MARIA BEATRICE PANICO, Principal Consultant, Scendea

Dr Maria Beatrice Panico is a Principal Consultant at Scendea, responsible for providing scientific and regulatory advice. Beatrice was formerly a Leading Senior Medical Assessor at the MHRA and represented the UK in the European working groups on new trial designs, safety and In Vitro Diagnostics. She is one of the authors of the CTFG Recommendation Paper on the Initiation and Conduct of Complex Clinical Trials.

Before joining the MHRA she worked as a clinical neurologist, clinical investigator, researcher in neuroscience and pharmacovigilance expert in the pharmaceutical industry.

She is a member of the WHO working group on regulatory aspects of artificial intelligence and contributed to the SPIRIT-AI and CONSORT-AI guidelines.

Beatrice Is a medical doctor, fully qualified neurologist and has a PhD In neuroscience.