SOWMYA KAUR Head APAC Navitas Clinical Research and Global Head Clinical Solutions at Navitas Life Sciences
With a career spanning over 18 years, Sowmya has worked across multiple aspects of the industry including operations, business development, and strategy with leading industry players like Cognizant, IQVIA, Kendle etc. She has a successful track record of building and leading Clinical Development engagements across Emerging Markets with successful delivery of portfolio of projects. Currently serving as the Head APAC Navitas Clinical Research and Global Head Clinical Solutions at Navitas Life Sciences, she took on her new leadership role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her primary focus was on safeguarding the health of her teams, while ensuring that the Company maintained business continuity so that there was no disruption to the ongoing work. It helped immensely that the DNA of the organisation has never been hierarchical, and colleagues were encouraged to be innovative. Some of her key strategic contributions during this time, included adoption of online consultations, direct patient shipment, home care visits to evaluate safety of patients and amendments to protocols. Patient safety and data integrity remained on of my biggest priority during the entire exercise. Logistic issues were handled fervently by the virtual teams, while Sowmya steered with intense collaborations to find innovative ways of risk mitigation, resulting in minimal or no disruptions.
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