Denise Leclair
Therapeutic Safety Lead, Novartis
Class Year
1983
Professional Background
Received MD from Duke, Family Medicine Residency from Georgetown, Medical editing Fellowship, Worked in Community Health Center as a Family Physician, and then worked in Pharma industry in Drug Safety
How has being an English graduate from Duke University help shape your professional success?
The ability to analyze text and read and create narratives is vital to what I do now in the Pharma industry. Most physicians do not get much experience with narrative analysis, but because of my English degree, I believe that I am able to write clearly and help make sense of adverse event reports and strengthen clinical submissions for new drugs.
