(Associate) Medical Director - Dermatology, EMEA

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Dermatologist Medical Director provides medical oversight of clinical trials to ensure company SOPs, client directives, good clinical practice, and regulatory requirements are followed. Attends and presents at investigator and sponsor meetings, provides medical consultation to clients, investigators and project team members and supports business development activities.

A day in the Life:

• Provide medical leadership to the study teams, including creating clinical trial protocols while implementing the latest scientific information, contribute to site selection through feasibility support, involved in review and approval of study protocols and amendments, Clinical Study Reports (CSRs), protocol deviation decisions and other documents requiring medical input
•  Medical Monitoring of clinical studies: ensure medical validity of each individual primary endpoint as well study subject safety, while ensuring medical issues are identified early. Pro-active customer concern and correction of issues in consultation with the Global Medical Indication Lead
• Serves as chief medical liaison between sponsor and all PPD internal departments performing the required tasks during all study phases. Liaises with  Investigator sites by delivering a protocol specific  advise on subject eligibility, protocol clarifications and safety concerns.  lab procedures presentation and demonstration during an investigator meeting.
• Medical point of contact for all internal and external stakeholders: Interacts with the investigators as needed, answer questions of IRBs and Health Authorities, prepare and present material to the study executive and independent safety committee if applicable; medical training of site staff at Investigator meetings; CRA training in new indications
• Ensure study compliance for all medical aspects by understanding and applying all relevant SOPs and GCP
• Closely collaborates with the cross functional study team members i for medical risks, issues, and results to be clear to all involved parties

Education

• MD degree or equivalent board certified in Dermatology.
• Active medical licensure (preferably in country of residence)
• 4+ years relevant experience such as pharmaceutical industry or CRO, in clinical development or pharmacovigilance or significant clinical trial experience as a principal investigator.
• 5+ years medical experience as a Dermatologist treating physician.
• Previous experience with cell-therapy or gene therapy.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience within pharmaceutical industry, clinical trials and pharmaceutical medicine is considered beneficial
• Is fluent in spoken and written English
• Strong communication & presentation skills
• A team player

As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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