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P HAR MA C O V I G I L AN C E T E X T b y MA L I
N O T MAN I today working as a Pharmacovigilance Expert at Crown CRO, a Finnish CRO with offices in the Nordic and Baltic area and with operations mainly in Europe. She is a part of a team of pharmacovigilance experts and her responsibilities cover a wide range of tasks, from overall maintenance and development of the company’s pharmacovigilance (PV) system, to management and coordination of PV projects and tasks, and daily PV operations, such as safety case processing. 115 “In this role, no day is the same as the previous one,” she says. “A typical day at work varies depending on the stage of the projects Crown CRO PV are working on at the time. Right now I am involved in developing new Standard Operating Procedures in close collaboration with our Quality Assurance department, while at the same time planning a controlled change to our electronic safety database, Argus Safety, with the system vendor.” A clinical trial in the start-up phase is also keeping Saarela busy as she and her colleagues are setting up the