The "Elevate" by MAPS Podcast

In this series, brought to your by the MAPS Field Medical Focus Area Working Group, we will be highlighting skills, topics and behaviors that are fundamental to Field Medical success. In this first podcast we will discuss leading through change .

In the final of this 3-part series, we will be meeting with Georgios Tramountanis, a member of the MAPS Digital Focus Area Working Group.

The podcast objectives are to:  

- Examine where we see the potential opportunities for Medical Affairs as it relates to Automation
- Discuss what the best places to consider are when developing an Automation journey in Medical Affairs and where to start
- Review some predictions on the future of Automation in Medical Affairs.

On today's "Elevate" podcast episode, we're speaking with Eric Peacock, co-founder and CEO of MyHealthTeam about Medical Affairs work with patients in social networks. This episode, sponsored by MyHealthTeam, will address the following questions:

1. What's the big opportunity for Medical Affairs professionals in patient social networks? 
2. What have you learned that works in engaging people living with chronic conditions?
3. What role do social networks play in addressing inequities in healthcare?
4. How has the approach to serving patients evolved over the past 10 years?
5. What's the top takeaway from the pandemic that will impact future approach?

In this second episode, we'll be meeting with Shinya Suda-san, Sr. Vice President and Global Head of Information Systems at Astellas to glean insights on Automation opportunities as it relates to Digital Transformation. 

The podcast objectives are to:   

• Understand the potential opportunities that automation has already provided at Astellas Pharma 
• Discuss any future expectations and predictions on how automation can be one of the enablers of a Digital Transformation journey 
• Learn about Digital Transformation best practices and lessons learned  

In this first of 3 episodes, we will be meeting with an industry expert on Automation within the pharmaceutical industry

The podcast objectives are:   

• Understand key aspects of Automation to understand the potential opportunities 
• Application of Automation within Medical Affairs – key examples and takeaways 
• Recommendations on how to learn more and how to begin or accelerate your automation journey.

Attached to every clinical trial is a line of hope for a patient seeking a cure or better way to live with a rare, chronic, or limiting condition. Unfortunately, global events have disrupted the clinical trial landscape significantly in the past 2 years impacting the hope and lives of millions of people. Although rescue sites are most commonly thought of as an alternative to trials failing for more common reasons like lack of enrollment, Medical Affairs teams should be re-evaluating their overall strategy to make sure that even in the face of uncertainty, there is a path forward for clinical design. Rescue sites can provide that path forward.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, an informal cross-industry collaboration developed to share information and best-practices as they chartered into the unfamiliar territories of Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), the process, planning and preparation of the MI teams during a global pandemic. This podcast, a continuation from Episode 1, will discuss the What of the collaboration– the specific topics covered by phactMI, a nonprofit collaboration of Medical Information leaders.

Objectives: The objectives for this podcast series are: 

1. Discuss the impact the conversations in the group had on your workstream and with your internal business stakeholders 
2. Identify the major lessons learned through the collaboration 
3. Discuss how these lessons can be applied in the future 

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, an informal cross-industry collaboration developed to share information and best-practices as they chartered into the unfamiliar territories of Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), the process, planning and preparation of the MI teams during a global pandemic. This podcast will discuss the how and why this group of MI professionals, who are part of phactMI, a nonprofit collaboration of Medical Information leaders, came together and the lessons learned from their collaboration.  

Objectives: The objectives for this podcast series are: 

1. Describe the motivation of the companies to participate in a collaboration. 
2. List the reasons for the collaboration to form. 
3. Identify the goals for the collaboration. 
4. Discuss the impact the conversations in the group had on your workstream and with your internal business stakeholders 
5. Identify the major lessons learned through the collaboration 
6. Discuss how these lessons can be applied in the future 

 In this episode of the Elevate podcast channel, Opening Doors series, MAPS co-founder Kirk Shepard speaks with Renu Juneja about her serendipitous path from a PhD program in India into the pharmaceutical industry. As Renu describes, she nearly quit science to take a retail management position to support her family, when she got an interview for a medical writing position at Novo Nordisk...and spent an afternoon sitting in Barnes & Noble to read up on what, exactly, a medical writer does. 

In this episode of the Elevate podcast channel, Opening Doors series, MAPS speaks with Renu Juneja, who started a medical writing fellowship program at Janssen, and with two of her former fellowship participants, Jennifer Lee and Lauren Brown. We hope you enjoy this look at one way to find a first position in the pharmaceutical industry!