Age of AI Europe, 2026
March 10, 2026 · London
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Sara Rodrigues, PharmD
Associate Director, Medical Affairs, AI Champion
Vertex
Sara has over a decade of healthcare experience—from clinical pharmacy to medical information and medical affairs. Currently, she is an Associate Director in Medical Affairs at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where she leads medical strategy for gene therapy launches across the international region. Sara's AI journey began in early 2024 when she enrolled in a no-code tools course and built her first solution—a prescription tracking platform that eliminated patient waiting times at pharmacies. Today, as a Microsoft Copilot power user, she's applying that same mindset to medical affairs, creating an "army of agents" that handle repetitive and/or lengthy tasks such as product-related queries, congress insights capture, and reporting. Her mission is to empower and free up medical affairs teams so they can focus on what matters the most.
Sessions
Sara Rodrigues, PharmD
11:50 AM – 12:10 PM
(case study) The Agent Army: Less Internal Drag, More Medical Value
- Explore how a set of Medical Affairs copilot agents or custom GPTs can transform everyday work.
- From product expert agents that deliver instant answers derived from approved FAQs, publications and labels to congress insight and reporting agents helping teams capture, and synthesise insights into high-quality outputs.
- Hear what guardrails should be in place from day one, so these agents reduce risk rather than headaches
Outcome: Leave with a clear, achievable blueprint for an agent-ready Medical Affairs model that you can plug into your existing workflows to free up your teams for what matters the most.
Sara Rodrigues, PharmD, Associate Director, Medical Affairs, AI Champion, Vertex