Speaker Details
Professor Sir Kent Woods
Chief Executive, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and Chairman of the Management Board, European Medicines Agency
Kent Woods was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the MHRA in January 2004 and since June 2011 has also been Chairman of the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency. He was previously Director of the NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme (1999-2003), commissioning research in and for the NHS. A graduate of Cambridge and Harvard School of Public Health, he was a consultant physician at Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1984-2003 and was appointed Professor of Therapeutics at Leicester University in 1996. His clinical and research interests have been in coronary heart disease. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and an honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine.
