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Nour Drai

Summary

• Seven years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including six years of in Health Economics and Market Access.

• Efficient, reliable, and detail-oriented with a strong analytical mindset to make critical decisions during challenges.

• Effective at working under pressure and multitasking.

• Motivated and a fast learner.
• Professional and easy to work with.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

HTA AND MARKET ACCESS MANAGER (ONCOLOGY)

BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB
06.2021 - 10.2023
  • Strong knowledge of the Canadian healthcare landscape, including regulations, policies, and market dynamics
  • Development of reimbursement strategies in a constantly changing environment with fierce competition, executing access strategies, and adapting as needed
  • Collaboration with Global teams to adapt access strategy and economic models to the Canadian market
  • Reimbursement submissions to public payers (CADTH, INESSS, provinces)
  • Preparation of Private Payor drug reimbursement submissions (when applicable)
  • Engagement with key stakeholders (awareness or advocacy): collaboration with HCPs, HTAs, and patient advocacy groups to understand their needs and concerns
  • Managing budgets and financial resources (e.g., vendor proposals)
  • Flexibility to work on multiple indications/with multiple brand teams
  • Collaborating cross-functionally to achieve goals: collaborate closely with medical affairs, marketing, regulatory affairs, and other teams to align efforts and achieve market access goals.

SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR (PHARMACOECONOMICS)

INESSS
08.2018 - 06.2021
  • Strong understanding and intelligence of the health economics environment and its dynamics
  • Analysis of files submitted by drug manufacturers, related to pharmacoeconomic aspects (cost-effectiveness models), as well as budget impacts, teamed with internal and external experts (all therapeutic areas)
  • Medical writing of reports, recommendations, notices to the Minister, letters to manufacturers, letters or press releases regarding recommendation information
  • Advising on the pharmacoeconomic aspects and the impact of the drug registration on population health and other components of the healthcare system by providing the required scientific, epidemiological, pharmacoeconomic and economic expertise
  • Analysis of partitioned survival models/Markov models and budget impact analyzes development from scratch, with data from the RAMQ database and CDH (IQVIA).

HEALTH POLICY AND PATIENT ACCESS

NOVARTIS
08.2017 - 08.2018
  • Economic model Canadian adaptation (Liaises with Global HEOR teams)
  • Contribution to budget impact analysis development
  • Clinical summary medical writing
  • Validation of inputs, models, and reports (working with consultants)
  • Contribution to submissions to INESSS, CADTH and private payers
  • Interdepartmental projects: medical affairs, marketing intelligence, Regulatory affairs and pricing to complete submissions and meet payers requirements
  • Environmental scanning: Identification of competitors, market trends, province recommendations/criteria.

MEDICAL INFORMATION - INTERN

PFIZER
01.2015 - 09.2015

• Updates of SRDs (scientific response documents) using research in the literature

• Translation of SRDs

• Creation of medication pages (pfizer website - medical information) for all the products,

• Summary of scientific articles (training + application)

• Research project on anti-PD1 drugs (immunooncology).

QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALIST

ALGORITHME PHARMA
04.2015 - 09.2015
  • Followed quality standards and procedures to minimize errors and maximize customer satisfaction.
  • Evaluated quality problems and performed assessments to identify and resolve issues.
  • Improved quality processes for increased efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Updated quality control standards, methods, and procedures to meet compliance requirements.

Education

Master's degree - pharmaceutical science (Pharmacoeconomics) -

Specialized Graduate Diploma (D.É.S.S.) in drug development -

Bachelor in Biopharmaceutical Sciences -

Skills

  • Suite Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
  • Database: Embase/Pubmed, Medline
  • IQVIA: PharmaStat/Delta PA/Rx/CDH
  • RAMQ SQL database
  • Good Practices Laboratory (GLP), Clinical (GCP), manufacturing (GMP)

Languages

French
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Arabic
Native or Bilingual

Additional Information

• Current member of pharmaceutical Marketing Club of Quebec

• HERO3 platform training.

• Worked with the ICER (USA) model platform for drug assessment.

• Contribution to the development of Remdesivir's poster for the COVID19 treatment (CADTH symposium - pharmacoeconomics)

• Biostatistics/meta-analysis interpretation training.
• Volunteering: C-VERT (2008-2012)
• Delta pharma: drug manufacturing (2010)
• Educator: Centre de la petite enfance (2011-2015) + La petite enfance

training (45h)

• Member of the Conseil Exécutif Local of the drug development D.É.S.S. – Socio-cultural vice president (2016-2017)

Timeline

HTA AND MARKET ACCESS MANAGER (ONCOLOGY)

BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB
06.2021 - 10.2023

SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR (PHARMACOECONOMICS)

INESSS
08.2018 - 06.2021

HEALTH POLICY AND PATIENT ACCESS

NOVARTIS
08.2017 - 08.2018

QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALIST

ALGORITHME PHARMA
04.2015 - 09.2015

MEDICAL INFORMATION - INTERN

PFIZER
01.2015 - 09.2015

Master's degree - pharmaceutical science (Pharmacoeconomics) -

Specialized Graduate Diploma (D.É.S.S.) in drug development -

Bachelor in Biopharmaceutical Sciences -

Nour Drai