Meredith Smith is Risk Management Director at AstraZeneca where she is responsible for medicinal product benefit-risk management for the Alexion Rare Disease Business Unit portfolio. She is a behavioral scientist and health services researcher by training with over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She has served on numerous FDA expert panels, on CIOMS Working Groups VIII, IX and XI, and IMI-PREFER. Currently, she is the Pharmacovigilance Track Chair for the 2021 DIA Annual Meeting Planning Committee. She has been a pioneer in the application of Implementation Science methods within the biopharmaceutical industry and has numerous publications in this area.