Stewart Geary

Dr Stewart Geary, M.D, Senior Vice President of Eisai, Japan. He has worked at Eisai since 1996 in pharmacovigilance, clinical safety and regulatory science. He is currently a member of the CIOMS IX Working Group on Medicinal Product Risk Management, the Executive Committees of the Japanese Association of Pharmaceutical Medicine and the International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians and serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the publications Applied Clinical Trials and IFAPP World. He has previously served as a member of the DIA Advisory Committee Japan, the CIOMS VIII Working Group on Signal Detection, the CIOMS VII Working Group on the Development Safety Update Report and the CIOMS Working Group on Standardized MedDRA Queries. Dr Geary graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude with a bachelorÂ’s degree in chemistry in 1985. He spent a year doing basic research on insulin-like growth factor receptors at Harvard Medical School before attending Stanford Medical School from which he earned an MD degree in 1990. He went on to complete a residency in Urology at the Stanford University Medical Center in 1996. He has published on the Japanese pharmaceutical industry and lectured on global pharmaceutical regulations.