DR KIRTHY VENKATESAN, Lead Medical Reviewer

DR KIRTHY VENKATESAN

Lead Medical Reviewer

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Location
India - Pune
Education
Bachelor's degree, MBBS
Experience
14 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 11 Months

Lead Medical Reviewer at COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
  • India - Pune
  • My current job since April 2018

Medical review of ICSRs, solving of queries regarding MedDra coding, labeling and narrative of ICSRs, keeping track of updates of drug and cascading to drug safety etc.,

Global Safety Pharmacovigilance Physician at INVENTIV HEALTH CLINICAL PUNE-INDIA
  • India - Pune
  • August 2016 to April 2018

Medical Review of adverse events related to investigational and marketed products.
Ensure that appropriate medical interpretation and consistency are applied to adverse event assessment.
Ensure regulatory compliance with respect to the evaluation, reporting and surveillance of safety information.
Identify, communicate and effectively manage potential safety issues.
Interact with clients’ safety/medical personnel as appropriate to ensure above.
Maintain a working knowledge of projects in the functional area for which inVentiv Health Clinical Safety is responsible for safety reporting.
Stay abreast of clinical and drug development information relevant to contracted programs by review of literature and by maintaining training.
Serve as a mentor for other clinical safety staff including case processing staff.

Drug Safety Physician (Medical Safety Operations) at SCIFORMIX. PUNE-INDIA
  • India - Pune
  • December 2015 to August 2016

Underwent training for two projects - ICSR spontaneous cases and literature cases. Awaited project allotment.

MEDICAL REVIEW ANALYST at SEHA - GLOBEMED
  • Qatar - Doha
  • December 2014 to May 2015

I am serving notice period after resignation at Seha-Globemed, as a "Medical Review Analyst" in the "Medical Review" department handling inpatient and outpatient medical file review, medical review and prior authorization.

DOCTOR at NextCare Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • August 2014 to November 2014

I have worked at NextCare (TPA) as a Doctor - Medical coordinator for medical claims adjudication and processing for Qatar branch and as network officer interacting with the Qatar providers & payers.

Consultant - Medical at TRIVENT SYSTEMS PVT LTD. INDIA
  • India - Chennai
  • March 2012 to August 2012

I have worked as a Medical content developer in Trivent Global Solutions, Chennai (USA based MNC) in the medico-legal department. My job involved providing the medical content for the medical litigator tool thus helping the lawyers to understand the medical issues underlying his/her client's medical malpractices or negligence.

Senior Process Associate in the Life Insurance Sector at PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP. INDIA
  • India - Pune
  • May 2008 to July 2009

I have worked as a "Senior Process Associate" in the medical underwriting field in the life insurance sector of "Principal Financial Group" Pune (USA based MNC, head office at Des Moines). I have been trained in medical underwriting and ECG reading by the US delegates of Principal Global Services. My job involved reviewing the medical documents such as physician's statements, lab reports, paramedical exams and other related underwriting information, summarizing it, analyzing and abstracting the critical medical information which could affect the decision making in rendering life insurance.

Medical Resident Doctor at MEENAKSHI MEDICAL COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE. INDIA
  • India - Chennai
  • March 2003 to March 2003

Full time Resident doctor in the hospital, attend all Emergency cases, Outpatients and Inpatients

Resident Doctor in Ophthamology at MANIPAL HOSPITAL INDIA
  • India - Bengaluru
  • July 2002 to September 2002

Resident doctor in ophthalmology department.
Assist ophthalmic surgical procedures, attend the Outpatient department and the In patients follow up.

Resident Doctor in Cardiology at NM WADIA INSTITUTE OF CARDIOGY & RESEARCH
  • India - Pune
  • July 2000 to December 2001

Resident doctor in the Coronary Intensive Care Unit and Inpatient unit.
Attend the Emergency cases in Cardiology, Follow up post cardiac surgery, post coronary angioplasty patients.

Resident Doctor in Medicine and ICU at RUBY HALL CLINIC. INDIA
  • India - Pune
  • February 2000 to June 2000

Attend patients in the Intensive Care Unit and Inpatient department.

Resident Doctor in Emergency and Inpatient departments at JEHANGIR HOSPITAL INDIA
  • India - Pune
  • July 1999 to January 2000

Attend all patients in the Emergency department and Inpatient care and follow up.

Doctor - Intern (Rural) at Primary Health Centre. Moshi
  • India - Pune
  • December 1998 to June 1999

Medical officer in the primary health center during rural internship

Doctor - Intern (Urban) at Sassoon General Hospital
  • India - Pune
  • June 1998 to November 1998

Work in Medical, Surgical, Gynecological and Casualty departments during urban internship

Education

Bachelor's degree, MBBS
  • at B.J. MEDICAL COLLEGE. PUNE
  • April 1998

Specialties & Skills

Hospitals
Clinical Knowledge
Health Insurance
Healthcare
Medical Writing
Experienced Doctor, having clinical & non clinical experience about 10 years.

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Human Resources Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
Nadia Institute, Abu Dhabi
Date Attended:
November 2007
Duration:
45 hours
(Training)
Medical Underwriting & ECG interpretation by the Executive team from USA. (Training)
Training Institute:
Principal Financial Group (an USA based MNC organization).
Date Attended:
May 2008
Consultant in Content Development for medical litigation supports for Medical Legal Co. (Training)
Training Institute:
Trivent Systems (Medico legal company based in USA)
Date Attended:
March 2012

Hobbies

  • Reading and medical research