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Kirtida Pandya
Kirtida Pandya holds the position of Executive Director and Head of Medical Services and Operations within the Sandoz US Policy, Medical and External Engagement team. In this role, she has proactively facilitated the growth and transformation of this team. She has built and led a best in-class medical affairs organization with oversight of Operations, Program Management, Medical information/Communications, Training and Compliance, Material Approval Process, and Grants/IIT functions. Prior to joining Sandoz, she had been at Novartis for almost 8 years and was responsible for laying the medical communications foundation for Cosentyx, where she led the strategic planning and implementation of the medical plans, scientific support for continuing medical education, medical communications, and medical expert engagement activities for Cosentyx.
Kirtida has a strong medical background with expertise in several therapeutic areas and supporting products at various stages in their lifecycle. These skills have been honed based on her extensive experiences from both sides of the fence, i.e., working with pharmaceutical industry and medical communications agencies. In a previous role, she also led a strategic publication planning group and has held various other positions such as retail pharmacist, drug information specialist, and medical writer.
Kirtida graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelors and a Doctorate degree in Pharmacy, as well as Masters in Healthcare Management. She is a Certified Medical Publication Professional and demonstrated her commitment to enhancing medical publications and communications through her involvement as a volunteer across several committees within International Society of Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP). She has been a panelist at the Publication Planning Forum of CBI in 2010 in the “Best Practices for Communication with Authors outside Your Organization” session and has hosted sessions and taught several workshops at the ISMPP annual meetings. Most recently, she co‐led a workshop on “Understanding the Value of and Mastering Medical Affairs Strategic Planning” at the 2019 MAPS Annual meeting.
Yao Li
Yao Li, M.D. and MSc., the Head of Medical Affairs and Pharmacovigilance at Bayer Healthcare China including Hong Kong. In this role, she directs the Medical Affairs, Medical Science Liaisons, Medical Communications, Scientific Operations, Medical Compliance, Patient Support and Disease Management Programs, Health Economics and Outcome Research and Pharmacovigilance.
Prior to this position, Yao has more than 15 years of experience in Medical Affairs with progressively increasing responsibilities across multiple therapeutic areas. She held positions in different therapeutic areas including Cardiovascular, Metabolism, Oncology, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Anti-infection and Hemophilia at Xi’an-Janssen, Novartis, Bayer China and Bayer US. She received her medical education at Capital Medical University and Peking Union Medical College.
Zig Lang
Dr. Lang is the Vice President and Head of International Medical Affairs and Oncology Clinical Development Asia-Pacific at Gilead Sciences. In this role, Zig oversees the Medical Affairs teams in countries and regions outsides of the US and Europe. He also leads the Oncology Clinical Development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to coming to Gilead Sciences, Zig worked in Bayer’s Global Medical Affairs and Pharmacovigilance in the US and China. Zig has over 23 years of pharmaceutical industry experiences ranging from early and late stage clinical development to medical affairs. Zig held positions with increasing responsibilities at Bayer, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Johnson and Johnson, Wyeth and Novo Nordisk. Zig is a board-certified oncologist and hematologist in the US. He received his medical education at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an and PhD in Biochemistry at Rush University in Chicago.
