Meet our experts
Pharmacovigilance
With Arex, you have a full suite of expertise at your fingertips.
With Arex, you have a full suite of expertise at your fingertips.
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Amra Mekic
BSc Pharm
Amra works in our regulatory and pharmacovigilance teams, and with review of promotional materials. She is a pharmacist from Linneaus University and also has an MA in Communication. She has previously worked as Manager of a health clinic and Pharmacist.
Camilla Österlund
Based in Tampere, Finland
PhD in Medicine
Camilla provides pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs support to our clients. She has a PhD in Medicine from Umeå University. Her previous work experience includes working as a pharmacist, as well as in a variety of pharmacovigilance functions at Niconovum. Camilla speaks fluent Finnish.
Karin Leoson (née Nylander)
Partner
MSc Pharm
Karin is experienced in pharmacovigilance, predominantly from the Nordic markets. Her experience extends from case management to database entering and MedDRA coding, and she is also skilled in quality management systems for pharmacovigilance. Before joining Arex she worked as a Safety Data Management Specialist at Pfizer, and as a Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance Consultant at ProPharma Group and Sofus Regulatory Affairs.
Katarina Alheim
Partner
Chief Quality Officer
PhD in Neurochemistry and Neurotoxicology
Katarina specialises in quality assurance and pharmacovigilance. She has specific experience in quality management systems, both for GDP and for pharmacovigilance work. Katarina has held the position of Responsible Person for many years and has experience from inspections by most of the Nordic Competent Authorities for medicine. She holds a PhD in Neurochemistry and Neurotoxicology from Stockholm University.
Kristin Augustsson
MSc Pharm
Kristin is on our regulatory and pharmacovigilance team. She is a pharmacist graduated from Uppsala University who brings with her experience from working at the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (LIF). There she reviewed data on medicines published on FASS.se and assisted with analyzing clinical trials data for covid-19 vaccines.
Minna Zakrisson
MSc Pharm
Minna is on our Pharmacovigilance team, supporting clients with medical information and timely reporting of adverse events. She most recently worked as a Clinical Research Associate at Parexel, and before that held roles in several pharmacy chains. Minna holds an MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Uppsala University.
Sozyar Karim
MSc Pharm
Sozyar works with pharmacovigilance and quality assurance. In parallel with her studies at Uppsala University she worked with GMP processes at Svensk Dos AB. Sozyar did her Master’s Thesis at the Swedish Medical Products Agency.
Staffan Thunell
Founding partner
BSc Economics and BA
Staffan has a long background in entrepreneurship within the life science industry. He has 20+ years experience from positions as Founder, Chairman, CEO and CFO within medical affairs consulting and small pharma. Previously Staffan worked in executive positions in big pharma and specialty pharma companies.
