Dr Mary Stapleton has a B.Sc in Industrial Biochemistry from University of Limerick; a Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at University College Cork; and a Pharmacovigilance Diploma from the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. Mary has 13 years pharmacovigilance experience: with the contract research organisation Quintiles, the Hungarian national competent authority and the non-commercial sponsor Cancer Trials Ireland as Pharmacovigilance Manager. Mary is currently working as a Pharmacovigilance consultant.