joana monterroso

associate medical director

About

Successful medical information pharmacist with extensive exposure to different therapeutic areas. Accustomed to conducting research and creating medical information responses in compliance with ABPI Code of Practice. Experienced in adverse events and product quality complaints reporting as well as follow-up activities. Strong team player able to work under pressure with impressive interpersonal communication skills and strong cultural awareness gained through European experience (speaks fluent English and Portuguese, with basic French and Spanish). Strongly committed to meet and overcome challenges, has an excellent time-management skills and strive to meet goals and targets within required deadlines. A professional with a strong attention to detail and committed towards the delivery of service excellence.

Country

united kingdom

City

berks

Industry

pharmaceuticals

Skill

pharmacovigilance, pharmaceutical industry, clinical trials, healthcare, clinical research, pharmacology, biochemistry, life sciences, lifesciences, medical writing, regulatory affairs, molecular biology, pharmacists, oncology, pharmacy, validation

Experience

medical manager

biogen

2017-7 - 2019-2 · 1 yr 8 mos

new aproaches for vaccination against leishmania spp - internship

cnrs

2008-4 - 2008-8 · 5 mos

* Lab protocols validation and optimization * Lab animals manipulation * Molecular biology methods (ELISA * electronic cell sorting * cellular viability * isolation and culture cell enrichment * stimulation of cells with Leishmania spp. antigens)

associate medical director

biogen

2019-3 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

principal multilingual medical information scientist

pi arm

2014-7 - 2015-6 · 1 yr

senior multilingual medical information scientist

pi arm

2013-7 - 2014-6 · 1 yr

multilingual medical information scientist

pi arm

2012-5 - 2013-6 · 1 yr 2 mos

Professional Information is a leading Medical Information (MI) service provider. We work with over 85 Pharmaceutical companies, answering questions on their medicines from doctors, pharmacists & nurses. Our role is to provide information from the literature or other sources to healthcare professionals so they can make clinical decisions. We also help patients understand and use their medicines better. Another relevant role of the job is identifying and reporting initial information on spontaneous adverse events and product quality complaints.

pharmacist

community pharmacy

2009-1 - 2012-3 · 3 yrs 3 mos

* Deputy Technical Director * Evaluation, validation and dispensing of prescriptions * Medicines information to patients * Pharmacotherapeutic Monitoring * Dispensing of OTC medicines * Detection and notification of Adverse Drug Reactions * Biochemistry measurements (LDL- cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, total cholesterol, glucose, triglycerides and uric acid levels) * Intramuscular/Subcutaneous vaccines administration * Preparation of prescribed medicines in the laboratory (compounding) * Supervision of technicians and pre-reg pharmacists * Stock monitoring and inventory * Pharmacy invoicing

senior medical affairs associate, pharmd, msc, rph

biogen

2015-6 - 2017-6 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Senior Medical Affairs Associate, PharmD, MSc, RPh at Biogen

Education

universidade do porto

2003-1 - 2008-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Master theses: "Depression and bipolar disease" Activities and Societies: - Initiation to Scientific Research (2006-2008): Imunology (Production and purification of recombinant proteins of Leishmania infantum/ Molecular biology techniques)