To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to Barton Lewis Cobert, MD, FACP, FACG, FFPM. Dr. Cobert has had a long, distinguished career in pharmacovigilance, drug safety and risk management.
He was senior director pharmacovigilance for Schering-Plough Research Institute and held similar positions for Novartis Consumer Health Inc. and Medidata Solutions. He has represented his company and Pharma at many international meetings and organizations including the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH). Dr. Cobert received his BA from New York University and his MD from New York University School of Medicine.
He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He has written and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally on pharmacovigilance. He has written three books on drug safety including the
Manual of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance which is used as a textbook in courses on drug safety. Dr. Cobert is now president of BLCMD Associated LLC, a drug safety and pharmacovigilance consulting company in Westfield, NJ.
