Associate Medical Director (PS-MD)
Listed compensation
$142k-$269k
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job description
Company Description
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www. abbvie. com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
Purpose:
The primary focus of this position is the Medical Safety Review (MSR) of clinical trial SAEs including causality assessment and company analysis development combined with therapeutic area leadership.
Responsibilities
- Contributes above the level of individual case review through leadership of individual project or initiative.
- Provides overall leadership to one therapeutic area in primary role; may also serve in secondary role for additional therapeutic area.
- Performs medical review of clinical SAEs.
- Develops Company Analysis for SUSARs.
- Responsible for accurate and timely communication with all clinical trial stakeholders.
- Performs causality assessment of adverse events in post-marketing individual case safety reports.
- Understands safety profile of assigned AbbVie products and development compounds as well as safety aspects of relevant therapeutic area drugs and patient populations. ‘
- Understands disease state for each indication within assigned AbbVie products and development compounds.
- Understands global regulations, processes and practices.
- Contributes as requested to Global Patient Safety (GPS) initiatives, controlled procedures and MSR training activities; supports audits, inspections and CAPA investigations as necessary.
Salary Min: 141500
Salary Max: 268500
Workday Global Grade: 20
Compensation: USD 141500 - USD 268500 - yearly
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
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