Senior Medical Director / Medical Director - Oncology

Senior Medical Director / Medical Director - Oncology Job Overview:
Reporting to the Executive Medical Director, the primary role of the Senior Medical Director / Medical Director will be to serve as a physician providing medical delivery services and subject matter and drug development expertise. He/She will be expected to be a key contributor to the medical strategy and execution of clinical programs. Furthermore, the Senior Medical Director / Medical Director will play a key role in people leadership/management, client relations, and business development representing Labcorp Drug Development in proposals and industry meetings as needed. This is a remote home-based role with travel (US and Global) as needed.

Responsibilities to include;

Client Relationship & Business Development Activities

• Develop new and enhance existing client relationships where possible
• Provides leadership and presents medical/scientific capabilities to clients as a participant of a proposal team
• Leverage known and builds new relationships with investigators/sites to performs site/ investigator feasibility and to support optimal recruiting and conduct of trials
• Able to present or serve on panels to represent the company at conferences and scientific meetings.

Therapeutic and Scientific Expertise

• Responsible for medical and safety monitoring on assigned projects
• Develops training modules and materials, and provides training in disease states and protocol specific requirements
• Participates in training opportunities to advance knowledge of drug development and good clinical practice guidelines
• Serve as global lead project physician and provides clinical and medical expertise
• May serve as a program level physician across multiple studies for a given company
• Provides subject matter and drug development expertise to be a key contributor to the medical strategy and execution of the program for the client
• Performs medical data review and/or oversight of central medical data review- laboratory values, adverse events, coding dictionaries and data tables, listings and figures as needed, holistic and aggregated data review
• Develops, reviews and revises protocols, case report forms, training materials, project specific tools, analysis plans design, clinical trial reports and new drug applications
• Prepares materials for investigator meetings
• Actively participates in investigator meetings
• Provides medical/scientific expertise to project teams and to other Labcorp Drug Development departments
• Interacts with inter-departmental and external consultants as appropriate
• Participates in feasibility discussions relating to specific project proposals
• Participates in project risk assessment activities
• Assists when needed with data safety monitoring board activities
• Contributes to the scientific strategic leadership for the Oncology programs

Education/Qualifications:

• Doctor of Medicine
• BE/BC in Oncology and/or Hematology preferred

Experience:

• Experience with medical monitoring of Oncology clinical trials
• Previous experience within the CRO or Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry
• History of trial work with focus in head / neck squamous cell carcinomas a plus, but not required