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Ruth Nicholson Featured 2

Ruth Nicholson: Emerging Issues for Medical Affairs Knowledge Transfer

August 22, 2023/in Business / Finance, Competency, Integrated Scientific Comms Plan & Pubs, ACCESS, Open Access, SEARCH BY TOPIC, SEARCH BY TYPE, Customer Engagement & Scientific Comms, Innovate Articles, Content Hub, Interviews & Opinions, Leadership & Management Skills, Medical Operations/by Travis Hege

In this interview recorded at the MAPS 2023 Annual Meeting in Nashville, we sat down with Ruth Nicholson, Director, Global Knowledge Transfer (Neuroscience), Ipsen about the definition, challenges and emerging issues in knowledge transfer.

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Aamir Shamim Choudry: Single Point of Contact Model for Medical Affairs

August 3, 2023/in Competency, ACCESS, Open Access, SEARCH BY TOPIC, SEARCH BY TYPE, External Scientific Engagement, Customer Engagement & Scientific Comms, Innovate Articles, Content Hub, Interviews & Opinions, Leadership & Management Skills, Medical Operations, Medical Strategy & Launch Excellence/by Travis Hege

In this interview recorded at the MAPS 2023 Annual Meeting in Nashville, MAPS Director, Mary Alice Dwyer, speaks with amir Shamim Choudry, Executive Medical Director at Sage Therapeutics, about the Single Point of Contact Model for Medical Affairs.

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Bill Tidwell: Engaging Organized Customers

June 7, 2023/in Competency, ACCESS, Open Access, SEARCH BY TOPIC, Career Development, SEARCH BY TYPE, External Scientific Engagement, Customer Engagement & Scientific Comms, Innovate Articles, Content Hub, Interviews & Opinions, Leadership & Management Skills/by Medical Affairs

In this interview recorded at the MAPS 2023 Annual Meeting in Nashville, MAPS speaks with Bill Tidwell, Director, Field Based Medicine | Health System and Payor Strategy at Boehringer Ingelheim about engaging organized customers.

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Robert Kersting & Robin Winter-Sperry: The Power of External Partnerships

May 3, 2023/in ACCESS, Competency, Open Access, SEARCH BY TOPIC, SEARCH BY TYPE, External Scientific Engagement, Customer Engagement & Scientific Comms, Innovate Articles, Content Hub, Interviews & Opinions/by Medical Affairs

In this interview recorded at the MAPS 2023 Annual Meeting in Nashville, MAPS speaks with Robin Winter-Sperry and Robert Kersting, PharmD, Global Head, Scientific Alliances, Novartis, about the need for multi-stakeholder partnerships.

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Jim Wilkinson, PhD: Developing Staff to be the Leaders of Tomorrow

April 28, 2023/in ACCESS, Open Access, SEARCH BY TOPIC, Career Development, Talent Development, SEARCH BY TYPE, Leadership & Management, Content Hub, Other, Interviews & Opinions, Leadership & Management Skills/by Medical Affairs

In this interview recorded at the MAPS 2023 Annual Meeting in Nashville, MAPS speaks with Jim Wilkinson, PhD, Vice President, Global & US Medical Affairs, Amgen, about how to develop Medical Affairs talent into tomorrow’s leaders.

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Educating Medical Professionals for that “Rare Encounter”

March 2, 2023/in ACCESS, Open Access, Innovate Articles, Content Hub, Interviews & Opinions, SEARCH BY TOPIC, SEARCH BY TYPE, Pt Centricity, Rare Disease/by Medical Affairs

Streamlining the diagnostic odyssey requires educating medical professionals to recognize “rare encounters” and engage these patients with precision and compassion.

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ChatGPT is Poised to Disrupt Medical Affairs

January 26, 2023/in ACCESS, Open Access, Customer Engagement & Scientific Comms, Digital, Digital Trends & Opportunities, Innovate Articles, Foundational (Intro Level), Content Hub, Interviews & Opinions, Medical Communications, SEARCH BY TOPIC, SEARCH BY TYPE/by Medical Affairs

With a multibillion dollar investment from Microsoft and already 4 authorship credits on PubMed, ChatGPT is poised to disrupt Medical Affairs.

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Highlights from the APPA/MAPS Joint Medical Affairs Summit 2022

December 15, 2022/in ACCESS, Open Access, SEARCH BY TOPIC, Open Access, SEARCH BY TYPE, SEARCH BY TYPE, MAPS News & Updates, Content Hub, Other, Interviews & Opinions, SEARCH BY TOPIC, SEARCH BY TYPE/by Travis Hege

From space biology to patient voice to best practices for onboarding, here are highlights of the APPA/MAPS Joint Medical Affairs Summit in Sydney, Australia.

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Monica de Abadal

Medical Affairs Leadership Interviews from the MAPS 2022 Global Annual Meeting

December 7, 2022/in ACCESS, Open Access, SEARCH BY TOPIC, Career Development, Open Access, SEARCH BY TYPE, Career Resources Videos, Conferences, MAPS News & Updates, Other, Foundational (Intro Level), Content Hub, Content HUB Featured, Interviews & Opinions, Medical Strategy & Launch Excellence/by Medical Affairs

At the MAPS 2022 Global Annual Meeting in New Orleans, we sat down with Medical Affairs leaders in attendance to discuss a range of issues important to the function. Now as we prepare for the MAPS 2023 Global Annual Meeting in Nashville, March 26-29 (early bird registration open until December 31!), join us in looking back at these important opinions. Have a topic you’d like covered at the 2023 meeting? Email MAPS Communications/Marketing Director, Garth Sundem, with your suggestions!


Rob Kaper discusses his vision for the future of Medical Affairs
Charlotte Kremer, Bjorn Oddens and Danie du Plessis discuss whether Medical Affairs has truly achieved its position as the third strategic pillar in industry
Lobna Salem discusses building a Medical Affairs department from scratch
John Pracyk and Bill Sigmund discuss the differences in the practice of Medical Affairs between pharma and MedTech
Riad Dirani and Omar Dabbous discuss the emerging importance of Health Economics and Outcomes research (HEOR) in Medical Affairs
Tamas Koncz talks about the evolution and future of the Medical Affairs professional
Jose Borlolla and Augusto Grinspan discuss the practice of Medical Affairs and the emergence of the pharma industry in Latin America
Danie du Plessis describes the new competencies Medical Affairs professionals will need to succeed in a changing industry ecosystem
Monica de Abadal describes the value of Medical Affairs to patients and society
Marija Simin Geertsen describes her changing view on the role of Medical Affairs in patient engagement
Kirk Shepard and Nicole-Selenko-Gebauer discuss the challenges of diversity in Medical Affairs, both in patients and within industry positions
Jaime Blais, Deb Braccia and Karen Jursca discuss what is medical excellence and how do you do it in this Medical Affairs table talk.
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The Role of Medical Affairs in Market Access: A Conversation with Annemarie Clegg, CMO, OPEN Health

July 12, 2022/in ACCESS, Open Access, Innovate Articles, Content Hub, Interviews & Opinions, SEARCH BY TOPIC, SEARCH BY TYPE, Pt Centricity/by Medical Affairs

MAPS speaks with Annemarie Clegg, CMO, OPEN Health, about the evolving role of Medical Affairs in providing context for payers, regulators and policy makers whose decisions can dramatically affect which patients can access industry innovations.

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