Elvira Heyartz is Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Asia Pacific. She is responsible for leading the regional regulatory affairs organization covering all therapeutic areas in the Janssen Asia Pacific organization.
Before moving to Asia Pacific, Elvira was Senior Director and Head, Regulatory Affairs Latin America. As the leader of the Latin-American Regulatory team, she achieved many important accomplishments in this role, including substantial accelerations of Health Authority approvals of new products across the region, enhancing regulatory compliance, identifying and executing on opportunities of regulatory integration and synergy, strengthening the interactions with the health authorities, and developing her staff to become strategic partners for the Latin-American Commercial organization.
Prior to that role, Elvira was the Regional Director in Global Medical Safety for Latin America and was responsible for the Pharma and Consumer business sectors.
Elvira joined Johnson & Johnson in the Medical Information Services in 1995. She held several local roles in Argentina and Andes former cluster (Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Ecuador). Her last local responsibility was Medical Affairs and Regulatory Affairs Director for Argentina & Andes before moving to a regional function.
Elvira obtained her Medical Doctor degree from the University of Buenos Aires Medical School, and she subsequently completed an advanced medical degree in clinical pediatrics. She also holds a post-graduate degree in Health Economics and Management from ISALUD University. She is based in Singapore.