Regulatory operations · Evidence traceability

Every claim is supposed to lead back to its evidence.

I spent nine years making that happen by hand, across submissions, publishing and promotional review. Now I am building a way to measure whether it actually held.

Based
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Now
Senior Regulatory Operations Specialist, Area 23
Research
ClaimFlow · claim-to-evidence traceability
Status
Seeking a UK host institution
01The problem

A claim, the evidence behind it, the exact place that evidence sits, and the annotation recording the link are each written by a different person, in a different system, in different words. So a search for the claim does not find the evidence, even when the relationship is real and correct. Teams close that gap by hand, every cycle. The audit trail is thinnest exactly where digitalisation asks it to carry the most weight, and nobody can say how thin, because there has never been a way to measure it.

02The instrument

Pick a claim. Find its evidence.

Two of these trace cleanly to a source location. The third reads as reasonable and has nothing behind it. Finding that third one, reliably and at scale, is the problem my research addresses.

Fig. 01Claim to source, traced

Illustration · invented content

Promotional copy

Source evidence

Hospitalisation for any cause occurred in 8.4% versus 14.2% of patients (HR 0.59).Clinical study report · Table 14.2.1 · p. 212
Administered orally once daily; no dose titration was performed during the study.Protocol · Section 6.3 · p. 41
Investigator satisfaction was not an endpoint in this study.Statistical analysis plan · Section 4 · p. 18

Select a claim.

03The practice

What I do, under FDA, EMA, ABPI and EFPIA frameworks.

01Submissions and publishing

End-to-end submission lifecycle, from preparation to eCTD publishing.

Document preparation, eCTD publishing and lifecycle maintenance, master submission libraries and version control that hold up under inspection.

02Claims, evidence and annotation

Claims tagging and linking, reference libraries and claims matrices.

Change annotation and the review packages built on top of it, so every approval decision has its evidence attached and findable.

03Quality control

Independent source-data verification of clinical and preclinical documents.

Factual and numeric review against post-text sources, citation appropriateness, and discrepancy evidence recorded before promotion.

04Governance and audit readiness

Metadata accuracy, document traceability, repositories that survive inspection.

Built to be audited rather than merely to store files. Veeva Vault PromoMats and RIM, eCTDXPress, ISI Publisher, Lorenz DocuBridge.

04The record

Where I have worked.

Engagements are described by function. Client specifics are available in confidence.

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2025 – now

Senior Regulatory Operations Specialist

Area 23, IPG Health · freelance, remote

End-to-end submission lifecycle support across global brands, including the promotional workflow of a global immunology biologic: document preparation, QC routing, claims tagging and linking, change annotation, and progression through approval to distribution in Veeva PromoMats and Vault RIM.

2025

Medical Editor

McCann Health, London · concurrent engagement

Regulatory operations support across submission packages and promotional review cycles, with quality gatekeeping against client SOPs and agency standards.

2023 – 2024

Senior Associate QC Specialist

Novartis Healthcare, Hyderabad

Independent source-data verification of clinical and preclinical summary documents, with full factual and numeric review against post-text sources, citation appropriateness checks, and QC of CSRs, CERs and clinical summaries prior to promotion.

2021 – 2023

Senior Regulatory Submission Specialist

Fishawack, Avalere Health, London

Ran MLR electronic review for client committees across more than a hundred messaging approvals, and built the reference libraries and claims matrices those approvals depended on.

2017 – 2021

Regulatory Publishing Associate Professional

DXC Technology, Hyderabad

Document-level publishing and QC within the eCTD lifecycle for global pharmaceutical portfolios, including third-party source documents from contract research organisations; ISI Publisher, ISIToolbox and PRISM automation processes.

2015 – 2017

Analyst, then Pharmacist

Active Pharma Labs and CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad

Analytical quality control by HPLC, GC and UV spectrophotometry; before that, prescription review, drug-interaction checking and controlled-drug records in hospital pharmacy.

05The research · ClaimFlow

The system recommends. A person decides. The decision is recorded.

ClaimFlow proposes AI-assisted matching of claims to semantically equivalent evidence, where every suggested link goes back to a qualified reviewer with its source location and provenance attached. Developed independently, from the problem above.

RCETS
Regulatory Claim–Evidence Traceability Score. A measure that scores the path from claim, to evidence, to exact location, to support status. Once traceability has a number, it can be compared between workflows, improved deliberately, and shown to a regulator.
Status

Protocols are being prepared for public registration, and I am looking for a UK host institution for the work. Technical specifications are shared under a confidentiality agreement.

WP 01

Where linking fails, and why

Mapping the failure modes in real submission and content workflows, and what they have in common.

WP 02

Matching, measured against a baseline

Platform-agnostic semantic matching, evaluated against string retrieval rather than asserted to beat it.

WP 03

The score and an open benchmark

Validating the metric on a dataset built from public regulatory sources, so that anyone can reproduce the result.

WP 04

Keeping the human in the loop

Confidence thresholds, escalation rules, and audit-ready records of what the system suggested and what the reviewer decided.

06Background

Qualifications and membership.

Postgraduate
Master of Pharmacy, PharmaceuticsJawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. Awarded 2016, assessed by Ecctis as comparable to a UK Master's degree.
Undergraduate
Bachelor of PharmacyJawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, 2013.
Membership
Registered Member, TOPRAThe Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs.
Membership
Member, Royal College of PharmacyPharmaceutical Scientist.

From colleagues · LinkedIn recommendations

Omer became an advanced Veeva Vault PromoMats user. He is adept at reference linking and comment annotating in that platform, and he displays strong organizational and communication skills, always making detailed notes for current and upcoming projects.
Chase BohlingSenior Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Omer is the hardest working team member I have ever had the pleasure to manage. When I joined, he had assumed regulatory submission ownership over the entire UK marketing line of business. He is meticulous and holds himself to a very high standard.
Former managerFishawack Health
07Contact

Research collaboration, or operations work where it matters.

omer.wasiq@aol.com
Location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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