Joel Marques Pereira
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Pharmacovilance Expert
Unidade Regional de Farmacovigilância do Sul, PortugalMar, 2013- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Med Communications, Inc.
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Medical Information Specialist
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Sep 2018 - Present
- Develop and review content for scientific documents including standard responses, dossiers and slide decks; - Integrate scientific expertise with knowledge of regulatory and compliance guidelines to ensure comprehensive review of materials submitted into approval process; - Create and review medical affairs materials and promotional materials; - Demonstrate proficiency in the use of content management systems as applicable; - Manage and distribute overall workload for a brand or therapeutic area; - Serve as key contact for communications between the Client and Med Communications team; - Coordinate with Client to schedule meetings and training sessions, and to ensure that all required training requirements are met by all team members; - Participate in staff training, creating or revision of new work instructions, or other measures to ensure Med Communications compliance with Client quality guidelines and key performance metrics; - Respond to HCP inquiries (via calls/web/emails/letters) and conduct appropriate scientific information exchanges with the HCPs; - Demonstrate ongoing scientific and business expertise relevant to therapeutic areas, including products, disease state management, emerging therapies, and the competitive landscape; - Record each case accurately in the contact system, consistent with company operational procedures; - Provide medical information support via multiple venues including virtual presentations and medical meeting booth coverage; - Create, update and review Medical Affairs (MA) documents as needed; - Comply with all guidelines, policies, legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements; - Participate in scientific training as appropriate to support assigned brands; - Demonstrate proficiency in the use of inquiry fulfillment systems as applicable; - Mentor new hires or staff changing support areas; - Participate in training of new hires or staff changing support areas; - Maintain active role in the Quality Assurance process; Show less
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Glintt
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Portugal
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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500 - 600 Employee
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Java Developer
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Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
Development of Health IT related projects (Middleware): - Generating project documentation (functional, non-functional and technical requeriments; use cases and test cases); - Building UML Class Diagrams; - QA manual and automated testing; - Web APIs creation and management; - Inspecting, correcting, adapting, developing and improving source code (Java, XML, Javascript); - Development of SOAP/REST web services; - Development of business services (OSB and BPEL); - Creation, management and connectivity of relational databases (SQL); - Application security management; Main applications used: - Oracle SOA Suite; - Oracle JDeveloper 12c; - SOAP UI; - Oracle APIARY/ Swagger 2.0; - Oracle SQL Developer; - Confluence; - JIRA; - GitHub; - GitKraken; Main programming languages used: - JAVA; - Javascript; - SQL; - XML; - UML; Main operating system: - Microsoft Windows 10; Show less
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HRB Solutions
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Portugal
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Human Resources Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Java Developer Trainee
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Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
- HTML5 and CSS3: Concepts of Internet pages; HTTP protocol; Syntax and HTML rules; HTML elements; Syntax and CSS Rules; CSS Properties; CSS3 Media Inquiries; - Programming fundamentals: Basic concepts of programming; Logical structure of an application; Variables, primitive data types, and conversions (cast) using Javascript; Expressions and operations; Precedence rules, evaluation orders; Decision Structures; Cyclic structures; Defining and invoking methods; Modulating code using reusable methods; - Introduction to programming paradigms: Paradigm, Classes and Objects; Functional Programming; - Algorithms and Data Structure: Principles of Algorithm; Algorithms (search and sort); Data structures (lists, maps, sets, queues, and iterators) Drawing Patterns (Singleton, Factory, Strategy, Composite and Data Access Object); - Databases: Relational Databases; SQL Language; NoSQL Databases; - Java SE 8: JVM; Memory management (heap and stack); Differences between primitive types, arrays, and objects; Boxing and unboxing; Constructors; Encapsulation; Access modifiers; Classes, interfaces and inheritance; Statics, abstracts and constants (attributes, methods and classes); Exceptions; String and StringBuilder; Enums; Annotations; Overriding and overloading; Collections, generics and type erasure; Lambda expressions; Streams; - Software Quality and Continuous Integration: Maven; Version management tools (GitHub); Unitary tests; - Java EE 7: Introduction to JEE (JSE-JEE relationship); Application Servers; WAR and EAR structure; JNDI; ORMs and JPA; CDI; EJB (statefull and stateless); A web application descriptor (web.xml); JSF (development model and life cycle); - Developer's day to day: Introduction to the SCRUM methodology; Agile Teamwork; Reporting problems; Good Code Practice; TDD - Test Driven Development; BDD - Behavior Driven Development; Open-Source; - Projects: SCRUM methodology, development of various applications and portfolio integration of the latter. Show less
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Cactus Communications
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India
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Scientific Editor
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Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
- Editing and reviewing American/British English written scientific articles from various fields of Chemistry, such as Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Physical Chemistry; - Editing and reviewing American/British English written scientific articles from various fields of Chemistry, such as Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Physical Chemistry;
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Farmácia Central de Alhandra
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Alhandra, Portugal
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Community Pharmacist
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Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
- Operating the dispensary in accordance with all the legal responsibilities pertaining to the profession of pharmacy; - Exercising all aspects of law, ethics and codes of practice as laid down by the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society; - Providing a safe and efficient dispensing service to all patients in accordance with the pharmacy guidelines; - Ensuring the safe and effective delivery of medicines to all patients; - Building and maintaining relationships with local Doctors and other health professionals and providing any support needed regarding the medicines and medications; - Pharmaceutical advice and patient education on the best products for the presented symptoms; - Pharmacotherapeutic monitoring of patients; - Measurement services of blood pressure, glycemia, uremia, triglycerides, total cholesterol and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and appropriate counseling given the results; - Preparation of non-sterile medicines; - Placement and reception of product orders; - Writing health related articles for the pharmacy's newsletter; - Preparation and presentation of different age appropriate and health related thematics to students from several local schools; Show less
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Farmácia Vitória
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Guimarães, Portugal
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Community Pharmacist Intern
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May 2015 - Aug 2015
Assisting in the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care through integrated medicine distribution and clinical services to local patients and healthcare practitioners under the supervision of registered pharmacists: - Interpreting physician’s orders; - Patient interview and counselling; - Reviewing patient’s medication history and allergy history; - Pharmacotherapy and pharmacokinetic monitoring, review and intervention; - Patient parameter monitoring and interpretation (glycemia and total cholesterol); - Problem identification and solving; - Medicine utilization review; - Provision of medicine information; - Managing and reporting adverse medicine reactions; - Placement and reception of product orders; - Preparation of non-sterile medicines; - Reviewing patient medication history and allergy history; - Interpreting physician’s medication order and prescriptions; - Accurate supply of medications; - Counselling patients on the use of the medications; - Provide verbal and written drug information to patients, physicians, pharmacists and other staff as necessary; - Preparing small volume extemporaneous preparations; Show less
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Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos
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Portugal
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Hospitals and Health Care
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300 - 400 Employee
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Hospital Pharmacist Intern
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Mar 2015 - May 2015
Assisting hospital pharmacists in fulfilling the following tasks: - Medical prescription validation; - Dispensing medicines to patients and counseling on their proper use; - Dispensing medicines to different hospital departments and advising health professionals or answering their questions about their proper use; - Preparation of cytotoxic medicines; - Preparation of sterile and non-sterile medicines; - Preparation of an informative presentation for hospital pharmacists on the use, mechanism of action and hospital economic viability of Eviplera and Stribild medicines in HIV therapy; Show less
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Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon
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Portugal
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Scientific Researcher/ Specialist Translator
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Feb 2012 - Jul 2014
Development of a research project in the field of pharmacological sciences with the guidance of a doctorate professor: - Macro and micromorphological characterization of an endemic botanical species of the Iberian Peninsula, Paeonia broteroi; - Determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of different plant organs extracts with different polarities against a panel of 13 fungi; - Writing and presentation of two project reports; - Translation (PT-EN) of said reports, several scientific research articles to present in conferences and scientific magazines and passages/ chapters of scientific books; Show less
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Education
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2018 - 2024
NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Doctor of Medicine - MD -
2010 - 2015
Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon
Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Pharmaceutical Sciences
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