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Dr. Ashish Chougule

Pune

Summary

Drug Safety Physician with more than 7 years of experience in Pharmacovigilance. Expertise in ICSR Review/ Literature review/CTPS. Experience in achieving quality results and cross-team collaboration. Proactive and excited to partner with like-minded individuals to achieve goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Drug Safety Physician

Parexel
Pune
03.2024 - Current
  • Performing medical review of cases not limited to (including non-serious and serious spontaneous (including legal cases), clinical trial, and literature cases including combination products {drug-device}) according to Client/Parexel SOP.
  • Assessing seriousness, listedness / expectedness of reported events.
  • Writing Pharmacovigilance/Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH) comment and assessing company causality.

Lead Medical Reviewer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pune
11.2021 - 03.2024
  • Monitor & manage team weekly & monthly productivity metrics, team attendance, daily workflow allocations.
  • Review solicited, spontaneous ICSR, SUSAR's. Daily target 35- 40 cases/day. Provide company causality per ICH GCP/ GVP/ client guidelines.
  • Provide clinical & process guidance to new medics and case processors for seamless & error free case processing.
  • Successful migration from Aris G to Veeva vault safety database, being a part of the test team reporting glitches to the software engineers.

Senior Clinical Safety Reviewer - CTPS

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pune
02.2020 - 10.2021
  • Clinical trial patient safety- Manage a 10 year post marketing observational study for pediatric crohn's disease. Run daily serious & non serious reports per the Investigative brochure, Risk management plan.
  • Review information per report, connect and query with all the sites worldwide for any discrepancies in patient data.
  • Provide company causality for the adverse event.
  • Manage safety mailbox. Receive & report safety signals from the investigator and report it to the sponsor.

Senior Medical Reviewer - ICSR

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pune
02.2018 - 01.2020
  • Perform solicited & unsolicited ICSR review. Daily target of 30 – 35 cases / day
  • Provide company causality per client guidelines.

Senior Safety Scientist-Literature review

Tata Consultancy Services
Pune
06.2016 - 02.2018
  • Reviewing the published reports/ biomedical literature for ICSR’s related to company drugs with a daily target for 25 -30 articles per day.
  • Apply regulatory and internal company guidance to determine case safety reports.
  • Search and report new signals reported in the literature per drug label.
  • Awarded best performer on 24/May/2017.
  • Internal promotion to team trainer- Provide training and guidance to the new recruits on the project SOP's/ process of literature review/ impart thorough training of the database

Resident Medical Officer-ICU

Jeevan Anmol Hospital
New Delhi
01.2015 - 12.2015
  • Management of Critical cases like cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, post partum haemorrhage, etc.
  • Adult ventilatory management & CPR.
  • Discussion of management with consultant surgeons, physicians.
  • Ensuring continuous medical cover for all patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

Education

M.D. - Medicine

Davao Medical School Foundation
Davao City, Philippines
2012

Skills

  • Expertise in Argus, Aris G, Veeva Vault, RAVE, Inform
  • Medical review according to Client/ GVP guidelines
  • Working knowledge of MedDRA and WHO DD
  • Microsoft Office Suite expertise

Timeline

Senior Drug Safety Physician

Parexel
03.2024 - Current

Lead Medical Reviewer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2021 - 03.2024

Senior Clinical Safety Reviewer - CTPS

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2020 - 10.2021

Senior Medical Reviewer - ICSR

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2018 - 01.2020

Senior Safety Scientist-Literature review

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2016 - 02.2018

Resident Medical Officer-ICU

Jeevan Anmol Hospital
01.2015 - 12.2015

M.D. - Medicine

Davao Medical School Foundation
Dr. Ashish Chougule