Senior Medical Director

Managerial:

• Supports and participates in the recruitment process for department positions.

Leadership:

• Provides leadership to junior staff within clinical pharmacology.
• Participates and leads initiatives that serves the physicians within clinical pharmacology.

Therapeutic and Scientific Expertise:

• Develops training modules and materials and provides training in disease states and protocol specific requirements across the Fortrea.
• Participates in training opportunities to advance knowledge of drug development and good clinical practice guidelines.
• Serves as global lead project physician.
• Performs medical data review – reviews laboratory values, adverse events, coding dictionaries and data tables, listings and figures as needed.
• Develops, reviews and revises protocol, case report forms, training material, project specific tools, analysis plans design, clinical trial reports and new drug applications.
• Prepares materials for investigator meetings and site initiation visits.
• Actively participates in investigator meetings and site initiation visits.
• Provides medical/scientific expertise to project teams.
• Responsible for medical and safety monitoring on assigned projects.
• Interacts with interdepartmental 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.
• Provides clinical and medical expertise to other Fortrea departments.
• All other duties as needed or assigned.

Qualifications (Minimum Required):

• MD Degree.
• Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements.
• Ability to drive projects outside of medical perspective.
• Problem solving ability.
• Sees issues outside of own remit and is able to escalate.

Experience (Minimum Required):

• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience with substantial knowledge of drug development and extensive clinical research experience within the pharmaceutical/CRO industry in a specific therapeutic area.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

• Overtime and weekend work as required.
• Varied hours may be required.
• Occasional drives to site locations, occasional domestic travel.
• Work is performed in a laboratory and/or a clinical environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Personal protective equipment required such as protective eyewear, garments, and gloves.
• Exposure to biological fluids.
• Ability to work in an upright and /or stationary position for 6-8 hours per day.
• Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists to operate lab equipment.

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