
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins
Chairman, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Speaker's biography
Sir Michael is chairman of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). He is a clinical pharmacologist and specialist in internal medicine. He was professor of clinical pharmacology in Newcastle, and physician at the Newcastle Hospitals from 1999-2006.
He was chairman of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and founding chairman of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). He is a past president of the Royal Society of Medicine.