Product Safety and its Role in Medical Affairs

MSL Talk

This week's guest is Juan Daccach, MD, VP Global Product Safety at Merz Aesthetics who discusses Safety and its role in Medical/Product Safety and the interaction between safety physicians and medical affairs physicians (for both pharma and device)

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In this episode, Juan shares…

👉 The role of product safety in the biotech medical device industries, and how it fits with medical affairs 👉 How product safety differs in a pharma company vs a device company 👉 The key challenges medical affairs professionals face when communicating safety information to healthcare providers (HCPs) 👉 How MSLs might proactively engage with key opinion leaders (KOLs) regarding emerging safety data for a product 👉 What trends are emerging for MSLs and medical affairs as it relates to product or device safety.

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(0:00) Introduction of Wong Takash and his role at MERS Aesthetics; Welcome Juan Daccach (1:10) Juan Daccach's career background in medical safety (2:39) Sponsor: MSL Mastery (3:08) Medical and product safety overview in biotech and medical affairs (5:11) Defining medical and product safety (7:42) Safety differences in pharma vs medical devices (10:40) Pharmacovigilance and medical monitors' roles (13:45) Safety complexities in medical devices (14:08) MSLs' understanding of safety reporting protocols (16:00) Communicating safety information challenges (18:27) MSLs engaging KOLs with safety data (21:53) Support for MSLs in safety and pharmacovigilance (22:52) Managing safety concerns as an MSL (27:01) Trends in safety impacting MSLs and medical affairs (28:05) AI and machine learning's role in medical safety (29:09) Pharma-device collaboration on combination products (30:12) Closing remarks and listener appreciation