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Liz Clark is Visiting Lecturer and Patient Engagement Theme Lead at the Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicines Research within the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kings College London Following Medical Qualification and a short period in clinical medicine, Liz spent 28 years working in pharma. Her career encompassed a variety of roles in both commercial and scientific functions, predominantly in Medical Affairs and most recently in Patient Engagement. She left her final Industry role as Vice-President of Medical Affairs at Norgine Ltd. in 2021 and now undertakes a wide-ranging portfolio of activity as an independent pharmaceutical physician. This comprises her role at Kings, patient engagement consultancy, delivery of training and coaching and as one of three Appraisal Leads and Educational Supervisor for the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. She has recently led the formation of a working group on patient and community engagement at FPM. Her work in patient engagement was recognised in the WEGO Awards 2021 where she was a finalist in the ‘Champion for Patient Engagement’ Category. Liz’s research interests lie in the pragmatic involvement of people affected by health conditions in all aspects of the development and use of medicines, devices and other healthcare interventions, and sharing of best practice in this field. In addition to lecturing and supervising dissertations on the pharmaceutical medicine MSc courses, Liz is in the process of developing stakeholder networks to promote partnership working with patients and communities in medicines development and healthcare both within the Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicines Research at Kings and in collaboration with pharma and the broader stakeholder community.