Medical Director, Senior Safety Physician

Job description

As a Medical Director, Senior Patient Safety Physician , you are a senior leader within Patient Safety and play a key role bringing deep clinical understanding and judgement in benefit risk assessments for AstraZeneca products. You also have a role in shaping the culture of the department; and will act as a coach and mentor to more junior Patient Safety staff. You will also ensure projects adhere to Good Clinical and Pharmacovigilance Practice and regulatory requirements. We encourage you to closely follow medical developments within assigned areas to incorporate emerging data and trends into the safety strategy Main Responsibilities: Providing strategic Patient Safety input to drug development and post-marketing programs Collaboration with team members to undertake safety surveillance activities and prepare high quality evaluation documents to describe safety findings. Ensuring expert input to all elements of design and interpretation, including efficient use of tools and methodology (e.g. modelling and simulation). Providing leadership to support project discussions with governance boards, including interactions with Patient Safety Peer Review Committee. Lead the safety strategy...