Overview:
The Medical Writer Specialist is responsible for preparation of documents that support the presentation and/or publication needs of assigned therapeutic areas and/or medical devices in the Client Strategic Medical Affairs Team for a wide range of audiences.
Key Job Activities:
- Primarily focuses on preparing, writing, editing, and reviewing regulatory (e.g. Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs), clinical data reports or summaries) documents and responses to regulatory authorities (e.g. notified bodies).
- Participates in post-market surveillance activities by conducting routine systematic literature reviews (e.g. screens articles against inclusion/exclusion criteria, extracts data from included studies, interprets study results, synthesizes literature, and prepares summaries into formal reports) for specific medical device groups or sub-groups.
- Performs scientific writing (e.g. abstracts, manuscripts, presentations).
- Organizes and incorporates information for documents, such as references, graphics, tables, and data listings.
- Ensures documents are produced in accordance with procedures, internal and external guidelines (e.g. MEDDEV 2.7.1), and electronic templates.
- Ability to quickly acquire understanding of therapeutic areas, medical device portfolios, business objectives, clinical data/evidence
- Independently, critically writes and edits scientifically complex documents for substantial intellectual content.
- Reviews and provides input on clinical data being considered for presentation and/or publication to ensure alignment with scientific strategies and corporate goals.
- Expert knowledge of clinical research, device/drug development processes, regulatory requirements, good clinical and data management practices.
- Ability to understand and interpret statistical results of clinical studies; specifically summarize complex results and present them in clear, concise, and scientifically accurate manner to various end users.
- Communicates with various departments (e.g. Regulatory, Product Development, Clinical Research, Quality) to identify the necessary clinical and technical information.