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Session 10 Track 2: Honing Your Tetris® Skills: Resource Management in Medical Writing to Optimize Time and Talent
Session Chair(s)
Fabiana Ebihara, MSC
Director, Medical Writing Services
Parexel International, United States
This discussion will share approaches to balancing workload, timelines, and career development. Managing medical writing resources often feels like a high-stakes game of Tetris®, fitting the right people, skills, and timelines together under constant pressure. In this session, Kim Jochman and Julia Forjanic Klapproth will explore practical strategies for balancing capacity and demand, optimizing team structures, and leveraging opportunities for career development. The discussion will share real-world approaches to overcoming bottlenecks, building flexibility, and ensuring quality without burnout - helping medical writing groups align resources with organizational goals more effectively.
Learning Objective :
At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Understand common resourcing challenges faced in medical writing
- Identify strategies for overcoming these resourcing challenges to increase productivity and utilization and to better support medical writers in career progression
Speaker(s)
Speaker
Kim Jochman, PHD, RAC
Merck & Co., Inc., United States
Senior Director, Medical Writing
Speaker
Julia Forjanic Klapproth, PHD
Trilogy Writing & Consulting GmbH , Germany
Senior Partner
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