MANGALA KOTNIS, Former Head Regional Medical Affairs , Abbott

•   Is a health Care consultant with more than 19 years in pharmaceutical industry with cross functional medical leadership Skills, a proactive hands-on approach to medical direction, ability to work productively with diverse set of internal and external stakeholders.
•   She has strong expertise in driving medical advocacy; generation of clinical / real - world evidence and has experience across domestic and international markets has business acumen with local (India) Regional (AMAC) experience.
•   Has lead and managed the Centre of Excellence for Managed Access Programs (MAP COE) within the Global Medical Governance Team; with experience of Setting medical standards and developing internal policies and guidelines according to applicable laws and regulations; to drive global, regional and local implementation of standards for assigned medical programs.
•   She has led cross-functional projects to implement and continuously improve medical standards, processes and systems for Novartis.
•  She has managed all aspects of event execution worked along brand teams from identifying and engaging the right opinion leaders to designing the agenda and optimizing the participant experience and worked on driving advisory boards, symposia, expert forums, global investigator meetings, educational webinars. Present Faculty at Mitcon Consultancy Services for Clinical Research and Medical writing.
•   She has driven continuous function development and implementation of innovative business models, process while focusing on high impact and value for HCPs and their patients;
•   She has Partnered with digital companies to provide new technologies to support field interaction; present advisor to IT company who is creating A1 tool for cancer patients.
•   Provided strategic direction for KPIs, metrics, resource deployment and analytics to demonstrate impact and value of external scientific engagement.
•   She has to her credit 8 international publications and 1 patent and has been active in medical writing, creation of conference posters, literature searches and supporting evidences and preparation of plain language summaries.
•   She has also created content for blogs, social media post and website.
•   She is pharmaceutical physician with medical degree and Phd in Pharm Science with MBA in Entrepreneurship, Pursuing AIML In healthcare course from Sandford Medical School; she is based in Mumbai.