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December 10, 2019
Driving the Next Wave of Digital Innovation in Healthcare for Medical Affairs
Fireside Chat with Mary Alice Dwyer and Shaji Kalathil: “We believe that the most competitive pharmaceutical companies in the coming decade will leverage data and digital technologies to drive differentiating services and will be in the forefront of pushing the boundaries of digital innovation in healthcare.”

November 6, 2019
Will Customer Experiences Shape The Future Of Medical Affairs?
At the conclusion of this session, participants should better understand digital trends seen within Medical Affairs today as well as be aware of why HCP expectations are changing and how to evolve with them to provide better customer experiences

October 20, 2019
Creating an Integrated Core Scientific Framework for Communicating to Diverse External Stakeholders: A Health Science Approach
Evaluate the commonalities and differences in the use, structure and evolution of scientific communications platforms within and between companies; understand how a HealthScience approach can help to integrate insights, communications and evidence generation plans across multiple functions

October 16, 2019
Medical Affairs Strategic Planning Guide and Templates
The MAPS Medical Affairs Strategic Planning Guide and Template has been developed to provide guidance and recommendations to selected components that comprise the strategic medical affairs planning for a product – including the situational analysis, medical strategy, tactical/operational planning, and medical plan summary.

October 11, 2019
Purpose-driven culture: How to make an impact in a value-driven world
Executive Vice President & CMO, UCB, Iris Loew-Friedrich discusses the importance of a purpose-driven culture to employee engagement

September 10, 2019
RWE & The Transformational Role of Digital Health
The digital health revolution implies a clear understanding of strategy, using technology as an enabler to create better outcomes for patients and to power value creation across the healthcare ecosystem. As data specialists, Medical Affairs professionals will be at the forefront of this transformation.

September 9, 2019
Seeing the Big Picture: How Business Acumen Can Help Medical Affairs Deliver Value
Medical Affairs leaders want to be more effective and valuable. They want to secure their seat at the table and influence decisions, impact company performance, and deliver better patient outcomes. To do this, they need to understand the “big picture” of the business and grasp how their decisions and actions contribute to long-term profitability and growth.

September 5, 2019
Understanding AI and ML And Potential Applications For Medical Affairs
This MAPS podcast introduces listeners to social listening to gather insights and discusses implementation, value and technologies.

August 14, 2019
The ABCs of DOLs (Digital Opinion Leaders): Identification, Monitoring, and Engagement
This Webinar provides perspectives on the evolving role of Digital Opinion Leaders in medical education and shares approaches for identifying, monitoring and engaging them in a compliant manor with relevant examples.

August 10, 2019
Medical Affairs: Future Custodians of Digital Health?
Organizations should take a strategic approach to digital health solutions and also treat them with the same level of rigor applied to traditional therapies. Within the industry, the consensus is that it is a case of when, not if, digital health solutions become the norm.

July 31, 2019
How to Reframe Strategy and Compete on Outcomes
In “How to Reframe Strategy and Compete on Outcomes,” John Singer, Global Head of Health Industry Strategy, Innovation and Technology at Wipro, elaborates on why Medical Affairs need to drive “big design” thinking to create value in the new outcomes-based healthcare world.

May 20, 2019
Self-Awareness: How to deepen your insight and see the blind spots that could be holding you back
Here we decode self-awareness – the best approach to self-analysis to avoid being trapped looking in the rear-view mirror – and how to find and fix your blindspots.

April 30, 2019
The Rise and Rise of Medical
In My Journey: The Rise & Rise of Medical, Dr. Ameet Nathwani discusses the need to define and measure our contribution, and why we need to join together as a community to shape the future of healthcare.

April 20, 2019
Digital Health: The Road Ahead for Medical Affairs
In “Digital Health: The Road Ahead for Medical Affairs,” CMO and Head of Medical Affairs & Pharmacovigilance at Bayer, Mike Devoy discusses Medical Affairs’ unique understanding of how value can be created and delivered, and the key role it plays in developing the evidence and solutions around that value in collaboration with internal and external partners.

March 27, 2019
Clinical Statistics for Non-Statisticians (Part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of this series will discuss statistical analysis in clinical trials including null/alternative hypotheses; statistical assumptions (type I error, significance level, type II error, statistical power); hypothesis testing; Statistics used in RCTs, including type of outcome measures, analysis of time-to-event variables (plotting and interpretation of Kaplan-Meier curves).

March 27, 2019
A Global Perspective on Conducting Early Access Programs
Early Access includes a variety of programs by which pharmaceutical companies make investigational therapies available to patients with life-threatening diseases. These patients have either exhausted available treatments or have no approved options. This presentation will review the processes and procedures to consider in the implementation of an Early Access Program and explore the opportunities and challenges posed therein.

February 6, 2019
Patient Engagement in Drug Development: An Opportunity for Medical Affairs
Understand the numerous ways in which partnership with patients can impact the development and commercialization of medicines; the current “patient centric” landscape in pharmaceutical drug development; recent findings related to the value of patient-centric trial design, and innovative approaches to engaging with patients across the study continuum.

November 28, 2018
Field Based Medical LCM in the Device and Pharma World
MSLs are becoming more important and playing key roles across the lifecycle in partnership with many others who play important roles. We will describe the landscape, drivers, and opportunities for engaging with customers across the lifecycle and how we socialize learnings across the organization.

October 30, 2018
Dust Off Your Scientific Communication Platforms: Updating, Implementing, and Operationalizing Them for Success
Ensure understanding of the basic components and processes involved in the development of a scientific communication platform (SCP); how to develop and/or update an SCP so that the scientific and value narratives are integrated; learn how to train and implement an SCP across functional teams; glean insights into tailoring a global SCP to a regional SCP

October 24, 2018
Clinical Statistics for Non-Statisticians (Part 1 of 2)
Part 1 of this series will: define terminologies in statistics; explain different types of data (quantitative vs. qualitative); describe different ways in presenting summary data (such as proportions, means, medians, range and standard deviation); explain 95% confidence intervals; discuss bivariate analyses and appropriate statistical testing for quantitative and qualitative variables

October 10, 2018
Value Assessment for Health Technologies – A Primer on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Technology Assessment
Health technology and value assessment can be conducted using a variety of methods. Dr. Malone will provide an overview of those methods and an introduction on how to interpret the results from cost-effectiveness studies. This webinar will also discuss issues with defining value for health technologies, especially pharmaceuticals.

September 18, 2018
“MSLs Rattling the Cage” – break out roles, strategic innovation and building excellence for Field Based Medical
Gain tips and tricks for communicating cross-functionally the value of Field Based Medical; enhance your business acumen and ability to leverage the business through science and effective strategy; learn about demonstration of value and how to measure it and to hire, train and retain towards that goal

August 30, 2018
Medical Affairs Excellence and Ethics & Compliance in the Evolving Healthcare Landscape – Collaborating and Leading by Example
This Webinar explores: the role of Medical Affairs in guiding ethical decisions internally and externally; the impact of Medical Affairs beyond its remit; the importance of sharing best practices for the role of Medical Affairs in strategic brand planning, and the ethics and compliance considerations for Medical Affairs plans.

August 30, 2018
Compliance Considerations in Medical/Commercial Collaborations
In this webinar, we explore two scenarios that can open Medical Affairs up to censure. Scenario one explores participation of commercial team members in Medical Advisory Boards and scenario two looks at the implications of a commercial team member requesting a medical team member to participate in a thought leader meeting.