Associate Medical Director - Neurovascular

Job Description: Are you a medical innovator looking for new clinical challenges? Join Boston Scientific! We are currently looking for an industry-seasoned physician with a neurovascular focus to join our Clinical organization. This is a newly created position in our Marlborough, MA facility. Relocation and other comprehensive benefits provided.

Associate Medical Director - Neurovascular - Marlborough, MA

General Summary:
This key position is responsible for being a technical and general advisor to Boston Scientific Corporation providing Medical/clinical support and guidance for formulating clinical strategy and making clinical decisions. This includes providing medical and scientific expertise in the Neurovascular arena to bring high quality and efficiency to the clinical trial development process for devices in the product development pipeline.

Duties and Responsibilities:
? Provides detailed medical/therapeutic guidance to internal and external customers including project teams, other functional units, investigators, and regulatory agencies and assists with meeting project timelines.
? Provides early, hands-on operational support to teams in clinical trial planning, protocol development, investigator selection, training of internal and external personnel, medical monitoring for trial safety, data analysis/interpretation, and quality control.
? Responsible for providing Neurovascular expertise to support development and execution of clinical trials in device development process.
? Reviews and edits protocols to insure accuracy, consistency with standard of care, logistical ease, and internal consistency with BSC requirements.
? Delivers direct physician support to quality assurance group for review of product complaints, MDR reporting criteria, health risk assessments, and product performance criteria.
? Envisions the application of new technologies in novel ways to solve complex medical device needs.
? Writes and edits clinical and scientific reports for regulatory submission and scientific communication.
? Cultivates relationships with influential thought leaders in the medical community.
? Reviews and summarizes medical literature.
? Attends and potentially participates in National, International, and Regional meetings and summaries current medical issues discussed within them
? Reviews and approves product education, promotion, and reporting materials


Minimum Education & Experience:
Medical degree required, with board certification in the Neurovascular area preferred. At least 5 years of clinical experience with patient care. At least 5 years of clinical trial experience is required. Some direct industry experience (device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology) is preferred.

Working Conditions:
General office environment, with up to 40% domestic and international travel to other BSC facilities and or/meetings and conferences.


Competency Expectations:
? Expert knowledge of clinical research, device/drug development process, regulatory requirements, laws, good clinical practices, human pathophysiology & diseases
? Understanding of statistical methods
? Exceptional written & oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively to scientific and non-scientific groups.
? Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
? Proven publication and presentation skills.

Demonstrated experience writing scientific reports (candidate may be asked to provide writing samples).

Strong sense of integrity, responsibility and urgency.

Evidence of a management style characterized by leadership, vision, collegiality, teamwork, preparation and communication.

Flexibility and ability to manage simultaneous priorities, changing deadlines, and limited resources.

Positive, pro-active, energetic person with the ability to manage a critical path toward product commercialization.

Models behaviors of BSC's established policies and procedures.

Searchable Keywords: Associate Medical Director - Neurovascular / gj-mo

Minimum Education Required: Post Doctoral

Years of Experience Required: More than 5 years

Expected Travel Time: About 25%

This company may offer relocation assistance.


Boston Scientific offers incredible opportunities to grow and advance, a dynamic work environment and an excellent benefits package. Boston Scientific is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V.