Presenter

Rachel Poker is an Associate Director, Human Factors, at AstraZeneca, where she has responsibilities leading the incorporation of human factors and a patient- and user-centric mindset from early-stage technology development to support for on-market products for the biologics and parenteral portfolio.

With over 17 years in both device and drug-led combination products she has worked on a variety of products, including parenteral, inhalation, and ocular drug delivery devices, connected device technologies, and vascular intervention products. Rachel has experience in a variety of roles across R&D, including individual contributor, people manager, project manager, project leader, and technical leader. She has worked in manufacturing automation, process development, product development, and clinical development in companies large and small, start-up to mature, and on both sides of the client-supplier relationship.

Rachel has a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering from the University of Minnesota and has received PMP certification from the Project Management Institute.