Gillian Childs

Gil is everything that today’s data manager should be. Not only is she an outstanding role model by encouraging critical thinking skills in her team and contemporaries, she is focused, dedicated and a fantastic ambassador for Data Management. She approaches every task with drive, complete understanding and is able to interpret the big picture and influence others while producing work to the highest quality – best clinical practices are demonstrated every day, in everything she does.

The particular outstanding contribution I want to nominate Gil for, is her work as a data management consultant, working within our sponsor’s teams as a member of their in-house resource. She has performed this role in different circumstances and for different companies. Currently she is in a small team of Data Managers which stepped in to support a customer during some changes in their in-house team. Gil has led this team through a number of locks, preparation for a mock inspection and subsequent planning towards a regulatory inspection. She successfully managed a particularly difficult lock, and has been designated as the Data Management Subject Matter Expert for the inspection, a very difficult task given the short amount of time she and the team have had to get to grips with the whole history of the program under inspection. The feedback she received as a result of her tireless dedication to uncovering the story of each project, working with different vendors and the other internal team members has been fantastic, the customer couldn’t have enough good things to say about her relentless quest for organisation and her dedication to piecing everything together to the point that they entered the mock inspection with utter confidence in her ability to represent data management to its best.