Rene Lai is a consultant providing professional services to the pharmaceutical industry, international consultancies and medical education agencies. Rene has been principally involved in working with companies to develop their own compliance processes and procedures; identifying and implementing electronic review processes; providing support and interpretation necessary for the review and approval of marketing materials and activities for UK and European teams, and giving training on the ABPI Code of Practice. Rene is a pharmacist by training and has extensive experience within the pharmaceutical industry. She was Principal Pharmaceutical Adviser, involving a diverse role within Medical Affairs, for a major blue chip company. Rene worked for an international medical consultancy to develop and manage promotional and educational meetings in the USA, Europe and South East Asia, and so developed her knowledge of the regulations and code of practice issues involved with international meetings and activities. Rene set up her own consultancy in 2002. Rene is also involved in ABPI code training run by the PMCPA.