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Thermo Fisher Scientific

Makes lab instruments, reagents and supplies

Medical Director Neurology - Sleep Disorders

Biology & BiotechPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeNo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • Medical Doctor with a specialty in Neurology and a focus in Sleep Disorders, with clinical experience treating patients with Sleep Disorders in hospital practice.
  • Have at least one of the following: comparable to 2 years of clinical experience treating patients in the trained specialty or subspecialty; comparable to 1–2 years of suitable clinical trial experience in a Contract Research Organization, pharmaceutical company, or as a principal investigator; or comparable to 2 years of direct safety or Pharmacovigilance experience.
  • Significant experience within the pharmaceutical industry, clinical trials, and pharmaceutical medicine.
  • Solid experience with pediatric investigation plans (PIPs).
  • Fluency in spoken and written English.
  • Understanding and experience with the New Drug Application (NDA) submission process.
  • Understanding of regulatory guidelines for adverse event reporting.
  • An appropriate combination of education, training, and/or directly related experience may be considered equivalent to the stated requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Manage all medical aspects of contracted tasks across the pharmaceutical product life cycle.
  • Ensure tasks delegated to Pharmacovigilance (PV) are properly executed; follow applicable regulations and International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines for clinical trials, regulatory documents, and safety issues; follow client standard operating procedures (SOPs), directives, project-specific work practice documents (WPDs), and corporate policies and procedures.
  • Provide medical consultation to team members and answer study-related medical questions; communicate with associates and clients to ensure procedures are followed appropriately.
  • Provide therapeutic and protocol training on assigned studies as requested.
  • Assist in writing, including interpretation of safety and efficacy data, and/or reviewing Clinical Study Reports (CSRs), Investigational New Drug (IND) and New Drug Application (NDA) reports, Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs), signal detection reports, periodic reports, Risk Management Plans (RMPs), Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), and Common Technical Document (CTD) modules to ensure medical content is accurate and complete.
  • Monitor clinical study safety variables, including adverse events, laboratory abnormalities, changes in patient medical status, evaluation of prescribed concomitant medication for protocol restrictions, and unblinding requests.
  • Discuss medical concerns raised during studies with principal investigators and clients, including interpretation of inclusion and exclusion criteria, and use medical judgment in clinical decisions related to the investigational study.
  • Provide medical review of adverse events of special interest, serious adverse events, and clinical outcome events reported by study sites.
  • Perform contract- and data validation manual-specified data review, including review of coding listings and/or full safety data to assess potential safety concerns.
  • Manage signal detection activities, scientifically review aggregate reports, contribute to label updates, and support dossier maintenance and risk management activities for marketed products.
  • Medically review adverse event and serious adverse event data from solicited, spontaneous, literature, and other sources as contracted.

About the Company

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Makes lab instruments, reagents and supplies

Thermo Fisher Scientific makes and sells the instruments, chemicals, consumables and lab services that drug companies, hospitals, universities and industrial labs use for research, testing and production. Its products cover work from gene sequencing and protein analysis to diagnostic tests and lab freezers, and its distribution arm ships supplies to labs worldwide. Drug developers also hire it to run clinical trials and to manufacture medicines under contract. It earns money from consumables that labs buy again and again, along with instrument sales, service contracts and outsourcing fees. The company traces its roots to Thermo Electron, founded in 1956, which merged with Fisher Scientific in 2006, and it is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Waltham, MA
Founded
1956

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