Sara Rodrigues, PharmD

ara 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.