Overview

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is responsible for identifying and supporting clinical franchise/disease and diagnostic insight related medical needs. The MSL provides critical support to Quest Medical Affairs (MA) partners, Clinical Franchise leaders and Medical Directors, and other stakeholders in their therapeutic area, to further advance MA tactics in alignment with business strategies. The Women’s and Reproductive Health MSL will focus on clinical areas that include Genital Tract Infections, Cervical Cancer, and Pre/post-natal Care.

Responsibilities

• Engaging with Thought Leaders (TLs), payers, and healthcare providers to discuss the safe and appropriate use of approved diagnostic testing.
  • TLs may include nationally, regionally, and locally recognized scientific and clinical leaders, medical advisors to managed care providers and committees, payers, and HCPs active in addressing patient advocacy issues.
• Collaborating with therapeutic area medical director to support medical tactics that drive clinical franchise priorities.
• Responding to inquiries on current medical and scientific issues, healthcare advances, treatment trends, and health outcomes measures.
• Providing support to research collaborations, including study start, support, publication, and execution.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including researchers, clinicians, and subject matter experts, to gather data for manuscript development.
  • Draft, edit, and revise high-quality scientific and clinical manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Conduct literature reviews and provide context to internal stakeholders for future research and development.

Areas of Competency

• Demonstrate knowledge and experience within the Women’s and Reproductive Health diagnostic and therapeutic areas including genital tract infections, cervical cancer, and pre/post-natal care.
• Understand the diagnostic, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries, including payer strategies and evolving healthcare models.
• Possess the ability to translate diagnostics and therapeutic information and data into high quality medical dialogue.
• Collaborate closely with Medical Directors to develop and execute medical affairs strategies, including white papers, publications, and educational materials.
• Deliver impactful presentations to healthcare decision-makers using compliant and approved materials.
• Identify and train internal teams and contracted speakers in alignment with strategic medical plans.
• Participate in key scientific and medical conferences to serve as medical liaison for Quest Diagnostics at scientific booth (when appropriate), present relevant scientific research, collaborate with Public Relations team on data dissemination, and meet with key TL to identify collaborative opportunities.
• Identify, collect, and communicate insights to address competitive medical information in addition to insights on trends and changes affecting the regulatory and payer environment.
• Support company-initiated trials or other clinical collaborations by interacting with primary investigators, assisting in protocol design, study sight selection, start-up, and monitoring, identification and screenings, and the delivery of disease education using approved resources. MSL also supports data generation activities including participating in reviews of investigator-initiated proposals, publication support, and in general, serving as a liaison to external investigators to facilitate key TL and corporate interactions.
• Must have an established record of high-quality scientific and clinical manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals.
• Assist in identifying potential investigators for research collaborations and facilitate study proposal submissions.
• Facilitate the submission process of investigators’ proposals for research studies, in accordance with Company Policies, and applicable laws, regulations and ethical standards.
• Identify, collect, and communicate insights to address competitive medical information in addition to insights on trends and changes affecting the regulatory and payer environment.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MD, PharmD, PhD, or RN/NP)
• Deep knowledge of Women’s and Reproductive Health diagnostics and therapeutics.
• Clinical experience in Women’s and Reproductive Health or related fields.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in clinical, scientific, diagnostic, device, pharmaceutical, or academic environments (excluding post-doctoral fellowships).
• Understanding of clinical research principles and applications.
• Strong understanding of clinical research principles and the US healthcare system.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills with a proven record of scientific publications.
• Ability to deliver high quality work in a resource constrained, time sensitive manner.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams within a complex matrix organization.
• Ability to contribute to the overall functioning and well-being of both the commercial and clinical teams within the Quest Organization.
• Highly organized and able to multi-task in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to work independently, with experience working across a complex matrix organization and commercial teams.
• Willingness to travel as required.
• Adheres to the US “Compliance Code of Conduct.” Certifies against all required compliance training. Conveys a clear message on laws, regulations, and ethical standards to both internal and external customers. Develops an understanding of and complies with all GMA SOPs, the OIG Guidance, the CLIA requirements, ICH, GCP, and relevant FDA laws and regulations (certify completion where required). Alerts management to compliance issues.
• MSLs fully comply with all company policies and applicable laws, regulations, and ethical standards.

EEO

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets