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SCIENCE, MEDICINE & ENGINEERING
POWERLIST 2010
DR MAGGIE ADERIN-POCOCK DR YVONNE GREENSTREET
Space scientist Senior vice president (chief of strategy, R&D ), GlaxoSmithKline
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Aderin-Pocock is at the vanguard Yvonne Greenstreet is one of the
of science technology. She has pharmaceutical industry’s highest-
spent her career making novel, ranking African-Caribbean women.
bespoke instrumentation in Under her leadership at the $37bn
the industrial and academic (£21bn) leading research giant, her
environments – from hand-held global team has built a promising
landmine detectors to optical pipeline of innovative medicines for
sub-systems for the James Webb treating a wide range of conditions,
Space Telescope (due to replace including infl ammatory, gastro-
the Hubble Space Telescope intestinal, musculoskeletal and
in 2013). She has appeared on urogenital diseases. She has over
several TV programmes as a 16 years of global experience and
science expert and is currently her previous roles at GSK include
working as a science consultant vice-president and medical director
on a new BBC drama. A graduate of Imperial College, London, on the executive team of GSK’s UK subsidiary company, where she
Aderin-Pocock made her first telescope aged 6. She now successfully led the integration of the medical businesses during
heads the optical instrumentation unit at space firm Astrium. the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKlineBeecham. This was
She also runs an outreach company, Science Innovation Ltd, followed by a leadership role in the European Region as chief
conducting global “Tours of the Universe”, to teach school medical offi cer. She qualifi ed in medicine at Leeds University in
children around the world about the wonders of space. 1985 and gained her MBA from INSEAD in France.
Infl uential because… she has broken Infl uential because… she is generally
down so many barriers and is showing recognised as one of the leading lights
young people how to do the same. in the pharmaceutical business.
MICHAEL PARKER PROFESSOR CYNTHIA PINE
Chairman, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Executive dean, Faculty of Health & Social Care, Salford University
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For seven years Parker has presided over one of the UK’s largest Prior to her appointment at Salford
and busiest teaching hospitals, with over 6,000 staff providing last year, Pine made history by
around 700,000 patient contacts a year. The Trust is being the fi rst female dean of a
recognised internationally for its work in liver dental school in the UK (University
disease and transplantation, neurosciences, of Liverpool) since the fi rst
cardiac and haemato-oncology. In addition dental school opened in 1859.
to being KCH chairman, Parker, a chartered She is renowned for her research
accountant, is also a director of its in UK dental public health and
subsidiary companies. In 1997 he was in programmes with the World
appointed a non-executive director at Guy’s Health Organisation (for which she
and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and became their served as director for oral health
vice chairman in 2000. Parker also works in deprived communities). Pine,
as an auditor and is a chair of the board of now also a consultant in dental
governors at the Royal College of Nursing as public health at Salford Primary
well as a non-executive director of the Food Care Trust, increased Liverpool’s undergraduate provision by 100
Standards Agency. He is also advisor to the per cent, making Liverpool’s the largest dental school outside
London NHS Provider Agency. London and helping to address a shortfall of dental professionals.
Among various other posts she holds, Pine is an independent non-
Infl uential because…
executive director at Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust.
the Foundation Trust
he presides over is
Infl uential because… she is a trailblazer
one of the UK’s most
who continues to innovate and set
prestigious.
standards that are the benchmark.
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