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Nichola Gokool
Vice President, Customer Strategy and Innovation, Medical Communications
Explore end-to-end solutions throughout development — from portfolio optimization and regulatory strategy, to Phase I-IV clinical trials, market access planning, and more.
Our team optimizes your portfolio utilizing integrated expert clinical, regulatory, and market access strategies, enabling earlier and more informed risk-reward decisions.
Our multi-disciplinary early phase approach accelerates the path to proof of concept by integrating diverse expertise to optimize study design, generate robust clinical evidence, and reduce gaps between development phases.
We deliver whole-study solutions with integrated strategies that ensure safety, data integrity, and regulatory compliance. We design patient-informed protocols that remove participation barriers, accelerate enrollment, and increase the likelihood of successful drug launches.
Our team of former regulators and HTA professionals provide tailored regulatory, compliance, and market access strategies across specialized therapeutic areas, creating customized pathways to maximize global market reach throughout your product's lifecycle.
We enhance your product's value story through post-approval studies and holistic lifecycle management services that satisfy regulators and payers while building stakeholder trust and maximizing your drug's market impact throughout its entire lifecycle.
We bring together experienced cross-functional experts to implement best practices, process simplifications, and technology standardization that accelerate timelines and improve quality.
Get the personal, responsive, and committed approach of a small CRO, with all the benefits of a large CRO, to help you develop life-changing treatments for patients.

Clinical Trialblazers
Step into the world of biotech leaders and hear the untold stories behind their journeys to bring breakthrough innovations to life.
Utilize our expertise across therapeutic areas, combining innovative trial designs, leading clinical and regulatory expertise, global reach, and a passion for changing patient lives.
Our team delivers high-quality clinical trials through forward-thinking medical expertise across multiple indications by combining strategic insight with operational excellence to support programs of all sizes.
Our infectious disease and vaccines cro services help treat and prevent life-threatening illnesses. Learn how our team of experts can aid in any complex trial.
Discover our inflammation and immunology CRO services. We bring agile support and a unique MOA-driven model to inflammation and immunology.
Parexel is a leading Oncology CRO with more than 80 ex-agency regulators and nearly 2,500 sites globally. Learn more about our oncology indications.
As a leading neuroscience CRO, we leverage global site relationships, specialized resources, and indication-specific expertise to accelerate breakthroughs in neurological and psychiatric treatments for patients worldwide.
Our experts help you stay at the forefront of the industry — and ahead of change.

Optimizing the clinical research workforce: An industry analysis by Parexel
At the heart of Parexel sits the world’s most unique insight-generation engine: our people.
Thinking about joining a clinical trial? Learn the drug development process, what it’s like to participate, how to find a trial, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Clinical trials provide patients with access to innovative investigational treatments that advance medical research. Participation requires careful consideration that weighs both the benefits and risks.

Patient Stories
Clinical study participation represents a deeply personal decision with potentially far-reaching impact, as evidenced by these inspiring individual stories that highlight both the life-changing potential for participants and the broader advancement of healthcare for all.
Want to collaborate with us to offer clinical trials at your site? We would welcome the opportunity to discuss.

Enabling successful sites
Our Enabling Successful Sites thought leadership series pairs site representatives with clinical operations experts to identify root causes of investigative site challenges and develop collaborative solutions.
We are one of the largest CROs in the world, speeding life-changing medicine to market by engaging patients With Heart™. Learn about who we are, what we do, and what we believe.
With decades of biopharmaceutical leadership experience and a deep dedication to patients, our executive team drives us forward in delivering better trials, faster.
Find key information on our policies, strategies, pay data, and more.
Explore end-to-end solutions throughout development — from portfolio optimization and regulatory strategy, to Phase I-IV clinical trials, market access planning, and more.
Our team optimizes your portfolio utilizing integrated expert clinical, regulatory, and market access strategies, enabling earlier and more informed risk-reward decisions.
Our multi-disciplinary early phase approach accelerates the path to proof of concept by integrating diverse expertise to optimize study design, generate robust clinical evidence, and reduce gaps between development phases.
We deliver whole-study solutions with integrated strategies that ensure safety, data integrity, and regulatory compliance. We design patient-informed protocols that remove participation barriers, accelerate enrollment, and increase the likelihood of successful drug launches.
Our team of former regulators and HTA professionals provide tailored regulatory, compliance, and market access strategies across specialized therapeutic areas, creating customized pathways to maximize global market reach throughout your product's lifecycle.
We enhance your product's value story through post-approval studies and holistic lifecycle management services that satisfy regulators and payers while building stakeholder trust and maximizing your drug's market impact throughout its entire lifecycle.
We bring together experienced cross-functional experts to implement best practices, process simplifications, and technology standardization that accelerate timelines and improve quality.
Get the personal, responsive, and committed approach of a small CRO, with all the benefits of a large CRO, to help you develop life-changing treatments for patients.

Clinical Trialblazers
Step into the world of biotech leaders and hear the untold stories behind their journeys to bring breakthrough innovations to life.
Utilize our expertise across therapeutic areas, combining innovative trial designs, leading clinical and regulatory expertise, global reach, and a passion for changing patient lives.
Our team delivers high-quality clinical trials through forward-thinking medical expertise across multiple indications by combining strategic insight with operational excellence to support programs of all sizes.
Our infectious disease and vaccines cro services help treat and prevent life-threatening illnesses. Learn how our team of experts can aid in any complex trial.
Discover our inflammation and immunology CRO services. We bring agile support and a unique MOA-driven model to inflammation and immunology.
Parexel is a leading Oncology CRO with more than 80 ex-agency regulators and nearly 2,500 sites globally. Learn more about our oncology indications.
As a leading neuroscience CRO, we leverage global site relationships, specialized resources, and indication-specific expertise to accelerate breakthroughs in neurological and psychiatric treatments for patients worldwide.
Our experts help you stay at the forefront of the industry — and ahead of change.

Optimizing the clinical research workforce: An industry analysis by Parexel
At the heart of Parexel sits the world’s most unique insight-generation engine: our people.
Thinking about joining a clinical trial? Learn the drug development process, what it’s like to participate, how to find a trial, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Clinical trials provide patients with access to innovative investigational treatments that advance medical research. Participation requires careful consideration that weighs both the benefits and risks.

Patient Stories
Clinical study participation represents a deeply personal decision with potentially far-reaching impact, as evidenced by these inspiring individual stories that highlight both the life-changing potential for participants and the broader advancement of healthcare for all.
Want to collaborate with us to offer clinical trials at your site? We would welcome the opportunity to discuss.

Enabling successful sites
Our Enabling Successful Sites thought leadership series pairs site representatives with clinical operations experts to identify root causes of investigative site challenges and develop collaborative solutions.
We are one of the largest CROs in the world, speeding life-changing medicine to market by engaging patients With Heart™. Learn about who we are, what we do, and what we believe.
With decades of biopharmaceutical leadership experience and a deep dedication to patients, our executive team drives us forward in delivering better trials, faster.
Find key information on our policies, strategies, pay data, and more.
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Vice President, Customer Strategy and Innovation, Medical Communications
Nichola works as Vice President, Customer Strategy and Innovation, within the Medical Communications team and has been with Parexel for 12 years. She is passionate about driving innovative and strategic approaches to patient, physician, HCP and site communication solutions; ensuring we adapt and respond to the evolving needs of all clinical trial stakeholders.
Work Experience
Nichola has a deep understanding of the medical communications market with over 19 years' experience in the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry.
Prior to joining Parexel, Nichola worked in marketing and medical affairs roles for a healthcare nutrition organization.
Nichola was appointed on the ISMPP Board of Trustees (2022) and serves as co-chair on the ISMPP Patient Engagement Taskforce.
Education
Nichola holds a First Class BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Surrey, UK, a Professional Diploma in Marketing and is a Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner.