Clare Guilding is Dean of Academic Affairs at Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia. Her BSc and PhD degrees are in neuroscience from The University of Edinburgh and she spent eight year conducting postdoctoral neuropharmacology research before moving to the School of Medical Education at Newcastle University UK in 2011. Clare’s medical education research interests lie in curriculum development and innovations in teaching.She places a high value on interactivity and clinical fidelity in teaching and has a keen interest in simulation and inter professional education. Clare played a key role in developing The British Pharmacological Society’s new undergraduate pharmacology curriculum and Newcastle University’s Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescribing curriculum. Her innovations inclinicalpharmacology education have been recognized both nationally and internationally.