Biography: Gareth Hayes

Gareth Hayes is a dynamic trainer and has been a prevalent figure in the clinical research industry for over three decades. After working in industry as a CRA and Study Manager for fifteen years, Gareth turned his focus towards Quality, leading a Quality Management team for a multinational Pharma organisation before redirecting his energy and his experience towards training and mentoring. After nearly a decade as Head of Training at Phlexglobal Ltd - the TMF innovators - whilst continuing to work closely with them, Gareth has now set up Gareth Hayes Associates to refocus his training contribution in order to cover specialist training needs in addition to mandatory Good Clinical Practices. New initiatives include GCP for Surgeons, GCP in Emergency Research, Risk Assessment & Study Planning, and Inspection Readiness Surgeries, as well as bespoke sessions in the GCP essentials of Adverse Events, Consent, IMP/Pharmacy, Documentation, etc. GCP proportionality is behind his vision to enhance confidence, competence and compliance. 

Professional mentoring is at the heart of Gareth's purposeful curricula and includes career development programmes for Research Nurses, PIs, CRAs, CTAs, CPSs and everyone with a role to play in improving both themselves and the way we do clinical research. Quality is his cynosure too and he has also been known to throw himself passionately into driving the writing and delivery of effective SOPs in order to run effective Quality Management Systems.

Gareth is a regular speaker at many clinical research conferences and events both in the commercial and non-commercial sector. He is at the forefront of the healthcare industry's training needs and regularly contributes articles to key publications. He has latterly joined the Editorial Steering Committee of the new online Journal of Clinical Research & GCP.

Gareth is a former steering committee member of Institute of Clinical Research's Trainers' Forum and was involved in setting up the Resourcing Special Interest Group. Gareth has spent five years serving on both the executive committee and steering committee of the prestigious PharmaTimes Clinical Researcher of the Year Awards initiative (2004-2009) and is also a member of the Institute of Biology. In April 2006 Gareth was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Institute of Clinical Research and served their Board of Directors as Vice Chair in 2007-2009. Gareth was granted the award of Chartered Scientist by the Science Council in March 2009.