Sr. Medical Director / Medical Director - Respiratory / Pulmonary

Company: Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
Location: Washington
Posted on: January 14, 2021

Job Description:

Sr. Medical Director / Medical Director - Respiratory / Pulmonary Job Overview: Reporting to the Executive Medical Director, the primary role of the incumbent 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 or Sr. Medical Director will play a key role in client relations, business development representing Covance in proposals and industry meetings, and potentially people leadership/management as needed.-- This is a remote home-based role supporting US trials. 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. 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 for clinical programs. Education/Qualifications:
    • MD degree
    • 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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