Biography

Performance-driven versatile medical communications professional with research, business, alliance, project, and people management expertise.

Professional experience: Overall 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical drug development (2 years in academic research, 5 years of senior research fellowship, 13+ years in the pharmaceutical industry [10+ years in people management and 8+ years in leadership roles]).

Scientific communications: Over the 13+ years, while working in the medical writing domain (medico marketing communications, publications, and clinical regulatory), I progressively evolved in roles and responsibilities while working with pharmaceutical companies (Novartis, Biocon, GlaxoSmithKline) and CROs (Accenture Services [clients: BMS, Pfizer, UCB]; ViziPhar Biosciences [client: Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharma]) by gaining significant expertise in clinical drug development, medical affairs, document development, KOL management, clinical regulatory, medical information, HEOR, pharmacovigilance, public disclosure, and real-world evidence. Demonstrated technical as well as business expertise in delivering tangible outcomes in global regulatory submissions (NCEs, ANDA, and biosimilars), medical affairs (journal publications, conference proceedings, medico marketing, HEOR, competitive intelligence, and KOL management), clinical, regulatory affairs (biosimilar submissions in regulated markets) and pharmacovigilance (EudraCT implementation) across therapeutic areas.

Set up initiatives and process optimization: I had the opportunity to set up and operationally manage multiple high-performing teams in areas such as publication, regulatory and patient narrative writing, clinical trial disclosure, clinical publishing, clinical regulatory affairs, and pharmacovigilance within pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines R&D, global regulatory, and medical affairs ecosystems. Led many continuous process improvement projects using lean, analytics, and automation to improve process quality, productivity, and compliance.

Business and strategy: A skilled professional with proven success in managing diverse roles like people management, service delivery, change management, operations management, strategic alliance management, and client engagement.

Diverse experience: Strong medical and clinical domain expertise backed by >40 research publications in peer-reviewed journals as an author in the field of clinical research, drug safety, novel drug delivery, journalology, etc. Presented research papers and delivered invited talks at > 30 national and international conferences. Diverse experiences include internationally recognized subject matter expert in journalology and scholarly publishing. Currently holding honorary editorial positions in multiple medical and pharmaceutical journals.