Description
The Medical Development Advisor (MDA) is a field based medical role, their key objective, as a member of Scientific Operations, is to build partnerships with external healthcare professionals (HCP), to communicate evidence based critical scientific, technical and development issues relating to Novartis products/compounds and the therapeutic areas (TAs) they relate to.
Activities include: development of partnerships with investigators, opinion leaders and healthcare professionals scientific, evidence based communication and education clinical trial activities investigator-initiated studies (IITs) scientific projects & research publications (abstracts, posters, case studies and peer reviewed papers) scientific support to marketing teams and their programmes, input and/or attendance at medical educational programmes, advisory boards, training
External Partnerships
Develop and maintain long term professional relationships with investigators, opinion leaders and healthcare professionals.
Utilises superior therapy area and product knowledge to engage with HCPs through non-promotional evidence based scientific dialogue and presentations
Discuss scientific research concepts and ideas with investigators
Clinical Development
Provide medical support as part of a cross functional team to relevant clinical development studies, including:
Feasibility and quality research
Site recommendations
TA/product training for site staff
Medical educational activities to support patient recruitment
Strategic support for priority trials
Dissemination of study results
Internal Novartis Support
Close cross functional working with office medical colleagues and Sales and Marketing
May deliver training on TA and molecule to head office and field teams.
Medical support to brand or franchise marketing team Including:
Contributes to mapping/profiling of HCPs
Advisory boards
Acts as a field-based reference point for non-promotional scientific and clinical expertise to field force
Be alert to potential Business Development opportunities to inform internal teams
Scientific communication
Education on novel & emerging data
Provision of scientific information on specific business critical issues that are medically relevant
Speaker training to ensure scientific and medical accuracy.
Collaborate with Novartis colleagues to actively support medical and scientific meetings by collecting and interpreting insights competitive intelligence/presentations/results.
Scientific Projects
Identify and track potential research opportunities aligned with Novartis molecule development objectives through facilitating IITs and MTA research
Implement and/or support scientific projects according to corporate global strategies, including registries, epidemiology projects, preclinical or translational research.
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