| Other Activities Experience - Clinical
- General Medicine/Cardiology Clinical Duties (to Associate
Specialist level)
- Coronary Care Unit Management
- Acute General Emergency Admission Duties
- Specialist cardiological investigation techniques: Right and
Left Heart Catheterisation Coronary Arteriography Cardiac Pacemakers (temporary and
permanent) Echocardiagraphy and Phonocardiography Nuclear Cardiological Techniques
Experience - Teaching
- Hospital MRCP Courses
- Post-Registration Nursing Courses (Intensive/Coronary Care)
- Basic, product and refresher training of pharmacists,
technicians and paramedical industry sales personnel
- Training of pharmaceutical company representatives for the
ABPI examination
- Medical statistics and computing courses for doctors, nurses,
paramedical and industrial paramedical industry personnel
Experience - 'Hands on' Research
- Acute and chronic physiological studies in animals (rodents,
dogs and small farm animals). Experience in techniques of veterinary anaesthesia and
chronic intra-thoracic instrumentation of dogs.
- The conduct of physiological and clinical pharmacological
studies in human volunteers and wide experience of the conduct of clinical trials.
Experience - Pharmaceutical Medicine, Medical
Statistics, Medical Writing etc
- Provision of general medical and statistical advice and
consultancy services to pharmaceutical and biomedical industries. This includes most of
the activities expected of the medical and statistical departments of pharmaceutical and
biomedical companies including:
- Dealing with medical queries relating to pharmaceutical and
biomedical products.
- Dealing with reported adverse events associated with the use
of pharmacological products. Pharmacovigilence.
- Liaison with regulatory authorities.
- Assistance with preparation of promotional material, campaigns
and scientific brochures. Certification of printed promotional material as required by the
ABPI Code of Practice for the Pharmaceutical Industry.
- Preparation of critical appraisals of pharmaceutical or
biomedical products, proposed research programmes and experimental or clinical data.
- Assistance with the training of sales and other personnel in
pharmaceutical and biomedical companies.
- Assistance with the organisation of medical and scientific
conferences, symposia etc.
- Extensive experience of the (clinical and statistical) design,
conduct and supervision of clinical trials, or programmes of trials, to GCP standards for
the evaluation of pharmaceutical products and biomedical instrumentation/appliances,
including documentation design, data handling and statistical analysis.
- Statistical analysis and the preparation of statistical and/or
clinical reports on scientific studies and trials - for internal commercial purposes,
publication or in connection with submissions to regulatory authorities (eg in relation to
applications for Product Licences for pharmaceutical products). Wide experience of the use
of data handling and statistical software packages, particularly SAS.
- Preparation (or assistance therewith) of medical sections of
applications to the national regulatory authorities for Product Licences for
pharmaceutical products; preparation of associated Clinical Expert Reports. Liaison with
UK regulatory authorities in relation to Product Licence Applications, including
participation at hearings of the Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Medicines'
Commission, and assistance with submissions and representations to overseas regulatory
authorities (including the FDA).
- Preparation or editing of scientific papers for publication,
in many cases anonymously ('ghost writing).
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