Competent and consummate professional with demonstrated potentials of 7.6 yrs. in Transcription, Medical Coding, Scientific writing (includes Phase I clinical data annotation) with Team Management and streamlining quality operations & controlling & coordinating in the product improvement activities, while constantly propelling the team & individuals to achieve service excellence along with organizational objectives and well trained in handling the gamut of functions related to Clinical Trial Process; Clinical Trial Design; Ethics & Good Clinical Practice; ICH-GCP Guidelines.
ASPIRING CLINICAL RESEARCH & ANALYSIS PROFESSIONAL
OBJECTIVE :
Targeting research industry, seeking a challenging assignment in the clinical research and analysis with multi-faceted competencies seeking to delve in the areas of medical research portfolios to shoulder broader responsibilities, thereby attaining career advancement.
PROFILE :
** Competent and consummate professional with demonstrated potentials of 7.6 yrs. in Transcription, Medical Coding, Scientific writing (includes Phase I clinical data annotation) with Team Management and streamlining quality operations & controlling & coordinating in the product improvement activities, while constantly propelling the team & individuals to achieve service excellence along with organizational objectives and well trained in handling the gamut of functions related to Clinical Trial Process; Clinical Trial Design; Ethics & Good Clinical Practice; ICH-GCP Guidelines.
** Analytical & detail-oriented, with tremendous comprehension of medical as well as clinical data terminologies coupled with well-honed expertise in indexing and abstract writing. Have undergone intensive corporate training (how to give an effective feedback, quality awareness, presentation skills, time-management skills etc) in reporting of whole team performance based on proficiency, quality, and utility to the managers, which aids mainly in intensive calculations.
** Seasoned professional, with planning, monitoring & resource-balancing skills & ability to handle multiple functions in high pressure environments, offering expertise in deciphering the true impact of any strategic decision with exceptional clarity while communicating the requirements & deliverables to the team members.
** Multilingual with proficiency in English, Telugu & Hindi.
Core Competencies :
** Strong Medical Base
** Leadership/ Training
** Project Management
** IT Proficiency
** Relationship Management
** Target Achievement
** Quality Controller
** Quality Management
** Time-management
PROFESSIONAL CHRONICLE :
MEDICAL WRITER :
Primo Scientific Corporation, Hyderabad, December 2010 – January 2013
Responsibilities :
** Responsible to produce abstracts, short communications, manuscripts, review articles, global medical slide sets, study slide sets, manuscript slide sets (PDF, MS-PowerPoint & Word), slide sets for posters, slide set for oral presentations at scientific congresses, and other written communication material supporting pharmaceutical brands, research activities, and business needs.
** Responsible for the planning, writing, editing, reviewing, and coordinating the publication of clinical data to peer-reviewed journals.
** Responsible for the tracking, quality control and timely completion of the document components for complex medical writing projects.
** Working together with key client counterparts at clients locations to facilitate the completion of project and their appendices. Understanding new agreements and changes due to SOPs and regulatory guidelines.
** Hands on experience in using DataVision tool for medical documents storage.
** Trained in writing regulatory documents such as CSRs (Clinical study reports), IBs (investigator brochures), Protocols, informed consent forms according to the ICH-GCP guidelines.
** The use of several advanced project estimating, forecasting, and time-tracking mechanisms has facilitated a successful track record of delivering client services in a timely, thoughtful, and professional manner.
** Excellent project management and clear understanding of the guidelines of various regulatory bodies.
** Strong skills in areas of medical writing and also analytical and research skills.
THERAPEUTIC AREAS :
** Areas include cardiology, oncology, endocrinology, neuroscience, osteoporosis, urology, osteoarthritis, women’s health, and health outcomes.
** Hands on experience on editing tools like Snagit, Adobe photoshop, and Visio.
** Graph tools such as Prism and Sigma plot.
TEAM LEADER :
Thomson Reuters, Hyderabad, Jul 2007 – December 2010
Responsibilities :
** Challenged to lead a team for BIOSIS (scientific analyst) which works for scientific journals, patents, and research articles, and writing abstracts for a wide variety of articles (like case reports, review articles, news reports etc).
** Carrying out analysis of the research journals and give the client who are using the site with accurate information within a small time.
** Daily reporting of team performance to the QC of Ireland, attending the conference calls with the external QCier’s of Ireland to clarify the emerging toughest doubts of team members.
** Conducting the meetings and seminars to improve the performance of team members.
** Taking care of employee attendance reports, quality score reports to estimate the individual incentives.
** Giving training based on the process for the individuals who are newly employed and assessing their knowledge on the process by conducting test, and mock practice sessions.
** Estimating utility, proficiency and quality of individuals to improve the collective team performance.
** Analyzing the area of mistakes of analysts (through Pareto-analysis) and giving them feedback regarding their errors in turn reducing the errors.
** Responsible for training new hires in BIOSIS process.
Effectively worked with a team spirit of 25 members in producing an error-free high standard quality product. Good maintenance in task planning, maintaining the Qs, timely submissions of reports to the reporting manager.
** Maintaining the required team quality by identifying team hurdles in terms of quality and troubleshooting through Pareto analysis, fish bone analysis(Ishikawa or cause & effect diagram), control charts.
Process improvement :
** Introduced QC database, which made the indexers to work comfortably and has been using as process reference source.
** Introduced web-based queries database which can be accessed by all the team members for the queries and replies from the hub on a single platform to avoid discrepancies in communication among us.
** Additional options on the Pegasus toolbar which will help the team to concentrate at those portions where they are lacking and thereby save the production time.
** Helped the team in giving indexing tips, setting up a medical terminology document which can be used on a daily basis.
** Explained the team the actual workflow of the process.
MEDICAL CODING EXECUTIVE :
Medical Billing Executive
Apollo Health Street, Hyderabad, May 2006 - Apr 2007
Responsibilities :
** Hired to ensure correct calculation and preparation of bills related to insurance of patients and submitting them to their insurance providers
** Coordinated various activities with the departments of Pediatrics and Ob-Gyn for completing the billing
** Assigned to work on ICD-10-AM platform related to Medical Coding adapted from Australian using MedDRA (medical dictionary).
** Educating executives the importance and use of the medical coding and R&D on lab procedures
** Actively involved in the quality check for all the work processed by the executives.
MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST :
Transdyne IT Solutions, Hyderabad, June 2005 - May 2006
** Assigned the task of transcription of the files submitted by the doctors in the U.S.A, related to the cases from different patients.
** Responsible to transcribe the file containing diagnosis and treatment, case studies of the whole disease and therapeutics.
Achievements :
Applauded by the management for the excellent work done in the Departments of Medicine on Cardiology, Gynecology, Neurology, Gastroenterology and Orthopedics
ACADEMIA & PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS :
** M.Sc Biotechnology Vel’s College of Science, Chennai, Madras University, 2004
** B.Sc (MicroBiology, Biochemistry & Chemistry) Nagarjuna University, 2002
** Diploma in CRA (Clinical Research Associate) UBNQtech, Hyderabad
** Currently pursuing MBA from Symbiosis, Pune.
** Diploma in Medical Writing from InfocusRx, Hyderabad.
Computer Skills :
** Proficient with the use of Windows, MS-Office (Microsoft certification in MS-Excel) and the Internet
** Experience in working with image capturing tool, SnagIt and documentation tool, Adobe professional documentation tool.
** Skilled in C-Language, Oracle 11i (PL/SQL), SAS (SAS Clinical Trials, BASE/ SAS, SAS /PROCEDURES SAS/ MACROS, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/CONNECT, SAS/STAT).
Project Presentation :
** Worked on a project in Dr.Reddy’s, which is based on Quality and Control related “Pharmaceutical MicroBiology”.
** Presented “Human Genome Project” in an Intercollegiate Seminar conducted by Vel’s College of Science.