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 December 23, 2015 | ISSUE NUMBER 432 VOL 4
Top Story
Rough Road Ahead for Innovation
With the continuing attacks on industry pricing and marketing practices, the last few months have been tough for pharmaceutical companies — and the political environment in Washington isn’t likely to improve in the coming year, writes Jill Wechsler
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Regulatory
CDER’s Long To-Do List for 2016
Center for Drug Evaluation (CDER) director Janet Woodcock’s priority list for 2016 highlights the need to further implement other legislative mandates such as drug compounding, track-and-trace, and sunscreen oversight, she explained at the FDA/CMS Summit earlier this month
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Value
The Payer Perspective
Payers, physicians, patients, and pharmaceutical companies each use a different lexicon when defining and discussing value. But can we use a broader understanding of stakeholders’ definitions to support new commercial engagement approaches? The answer is yes, writes Susan Abedi
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In this paper, IMS Health describes the next generation of sales, marketing and technology - Orchestrated Customer Engagement (OCE). OCE seamlessly marshals the sequence, context, and purpose of messages to multiple influencing stakeholders. Learn More
Special Feature
The Healing Art in Medicine
Pharm Exec talks with David Dosa, a leading physician in geriatric medicine, whose famous work with a cat named Oscar in end-of-life diagnostics became the stuff of therapeutic legend
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AmerisourceBergen
Patient-Centric Approach to Product Commercialization.  In order for the patient to emerge center stage in a commercial approach, it's necessary for manufacturers to shift prioritization's to help the greatest number of patients gain access and remain on treatments. This requires aligning both R&D and marketing efforts with patient needs in order to drive positive outcomes— clinical as well as behavioral. The result is a successful product with far greater commercial value in a crowded and highly competitive market. 
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//Novavax (Gaithersburg, MD) announced the appointment of Mark Twyman as Vice President, Marketing. Mr. Twyman will be focused on the commercial launch of the company’s RSV F Vaccine.//Assembly Biosciences (Indianapolis, IN) appointed Alan J. Lewis, Ph.D., to the company’s Board of Directors.//Achillion Pharmaceuticals (New Haven, CT) announced the appointment of Frank Verwiel, M.D., former President and Chief Executive Officer of Aptalis Pharma, to its Board of Directors.//CoLucid Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA) appointed Raymond D. Skwierczynski, Ph.D., as Head, Pharmaceutical Operations.//

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