Chief Medical Officer
Olga Tarasova, MD, MBA is responsible for the Medical Affairs organization in the United States.
Olga has over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Ferring she held positions of increasing responsibility at country and global levels building and leading medical affairs teams at Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi, Teva and Pfizer. She has extensive experience developing and implementing impactful medical affairs plans in support of successful product launches in primary care, specialty care and the rare disease spaces. She has built cross functionally aligned, integrated evidence generation plans to address key care gaps and effectively collaborated with key academic institutions on data generation including real world evidence. Olga has been a pioneer in the customer-focused, omnichannel approach to communicating scientific evidence in cardiovascular and women’s health space. She has led several transformational change management initiatives that improved collaboration across cultures and geographies.
Olga holds a Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) from Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry with subspecialty in Cardiology and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from California Coast University.