Teachers

Sheelagh Corcoran Global Training Manager, TFS-UK Sheelagh has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for nearly 30 years - in many roles including data management and as a CRA. Her main experience is in training, and she has trained both industry staff and investigators. She has taught widely throughout the EU and Eastern Europe, and also in the USA and Japan.	Alistair Bone Director of Quality Assurance and Training, TFS-Lund Alistair has been working with clinical trials since 1989 in a number of different roles. Alistair is currently working as Director of Quality Assurance and Training at TFS Trial Form Support where he has set up and developed the Quality Assurance and Training department at TFS. He has held numerous training sessions in many different areas including audits, GCP, the European Directive, monitoring etc.
Cecilia Falkenberg PhD, Unit Manager Medical Writing & Regulatory Affairs, TFS-Lund Cecilia has been working as a Medical Writer for nearly 4 years. Before that she has worked as a researcher in the immunology and infl ammation research at the medical faculty, University of Lund. Cecilia has also been a diligent lecturer at the County Council and at the University. She also has a BSc in English.	Ulrika Hägg Medical Writer, TFS-Lund Ulrika has a PhD in cardiovascular physiology. Before starting out as a Medical Writer two years ago, she was a researcher at the Department of Physiology, University of Gothenburg. She has published 11 scientific articles. Ulrika is a member of the European Medical Writers Association, and currently enrolled in their Professional Development Programme. She is also a lecturer at the medical faculty in Gothenburg.
Hanna Paloheimo Counsel, Life Science Hanna Paloheimo specialises in life sciences, IP and technology, and dispute resolution. She advises life science companies in various matters including transactions and regulatory issues, but with a particular emphasis on industrial property rights and patent litigation. Besides her law degree, she holds a master of sciences degree in genetics, and this combination provides useful insight in meeting the special needs of life science, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies. In addition to her experience as an attorney and visiting in-house lawyer, Ms Paloheimo has gained experience as a patent engineer at a pharmaceutical company and at a molecular biology research group at the University of Helsinki.	Margareta Svensson MSc, Senior Safety Manager, TFS-Lund Margareta has a MSc in Pharmacy. She has worked in various positions at AstraZeneca for many years and she is well-experienced in pharmacovigilance/adverse event reporting. She is today responsible for pharmacovigilance, in post-marketing as well as in clinical studies.
Marc Surtees Quality Assurance Manager and Advisor, TFS-UK Marc gained his PhD, in the hormonal control of seasonal breeding in 1985. The same year he started to work in the pharmaceutical industry. His experience includes 3 years in preclinical development performing drug assays and pharmacokinetic analyses. Since 1990 he has worked in clinical development as a study monitor and then as an international study manager in both France and the UK as a member of multinational teams in several therapeutic areas. He also has experience in continuous process improvement, writing and reviewing SOPs, international clinical operations and currently works as an auditor performing GxP audits. Marc is fluent in French and has a diploma in medical statistics awarded by the University of Paris.	Annelie Andersson Project Manager, TFS-Gothenburg Annelie has worked in the industry for more than 24 years, 8 of these years have been in the Medical Device Industry (Astra Tech and Mölnlycke Health Care AB). Sha has also been working, studying and living in Canada. Medical background with an experience in Clinical Research working with studies world wide. She has been involved in Eucomed CIT (Medical Device, Brussels) and also working with the ISO- 14155 1 and 2 on a national level. Annelie has been tutoring in a biomaterial course at the University of Gothenburg of how to perform Clinical Investigations for Medical Device. Since November 2006 Annelie is employed by TFS Trial Form Support, Sweden as a Project Manager handling studies both for Medical Device and Pharmaceuticals.
Per Lundström Legal expert and economist, Öhman Partners Ekonomi och Juridik Per is one of Sweden’s “most famous persons” in contracts and agreements in clinical trials. He has been working with internal and external training for staff in the pharmaceutical industry and country councils since the beginning of 1990. He has long experience of commercial and business laws working with different types of agreements in the pharmaceutical area.	Bernhard Huitfeldt PhD, Statistician, BH Statistik-konsult Bernhard has earlier worked as senior lecturer at the Statistics Department of Uppsala University. He has for over 30 years worked in different statistical roles at AstraZeneca and Pharmacia, most recently as Global Skills Leader Biostatistics at AstraZeneca.
Theo van Delft Quality Assurance Manager and Advisor, TFS-Netherlands Theo has been working with clinical trials since 1998, first as a Quality Officer and later in a number of different roles (such as Manager QA, Manager Clinical Research ad interim, Trainer, Project Manager and Consultant). Before that (since 1984) he was working as consultant and trainer, manager, project manager and scientific researcher in different organisations and sectors.	Petra Matthijsse Clinical Research Manager, TFS-Netherlands Petra has been working within Clinical Research for more than 18 years. She has worked for Pharmaceutical and CRO companies in the role of CRA, CRM and trainer. Today she is responsible for coaching the TFS CRA group in the Netherlands.
Mette Ravn Director Global Biometrics, TFS-Lund Mette has been working in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry since 1988 in a number of different roles within Biometrics. Mette is currently working as Director Global Biometrics since June 2009 at TFS and is overall responsible for Statistics, Programming and Data Management globally in Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands. She has held training sessions in Data Management, use of data management systems and validation of GXP systems. Mette is currently the President of the Danish Association of Data Managers which is cooperating with INCDMA (the International Association for Data Managers).	Christian Lindholm Chief Financial Officer, TFS-Lund Christian Lindholm is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at TFS Trial Form Support International AB. Christian has for the past 15 years held leading positions in a variety of industrial sectors. He started his career at BIS Development, a rapid-growing company within the manufacturing sector, as a group controller. In 1996 he joined the Perstorp Group, a world leader in several sectors of specialty chemicals, as a division controller focusing on new business development and acquisitions. In the late nineties Christian held the position as CFO in several non-profitable trade- and IT companies with main focus on the turn-around process. In 2001 he changed to the pharmaceutical area and joined Clinical Data Care in Lund AB acquired by TFS Trial Form Support International AB in 2005.