Vara Wuyyuru

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ABOUT VARA WUYYURU

Life Philosophy:“Improve quality of life for mankind with my contributions in healthcare.” Profile Summary:• 20+ years’ experience in clinical development, and operations in class II and implantable medical device industry.• Known for outstanding work ethic and delivering the clinical projects on time and budget.• Adept and pragmatic in using project management tools with a focus on cross-functional collaboration and achieving goals by deadlines.• Steered the team in accordance with company strategic vision and business expectations sticking to commitments with clinical development & medical affairs partners.• Lead clinical support for commercial products globally (US, EU, Canada, Paris, Swiss, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan and Korea).• Expert in clinical data analysis, patient reported outcome (PRO) design and assessment, and data analytics. Comprehensive knowledge about clinical database systems design and development.• Highly passionate, technology driven, big picture oriented team player.Most proud of: • Successfully executed many clinical studies, including feasibility studies, phase I, II, and clinical studies, post market surveillance, non-significant risk studies, clinical validation studies• Established end-to-end clinical operations strategies from early feasibility through post market surveillance for implantable visual prosthetic devices.• Key team player in obtaining “break through device” designation from FDA for Orion, an innovative cortical visual prosthetic device for blind.• Lead a high business impact commercial project in the field and successfully finished the project on time within the budget which demonstrated high market returns.• Contributed to medical device manufacturing efficiency decreasing the cost of production by 40%.