Dr. Guillermo Maligne
Senior Strategic Advisor – Medical & Scientific Affairs
Senior medical and scientific leader with more than two decades of experience across clinical research, medical affairs, and healthcare systems. Recognized for integrating scientific rigor, ethical standards, and real-world clinical feasibility into strategies that enable safe, effective, and sustainable patient access to innovation.
Thera Contribution
As Senior Strategic Advisor at Thera Health Policy & Access, Guillermo leads the firm’s medical and scientific integrity pillar, ensuring that all strategies are grounded in robust evidence, ethical excellence, and real-world clinical applicability.
He plays a critical role in Thera’s Deliver → Demonstrate phases, validating that access and policy solutions are not only technically sound but also clinically feasible and ethically aligned with global standards (including APEC and IFPMA frameworks).
His leadership ensures that Thera’s work translates into safe, evidence-based implementation that reflects patient needs, clinical practice, and regulatory expectations.
Executive Profile
Guillermo is a highly respected authority in clinical research, pharmaceutical medicine, and medical governance, with more than 20 years of experience spanning the pharmaceutical industry, contract research organizations (CROs), and clinical practice.
He brings a unique ability to bridge scientific innovation with clinical reality, ensuring that strategies designed at the intersection of policy, access, and regulation are fully aligned with:
- Real-world patient needs
- Investigator and provider perspectives
- Regulatory and ethical requirements
A defining feature of his profile is his dual perspective as both:
- A clinical specialist
- A senior pharmaceutical executive
allowing him to operate effectively at the interface of science, regulation, and healthcare delivery systems.
Areas of Strategic Impact
Strategic Medical Direction & Governance
Leads medical affairs strategy and scientific governance, ensuring alignment between clinical evidence, corporate objectives, and patient outcomes.
Clinical Development & Research Excellence
Oversees complex clinical research programs, ensuring GCP compliance, protocol integrity, and adherence to international ethical standards.
Ethics in Clinical Research & Medical Practice
Former President of a Clinical Research Ethics Committee, with deep expertise in bioethics, patient safety, and ethical oversight frameworks.
Cross-Functional Scientific Integration
Connects R&D, regulatory, medical, and commercial teams to accelerate the translation of innovation into clinical adoption and real-world impact.
Professional Background
Guillermo has held senior leadership roles across the pharmaceutical and clinical research ecosystem.
At Teva Pharmaceuticals, he served as Senior Director Medical Affairs for LATAM & Chile, leading regional medical strategy and ensuring scientific alignment across functions.
He previously served as:
- Director of Clinical Research & Medical Advisor – Zenter Research, overseeing clinical trial execution and medical oversight
His experience across clinical practice, CRO environments, and global pharmaceutical organizations enables him to operate seamlessly between investigators, regulators, and industry stakeholders, ensuring coherence between science, policy, and execution.
Academic & Clinical Credentials
- Specialist in Pharmaceutical Medicine – Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Specialist in Psychiatry – Universidad Maimónides
- Specialist in Infectious Diseases – Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Pharmacology – University Institute CEMIC
