Amgen Ltd. Lu is currently the business process owner for periodic aggregate safety reporting. She has also worked in safety surveillance, safety compliance and quality management. Prior to joining Amgen, Lu worked at the Medicines Control Agency and in the Global Clinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance group at GSK. Lu holds a BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology from the University of Bristol and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Sophie have been working at the MHRA for over 4 years and is currently a team co-ordinator within the MHRA’s Vigilance Intelligence and Research Group (VIRG). Sophie’s team have responsibility for handling ADR data, signal detection and the evaluation of safety signals for established medicines and responding to PV enquiries. Alongside these responsibilities, Sophie has additional roles in the maintenance of the terminologies used by the unit including the MHRA Drugs Dictionary and MedDRA. She has also had important roles in the integration of electronic reporting into clinical IT systems in the UK.

Kiernan joined Roche as a Principal Quality Lead focussing on pharmacovigilance quality assurance strategies. Previously, she worked as a GPvP Inspector at the MHRA for 1O years, with her most recent role being Expert GPvP Inspector. She contributed to the development of the EU GVP, had a role in the training of GPvP Inspectors in other EU Member States and contributed significantly to the MHRA’s preparedness work in relation to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Before joining the MHRA, Kiernan worked as a certified Quality Assurance auditor for a central laboratory that provided services for Phase I-III pharmaceutical clinical trials. Kiernan has a Master of Biomedical Sciences degree from the University of Southampton.

Gaby Danan, MD, PhD, was the EU QPPV for Sanofi until his retirement in 2010. He has served on the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences and International Conference on Harmonisation Expert Working Groups, as the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations Clinical Safety E2B topic leader and co-chaired the EudraVigilance Expert Working Group from its inception until 2009. Dr. Danan co-published the Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method for drug-induced liver injury, has authored papers on pharmacovigilance definitions and methodologies, chaired the DIA 2010 Annual Meeting, serves on the DIA Safety Training Committee, and instructs several DIA training courses.

Phil is the Deputy Director of Patient Safety Monitoring within MHRA’s Safety & Surveillance function and has over twenty years of experience working in pharmacovigilance. Prior to his current role Phil spent fourteen years leading and developing the pharmacovigilance system, including technology, processes, and relevant aspects of Pharmacovigilance Legislation. He is now accountable for Patient Safety Monitoring across medicines, vaccines, devices, defects and blood products. Phil was responsible delivery of MHRA systems for COVID-19 vaccine surveillance and their integration into the healthcare system. For several years he has led international projects to develop and deliver tools for global pharmacovigilance.