About

Rajive Patel is the director of Infohealth Ltd. and a medical writer for NowPatient. He qualified with a degree in Pharmacy (Faculty of Medicine) at the University of London, School of Pharmacy.

He obtained a professional qualification as a Pharmacist in August 1996 and continued to practice until December 2015.

He now works as a head of new medicines discovery which involves licensing new drugs. He continues to have an interest in Pharmacology and Pharmacovigilance, which is the practice of monitoring the effects of medical drugs after they have been licensed for use, especially in order to identify and evaluate previously unreported adverse reactions.

Education

The UCL School of Pharmacy

Professional accomplishments

Pharmacovigilance
Drug Safety
Good Manufacturing Distribution Practice (GMDP)
Pharmaceutical in-licensing

Affiliations

Propriety Association Of Great Britain (PAGB)

About our medical review process

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