JACQUIE MARDELL has over 35 years of pharmaceutical and biotech industry and education experience. She has a broad background in planning, implementing, monitoring and analyzing clinical development programs, has built clinical operations organizations and led teams in the execution of clinical programs in a wide variety of therapeutic areas in industrialized and emerging countries, and has contributed to several successful product registrations. For 15 years she taught the Good Clinical Practice and elective courses at the UC Santa Cruz certificate program on clinical trial design and management, and she is a regular columnist for ClinicalTrialsArena.com.