Strategy and Launch Excellence

Focus Area Working Group

The strategic mission and objectives of the Medical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS) Medical Strategy and Launch Excellence Focus Area Working Group are to create a community that advances our role as fully integrated strategic business partners for internal stakeholders; to develop our medical strategy and launch excellence community within MAPS to become the premier global destination of choice for MA Professionals responsible for leading medical strategy; and to catalyze our individual personal leadership development and professional career advancement.

Activities: 

We will organize medical strategy and launch excellence workshops for MAPS meetings in North America, APAC (Asia Pacific – China/Japan), and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Asia) regions. We develop original content for webinars, podcasts, eLearning courses and white papers. In addition, the working group will periodically contribute cogent and timely content for the MAPS online publication, Elevate. Most importantly, we will serve as a supportive resource for all Medical Affairs Professionals.

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Description:

Understand how the medical affairs strategic planning process can drive decision making throughout the year. Gain insight into the value medical affairs bring across an organization when an effective, collaborative, aligned medical strategy plan is developed

Members

Rebecca (Becky) Harmon

Global Medical Affairs Central Capabilities

Co-Lead

Simon Kyaga

Global Medical Director, Alzheimer’s Disease, for Europe Canada and Partner Markets (ECP)

Co-Lead

Pete Pliero

VP & Head, Medical Affairs Americas

Leah Williams

Director, Medical Education & Communications

Charlotte Mosley

Executive Director – Client Engagement

Safura Babu-Kahn

Senior Director & Transversal Medical Strategy Lead

Jennifer Pappadakis

VP, Global Medical External Affairs

Paul Tebbey

Vice-President, Medical Affairs Biosimilars

Amanda Wilhelm

Medical Director

Arron Mungul

Director Medical Capabilities

Cesar Cerezo

Vice President, Global/US Medical Therapeutic Area Head, General Medicine

Chet Bhatt

Executive Director, Global Medical Operations and Strategic Programs

Troels Wolther

Executive Medical Director

Marija Simin Geertsen

Vice-President, Medical Affairs

Sarah Clark

Director, Head of Field Medical Strategy and Execution, Europe, Canada and Partner Markets

Emily Howman

Medical Strategy Lead

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E-Learning Courses, CONTENT TYPE, MAPS Members Only, Content HUB Featured, CAPABILITIES & COMPETENCIES, FOCUS AREA, Content Hub, ACCESS, Strategic Vision, Medical Strategy & Launch Excellence

Launch Excellence Best Practices for Medical Affairs

In this module you will: review the changing role of Medical Affairs and how it has become a strong strategic partner in product launch excellence (LE); gain insights into the components of LE; identify processes, systems, and tools to support LE; utilize templates to support LE planning.