Digital Strategy

Focus Area Working Group

The MAPS Digital Focus Area Working Group is a forum to build knowledge and share best practices. The goal is to support the Medical Affairs organization’s efforts to embrace digital innovation through webinars, training, white papers, and best practice sharing. This Focus Area group will leverage other thought-leader forums to share insights and learnings – both successes and failures – across Medical Affairs organizations.

Activities: 

Organize workshops for MAPS meetings in the North America, APAC (Asia Pacific – China/Japan), and EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Asia) regions.
Ensure understanding of the current state of digital innovation as it relates to the Medical Affairs function, and the needs of Medical Affairs professionals.
Build an understanding of digital opportunity for Medical Affairs professionals and important aspects of a digital-ready culture.
Engage experts both inside and outside of pharma, to share their expertise and help Medical Affairs professionals better understand the digital opportunity.
Bring case examples to MAPS members to stimulate ideas and applicable innovations in Medical Affairs functional areas such as Medical Information and Field Medical.
Build Medical Affairs digital capabilities with specific focus on improving external digital engagement experience and advanced analytics.

Strategic Objectives

#1 Build an understanding of digital technologies for Medical Affairs professionals: Develop foundational primers and curriculum of technologies such as AI, NLP, ML for Medical Affairs

#2 Build an understanding of the opportunity and important aspects of a digital-ready culture to drive the digital transformation of Medical Affairs:

Engage experts both inside and outside of pharma, to share their expertise and help Medical Affairs professionals better understand the digital & data opportunities, important aspects of building a digital-ready culture andstrategic approach to digital transformation
Bring digital innovation examples across pharma and other industries to MAPS members to stimulate ideas and applicable innovations in Medical Affairs functional areas
Shine a spotlight on Medical Affairs digital capabilities that are focused on improving customer experience, artificial intelligence and advanced analytics
Be on the forefront of digital innovation and transformation by evaluating and assessing new trends, disruptive technologies and their application to Medical Affairs

Members

Shaji Kalathil

ED, Head of IT, Global Medical Affairs and Hematology & Cell Therapy

Co-Lead

Sameer Lal

SVP Business Development

Co-Lead

Ka-Wing Chong

Digital & Innovation Medical Communication Senior Manager

Mary Alice Dwyer

Vice President, US

Bora Erdemli

Europe Medical Affairs Lead

Stacey Gorski

Director, US Medical Excellence & Strategic Projects

Richard Kemper

Medical Omnichannel Head

Rishi Ohri

Sr. Director, Medical Affairs

Jennifer Riggins

Medical Affairs Consultant

Akarsh Sakalaspur

EVP, Head of Digital

Bill Strickland

AVP US Field Medical

Georgis Tramountanis

Head Global OBU Medical Information and Review, Global Medical Affairs Oncology

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