Medical Director/Senior Medical Director - Rheumatology

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Purpose:

Provides medical oversight of clinical trials to ensure company SOPs, client directives, good clinical practice, and regulatory requirements are followed. Attends and presents at investigator and sponsor meetings, provides medical consultation to clients, investigators and project team members and supports business development activities.

Provides medical review and analysis for clinical trial serious adverse events, marketed products ICSR and periodic safety reports (e.g. PBRER, PSUR, DSUR) as well as other client deliverables (e.g. labeling reconciliation documents, CTD modules, REMS, RMP and CSR)

We have successfully supported the top 50 pharmaceutical companies and more than 750 biotechs, spanning 2,700 clinical trials across 100+ countries in the last 5 years.

General Support:

• Ensure tasks delegated to PV are properly executed. Adhere to applicable regulations and ICH guidelines regarding clinical trials, regulatory documents, and safety issues. Follow client SOPs/directives and project-specific WPDs for assigned projects. Comply with CRG’s corporate policies and SOPs/WPDs.
• Provide medical consultation to team members and answer all study-related medical questions. Communicate clearly with associates and clients, maintaining an open line of communication to ensure all procedures are followed appropriately.
• Provide therapeutic training and protocol training on assigned studies, as requested.
• Assist in writing (interpretation of safety and efficacy data) and/or reviewing CSR, IND/NDA reports, ICSR, signal detection reports, periodic reports, RMP, REMS, CTD modules, etc., to ensure that the medical content is accurate and complete.

Clinical Trial Support:
• Monitor all safety variables (AE, laboratory abnormalities, changes in patient medical status, evaluation of prescribed concomitant medication for protocol restrictions, and un-blinding requests) of clinical studies.
• Discuss all medical concerns with principal investigators and clients (e.g., interpretation of inclusion/exclusion criteria) raised during the course of a study, using proper medical judgment in interpretation and decision-making regarding clinical situations as they relate to the investigational study.
• Provide medical review of adverse events of special interest, serious adverse events, and clinical outcomes events reported by study sites.
• Perform data review as specified in the client contract and data validation manual, including review of coding listings and/or full safety data to assess potential safety concerns.

Marketed Products Support:
• Manage signal detection activities, scientifically review aggregate reports, contribute to label updates, and support dossier maintenance and risk management activities.
• Medically review adverse event and serious adverse event data from all sources (solicited, spontaneous, literature, etc.) as contracted.

Education and Experience Requirements:
• MD or equivalent required. Active medical licensure preferred.

Candidates should have at least one of the following:

• Clinical experience in treating patients in the specialty or sub-specialty associated with the applicants training (comparable to 2 years).
• Suitable clinical trial experience in a Contract Research Organization, pharmaceutical company or as a principal investigator (comparable to 1-2 years) in the industry.
• Direct experience in safety/Pharmacovigilance (comparable to 2 years).

For Senior Medical Director:

• MD or equivalent required. Active medical licensure preferred.

Candidates should have a combination of clinical experience and industry experience as follows:

• Clinical experience in treating patients in the specialty or sub-specialty associated with the applicants training (comparable to 2 years) and one of the following:

• Suitable clinical trial experience in a Contract Research Organization, pharmaceutical company or as a principal investigator (comparable to 1-2 years) in the industry; Or

• Direct experience in safety/Pharmacovigilance (comparable to 2 years)

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Therapeutic expertise across one or more medical specialty or sub-specialties
• Strong decision-making, problem solving, organizational skills and analytical skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of relevant safety databases (e.g. Medra)
• Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally
• Ability to work independently, analyze work with attention to detail, process and prioritize sensitive
complex information
• Proficiency in basic computer applications
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and team building skills
• Understanding guidelines (FDA, ICH, EMA and GCP)
• Working knowledge of biostatistics, data management, and clinical operations procedures
• Ability to act as a mentor/trainer to other staff within PV

Working Environment:
Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive.

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.