Speakers

Vicky is the Senior Clinical Lead for the Genomics Unit at NHS England, overseeing the multidisciplinary healthcare professional team and their associated workstreams. She also supports the development of clinical informatics within genomics and is Clinical Safety Officer for the Genomics Unit, chairing the NHS Genomic Medicine Service’s Clinical Safety Group. As well as supporting other clinical professions, she works in collaboration with the NHS GMS Alliances’ Pharmacy Leads and other key stakeholders to embed genomic medicine into mainstream care and enable patients to realise the benefits of medicines optimisation driven by genomic and diagnostic characterisation. She is part of Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Senior Leadership Team and Pharmacy Advisory Group ensuring the work is coordinated across pharmacy and medicines developments across the NHS and government. She co-led the development of the NHSE Pharmacy Genomics Workforce, Education and Training Strategic Framework with National Genomics Education and continues to direct the implementation of this for the whole pharmacy workforce. She also works closely with other national organisations, including NICE and MHRA. During her career, she has worked across various sectors of pharmacy in the NHS, including primary care, secondary care and community pharmacy as well as in regional and national roles supporting medicines optimisation and the use of medical devices, including digital therapeutics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, a previous Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellow and has also worked as a Medical Advisor in the pharmaceutical industry, with a significant part of her role focusing on the intersection of medicines, medical devices and digital tools. Her specialist area is diabetes, and she is qualified as an independent prescriber, as well as having a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy, an MSc in health economics and an MSc in genomic medicine.