Tugce Ulusoy, Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist EMA MPS

Tugce Ulusoy

Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist EMA MPS

BD

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Industrial Engineering
Experience
13 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 4 Months

Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist EMA MPS at BD
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2016
Regulatory Affairs Specialist - Middle East Others & North Africa at BD
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2014

Currently responsible for pre-market and post-market regulatory activities for all business units in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq. Key responsibilities are:

-Maintaining pre-market submissions and ensuring that the latest data is available in the registration system
-Ensuring validity of licenses for Sales & Service operations (EC, Free Sales Certification, ISO 13485)
-Coordinating the communication between distributors and business regulatory stakeholders
-Analyzing and communicating changes, country regulations and future expectations to all stakeholders and implementing strategies
-Supporting custom clearance operations, coordinating submissions and tracking import permissions
-Partnering with business regulatory stakeholders to ensure all requirements for country submissions are met
-File and maintain regulatory deliverables

Regulatory Affairs Specialist - Turkey at BD
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • January 2012 to April 2014

Maintaining pre-market and post-market regulatory activities for all business units in Turkey;
-Maintaining pre-market submissions and ensuring that the latest data is available in the registration system
-Maintaining post-market reportings to Turkish MoH, communicating post-market actions to customers and communicating the file closure to European Regulatory Stakeholders within BD
-Auditing third party suppliers from regulatory perspective, such as distributors' warehouses and logistics partners' warehouses
-Analyzing and communicating changes, country regulations and future expectations to all stakeholders and implementing strategies
-Partnering with business regulatory stakeholders to ensure all requirements for country submissions are met

Regulatory Affairs Intern at GE Healthcare
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • January 2011 to January 2012

Maintaining Pre Market regulatory processes of medical devices for TCA region:

• File and maintain regulatory deliverables
• Analyze and communicate changes and proposed changes to country regulations through Regulatory Intelligence and implement strategies
• Support regulatory inspections as required
• Support regulatory compliance and optimization of quality system procedures relating to new product registration submissions and postmarket reporting through the development, maintenance and improvement of documented processes.
• Create regulatory compliance / project plan with Product RA to ensure all requirements are met for country submissions and liaise with relevant personnel to ensure appropriate, timely input is provided for submissions
• Communicate with Product RA to establish regulatory requirements
• Complete specific country testing and work with Product RA; arrange for test devices and support as needed.
• Partner with Product RA to review advertising and promotion materials for country or regional compliance and approve these as required.
• Act as liaison with external regulatory reviewers to gain rapid approval of submissions.
• Work with Product RA for countries with license expiration requirements; establish plan and deliverables for timely submission for renewal of license

Education

Master's degree, Industrial Engineering
  • at Bogazici (Bosphorus) University
  • June 2016

Had to freeze the program due to moving to Dubai

Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineer
  • at Istanbul Technical University
  • June 2010
High school or equivalent, Science & Math
  • at Nisantasi Anatolian High School
  • June 2005

Specialties & Skills

Post Market Regulations
European MD & IVD Regulations
Medical Devices
Regulatory Affairs
Microsoft Office
Regulatory

Languages

English
Expert
Turkish
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
French
Beginner

Memberships

MECOMED
  • Member of Regulatory Affairs Committee
  • January 2012

Training and Certifications

In Vitro Medical Device Directives (Training)
Training Institute:
Management Forum
Date Attended:
June 2013
Duration:
18 hours
An Introduction to Medical Device Directives (Training)
Training Institute:
Management Forum
Date Attended:
March 2012
Duration:
18 hours

Hobbies

  • Latin Dances & Tango
  • Volleyball
    Licensed player in high school, team captain of college faculty volleyball team, head of volleyball student club in college.