Medical and Scientific Communications 2013 Annual Forum

Attendees will have the opportunity to either dine on their own or grab their lunch and participate in not one but two luncheon sessions of networking roundtable discussions. These networking sessions will be led by one or multiple facilitators having expertise within a core medical affairs functional area that is specific to that table topic discussion (See topics below). These informal networking sessions are designed to enable all roundtable participants to discuss topics of relevance to them, specific to their job functions and activities, and encourage information sharing into these topic areas from the perspectives of large, midsize and small, specialty companies including practices from participants in the device and diagnostics industries. Facilitators will help to guide discussions but the true catalysts of conversation will be the attendees! Please join your colleagues and engage in what will sure to be a variety of insightful (and delicious) networking sessions. Roundtable Discussion Topics: 1. Freedom of Speech and Scientific Exchange- Implications for Medical Affairs 2. Medical Communications - Globalization of Medical Information 3. Medical Communications - Call Center - Hot Topics 4. Medical Communications - Risk Management-REMS 5. Medical Communications - Compliance 6. Medical Writing - Medical writing outsourcing 7. Medical Writing - Writing CTD summaries, overviews, and other registration documents 8. Medical Writing - Publication writing 9. MSL - Initial Evaluation & Selection of MSL Personnel - What qualities, requisites and experience do you employ when identifying new MSL personnel? Does it change depending on therapeutic area, stakeholder mix, activities? 10. MSL - MSL Value to Internal Constituents – how do your MSL teams collaborate with other constituent groups within your company? Do they support medical writing activities? Do they do clinical consults assisting the commercial team? Do they provide clinical support to PIs at trial sites? What other contributions can they provide to their internal partners? 11. MSL - MSL Technology Resources – what innovative tools and resources are your MSL teams utilizing? Do they engage in virtual presentations? If yes, how do they document? What reporting databases are being used? Pros and Cons?