Medical Safety Lead

More than 52 different medical diseases! Novartis Global Drug Development portfolio includes a large number of innovative platform studies with more than 90 projects in clinical development, of which this safety position will play a key leadership role in supporting patient safety for breakthrough innovative medicines.

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible for the drug surveillance program including the necessary follow-up, risk assessment, and relatedness to product on adverse reaction reports, oversight of safety in clinical trials and post marketing programs. Participates in the resolution of any legal liability and complying with governmental regulations.
• Provides and contributes trending and safety signal detection and risk management assessment for the products’ life cycle. Provides safety support to the clinical development teams.
• Monitors the clinical safety of projects /products including activities such as literature review, evaluation of individual cases or signal detection, and responds to safety related questions appropriately.
• Performs medical assessment and related activities for cases whenever required, including collecting additional follow-up information as necessary, medical evaluation of product quality defects with adverse events, review of line listings of single cases, and preparation of investigator notifications and periodic medical assessments for ethics committees.
• Identifies safety signals based on the review of solicited or unsolicited single cases. Performs signal detection, monitoring and evaluation of all safety signals. Provides inputs into responses to inquiries from regulatory authorities or health care professionals on safety issues.
• Prepares safety data for Health Authority review boards. Provides inputs to responses for legal queries and Country Organization requests involving safety issues. Provides expert evaluation on the clinical context of adverse event reports, assessment of the medical conditions, and the implications on Novartis products.
• Collaborates productively on clinical safety tasks with colleagues from Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Medical Information, Statistics, Safety Data Management, Epidemiology, and other related departments. Contributes to the development of departmental goals and objectives.

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Global Drug Development

CMO & PATIENT SAFETY GDD

India

Hyderabad, AP

Nov Hltcr Shared Services Ind

Research & Development

Full Time

Regular

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