Curriculum Vitae
Sita Vishal Patel
D***, ***0, City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA- 19131
Email abn4i3@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Experience
Overall 12 years of experience in the field of clinical research and
medical writing. Have worked on various document types which including;
protocol, clinical study report, manuscripts, posters, slide decks (topics
as assigned), abstracts, summary level documents (PSUR, ASR, and CTASUR),
base reporting, and regulatory responses. Have worked in various
therapeutic areas such as; Oncology, neuroscience, women health,
cardiovascular, immunology etc Other experience over the 12 year include;
clinical trial operations, medical writing, handling regulatory audits,
external audits, inspection readiness, documentation and quality control,
dossier management, literature search, safety profiling, writing safety
summaries/executive summaries, writing clinical summaries and overviews,
label support (SMPC), RFI and RFP writing, client interaction and interface
and project management. Over these 12 years, the experience is spread
across phase I to phase IV clinical trials and also includes post marketing
and drug development phases. Have a diverse knowledge on guidelines and
training requirement as per the regulatory authorities. Have been involved
in preparation and handling of inspection for regulatory audits (USFDA,
WHO, French, ANVISA, MHRA), sponsor and external audits. In addition have
been a part of client due diligence visits, people panel etc. Further have
been a part of preparing and developing standard operating procedures,
trial master files, dossier documents etc. Experience in clinical research
operations include; being a custodian to the patients, handling Phase-I
studies, handling patient records, trial master file, publishing of
document, internal audits, quality control, etc. Identifying the training
requirement, developing the training material, organizing training and
being a faculty in the training programmes is also an added experience over
this 12 years.
Jan 2013- Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Philadelphia, USA
Present Medical Writing Lead
Leading the medical writing team
Handling submissions of PSUR, PEDAR and other
regulatory writing documents.
Handling and devloping scientific slide deck for
various therpeutic areas such as oncology,
neurosciences, immunology, women health, autoimmune
Abstract and manuscripts writing
Standard medical letters
Being client liason
Apr 2011 - Dec Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore (BPO)
2012 Medical Reviewer- Assistant Manager
Drug safety writing
PSUR
PEDAR
PBRER
Medical communications
Handling and devloping scientific slide deck for
various therpeutic areas such as oncology,
neurosciences, immunology, women health, autoimmune
Abstract and manuscripts writing
Standard medical letters
Systematic review of literature search
To do a systematic review of literature search
To prepare the safety profile and executive summary
To oversee the project and do the QC of team members
To manage the project operationally and be capable in
operation of the project
Plan the work organizes the work and see to it that
the deliverables are met.
To train the team with respect to the project and
other guidance during the work
AR frequency for SmPC/CCDS for EMEA (European
regulatory
To code the adverse reactions as per the MedDRA.
To select the studies for updating information in the
label
To calculate the AR frequency
To write the background
To get the operationally capable
Plan the work organizes the work and see to it that
the deliverables are met.
To train the team with respect to the project and
other guidance during the work
Clinical trials reports registration (Base reporting)
Trained in clinical trials base reporting
Reporting pending trials report in clinicaltrials.gov
web site
Publication writing
RFI and RFP development and writing
Sept 2010 to Apr Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore (BPO)
2011 Scientific Writer
Prepare variety of clinical documents (e.g. Common
technical document (CTD) modules, Investigator's
Brochures (IB), Clinical Study Reports (CSRs),
Outcomes research reports and journal articles, and
Bioanalytical reports) based on non-clinical and
clinical studies by organizing, critically examining,
and interpreting scientific and statistical data.
TAs: Oncology, neuroscience, inflammation, women's
health, infectious disease, etc.
Create all documents in accordance to all applicable
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), conventions and
client policies.
Plan, organize, and manage daily work to meet service
level timelines and deliverables.
Work with the Scientific Writing team lead to escalate
issues or tasks outside the normal scope of work.
Project management and take document to completeness
and get the work executed from other medical writers
Quality control check of varied documents to ensure
that the document matches the source data, regulatory
requirements
Oct 2009 to Sep Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore (BPO)
2010 Medical Writer
Worked primarily in Oncology, Neuroscience, Women's
Health, infectious disease, virology and Inflammation
therapeutic areas.
Prepare variety of clinical documents (e.g. Clinical
Study Report (CSRs), Summary Documents:
Investigational new drug application annual reports
(INDARs).
Review of all documents in these therapeutic areas.
Communicate project details/status to the client.
Work effectively with other writers, communicating
project (in therapeutic areas other than Inflammation
and Vaccines) information in a timely manner.
Responsible for the quality and timeliness of
documents produced for the project.
Work to ensure documents are of high quality,
scientifically accurate, meet company standards and
regulatory requirements (eg, SOPs international
conference on harmonization [ICH] and food and drug
administration [FDA] guidance) as per SLAs.
Conducting the review of the documents written by
peers (in therapeutic areas other than inflammation
and vaccines).
Train newly joined hires on clinical writing. Develop
programs for new and experienced resources in
conjunction with training team. Identify additional
training needs and assist in planning to address them.
Apr 2006- Oct Lambda Therapeutic Research
2009 Medical Writing & Publishing work
Have broadly worked in oncology, anti inflammation,
women's health, anti diabetic, anti inflammatory, anti
histamic, neuroscience, anti epileptic, and
antipsychotic.
Have an experience in writing the following documents:
Writing Clinical Study Reports - Phase-I, II and III,
bioavailability/bioequivalence (BA/BE) reports,
investigational reports, other section of report (CTD
tables, section 2.7 as required by electronic e (ctd)
format.
Worked on Therapeutic Areas for Phase-I: anti
diabetic, anti inflammatory, anti hypertension.
Worked on Therapeutic Areas for Phase-II: anti
inflammatory, anti hypertension.
Worked on Therapeutic Areas for Phase-III: anti
infections (PK Based Phase III trial report) and
oncology (efficacy study report).
Regulatory bodies covered: FDA submission, european
(EU) submission, Brazilian submission, and Indian
submissions.
Writing Protocols - Phase-I, Phase-III
(pharmacokinetic [PK] based), and BA/BE protocol
(Prospective as well as retrospective study protocols
covered).
Therapeutic Area: Broadly worked on anti-epileptic,
antipsychotic, anti inflammatory areas.
CRF Designing: Phase-I, II, III, special studies,
bioequivalence studies.
Designing Electronic case report forms (CRF).
Writing Safety narratives
Preparing CSR templates for different clients
Preparing "Appendices" of the Clinical Study Report
Publishing
Publishing document which include; dossier management,
arranging the documents as per regulatory requirement
(Common technical document & eCTD- Module 1 to Module
5), compiling the document, numbering the documents,
formatting, getting the document submission ready
Writing clinical summaries /efficacy and safety
summaries and overviews as a part of the dossier
Preparing the trial master file and maintain it.
Drafting and submitting regulatory responses.
Inspection readiness
Checking the document once the dossier is submitted
for any future regulatory inspection
Mar 2000 - 2006 Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd,- Ahmedabad (CRO)
Clinical Research
Clinical Custodian - Been a custodian to the patients,
maintained patients records like, case reports, lab
reports, treatment records, discharge summaries etc.
Quality control - Set up the quality control team.
Performed quality control of various documents such as
patients safety records, patients in house records,
case reports, protocols, narratives, medical records,
laboratory reports etc.
Audits: Been a part of various regulatory audits such
as US FDA, French, ANVISA, MHRA, WHO. Faced the audit
with the principal investigator and the team.
External Audits- Been a part of the external audit
team for preparing the individual departments for
inspection readiness. Audited all sort of
documentation present for the trials such as training
records, training logs, patient records, regulatory
related documents. Experience of monitoring clinical
trials as part of sponsor delegated responsibility.
Training - Involved in training activities starting of
identifying training needs, developing training
material, organizing training programmes and
conducting training programmes. Topics covered in
training included; basic clinical research, ICH
guidelines, audits, medical writing, quality controls,
monitoring in clinical trials, history of GCP etc.
Have set up a training unit in Poland facility (branch
office).
Maintaining Trial Master file
Project Management and Client interface - Day to day
interaction with clients, client audits, due diligence
etc.
SOPs- Identified requirement of SOPs and developed
SOPS
Educational Qualification
Education Year: : 1996 - University: Gujarat university
1998
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Education Year 2006 -2007 Bharathiya Vidya Bhavans University,
Ahmedabad
Diploma - Diploma in journalism
Languages English, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati
Known
Visa Status - Green card (permanent resident)
Available - Immediately
Reference upon request - Dr. Mohan Bangalore (abn4i3@r.postjobfree.com)