Leadership and Strategy in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

"Leadership and Strategy in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech" is an executive program offered by Harvard Business School this spring. Here is some additional information regarding this program:

Revolutions in technology, markets, and government policy are transforming the playing field for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. This program prepares high-potential executives to become better managers and leaders—and lays a foundation for strategically positioning their companies for a world of change.

What You Can Expect
Created to enhance individual leadership capacity and boost corporate performance, this leadership development program enables participants to evaluate alternative business models, competitive strategies, and financial approaches, as well as explore issues ranging from profitability, organizational change, and intellectual property to global distribution.

Vice President Medical Informatics - CMIO

A hospital in the Dallas TX area is looking for a CMIO. You can learn more about this VP Medical Informatics job here.

Also, don't forget that you can find a variety of non-clinical jobs on the NonClinicalJobs Job Board.

3 Time-Saving Tips From Doximity Physicians

Here are 3 Time-Saving Tips From Doximity Physicians:

1. Find The Right Expert

"Using Doximity, a physician discovered my profile when searching for local experts in a specific procedure. He was able to review my relevant information and refer his patient in minutes, dialing my office with a single tap.”
– JASON JAMES, MD

2. Send Secure Faxes Right From Your Phone

“I fax my referring physicians right from the Doximity app to let them know my initial impressions of the patient they entrusted to my care. It's extremely handy and saves a tremendous amount of time.”
– SCOTT ROSEFF, MD

3. Reconnect with Former Classmates

“My 45th reunion is coming up in 2012. Doximity has made it easy to locate my former med school classmates and learn their specialties before we see each other in person later this year.”
– JAMES ISOBE, MD

Getting ready for an MBA course in supply chain management

Next week, I'll be taking an MBA course on supply chain management. Those of us working in medicine often don't think about the supply chain. When we're focused on delivering services rather than products, the concepts around a supply chain may not feel very relevant. However, the concepts surrounding supply chain management are essential to health care delivery both on an individual patient level and a population health level.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Supply Chain Management:

Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers (Harland, 1996).[2] Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption (supply chain). 

Another definition is provided by the APICS Dictionary when it defines SCM as the "design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally."

According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing, procurement, conversion, and logistics management. It also includes the crucial components of coordination and collaboration with channel partners, which can be suppliers, intermediaries, third-party service providers, and customers. In essence, supply chain management integrates supply and demand management within and across companies. More recently, the loosely coupled, self-organizing network of businesses that cooperate to provide product and service offerings has been called the Extended Enterprise.

I'm currently 1/3 of the way through the MBA program and I'm enjoying my experience so far. It's great to learn new concepts and to have an opportunity to apply my knowledge in the real world setting.

Leerink Swann Global Healthcare Conference

The Leerink Swann Global Healthcare Conference is coming up next month in NYC. Here are the details:

Leerink Swann Global Healthcare Conference
Feb 7-8 in New York, NY, USA

I still remember this 2005 NEJM perspective article that mentioned companies like the Gerson Lehrman Group and Leerink Swann and Company.

Founded in 1995, Leerink Swann is recognized as a leading investment bank to both emerging and established healthcare companies that are positioned to shape the future of healthcare. Leerink Swann combines financial expertise and healthcare insight to enable clients to make the best informed investment decisions.

Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development

The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development is an independent, academic, non-profit research group at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Our mission is to develop strategic information to help drug developers, regulators, and policy makers improve the quality and efficiency of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical development, review, and utilization.

2012 Roundtables:

• February 23, 2012: Managing the Transition from Nonclinical to Early Clinical Development
• May 17, 2012: Academic-Industry Partnerships: Opportunities and Pitfalls
• September 13, 2012: The Changing Landscape for Technical Services Outsourcing
• November 1, 2012: Development Strategies for Companion Diagnostics

More information can be found here:  http://csdd.tufts.edu/courses

10 Goals for the New Year

As we enter the New Year, I can't believe how quickly 2011 went by. Now that we're into January, I think about my personal and professional goals that I'd like to puruse in the New Year. Here's a short list of 10 goals where 5 are personal and 5 are professional.

Here are 5 of my personal goals for 2012:

1. Spend more time doing fun and recreational things my family
2. Strengthen my skills in a second language (Rosetta Stone, here I come!)
3. Get more sleep at night
4. Read more books (since I have the Kindle app running on several mobile devices)
5. Exercise more regularly and use a digital self-tracking device (like the Fitbit)

Here are 5 of my professional goals for 2012:

1. Explore ways to diversify my business pursuits
2. Complete another 1/3 of my MBA courses
3. Gain more experience related to government contracting or sub-contracting
4. Expand my professional network by 20% on LinkedIn and Facebook (are we connected yet?)
5. Travel less for business-related purposes

How about you? What types of goals have you set for the New Year?