New 2011 Webinar Series to Educate, Enhance and Empower Life Sciences Professionals

We have just launched our 2011 webinar series to educate, enhance and empower life sciences professionals. Webinar topics range from how to position for optimal capital raising, successfully commercializing products, picking the right growth targets, optimizing clinical trials, heightening R&D productivity, advancing in a shifting job market, creating a workforce strategy, and more.

Each of the webinars addresses how to respond to different critical issues in life sciences to become more efficient and effective. Attendees will range from clinical research professionals to broad leadership executives.

The first of the 13 webinars in the series, titled “Dynamics in the Life Science Industry: The Tsunami in Full Swing,” begins on March 10. This webinar will examine the state of the industry, the implications for changes as well as methodologies and leading practices to improvement.

“Many in life sciences understand the challenges that continue to plague our industry, as well as those that lie ahead,” said Advanced Clinical Executive Vice President Rosemarie Truman, a 19-year strategy veteran and chief presenter of the series. “From the economic crisis, globalization, new business models, the transition to personalized medicine and Health Care Reform, life sciences professionals have experienced massive disturbances, further strained by numerous quick fixes. This series will offer information and solutions to show life sciences professionals how to effectively respond to these challenges to achieve sustainability.”

Online registration is now open. Webinars are offered to participants at no cost, with the exception of one for which contact hours may be earned. Interested attendees can register online at advancedclinical.com/webinars.

Advanced Clinical Announces Bernice Welles as a Core Member of its Strategic Advisory Ecosystem

Advanced Clinical, a leading provider of clinical research services, announces Bernice Welles as a core member of its strategic advisory ecosystem.

Bannockburn, Ill. (Vocus) September 30, 2010

Advanced Clinical, a leading provider of clinical research services, announces Bernice Welles as a core member of its strategic advisory ecosystem.

As a strategic advisor, Bernice Welles has contributed to Advanced Clinical’s Industry Leading R&D Performance (ILRDP) framework that seeks to make the “business of R&D” more effective and efficient for Life Sciences companies. Bernice has been a key driver in the development and regulatory approval of drugs, biologics, devices as well as combination therapies across multiple therapeutic areas. “Moving a drug and/or biologic from development to approval is, possibly, the hardest earned process in the Life Sciences industry,” says Bernice Welles, Advanced Clinical Strategic Advisor.

Welles’ accomplishments span several leadership roles in companies at different stages of growth. At Genentech, Welles was appointed to several management positions to drive the drug and biologics development portfolio across multiple therapeutic areas. Two of Welles positions included: Senior Director of the Specialty Therapeutics Unit and Vice President of Product Development. One important program that Welles progressed was the Lucentis injection for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is a disease of the eye that is the leading cause of blindness in older Americans and causes loss of the ability to see straight ahead and may make it more difficult to read, drive, or perform other daily activities. By moving forward this program, several thousand patients were able to be treated.

Welles held a Venture Partner position at MPM Capital LLP, where she participated in discussions on medical devices and helped assess device instruments. At MPM, Welles also took the lead on several investments and helped portfolio companies such as CoTherix maneuver the regulatory process leading to an early approval for Ventavis®, a new therapy for pulmonary hypertension.

Welles currently holds executive positions as CEO of Alquest Therapeutics Inc. and Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory, of Enject Inc., both innovative biotechnology startup companies.

With years of experience heading teams across functional areas, Welles credits integration as being one of the keys to her success. Using her capability to integrate the knowledge she has gained during her career, Welles is able to pull together all of the elements of clinical and regulatory as well as leverage the science behind development programs to create a significant, positive impact on the Life Sciences industry.

“I am proud to be working with Advanced Clinical,” said Bernice Welles. “Being part of this expert strategic advisory team allows me to continue to work with a topflight team to create new levels of R&D Productivity for companies in Life Sciences and bring much needed treatments to the market for those who need them.”

About Advanced Clinical: Advanced Clinical provides consulting services, strategic sourcing (CRO), talent management, and technology solutions to the Life Sciences industry. With 15+ years of experience, Advanced Clinical is an established presence in the clinical research field, providing services specifically for Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Device organizations. Advanced utilizes a value-based, “One Team” approach. To learn more, visit http://www.advancedclinical.com/.

Contact:
Rosemarie Truman
rtruman@advancedclinical.com
1200 Lakeside Drive
Bannockburn, IL 60015
Ph: 202-438-2208

Risk Management from Advanced Clinical

Risk is a huge problem in clinical trials, and Advanced Clinical is swift and professional about identifying, assessing, prioritizing, mitigating and tracking risks to proactively avoid those risks – before they become issues that cause the trial to delay the trial. Some risks, unmitigated, can cause 2 years of delay!


Advanced Clinical:

o Assesses risks
o Prioritizes risks
o Reduces uncertainty
o Mitigates risks
o Manages/monitors risks
o Optimizes procedures to reverse risks

Advanced Clinical recognizes the four types of risk: operational, strategic, financial, and market, so no area is overlooked. Advanced Clinical also assesses the scale of the impact, and the likelihood of occurrence of the risk over the trial period.

We want success and advancement for your discovery's trial as much as you do, and managing and mitigating risks is one of our keys to success.

Our teams learn our risk management techniques. If you want to learn about them as well, check out our design your dream job contest: you may win a $200 gift certificate and also get your dream job!

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Ramping and Onboarding with Advanced Clinical

Advanced Clinical's approach to onboarding, training, and adapting team to the client environment is a crucial key to trial acceleration. One week leading up to a trial, Advanced Clinical identifies potential team players, assessing their fit culturally and their competencies. The week of the trial, you interview the team members to gauge comfort level, then the employees engage in Advanced Clinical on-boarding / training, as well as your specific training. Many times, we try to prepare candidates for your trial in advance; therefore, we pre-screen candidates with you, and get them onboarded and trained, so that when you need them, they’re ready for you!

Also included in the rampup process are team “integration” sessions to clarify the plan/schedule, deliverables, roles, project handoffs as well as communication. AC also has team building activities to ensure that the teams will work harmoniously together and the team builds strong chemistry to ensure close collaboration.

Advanced Clinical wants to make sure all steps are taken to provide a “dream team” ready to work efficiently and effectively.

Advanced Clinical strives to make the best environment for our employees. We hope you like our ramping program. Enter our “Design Your Dream Job” contest and you could win a $200 gift card to the store of your choice, an iPod shuffle, and even your dream job!

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Advanced Clinical launches “Design Your Dream Job” contest

"What's Your Dream Job?"

Common complaints of clinical job positions from GlassDoor.com are: “Lack of personal development opportunities," "lack of career progression within the company," "a lot of talk and no action," "under pay from market rate," and "no incentive to do better.” In addition, several former clinical employees working with CROs and clinical contract staffing have stated on Jobvent.com that they are "fed up with back-stabbing and incompetence,” an “unhealthy environment,” and high turnover.

World-class Clinical Strategic Sourcing Organization (hybrid CRO and Clinical Contracting solutions), Advanced Clinical, wants you to “Design your dream job,” and give us suggestions on how to provide the perfect work environment for clinical consultants. We will not only take requests to heart, but match you with a job as best as we can.

The best entry will win a $200 gift card to any store of his or her choosing, and two runners-up will each win an iPod shuffle.

You can enter with a description of your dream job, a video, or any other creative form.

Design your dream job here.

Winners will be announced June 20.

What's your dream job?

For winners announcement, you can follow Advanced Clinical on facebook or on one of our social networks:

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• http://twitter.com/AdvClinicalJobs
• http://youtube.com/AdvancedClinicalJobs
• http://advancedclinicaljobs.blogspot.com/
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