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Andrea obtained her Doctor of Medicine (MD) qualification in Switzerland and has more than 20 years’ experience in clinical development and medical marketing within the pharmaceutical industry (Roche, Actelion, Janssen).

 

Her experience includes global clinical development, and she has held senior leadership positions at Actelion/Janssen in both China and ANZ.

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Prior to establishing ADMIRUS, she held positions in global R&D (Switzerland) as clinical trial physician (phase I-IV) and in medical affairs in positions of increasing responsibility. After a number of years in Medical Advisory roles for Actelion ANZ, she became the Medical Director/Head Medical Affairs in China for 2 years, before returning to Australia to become Head of Medical Affairs in ANZ and support the integration of Actelion into Janssen following its acquisition. She has extensive experience in rare/orphan diseases, pre launch strategy setting and has successfully launched several new drugs both in China and in ANZ. Andrea has developed and lead small to large medical affairs teams in challenging and ever changing environments and is experienced in all day to day medical affairs tasks. She particularly enjoys project work requiring a hands-on approach.

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Andrea is a highly motivated, commercially oriented, and collaborative leader. A people leader demonstrating strong interpersonal and leadership skills internally and externally with proven track record to deliver commercial outcomes with medical competency. An open communicator and team player delivering high quality work and consistently meeting deadlines.