Romana Cecchele is an Assistant Director in the Pharmacovigilance Compliance and Clinical Trials Section, which is responsible for managing the clinical trial notification and approval schemes, as well as Pharmacovigilance and Good Clinical Practice inspection programs. Since joining the TGA in 2024, Romana has worked across the medicine shortages and clinical trials areas.

As an ANZCAP Pharmacist Consultant in Clinical Trials and Leadership and Management, Romana has spent most of her career in hospital pharmacy and worked for over a decade leading a large clinical trials pharmacy unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, including serving as a member of the ethics clinical trials subcommittee. She was also the lead author of the AdPha Clinical Trial Registrar Training Program and has been involved in lecturing and tutoring Pharmacy students at the University of Sydney.