Professor Clare Guilding

Clare is a Professor of Pharmacology & Medical Education at Newcastle University, where she is Deputy Head, and Head of Recruitment and Admissions in the School of Medicine. She is an elected Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS) and an Advance HE National Teaching Fellow. Clare currently serves as the Vice President (Academic Development) for the British Pharmacological Society and as Chair of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Education Section

Clare graduated with a degree and PhD in neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh, followed by postdoctoral work in neuroscience/neuropharmacology at the University of Glasgow and University of Manchester. In 2011 Clare moved to the School of Medicine at Newcastle University, holding numerous roles, including MBBS Deputy Degree Programme Director, PARTNERS Widening Participation Summer School lead and co-lead for the Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescribing strand.
Clare was seconded to the role of Dean of Academic Affairs at Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia from 2017-2020, with overall responsibility for quality assurance, assessment, student progress and student support for the MBBS programme. She was intimately involved in the design and development of Newcastle's new MBBS curriculum and led and managed the implementation of this curriculum in Malaysia, led in the development and delivery of NUMed's staff development programme, and oversaw the Student Association.
Clare's education research interests lie in curriculum development and innovations in teaching. She played a key role in developing and more recently updating the BPS’s UK undergraduate pharmacology curriculum, working with the inclusive pharmacology steering group to develop principles for inclusive implementation of the curriculum. Clare is on the steering committee leading the development of the BPS’s new undergraduate clinical pharmacology curriculum for medical students. She is co-lead of the Core Concepts of Pharmacology project, which seeks to transform pharmacology education globally by establishing and promoting fundamental pharmacological principles for curricula, and Deputy Director of the Pharmacology Education Project

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