Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
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Tejas Rana

Pharmacovigilance Associate
Mumbai,Maharashtra
Tejas Rana

Summary

Seasoned Drug Safety Associate 2 with 4.3 years leading activities to monitor and maintain safety of pharmaceutical products. Diverse professional with expertise interpreting industry terminology, monitoring quality, aiding with inspections and disseminating vital information. Driven to minimize adverse events and notify appropriate parties of identified concerns.

Overview

4
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Qinecsa Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Mysore

Pharmacovigilance Associate (Quality Reviewer)
12.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Accurate documentation of adverse events related to any company products.
  • Supported inspections, visits and audits as well as CAPAs management.
  • Oversaw adverse events case reporting and conducted follow-up.
  • Providing follow-up with patients as well as health care providers to provide a full clinical picture of possible adverse drug events
  • Responding to patients and healthcare professional inquiries within appropriate guidelines.
  • Developed new or improved pharmacovigilance procedures.
  • Assessed and distributed pharmaceutical product adverse event documents.
  • Authored and managed regular safety update reports.
  • Review data entered in safety database for completeness and accuracy.
  • Full data entry including medical coding and safety narrative.
  • Provide quality feedback to team resources.
  • Track and maintain quality metrics.
  • Mentor and guide the activities of the Dug Safety Associate.
  • Reading, understanding, and adhering to organizational standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  • Assisting in establishing and enforcing departmental standards.
  • Quality review and peer review for a group.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai

Pharmacovigilance Associate (ICSR Case Processing)
09.2015 - 10.2017

Job overview

  • Provide accurate and timely responses to medical information inquiries from healthcare professionals and client.
  • Initial book-in of case reports into safety database.
  • Addition of Follow-up cases and follow-up pending cases.
  • MedDRA coding of events and Drug coding as per company drug dictionary (CDD) and WHO drug dictionary.
  • Processing of various types of ICSRs e.g., clinical trial cases, spontaneous cases, regulatory cases, solicited cases, etc. Argus safety database and ArisG database.
  • Narrative checking.
  • Routing the case to the appropriate workflow.
  • Maintain proper systems to ensure compliance with reporting requirements. Ensure that all the records and documents are maintained as per specifications.
  • Identify and document possible adverse drug events and product complaints.
  • Provide medical writing and literature surveillance for the client as specified.
  • Training of new staff members on standard operating procedures as needed.
  • Oversaw adverse events case reporting and conducted follow-up.
  • Developed new or improved pharmacovigilance procedures.
  • Collaborating with client sales staff and medical liaisons in providing written responses to medical inquiries as needed.

Education

SIES College of Management Studies
Navi Mumbai

MBA from Pharmaceutical Management
08.2020

A.I.K.T.C. School of Pharmacy
Navi Mumbai

Bachelor of Science from Pharmacy
04.2015

University Overview

Pharmacy

Bhavans College
Andheri West

HSC (12th) from Science
03.2011

Smt. R.N. Sheth Vidhyamandir, Nikunj
Andheri East

SSC (10th) from School
03.2009

Skills

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills honed over years of pharmacy practice in pharmacovigilance
  • Monitor Quality Control
  • Data Entry
  • Proven track record of both attracting and maintaining clients in the healthcare industry
  • Superior phone etiquette and ability to respond to healthcare professional questions in a timely and accurate manner
  • Strong background in FDA drug safety guidelines
  • Extensive training in corporate integrity and proper interactions with healthcare professionals
  • Trained to address key opinion leaders with fair and balanced responses to unsolicited requests for medical information
  • Personnel Training
  • Clinical Trial Support
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • QC Reporting
  • Medical Terminology

Certification

Pharmacy License - 25 years

Accomplishments

· Assigned with mentorship of new recruits and assisted them in understanding the on-floor concepts.

· Within 8 months of data entry was promoted to QC role in my current organization.


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