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Session 10 Track 2: Honing Your Tetris® Skills: Optimizing Time, Talent, and Tools in Medical Writing
Session Chair(s)
Fabiana Ebihara, MSc
Director, Medical Writing Services
Parexel International, United States
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, Matthew C. Robillard and Kim Jochman, moderated by Julia Forjanic Klapproth, will explore practical strategies for balancing capacity and demand, optimizing team structures, and leveraging outsourcing and technology effectively. 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:
- Identify at least two specific strategies for balancing medical writing capacity and demand
- Develop a customized resource allocation framework that addresses common medical writing bottlenecks
- Design a structured approach to prevent burnout within medical writing teams while maintaining quality standards
Speaker(s)
Speaker
Representative Invited
AbbVie, United States
Speaker
Kim Jochman, PhD, RAC
Merck & Co., Inc., United States
Senior Director, Medical Writing
Speaker
Julia Forjanic Klapproth, PhD
Trilogy & Consulting GmbH , Germany
Senior Partner
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