Neelima Kosireddi
Email-id: ****************@*****.***; +1-201-***-****
Summary:
• Project status report (including monthly metrics) to project/functional management
• Assessed reportability of ICSRs, based on the project-specific Safety Reporting
Assessment sheet
• Participated in the triage process of incoming adverse event cases, as to ensure timely and
effective assessment and evaluation of cases
• Experience in coding using "MedDRA"
• Coordination with small regional teams of drug safety associates and safety data
coordinators on project level. Drug safety point of contact for study teams on project level.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Drug Safety Associate
DPT laboratories
Lakewood, NJ
Jan 2013 to Present
Responsibilities:
• Document classification of Adverse Drug Event (ADE) reports according to the
following criteria: source, serious and non-serious, data entry priority, initial vs. follow-up
report.
• Perform triage of incoming cases to determine seriousness for prioritization of
daily work flow and performed search for duplicate cases.
• Review each AE/SAE report for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Enter initial and follow-up information for individual AE case reports onto
the Drug Safety database in accordance with the current Data Entry and Process
Instructions and associated SOPs.
• Composition of concise, accurate and well written safety narrative for different
cases.
• Utilize safety databases to log, track, prioritize, and to respond to product
complaints and serious adverse events (SAEs).
• Perform Consistent MedDRA and WHO Drug coding of diseases, adverse events,
and medications using different search options (e.g., like, full, or wild card).
• Self QC (Quality Check/Control) of entire case to see consistency between source
documents, and verify narrative summery and medical coding, before transferring for
Medical Review (MR).
• Create and maintain project-specific working files, case report files and project
central files.
Drug Safety Associate
Gilead
Foster City, CA
June 2011 to Dec 2012
Responsibilities:
• Collected, documented, and processed adverse event (AE) reports from clinical
trials adhering to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Prepared clinical narrative summaries for 'Adverse Event'.
• Performed active follow-up via telephone contact with consumers and healthcare
professionals.
• Ensured timely coverage to Regulatory Authorities and pharmacist.
• Participated in preparing safety reports and maintained clinical databases.
• Perform Medical review of Individual cases safety reports to determine
Relatedness, Causality assessment, case finalization and Reportability.
• Wrote and corrected Narratives for FDA submissions.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration – Health Care Management, Goldey Beacom College,
Wilmington
Bachelor of Dental Surgery
NTR University of Health Sciences,
Andhra Pradesh, India
Skill Set
• Strong medical terminology
• ICD 9 and ICD10
• HIPAA
• HITECH
• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
• ICD-10 implementation
• Health Insurance Exchanges
• Affordable care act
• Claims adjudication process
• EDI
• Health Reforms