With a background in nursing, Karen joined the industry in 1992 as study site coordinator with extensive experience and expertise successfully managing the recruitment and maintenance of clinical trials across multiple therapeutic areas and phases. Karen has benefited from leadership roles within clinical operations, compliance management, and strategic relationships. She received her Master’s in Clinical Trials from the University of Edinburgh in 2016 and completed the Oxford University Strategic Management Executive program in 2023. Karen is also an active member and Chair of Scotland’s National Research Ethics Committee 3.
Karen’s current role as Vice President, Global Site Alliances & Patient Recruitment., Parexel is to provide strategic, site solution approaches to address the most critical challenges in the clinical trial pathway, predicable and successful patient recruitment.