Welcome to my professional webpage.
I’m a Medical Affairs strategist with an interest in optimising the use of, and improving patient access to, biologic and biosimilar medicines. Whilst my career experience is broad, I have always considered myself first and foremost a scientist.
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- Medical Manager – Celltrion Healthcare Co, Ltd
October 2021 – present (Melbourne)
Reporting directly to the ANZ Country Manager and with a dotted line to Global Medical Affairs in Korea, I am establishing Celltrion’s ANZ Medical Affairs operations, focusing on the launch of Remsima SC (subcutaneous infliximab) and YUFLYMA (biosimilar adalimumab) in the gastroenterology and rheumatology spaces.
- Senior Medical Science Liaison, Immunology (IBD), VIC/SA/WA – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
July 2018 – July 2021 (Melbourne)
Medical affairs work to support a number of Inflammatory Bowel Disease treatments that spanned the product lifecycle from pipeline to legacy, including Stelara, Simponi, Tremfya and Remicade.
- National Medical Science Liaison, Immunology Biosimilars – MSD Australia & New Zealand
June 2016 – June 2018 (Melbourne)
MSL work in the rheumatology, dermatology and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) therapeutic areas during the launch of MSD’s anti-TNF biosimilars (etanercept, infliximab and adalimumab).
- Medical Liaison – Healthy Sleep Solutions (a subsidiary of Air Liquide Healthcare)
January 2014 – June 2016 (Adelaide)
Healthy Sleep Solutions is Australia’s largest provider of home-based testing and treatment for sleep apnoea. In this role, I promoted the service to doctors, including GPs, cardiologists, endocrinologists, ENT surgeons, anaesthetists, bariatric surgeons and general physicians.
- Proprietor and Director, Nielsen Import Consulting – Adelaide (2013-2014)
- Proprietor and Director, Brazcom Imports Pty Ltd – Adelaide (2008-2013)
- Scientist, Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit (LDRU), Women’s and Children’s Hospital – Adelaide (2003-2009; PhD student 2005-2008)
- Research Assistant, Liver Group, Royal Free & University College Medical School – London (2001-2003)
- Research Assistant, Lung Laboratory, Department of Human Physiology, Flinders University Medical School – Adelaide (1999-2000)
PhD (Biochemistry, Cell Biology) – University of Adelaide (2009)
BSc (Hons) (Human Physiology) – Flinders University (2000)
- Popular media
The MSL Nov 6, 2023 (sole author)
A Modern Manager’s Guide to MSL Onboarding and Development. Part One: New MSL Management The MSL Nov 30, 2022 (sole author)
Switching between competing companies: an MSL survival guide The MSL Oct 19, 2021 (Sole author)
More alternative career options for scientists Australasian Science December 2016 (Sole author)
Got a PhD in science? Now what? ABC Science March 4, 2015 (Sole author)
Six ways to improve young scientists’ career prospects ABC Science February 26, 2014 (Sole author)
Hanging up their labcoats: Australia’s new brain drain ABC Science January 16, 2014 (Sole author)
- Scientific
Intrathecal recombinant human 4-sulfatase reduces accumulation of glycosaminoglycans in dura of mucopolysaccharidosis VI cats. Pediatr Res. 2012 Jan;71(1):39-45 [PubMed] (Contributing author)
Determination of urinary oligosaccharides by high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry: Application to Hunter syndrome. Anal Biochem. 2010 Jul 15;402(2):113-20 [PubMed] (First author)
Repeated intrathecal injections of recombinant human 4-sulphatase remove dural storage in mature mucopolysaccharidosis VI cats primed with a short-course tolerisation regimen. Mol Genet Metab. 2010 Feb;99(2):132-41 [PubMed] (Contributing author)
Minimum substrate requirements of endoglycosidase activities toward dermatan sulfate by electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry. Glycobiology. 2008 Dec;18(12):1119-28 [PubMed] (First author)