Christiane Michel
Novartis Pharma AG
Global Head Safety Signal Detection
With more than 25 years of experience in Pharmacovigilance, Christiane is currently the Global Head of Safety Signal Detection & MedDRA Query Mgmt. at Novartis, Basel, Switzerland. She was trained as a medical doctor in Frankfurt, Germany and obtained her MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She started her career in pharmacovigilance at Hoechst AG in Germany, worked later with Aventis Pharma in Germany as a senior safety physician and joined Novartis Pharma AG in Basel in 2002. Christiane is also a member of the CIOMS Implementation Working Group on Standardized MeddRA Queries (SMQs).