Experienced Global Head of Medical Affairs with a demonstrated history of working at the top level in the Clinical Diagnostics industry. Skilled in Molecular Oncology, Cancer Research, Clinical Diagnostics and Multifunctional Team Management. Strong healthcare services professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused on Vascular Medicine from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg / University of Heidelberg. Board Certified Medical Affairs Specialist.
Pharmaceutical Physician, Healthcare Executive, with strong scientific expertise, business acumen, strategic thinking, financial, soft skills and understanding of the healthcare space and patient journey with extensive experience throughout the pharma value chain including patient care, clinical pharmacology, clinical development, clinical trial execution, global health and medical affairs. My value proposition is to improve patient outcomes and accelerate access to meaningful drugs for serious and rare diseases.
Elmar Orujov, MD brings more than 15 years of experience in both Medical Affairs and Scientific communication/Publication Strategy. A proven leader who can inspire and engage a team of highly skilled and educated professionals nationwide. Direct experience in Medical Affairs positions of increasing complexity and breadth combined with a high level of emotional intelligence and related skills as well as the ability to solve complicated and abstract issues, not only from the logical perspective but holistic perspective.
Extensive experience in Oncology-specific Medical Affairs, including but not limited to experience in Internal diseases. More than 15 years’ experience in development and implementation of strategic and aligned Medical Affairs Plans for the assigned therapeutic area, management of medical affairs and medical writing activities (medical information, publications plan strategy), including the communications between organizations, physicians, KOLs.
Strong strategic, creative and conceptual thinking skills and ability to work with various stakeholders internally and externally. Access to key thought leaders, with a substantial professional network.
25 years+ industry and clinical experience. Significant experience in establishing Medical Affairs departments, compliance & people development. Graduated from medical school in 1984. Internship in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Ob/Gyn, Urology, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Anesthesia and Pediatrics. 3 years as Senior Registrar of Internal Medicine in the Endocrine and Diabetes Unit and ER Department.
Teaching and research experience as a lecturer, then Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology/Diabetes at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Then in 1995, joined industry Eli Lilly as Head of Medical Department establishing and initiating clinical trials and adding resources to develop the medical function. In 1998, joined Wyeth as Regional Medical Director, establishing a department of 17 (13 medics and 4 clinical operations). Then, became Area Medical Officer responsible for Medical, Clinical and Pharmacovigilance in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. Reports to the Vice President, Managing Director - Middle East, VP, Chief Medical Officer, Global Medical Affairs - EMEA and VP, CR&D European Research Organization (ERO).
Following the acquisition of Wyeth by Pfizer early 2001, was appointed Regional Head, Medical & Clinical Affairs for Pfizer AfME region (approx. 70 countries), reporting to the Head of Medical Affairs in NY but also a member of the AfME leader ship team working closely with the Regional President & leadership team on key strategic matters and managing the region. Moved to NewBridge Pharmaceuticals as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) responsible for Medical Affairs, compliance, Pharmacovigilance, QA & Medical Information, leading a team of 12. Is a member of NBP Leadership team and involved in business development initiatives.
Based in London, Sameer was the board-level Medical Director Johnson & Johnson’s UK & Ireland Medical Devices business. He has medical responsibility for the broad J&J Medical Devices portfolio, including DePuy Synthes (orthopaedics), Ethicon (general surgery) and Biosense Webster (cardiology) business units. Outside of J&J, Sameer is the founding Chair of the Medical & Clinical Forum at the ABHI, the industry trade association representing UK medical devices companies, and is a mentor for the NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.
Prior to this role, Sameer was Regional Medical Director for DePuy Synthes Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), the orthopaedics and trauma division of Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Devices group. In this role he helped to build the medical function for DePuy Synthes in EMEA.
Sameer joined J&J in 2005, and prior to his roles in the medical devices sector, he held various medical affairs and clinical research positions at Janssen, J&J’s pharmaceutical division. During his time at Janssen, Sameer had medical responsibility for a wide variety of therapy areas, including psychiatry, neurology, infectious diseases and immunology. In 2012 Sameer was seconded to the UK Department of Health for 9 months, where his role was to help implement policy to improve patient access to innovative new medical devices and medicines.
Sameer graduated in history and medicine from the University of Manchester, and originally trained as a junior doctor in surgery, gaining experience in a variety of specialties. During this time Sameer also qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.
Merrell is currently the Regional Medical Head for Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at Abbott laboratories. After practicing in clinical settings in hospitals in the US and Singapore over the past decade, Merrell decided to pursue his passion of improving patient care through a different route– the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.
Merrell firmly believes that the role as a medical science liaison or medical advisor is an ideal opportunity and avenue for clinicians and scientists, who also have a strong interest in the business side of healthcare, to contribute towards improving patient care. In addition, he strongly believes in giving back to the society by sharing his knowledge and insights about the medical affairs field within the pharmaceutical and medical device industry; Especially for those interested in making a career switch from the laboratory or clinical settings to the more business-oriented pharmaceutical or medical device industry, without giving up the passion in science.
Through his experience and work in medical affairs within the pharmaceutical industry (e.g. AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Abbott) and medical device/assay industries (e.g. The Binding Site- Medical Device and Immunoassays), Merrell has the opportunity to work internationally with many leading hospital physicians from multiple disciplines, bright business-minded marketers and sales executives, as well as research scientists around the Asia Pacific region.
Merrell is a trained clinical pharmacist and is a certified clinical research professional and a board certified medical affairs specialist. He holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Midwestern University and a Graduate Certificate in Health-Systems Management from the Indiana University School of Medicine, USA.
Born in Beirut (Libanon) on 13rd March of 1975, Antoine Daher is a Brazilian businessman who dedicate his life to the Rare Diseases' cause. He speaks Arabic, French, English and Portuguese and has a Master in Political and Administrative Science with an extension in Political Science.
Following the acquisition of Wyeth by Pfizer early 2001, was appointed Regional Head, Medical & Clinical Affairs for Pfizer AfME region (approx. 70 countries), reporting to the Head of Medical Affairs in NY but also a member of the AfME leader ship team working closely with the Regional President & leadership team on key strategic matters and managing the region. Moved to NewBridge Pharmaceuticals as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) responsible for Medical Affairs, compliance, Pharmacovigilance, QA & Medical Information, leading a team of 12. Is a member of NBP Leadership team and involved in business development initiatives.
Dr. Ashok Srivastava's extensive biotech experience includes the current role of Chief Medical Officer, Senior Vice President Immuno-Oncology, Medical Oncology and Hematology Drug Development, Medical Affairs, and Pharmacovigilance for CliniFomatrix. He is also the current Medical Advisor-Vice President: Medical Affairs for Taiho Oncology Inc. Previously Dr. Srivastava was the Vice President of Oncology Drug Development, Medical Affairs, and Clinical Operations for Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, as well as the Executive Medical Director for the Global Oncology Business Unit, Lead Oncology, Global Medical Affairs Oncology for Eisai, Inc. He has more than 15 years of experience in drug development, medical affairs and commercialization of cancer drugs including radiopharmaceutical and supportive care; Phase I – 4, and marketing commercialization of Hematology, Oncology and radio-immuno-oncology drugs in the USA, EU and Japan. He is a pioneer in cancer drug development worldwide for large and complex Phase 3 Clinical Trials.
Dr. Srivastava's notable achievements include contributions to 21-IND (Investigational New Drug) filings and 7-NDA (New Drug Application) filings, with all IND's and NDA's being exclusively for cancer drugs. He was also a pivotal player in the acquisition and merger of a biotech drug organization by Daiichi-Sankyo Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Srivastava is one of the inventors of the Japanese encephalitis vaccine (IXIARO). He has published more than 85 papers in National and International Journals, holds more than 120 abstracts, 3 book chapters and 2 patents. He also served as the medical advisor for Poniard Pharmaceutical for small cell lung cancer and Taiho Oncology in USA, EU, and India. Dr. Srivastava is member of numerous prestigious organizations; America's Top Oncologist 2017, Breast Cancer Foundation, Indian Society of Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society for Therapeutic Radiology & Oncology, American Association of Cancer Research, and International Society of Lung Cancer.
Dr. Massey has 25 years of medical affairs experience in the commercialization and life-cycle management of pharmaceutical products across multiple therapeutic areas including cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases, neuroscience, pain management, women’s health, psychiatric disorders, and peri-operative care. She is recognized for her expertise in strategic planning, leadership development, collaborative partnerships, and effective business integrations across multiple business functions. Throughout her career, Jill has focused on creating value-based medical affairs solutions through high performing teams and external alliances.
In her previous role as senior vice president of medical affairs at Melinta Therapeutics, Inc., Jill was responsible for promoting responsible and sustainable use of Melinta’s antibiotics through data generation and dissemination, developing external strategic alliances with professional organizations and societies, trade associations, and government organizations to promulgate Melinta’s mission and objectives, and demonstrating best in class Medical Affairs performance. She has led the strategic development and outcomes measurement of the Melinta Antimicrobial Resistance Program (AMR) and the Medical Affairs organization as a member of the Senior Management Team.
Prior to joining Melinta, Dr. Massey served as senior vice president of Global Health Science for The Medicines Company where she led the company’s medical initiatives supporting Infectious Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases and Surgery and Perioperative Care. Earlier, she held several senior positions at Johnson & Johnson, most recently as vice president of scientific affairs for Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies where she was responsible for all US field based medical teams, medical information, independent medical education, promotional review, scientific content strategy and digital medical engagement (JanssenMD), US call center, and scientific business merger and acquisitions. It was during her tenure at Janssen that Jill formed a strategic alliance with Drexel University LeBow College of Business to develop an executive MBA program for scientific professionals. Before joining Janssen, Dr. Massey held several positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company where she led the neuroscience and infectious diseases medical teams.
Jill earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and her MBA from Drexel University. She completed her residency at Mercer University School of Pharmacy and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She joined the faculty of the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy and served as the Director of Geriatric Pharmacy Practice at the Program on Aging at Washington University School of Medicine while maintaining a clinical practice at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis until she started her pharmaceutical industry career.
Hedley Rees is a passionate advocate of modernization in the drug industry - not tampering at the edges, rather advancing wholesale reform based on high- performing new product development methods and 21st century production systems.
Hedley is also author of Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics, J Wiley & Sons, NJ 2011. This was Hedley’s first book, and it has sold in over 70 countries. More recently, Taming the Big Pharma Monster was published (May 2019), an easy to read account of the massive systems failure in the industry, and how to go about raising standards through education to reverse the decline.
Dr. John Mikhail is a trained pulmonary & critical care physician. His role at the ACMA is to provide medical advisory services. He also assists the ACMA in bridging the gap between the needs of the medical community and the overall mission of the ACMA. He also provides important oversight of the BCMAS program ensuring that it is up to date and continuously improved to meet the needs of medical affairs professionals who partner with academic centers of excellence. He earned his BA in Psychology from Rutgers University and his MD from Ross University School of Medicine.
Sam Rasty is an associate professor of Clinical & Administrative Sciences at the California Northstate University College of Pharmacy (CNUCOP). He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Ferris State University. After graduation, Dr. Rasty completed a Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy Fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. Dr. Rasty was the clinical coordinator in cardiac and medical intensive care unit at Advocate Christ Medical Center and since 2004 has held various academic, and pharmaceutical industry positions in Medical and Regulatory affairs prior to joining CNUCOP. Most recently Dr. Rasty completed a Master’s degree in public health with a focus in epidemiology. Dr. Rasty’s research primarily focuses on patient health outcomes in cardiovascular pharmacotherapy.
Dr. Kanmaz has served on the faculty at St. John's University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences since 1996 with an interim three-year appointment as an HIV Clinical Science Manager at Abbott Laboratories. During her time at Abbott, she served as the HIV clinical expert for the 5 boroughs of New York, attended national and international HIV/AIDS conferences, developed and presented post-conference educational slide decks, collaborated on phase IV investigator-initiated studies, developed key opinion leaders, participated in regional advisory board meetings, and supported the sales and marketing teams.
She is currently the Assistant Dean for Experiential Pharmacy Education and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Health Professions. She has received several grants directed toward the care of patients with HIV/AIDS and disadvantaged persons in high poverty situations. She is certified as an American Academy of HIV Medicine HIV Expert as well as a certified Smoking Cessation Counselor. Dr. Kanmaz is also an active member of several committees within the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy10, Experiential Education Special Interest Group.
Dr. Mehul Patel has more than 11 years of experience within the pharmaceutical and medical communications industry. He is currently employed as a Medical Director of Global Medical Affairs at AbbVie, providing medical leadership for the cardiovascular, metabolic and psychiatry portfolio. Responsibilities include developing aligned global medical strategic plans and providing medical input into tactical activities within these therapeutic areas. He as has authored multiple publications and has conducted numerous live CME and non CME lectures. In addition to his current role, Mehul gained his medical affairs/communications experience at PDL BioPharma and at Embryon Inc.. In addition, he spent five years working as a clinical program lead at Biogen Idec where his responsibilities included constructing strategic clinical development plans for drug candidates in the cardiovascular, CNS and immunology therapeutic areas.
Dr. Patel received his doctorate in pharmacy at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy (Rutgers University).
Dr. Mehal is currently Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), Director of Yale Weight Loss Program and liver transplantation center. He is Board Certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine. He has well over 75 publications including book chapters focused in hepatology. He is well regarded in the area of hepatology and has played an important role leading the discussion on the therapeutic landscape of weight management. This area has changed with the introduction of new and well tested weight loss medications, and the intra-gastric balloons. The weight loss program Dr. Mehal oversees brings all non-surgical weight loss components into a single place and include lifestyle/dietary interventions, psychological (Mindfulness training), medications, meal replacement (Optifast) and endoscopic approaches (gastric balloon). This Program also has links to specialty clinics such a diabetes, sleep apnea, hepatology, and has a dedicated EPIC department with outcomes tracker capacity so that outcomes can be quantified and associated with different management decisions. Dr. Mehal received his MD, DPhil, and BA from the University of Oxford.
In his current role, Dr. Mehal plays a critical role in helping the field of hepatology evolve in the areas of HIV, weight loss and liver transplant.
Marianne Kenny, PharmD is a senior level medical affairs executive in the pharmaceutical industry with over 27 years of experience. She has had extensive experience leading global processes and technology initiatives within the medical information, promotion review, publication planning, knowledge management, grants and investigator-initiated trials, integrating and streamlining these functions each time a new company was acquired. Marianne is an accomplished leader with a track record of building corporate value and leveraging strong industry acumen. She has expertise in assembling high-performance teams and providing the leadership and guidance that meets synergy targets and continuing functionality of medical departments under corporate integrity agreements. She has worked with several organizations including Grunenthal Pharmaceuticals, Watson, Actavis, and Allergan Pharmaceuticals as Vice President of Global Medical Communications and Professional Affairs. Currently she is with Bayer in Medical Affairs. She holds a Doctor or Pharmacy degree from the University of the Sciences.
There is a relatively small segment of leaders in the business world; individuals with leadership and the ability to leverage their knowledge and education to achieve aggressive goals while building trust and relationships and rapport and motivating forward momentum to achieve goals.
Jim Berlanti, MD is one of those professionals, who throughout his career possess a proven record of success driving results through collaboration, partnerships, and relationships as both an Internist with his peers and a Medical Strategist in the healthcare industry. With enthusiasm Jim radiates a sincere passion for delivering value and benefits to agencies, clients and business units.
As the Chief Medical Officer for one of the world’s largest healthcare agencies, Jim created and led a scientific team and a global network of expert advisors, which consistently identified untapped opportunities through market analysis and led to the success of numerous category leaders including Crestor, Enbrel, Seroquel, Prilosec/Nexium and Ambien. Jim’s role was expanded to uncover insights across brands and agencies, worldwide, for the worlds largest healthcare communications network Publicis Healthcare. He was part of the global new business team G7.
He was part of the Saatchi/Pharmacia team that was instrumental in working with FDA and KOLs redefining a category, OAB, for Detrol, when Detrol did not meet it’s primary endpoint.. OAB was created specifically as a consumer driven term. OAB developed into a multi-billion dollar category.
In 2008, Saatchi and Saatchi were named “Agency of the Year”. As part of the Saatchi management team he also was part of the global new business team. Jim devoted 60-70 % of his time to new business pitches across all promotional venues. In 2009 Saatchi won 29 new business pitches.
Jim’s expertise and experience across virtually every therapeutic category is current as are the insights he has, he has the ability to see the commercial opportunity within evolving market dynamics, and he has an unmatched network of experts who will speak to him with more authenticity peer to peer because of their respect for him.
From an Internist’s perspective, Jim brings advanced medical knowledge and insight to the MD audiences, with the documented ability to communicate current and future medical trends, within the physician and pharmaceutical communities. He has expert insights into all the specialties, both at the KOL level, as well as the PCP and the community specialists, by market. He has the ability to speak about the disease states across categories. Jim has built a very large network of key opinion leaders and academic community physicians across many specialties and global marketplaces. He also has a working knowledge of FDA and other regulatory agencies.
Jim joined Havas World Wide in April of 2014 as SVP Medical Director. He worked on a new PCSK9 monoclonal antibody that is coming to market for hyperlipidemia. His other responsibilities included working as an internal consultant across the global network. He went on to work at Noven Pharmaceuticals, Harrison & Star and Ogilvy where he was part of the Agency/Client Xeljanz team, due to his category experience, having launched Enbrel and basically having touched every new entry into that space.
Jim holds a Bachelor of Arts in science from the College of the Holy Cross and a Doctor of Medicine from Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. After completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Elmhurst, Jim served as a staff and faculty member at NYU/Bellevue Hospital Medical Center for two years. He then moved into Advertising.
With many key accomplishments, Jim has more than 27 year of success Agency side supporting customer centric agencies bridging the gap between agencies, physicians and pharmaceutical companies focusing on current and future product trends supported by successful communications assisting agencies in reaching and exceeding their revenue goals.
Julio Casoy has been Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs for Sepracor, Inc. since August 19, 2008. He joined Sepracor from Shire Pharmaceuticals where he served as Senior Vice President of Global Medical Affairs in 2005. Dr. Casoy served as Vice President of Global Medical Affairs, Compliance and Intercontinental Medical Director at Wyeth.
Dr. Casoy received his medical degree from Universidade Federale de Sao Paulo.
Dr. Korner brings extensive medical affairs and clinical development experience to ACMA Advisory Board, having contributed to the FDA approvals and launch of numerous drugs and devices across multiple therapeutic areas.
Dr. Korner has 20 years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience, having served in various leadership positions of increased responsibility with several global companies. He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer at Agile Therapeutics. Prior to Agile, he served as Vice President, Global Medical Strategy & Clinical Development for Sarepta Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of precision genetic medicines to treat rare neuromuscular diseases and Chief Medical Officer for Ardelyx Inc., developing first in class medicines to better the lives of under served patients with GI & renal diseases. Paul also served as President, Ferring International Pharmascience Center U.S. Inc. (FIPCUS) & Senior Vice President, U.S. Development for Ferring Pharmaceuticals where he built and led Ferring's U.S. Clinical Development subsidiary responsible for gastroenterology, reproductive health, orthopedics and urology therapeutic areas and was a member of senior global R & D management. Dr. Korner joined Ferring in 2008 as Vice President, Medical Affairs, responsible for pharmacovigilance, medical information and medical staff supporting Ferring's marketed products.
Prior to joining Ferring, Dr. Korner was Vice President of Medical Affairs, Female Health at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, where his group supported the U.S. business unit and Phase 2 to Phase 4 development projects. He also served as Senior Director of Clinical Research and Development, Women's Health and Musculoskeletal Bone Repair for Wyeth Research and as Director, Medical Affairs - GI and Women's Health for Solvay Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Korner is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist. He received his MD from Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine in Illinois. He also holds an MBA from the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.
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