Dr Sarah Garner is the Associate Director for Research and Development at NICE. Sarah is a pharmacist specialising in Health Technology Assessment and has provided technical advice to NICE since 2000. Sarah is on the recently formed Regulation of Medicines Review Panel which carries out independent reviews of licensing authority decisions. The Panel performs the function of the ‘person appointed’ in the Medicines Act 1968 and subsidiary legislation. Sarah is also an Editor for the Cochrane Skin Group. Sarah has a special interest in patient safety and antimicrobials, and previously was Pharmacist Lead for the UK Department of Health Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance.