Senior Physician, Patient Safety

Key Requirements:

• MBBS or MD from a recognized medical school
• 2+ years of experience in ICSR medical review
• Good understanding of medical terminology
• Experience in pharmacovigilance, drug safety, or clinical practice
• Basic clinical training (internship/residency completed)

Key Accountabilities:

General:

• Maintaining a good working knowledge of the Adverse event/Safety profile of assigned products, labeling documents, data handling conventions, client’s guidelines and procedures, and global drug safety regulations and guidelines
• Maintaining an awareness of global regulatory requirements, reporting obligations and organizing workload to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory timelines for adverse event reporting
• Communicating and discussing issues related to review process with Line Manager/ Project Leader/Designee
• Interacting with internal and external stakeholders for resolving issues
• Attending and/ or presenting at client/cross functional meetings along with other stakeholders.
• Working as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Assisting the Project Lead/Functional Lead for audits and inspections
• Provides inputs for process improvements
• Works closely with Project Lead/Functional Lead for process co-ordination and to ensure meeting all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the process
• Function as pharmacovigilance representative/safety scientist
• Attend/support Bid defense meetings
• Actively mentoring Patient Safety Physicians to develop their skills and expertise

Case Report Medical Review (as applicable):

• Perform medical review of cases, including complex and challenging cases requiring expert judgment, covering clinical trial, literature, and combination product (drug-device) cases according to client/Parexel Standard Operating Procedures and liaising with the client, as required.

• Writing Pharmacovigilance/Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH) comment and assessing company causality
• Review appropriateness of medical content in narrative for medical coherence
• Assessing seriousness, listedness / expectedness of reported events.
• Providing medical inputs to case processing team

• Raising appropriate follow-up queries for relevant information from the reporter/HCP (Health Care Professional)
• Review and verify appropriate selection of adverse events from source documents, assign appropriate Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) code, review narrative
• Identify and resolve case issues, coordinate with client therapeutic/legal team
• Provide guidance to junior physicians on case assessment methodologies

Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience in pharmacovigilance and medical monitoring (desirable)