GAURI UTTURKAR, Patient Safety Physician, UCB

•   Gauri Utturkar has more than 13 years of pharma industry experience, starting her career with a CRO and now having an extensive patient safety experience within innovator and generic pharma.

•   A medical graduate by education, she started her work in early patient safety activities in clinical trials and gradually moved on to pharmacovigilance in one of leading generic pharma companies where in she worked on early and late patient safety activities.

•   She also worked as deputy EU QPPV and UK QPPV in this company before moving on to innovator pharma space.

•   She is currently working as Associate director, Patient Safety in the role of safety physician for one of the leading products at UCB Pharmaceuticals.