Ms. Susan Marlin

Ms. Susan Marlin is a member of the AOC and Co-Chair of the ACT Ethics Working Group. She is in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, and she is the President and CEO of Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO), leading development and growth over the past decade with programs to streamline research ethics review, speed up RCT start-up, decentralize trial procedures, and engage patients and the public to improve trials. She is the NPA of the CIHR-funded CHEER Project, a 5-year grant focused on achieving a single research ethics review for multiple site studies across Canada. She is a past president of the Canadian Association for Research Ethics Boards (CAREB), has served on REBs, and has significant clinical trials (Canadian Cancer Trials Group) and institutional research leadership experience (e.g., Associate Vice-Principal Research, Queen’s University).

The Accelerating Clinical Trials Consortium is generously supported through multi-year funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Clinical Trials Fund, as part of Canada’s Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy to ensure that Canadians are well served by a national clinical trials network.