The "Elevate" by MAPS Podcast

MAPS Opening Doors podcasts feature short interviews with Medical Affairs professionals describing their path into and through the profession, and offering advice for job seekers and early-career professionals. In this episode, we speak with Prem Sundivakkam, Director, Medical Affairs and Communications, Astellas. 

MAPS Opening Doors podcasts feature short interviews with Medical Affairs professionals describing their path into and through the profession, and offering advice for job seekers and early-career professionals. In this episode, we speak with Leah Williams, Director, Medical Education and Communications, Hematology TA, CSL Behring.

MAPS Opening Doors podcasts feature short interviews with Medical Affairs professionals describing their path into and through the profession, and offering advice for job seekers and early-career professionals. In this episode, we speak with Terry Griesing, PhD, VP, North America Medical Affairs, Pfizer.

MAPS Opening Doors podcasts feature short interviews with Medical Affairs professionals describing their path into and through the profession, and offering advice for job seekers and early-career professionals. In this episode, we speak with Sherry Siegert, PharmD, Senior Director, Medical Affairs, La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company.

MAPS Opening Doors podcasts feature short interviews with Medical Affairs professionals describing their path into and through the profession, and offering advice for job seekers and early-career professionals. In this episode, we speak with Emily Howman, PhD, Senior Medical Strategy Lead, Envision Pharma Group.

Medical Affairs teams have generally gotten comfortable with the use of Real World Evidence (RWE) to answer questions that might previously have been the subject of clinical trials. Here, we speak with Dr. Ivy Weng, Head of Clinical Development & RWE/HEOR, Komodo Health about the use of RWE in not only reacting to questions but as a proactive piece of Medical Affairs strategy and clinical development. 

MAPS speaks with Tim Mikhelashvili, PharmD, CEO & Co-Founder, Amedea Pharma, Inc. and Riaz Abbas, Learning and Performance Lead, JAPAC Medical, Amgen about innovative approaches to Medical Affairs External Education.

Working in rare disease offers Medical Affairs professionals the opportunity to engage directly with patient organizations and researchers/HCPs deeply involved in providing new options for patients who lack current treatments. However, working in rare disease also comes with significant challenges. Here MAPS sits down at our 2022 Global Annual Meeting with Catherine Parham, Vice President and Head of Global Medical Affairs at Astellas Gene Therapies to talk about the unique position of Medical Affairs in the rare disease space — and how our work in this area is essential for patient benefit.

Previous podcasts explore best practices for expert engagement, but MAPS Partner Circle member, H1, is in a unique position to notice patterns in the ways organizations struggle or simply fail to engage and support external experts. This episode of the Elevate podcast series details 4 things Field Medical teams can do better.

On this episode of the Medical Affairs Professional Society podcast series, "Elevate", we’re speaking about Health Equity with Ariel Katz, CEO of H1. Today, we'll be addressing what the role of Medical Affairs is in creating health equity, whether Medical Affairs is able to promote health equity in ways it couldn’t previously – or if Medical Affairs’ evolving role in health equity due more to increased awareness.