Paula Carney is Director of Education and Training for the Northwestern Center for Clinical Research, part of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Paula combines her background in clinical research and educational technology to enable NCCR to deliver high quality clinical training programs to clinical research staff. Paula previously managed online compliance training for the acute care market at Thomson Learning and was documentation and training development manager at Phase Forward. She was also an associate professor of public health at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Paula has a PhD in Instructional Technology from Wayne State University in Detroit.