Caroline has worked for the MRN since 2018, her current role being General Manager for MRN Site and Patient Services. Before joining MRN, Caroline worked in the public sector for 15 years supporting research in hospitals and the primary care setting as well as providing support to research academics by writing funding applications, making submissions to regulatory authorities and running a large portfolio of studies to ICH-GCP requirements in clinical specialties such as stroke medicine, Parkinson’s disease, orthopedics, gastrointestinal medicine and respiratory medicine. During this time, Caroline was one of the founding members of the UKRD group as well as an Executive member of the RD Forum providing R&D Directors and research staff working in the public sector with strategic guidance in supporting high quality research in the NHS.