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Medical Affairs
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Clients and Partners:
  • 3M Pharmaceuticals
  • Abbott Laboratories
  • Allergan
  • Amgen
  • AstraZeneca
  • Aventis
  • BASF
  • Baxter
  • Bayer
  • Biogen
  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Chiron
  • Eisai
  • Eli Lilly and Company
  • Forest Laboratories
  • Galderma
  • Genentech
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Hoffmann-La Roche
  • Janssen Pharmaceutica
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Medtronic
  • Merck
  • Millennium Pharmaceuticals
  • Monsanto
  • Novartis
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Ortho Biotech
  • Philips Medical Systems
  • Pfizer
  • Purdue
  • Roche
  • Sankyo Pharma
  • Solvay Pharmaceuticals
  • Takeda
  • Tap Pharmaceuticals
  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Medical Affairs: Research & Consulting

The best medical affairs functions can dramatically enhance a company’s scientific reputation by providing critical scientific/medical information and education to healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders and payer groups.

Best Practices, LLC’s Medical Affairs benchmarking Research & Consulting services provide you with the expertise and intelligence needed to develop a best-in-class Medical Affairs organizations by providing you access to benchmarks and best practices that:
  • Drive efficiency and performance by setting the right structure, staffing, budget, spend, activity and performance measures
  • Improve productivity and effectiveness through benchmarking key processes, systems and initiatives
  • Highlight upcoming trends, key challenges and lessons learned

Specific examples of research conducted for medical affairs, include:
  • Medical Affairs
    • Building best-in-class capabilities for Medical Affairs
    • Pharmaceutical New Product Planning: Role and Activities for Medical Affairs
  • Health Economics/Outcomes
    • HOL group structure and activities, role differentiation, customer engagement, and future trends
    • How the HOL function drives value across the healthcare industry
  • Medical Education
    • Professional Medical Education structures, resources, services & performance levels to optimize pharmaceutical biotechnology and medical device education groups
    • Educating KOLs, physicians, patients and payers to support successful product launches across specific therapeutic areas
  • Medical Science Liaisons
    • Generating value for diverse customer groups
    • Gaining access and forging relationships with Key Opinion Leaders
  • Scientific Publications
    • Strategy for managing reputation, clinical trial results and commercial relevance
  • Thought Leader (KOL) Relationship Management
    • Optimizing Key Opinion Leader relationships


For more information on how we can support you in driving medical affairs excellence, please contact:

Cameron Tew, Executive Director of Research, Publishing, Marketing and Advisory Services
(919) 403-0251 ext. 246
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