Viraj Suvarna

About Viraj Suvarna

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Experience

1. Independent Consultant

   At Home

   Feb 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   An experienced medical director, a fungible specialist, who not only gets work done through his team, but also gets his team done through the work they do. Communication skill is my strength, recognizing that if the letter s in the word skill moves to the end of the word, it can become (communication) kills. I am solution oriented and outcome focused. I hold myself accountable, am a heart worker, and am selfless. I treat my team with “Tough Love” - tough on tasks but with gentle inter-personal skills and humane. Company before self has been my motto. I am a specialist in medical affairs but have worked closely with regulatory affairs, clinical operations, pharmacovigilance and quality. My philosophy is we need to be one with each other and one with the business. Excellence in execution today is paramount even as we strategize and innovate for the future. I have excellent relationships with key opinion leaders and am well networked. Key strengths are in co-conceptualizing brand strategies with marketing, training the field force, presenting to doctors, enabling generation of real world evidence and communication of existing data, aiding doctors in visualizing the best patient for a product, helping reimbursed accounts optimize their healthcare budgets, help communicate the value of innovations, help shape the clinicoregulatory environment and health policy, and make people understand the value of pharmacovigilance and quality to patients and the business. My experience includes managing co-promotion and co-marketing partnerships, differentiating biosimilars and biologics, and galvanizing the organization to work towards a common goal right from inception. I have developed a medical team from scratch and enabled the company transition from a start up to an upstart. I can be of help in ensuring the medical team is a cohesive force and a part of the business. I can help the field force be effective in ensuring their medical competence helps them shift belief & behavior.

Education

• Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai Central, Mumbai

  Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS

  1984 — 1994

• Hibernia College

  MSc Pharmaceutical Medicine

  2005 — 2007

• Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Group Of Hospitals, Mumbai

  MD Pharmacology

  1995 — 1998

• Victoria High School Mahim Mumbai

  MD Pharmacology MSc Pharmaceutical Medicine