Dr. Ebrahim Adamjee
I have over six year's of medical affairs experience at various capacities within Novartis Pharmaceuticals. By designing and executing innovative medical strategies, my team and I have built scientific advocacy for our portfolio and helped transform the health care system in the countries we operate in.
Nairobi, Kenya.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drebrahimadamjee
+254714296877
WORK EXPERIENCE
NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Cluster Medical Head, East Africa
(July 2019-Present)
- Leading a medical affairs team of 18, comprising of 5 medical advisors and 13 medical science liaisons across 6 East African countries which include Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. The market size consists of 300 million people with unique health systems and reimbursement models.
- Responsible for diverse therapy areas and portfolios in ophthalmology, neuroscience, cardio-metabolic, oncology and communicable diseases.
- Provide strategic guidance to the medical affairs team along our 3 priority areas which include data dissemination, data generation and stakeholder management.
- Spearhead our launch excellence agenda with innovative pre-launch medical activities and stakeholder engagements. Objective is to gather early insights, communicate portfolio value, map the patient journey and shape organizational strategy.
- Advocate for scientific expertise within the medical affairs team through trainings to facilitate peer to peer relationships with the healthcare community.
- Establish partnerships with like minded entities to develop synergies which can help improve access to treatment, mitigate gaps within the patient journey and optimize the health systems.
- Reinforce our compliance and governance principles around engagement of stakeholders, scientific activities and external funding.
- Present value-based and beyond-the-pill solutions to our payor communities in order to highlight the long term benefits in quality of life of our innovations.
Medical Advisor -Ophthalmology and Immuno-hepato-dermatology ( IHD )
(September 2016-June 2019)
Covering three large countries i.e. Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia with a total population of around 200 million people. The portfolio is quite diverse with 20 plus products under the franchise. Directly responsible for 4 medical science liaisons (MSLs) across the various countries.
Medical Science Liaison - Ophthalmology and Immuno-hepato-dermatology ( IHD )
(May 2015-August 2016)
Responsibilities included field visits, medical expert engagement, gathering insights and contribution towards the organizational strategy.
EDUCATION
UPF, Barcelona School of Management- 2020
Master's in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics Thesis: Economic burden of Diabetes Mellitus in Kenya: A cost of illness study
University of Nairobi
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MbChB) Registered by the Kenya medical board with 2 years of clinical experience prior to joining Novartis
CERTIFICATIONS
Imperial College London: Foundations of Public Health Practice: Behaviour & Behaviour Change
John Hopkins University: Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials
Strathmore University: Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training
EURORDIS (European Organization for Rare Diseases): Intricacies of drug approval at European Medicines Agency (EMA)
PROJECTS MOST PROUD OF
INTERLIFE- 'A new beginning for patients with renal failure'
Project between Novartis and Kenyatta National Hospital, which is the largest referral hospital in Kenya with the aim of building capacity of the local physicians (Nephrologists, Transplant Surgeons and Renal nurses) with the objective of carrying out high quality kidney transplants locally. Over 200 + patients have benefited from this program and Kenyatta National hospital is now viewed as a center of excellence with regards to Kidney transplantation.
Regional ( East Africa ) Scientific standalones
Over the last 3 years. we have partnered with the local physicians and medical societies to organize over 10 regional scientific summits bringing together over 1000 health care professionals from various specialties (Retina Glaucoma Cornea Nephrology, Urology etc.) Guest speakers were also brought in from countries such as the UK,India,Singapore, UAE, Canada etc. and the objective of this initiative was to foster knowledge sharing and experience exchange amongst the health care professionals which would translate into better patient management
Local and International Medical Preceptorships
Over the last couple of years we identified a gap in the expertise and exposure of our local physicians in the various therapy areas. We partnered with local and regional centers of excellence in countries such as Singapore, Egypt, India, Spain etc. to provide hands on experience to our local doctors inorder to better their skills and improve patient management.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Asia pacific, Middle East, Australia and Africa cluster (APMA) award
IMPACT award presented in December 2018 for my role in the INTERLIFE project. Project selected from numerous submissions.
The project was also awarded 50000 USD due to its high impact on improving Renal Transplantation within Kenya
AFRICA cluster award
Medical award presented in 2017 for the best in class regional scientific summits.
In 2018 we came in 2nd for our innovative preceptorships that provided HCPs hands-on training in surgical skills
Best Accident and Emergency Doctor
Voted by the hospital team at the Mater hospital as the best outpatient doctor (Accident and Emergency department) for my hard work and
dedication towards the call of duty.
REFEREES
Dr Eric Mate
Snr. Medical advisor, Novartis Australia
+610429937337
Arpit Bansal
Africa Cluster head, Astra Zeneca
+254719258300
