

Dr. Ahuja is currently Director, Asia Pacific for Baxter Healthcare. He is based in India and is responsible for driving the strategic direction, implementation and maintenance of a high performing Pharmacovigilance function for Baxter in Asia-Pacific. He has held vario…more ›

Dr. Beninger is Vice President of Global Patient Safety at Genzyme, a Sanofi Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is responsible for maintaining the global safety profile of the company’s cardio-renal and biosurgical device products. He began his career in dru…more ›

Milbhor D’Silva is a transplant and multiorgan procurement surgeon by background. His clinical work was complemented by live animal research using solid organ models of transplantation. His pharmaceutical medicine career spans 14 years. Over this period he has worked wi…more ›

Dr. Sylvia Dobo is a seasoned pharmacovigilance expert with over eight years industry experience. Prior to entering the pharmaceutical safety industry, she practiced full scope primary care while on faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in …more ›

Steven has over 10 years of clinical research and global pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology experience. He’s currently Senior Director of Pharmacoviglance and Pharmacoepidemiology at AMAG Pharmaceuticals, overseeing all aspects of pre and post-marketing global d…more ›

Hoda Eid holds a Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in Canada and a Post-Doctoral fellowship from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She returned to Canada in 1992 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa an…more ›

Dr. Michael Forstner is “Integrated Safety Risk Manager” at F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel. In this role his main duties are to develop and implement processes for the coherent and consistent global management of drug safety risks together with his colleagues at other Ro…more ›

Ronald W. Leong, MD, Executive Director, US Patient Safety, AstraZeneca, has 24 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He has worked at Upjohn, Proctor & Gamble, Wyeth and AstraZeneca, where he has been employed since 2002. His experience includes Cli…more ›

Dr. McCormick is the Vice President of Drug Safety & Disposition with Cephalon, Inc., West Chester, PA and has administrative responsibility for the overall operations of nonclinical toxicology, nonclinical and clinical pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism and bioanaly…more ›

Yola Moride has received degrees in Genetics (MSc) and Pharmacoepidemiology (PhD) from McGill University and has trained as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Pharmacovigilance Centre at the University of Bordeaux (France). Professor Moride has over 18 years of experience i…more ›

Dr. Reinerio A. Deza, currently Head of Pharmacovigilance at Cubist Pharmaceuticals, has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, primarily in Pharmacovigilance (PV) but has also included Medical Affairs. Most recently, Rene was at Merck (Schering-Pl…more ›

Dr. Eleanor Segal (“Ellie”) is a family physician and geriatrician who was a clinician/teacher for over 20 years before joining the pharmaceutical industry (Syntex) in 1991. A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, she is board-certified in family medic…more ›

Rudi Scheerlinck is a certified GP (VUB, Brussels) who holds a Post-graduate Program in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Medicine (ULB, Brussels). During 14 years of pharmacovigilance experience, he has gained experience in a broad area of interests, including signal de…more ›
Come to the World Drug Safety Congress Americas and learn:
• Drug safety considerations specific to biopharmaceutical products
• Implementation of global harmonisation initiatives
• Post-marketing safety surveillance techniques and operations
• Risk minimization and management strategies
• Industry and regulatory view point of pv audits & inspections