Dennis B. Gillings

Biography

Dennis B. Gillings, CBE, Ph.D. has served as Lead Director of QuintilesIMS since October 2016. Prior to his role at QuintilesIMS, Dr. Gillings served as a director of Quintiles since he founded Quintiles in 1982 until October 2016. He also served as Quintiles’ Executive Chairman from December 2012 to December 2015 and as Chief Executive Officer of Quintiles from 1982 to December 2012. Dr. Gillings taught for more than 15 years as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Gillings serves on several other boards and councils, including the International Advisory Council to Singapore, the International Advisory Board for the Scottish Enterprise, and the Advisory Board of the Schaeffer Health Policy Institute at the University of Southern California. He served as the founding Chairman of the Association of Clinical Research Organizations, a Washington-based trade group formed in 2002. He also served as a director of Icagen, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from 1997 until June 2011. He was awarded the Commander in The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2004. Dr. Gillings served as Pro Chancellor of the University of Southampton from 2006 to 2011. In 2012, he received the SCRIP Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of contributions to the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Gillings received a diploma in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Exeter, England, in 1972. During 1996 to 1997, Dr. Gillings received honorary Professorships of Medicine from Beijing University, Peking Union Medical College, Shanghai University and Xian University. Dr. Gillings has also received Honorary Doctorate degrees from the University of Exeter, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Southampton. In 2008, he became an Honorary Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

Research Interest

Medical Devices