Vicky Chaplin

Vicky oversees the multidisciplinary healthcare professional team in the Genomics Unit and their associated workstreams. She also supports the development of clinical informatics within genomics and is the Digital Clinical Safety Officer. A key part of her role is to embed genomic medicine into mainstream care and enable patients to realise the benefits of medicines optimisation driven by genomic and diagnostic characterisation. She is also part of the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Senior Leadership Team and Pharmacy Advisory Group ensuring the work is coordinated across pharmacy and medicines developments across the NHS and government. She is a previous national Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellow and has also worked as a Medical Advisor in the pharmaceutical industry. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pharmacy and has additional qualifications in clinical pharmacy, as an independent prescriber, health economics, genomics and digital clinical safety and is undertakin