The IndiPharm Newswire
IndiPharm Appoints New Head of Pharmacovigilance: Providing Comprehensive Pharmacovigilance Services in India
Wayne, PA, USA and Mumbai, India– December 1, 2011-- IndiPharm has appointed Angela Pitwood, as VP of Pharmacovigilance at its corporate headquarters in Wayne, PA. In this new position, Ms. Pitwood will be responsible for all global Pharmacovigilance and Medical Call Center activities of IndiPharm. These activities include Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR) processing from all sources including clinical trials and spontaneous reports. receipt and book-in, triage, MedDRA and WhoDRUG coding, narrative writing, case assessment, litigation cases, quality control, medical review, as well as regulatory, co-licensing and other manufacturer reporting. She will be based at IndiPharm’s US headquarters offices in Wayne, PA, and direct all pharmacovigilance services in both the US and India.
Ms. Pitwood previously worked as an executive in pharmacovigilance at Pfizer Inc., where she held roles of increasing responsibility culminating in Vice President of Drug Safety & Surveillance; she was responsible for all aspects of individual case safety reports including the collection, collation, assessment, medical review and submission. Her role included leadership of twelve therapeutically aligned teams, the definition of strategies for process efficiencies and resource management.
James A. Bannon, IndiPharm’s Chairman of the Board said, “We are very excited to expand our management team with a proven industry leader to direct and grow our Pharmacovigilance business. Over her 20 year career, Ms Pitwood has had management and leadership responsibilities for more than 350 people, distributed across centers in the US, Europe and Asia, processing more than 200,000 adverse events annually”.
Ms. Pitwood has over twenty years of pharmaceutical industry experience, managing clinical development projects and global pharmacovigilance activities for products including drugs, devices and vaccines across multiple therapeutic areas.
During her career, Ms. Pitwood has served in clinical development and managed post-marketing studies on cardiovascular products in addition to her work in local and global pharmacovigilance. She has worked for contract research organizations, as well as several pharmaceutical organizations. She has most recently worked as a consultant providing pharmacovigilance expertise, project management and researching and training on new regulatory guideline changes.
IndiPharm is a U.S. based clinical research organization providing western pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies a full range of clinical trial services through its network of qualified physicians and scientists located in India, enabling those companies to conduct registration quality clinical trials quicker and at a lower cost than in the United States and other Western countries.
For more information, contact:
David Cass
Director of Sales and Marketing
IndiPharm, Inc
Chesterbrook Corporate Center
701 Lee Rd, Suite 210, Wayne, PA
19087, USA
Phone +1-610-230-0150
info@indipharm.com