Sr. Medical Director/Medical Director - Pulmonary / Respiratory

Company: Covance
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: September 15, 2020

Job Description:

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Sr. Medical Director/Medical Director - Pulmonary / Respiratory Reporting to the Executive Medical Director, the primary role of the Medical Director will be to provide subject matter and drug development expertise in support of Respiratory/Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Infectious Disease drug development trials. He/She will be expected to be a key contributor to the medical strategy and execution of clinical programs. Furthermore, the Medical Director will play a key role in client relations, business development representing the organization in proposals and industry meetings.

This is a remote home-based role supporting US trials.

Therapeutic and Scientific Expertise

Responsible for medical and safety monitoring on assigned projects

Develops training modules and materials, and provides training in disease states and protocol specific requirements

Participates in training opportunities to advance knowledge of drug development and good clinical practice guidelines

Serve as global lead project physician and provides clinical and medical expertise

May serve as a program level physician across multiple studies for a given company

Provides subject matter and drug development expertise to be a key contributor to the medical strategy and execution of the program for the client

Performs medical data review and/or oversight of central medical data review- laboratory values, adverse events, coding dictionaries and data tables, listings and figures as needed, holistic and aggregated data review

Develops, reviews and revises protocols, case report forms, training materials, project specific tools, analysis plans design, clinical trial reports and new drug applications

Prepares materials for investigator meetings

Actively participates in investigator meetings

Provides medical/scientific expertise to project teams and to other Covance departments

Interacts with inter-departmental and external consultants as appropriate

Participates in feasibility discussions relating to specific project proposals

Participates in project risk assessment activities

Assists when needed with data safety monitoring board activities

Contributes to the scientific strategic leadership

Client Relationship & Business Development Activities

Partnering with GCO to develop new and enhance existing client relationships where possible

Provides leadership and presents medical/scientific capabilities to clients as a participant of a proposal team

Leverage known and builds new relationships with investigators/sites to performs site/ investigator feasibility and to support optimal recruiting and conduct of trials

Able to present or serve on panels to represent the company at conferences and scientific meetings.

Education/Qualifications: Fellowship trained in Pulmonary Disease and/or Critical Care

History of Board Certification in Pulmonary Disease and/or Critical Care is highly preferred

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Experience: 5+ years of medical monitoring experience in CRO or Pharma/Biotech

Experience with Pulmonary/Respiratory trials; COPD, Asthma

Experience supporting Phase II- IV clinical trials

Previous experience in clinical patient care preferred

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