Nalini Nathan

Developing the medical affairs strategy for large gene delivery clinical-stage ophthalmology programmes in rare disease. Facilitating collaboration with vital stakeholders including healthcare professionals, patient organizations, and industry partners in ophthalmology. Coordinating and integrating medical affairs strategies into clinical development, regulatory affairs, marketing, and commercialization efforts. Leading the development of scientific publications, abstracts, and presentations to disseminate clinical data and research findings.

Strategic consultancy, medical affairs training materials, proposal development, medical writing

Translated overarching brand strategies to create and deliver comprehensive global scientific communication tactical plans, supporting countries and regions to enhance engagement with their key stakeholders for successful gene therapy launches in rare disease and ophthalmology. ● Established an early feedback loop with countries to continuously evolve the global plan on a quarterly basis to address evidence needs gaps and ensure relevance and effectiveness of activities for the countries and functions. ● Co-designed an innovative digital platform to facilitate knowledge sharing amongst medical experts in rare disease, resulting in more than 200 registered medical professionals across 40 countries and live quarterly webinars since global launch. ● Coordinated and led cross-functional global teams for annual global medical congress planning. ● Led internal medical writing teams, digital technology teams and external vendors to rollout pre-congress and omnichannel engagement communications to help increase HCP attendance at events. ● Collaborated closely with medical writing teams to streamline workflows and lead process improvements in publication excellence. Shared best practice examples, including simplified global scientific communication plans and patient engagement activities with other therapy area sci comms teams. ● Co-ordinated with clinical teams to create medical training modules for three early clinical development programs in ophthalmology for internal stakeholders. ● Engaged with country and regional medical teams plus global functions to leverage data-driven insights to drive and evolve tactics for sponsorship, publications and CME-accredited webinars, to ensure high impact outcomes for physicians, patients and payors in the burgeoning area of gene therapy. ● Managed and tracked the annual global medical affairs financial plan for the brand while managing resource allocation for individual project budgets.

Coordinated external and internal project teams for the seamless execution of medical affairs and clinical development activities, including investigator meetings, data monitoring committees and advisory boards, while adhering to strict timelines. ● Translated the business requirements from internal stakeholders to develop an actionable project scope with milestones. Project managed multiple complex deliverables within the defined budget and evaluated project performance on completion, incorporating lessons learned into future deliverables. ● Collaborated in several workstreams to improve and streamline internal processes. Led the development of an SOP and WPs in Medical Communications for Global Business Services to reduce the onboarding time for new team members.

Established the healthcare division, PSG Health for the largest Irish-owned PR agency PSG Communications (now Teneo). ● Introduced and retained more than ten new pharma / healthcare clients in the first 6 months for the business working in collaboration with government affairs and corporate affairs teams. ● Provided strategic leadership and direction for project teams and accountable for the business performance and results of key healthcare accounts.

Created and executed high-impact PR campaigns across diverse therapeutic areas, including oncology and auto-immune diseases. Collaborated with patient groups to develop disease awareness campaigns among target demographics. Distilled complex medical messages into interpretable results for corporate, internal and scientific audiences. Lead multi-disciplinary teams for the execution of projects, managing the project scope, budget and timelines.

Development of full-scale public relations programmes, new product launches, disease awareness programmes, medical education tactics, stakeholder engagement programmes, organising medical events, roundtable meetings/advisory boards and press conferences Stakeholder engagement: Identified and developed strong relationships with key stakeholders, patient associations and key medical opinion leaders across a number of therapeutic areas Media management: strategic communications to media stakeholders, press releases, issue to key media and liaison with journalists and KOLs. Strategy management: Disease and market understanding to develop client brand insights. Generation of creative ideas for PR/marketing campaigns Project management: Management of projects from concept to execution. Copywriting: Included medical/consumer press releases from clinical data, medical meeting reports, media briefing documents, ads, editing of medical reports.