Management Team

Alison Luckey BM MFPM, Medical Director, Principal Investigator

Jo Kepple RGN MSc, Director Operations

Matt Kepple BPharm MBA, Managing Director

Investigators

Alison Luckey BM MFPM, Medical Director, Principal Investigator

Alison has vocational specialist training in Early Phase Clinical Trials from the Royal College of Physicians, London. She holds the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine, recommended as the primary qualification for conducting phase I trials by the ABPI (Association of the British Pharmacuetical Industry), and is a Member of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, London.

Alison has broad experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having worked as a research physician in specialist phase I units in the UK and New Zealand and as a medical advisor for Solvay Healthcare's (UK) cardiology therapeutic unit. She has also provided medical and scientific support for the clinical research and data management divisions of a medium sized CRO. She has been actively involved with all aspects of Good Clinical Practice, drug development, medical affairs, sales & marketing, regulatory requirements, project management, quality assurance procedures, data management, protocol development, adverse event reporting, ethical committee submission and study report writing. 

Previously a health professional member and Deputy Chair of the Upper South A Regional Ethics Committee, and currently a member of the Australian Regulatory and Clinical Scientists Association (ARCS) and a member of the New Zealand Association of Clinical Researchers (NZACRES).

Professor Tim Anderson BSc(Hons), MBChB, MD, FRACP, Principal Investigator

Acting Director, Van der Veer Institute
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch
Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Canterbury District Health Board.

Clinical Operations

Jo Kepple RGN MSc, Director Operations

With over 20 years in healthcare including 16 years in clinical research, Jo's depth and breadth of experience is an invaluable asset to Primorus Clinical Trials. Having managerial positions in both the public health system and blue chip pharma she has an intimate knowledge of Good Clinical Practice and its process from a practical viewpoint and the perspective of the pharmaceutical industry. 

Most recently Jo has worked in New Zealand as a consultant providing monitoring, auditing and costing services to the pharmaceutical industry and trials units. Prior to this she was a study team leader in the clinical pharmacology team at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, UK, where she specialised predominantly in phase I trials. She has also worked for a full service international CRO where she had responsibility for monitoring and outsourcing novel compound phase I trials internationally. 

Initially training as a registered nurse, Jo has managed the Elton John AIDS Vaccine Clinical Trials Unit at St Mary’s Hospital, London, one of the largest clincial trial units in Europe and set up the day unit for the infectious diseases unit at St Georges Hospital, London. She has also held clinical trial positions for the Medical Research Council (MRC), London and has a Masters degree in Social Research Methodology from Guildhall University in London.

Jo Davis, Research Coordinator

Janeen Williams, Research Nurse

Hayley Foster-Lynam, Administration Assistant

Data Management