Clinical Research Sites — Resource Optimization and Site Selection

Kerry Leyden, Director of Site Relationship Management, MRN

Prior to joining MRN, Kerry has worked in pharma and CRO for 15 years, primarily focused on patient engagement, recruitment and retention. She has developed targeted study-specific patient recruitment and retention strategies for large portfolios, and overseen execution in collaboration with study teams, by engaging with sites, identifying, qualifying and managing specialized vendors and fostering relationships with both localized and global advocacy organizations. Kerry is passionate about patient centricity and site relationships, striving to ensure the experience for site and patient are equally positive.

Caroline Potts, MSc Health Sciences, MSc Healthcare and Design, Vice President – Visit Delivery, MRN

Caroline has worked for the MRN since 2018, her current role being Vice President – Visit Delivery. Prior to this role, Caroline was Executive Director for Visit Management managing a global team of Project Support Associates and prior to that, a Project Director overseeing a large portfolio of clinical trials as well as managing her own portfolio of trials in haemophilia and Parkinson’s disease.

Before joining MRN, Caroline worked in the public sector for 15 years supporting research in hospitals and the primary care setting as well as providing support to research academics by writing funding applications, making submissions to regulatory authorities and running a large portfolio of studies to ICH-GCP requirements in clinical specialties such as stroke medicine, Parkinson’s disease, orthopaedics, gastrointestinal medicine and respiratory medicine. During this time, Caroline was one of the founding members of the UKRD group as well as an Executive member of the RD Forum providing R&D Directors and research staff working in the public sector with strategic guidance in supporting high quality research in the NHS.