About the Author
My name is Mark Senak. I’m a lawyer and I work at the international communications firm FleishmanHillard in New York. For the past several years, I have been consulting with pharmaceutical and biologic companies that are engaged in the process of bringing new drugs to market. I have also worked extensively with an array of medical societies and patient organizations providing strategic communications counsel and media training.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Lilly Hits One Out of the Ballpark
First – apologies for the whacky formatting issues. Typepad is being quite temperamental here. The agenda is full. Sadly, it is not full of medical product companies. Industry is outnumbered by public relations firms, ad firms, and bloggers. Lots of … Continue reading
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Pre-Game Show – What Some of the Important Players Have to Say at the FDA Part 15 Meeting on Social Media
This week a large number of people and entities released their presentations that will be given at the FDA Part 15 Meeting on Social Media and Medical Product Promotion to be held Thursday and Friday, November 12 and 13th at … Continue reading
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A Pharmaceutical Webmaster Takes Action on Sidewiki
As pointed out here many times, Sidewiki poses some major challenges to all companies having Web sites in general, and to highly regulated industries like the pharmaceutical and financial services industries in particular. A Sidewiki does not belong to a … Continue reading
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Webcast of the FDA Social Media Part 15 Meeting
Here is the site where you can go for the Webstream of the November 12-13 Part 15 meeting held by the FDA on the use of the Internet and Social Media in Medical Product Promotion. Also, as circumstances permit, I … Continue reading
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What If FDA Threw a Party and No One Came? BioPharma Participation in the Part 15 Social Media Meeting
Don't be mislead. A lot of people are coming to the FDA's Part 15 meeting on the use of social media in medical product promotion. But will the ones who count be speaking? This meeting has the potential to be … Continue reading
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