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30 October 2025
From data to decisions: MAPA-MAPS 2025 spotlight
Bold Ideas, Bright Futures: Brilliance in Medical Affairs was the theme of this year’s joint Medical Affairs Professionals of Australasia (MAPA) and Medical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS) Australasia Medical Affairs Summit. The 2-day meeting was held on 24 and 25 September in Sydney, Australia, and welcomed over 300 attendees and 75 faculty members.
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Thinking beyond the ordinary: optimizing medical communications for rare diseases
Rare diseases Champion sponsor of the Annual Meeting Reported by Heather Mitchell Speakers Scott Baver, Medical Affairs Professional Jeff Stumpf, Scientific Director II, MedThink SciCom Rare diseases affect 25–30 million Americans and pose unique challenges and valuable opportunities for the healthcare and medical communications industries. This session raised four key strategies to improve medical communications…
Individualizing communications: from concept to impact
Individualizing communications Champion sponsor of the Annual Meeting Reported by Devorah Weinstock Speakers Denise Bonen, Senior Scientific Director, Complete HealthVizion Heather Abourjaily, Head of Global Scientific Communications – Pipeline, Vertex Pharmaceuticals David Hogben, Director, Region USA & Global Multichannel, Complete HealthVizion Who doesn’t enjoy a good story? Stories communicated well can share meaningful content in…
Evolving the process and extending the reach of scientific platforms
Scientific platforms Champion sponsor of the Annual Meeting Reported by Heather Mitchell Speakers Christopher Spohr, Creative Director, Ashfield Healthcare Communications Angela Jacobson, Group Account Director, Ashfield Healthcare LLC Rebecca Rozich, Vice President, Medical and Scientific Services, Ashfield Healthcare LLC This session focused on the future of scientific platforms, with key objectives of understanding the evolution…
Editor's panel: I'm an Editor – ask me anything!
Ask me anything Champion sponsor of the Annual Meeting Reported by Devorah Weinstock Speakers Caroline Halford, Chief Publishing Officer, PLOS Alan Moore, Digital Publishing Manager, Adis | Springer Healthcare Ltd Shawn Morton, Senior Editorial Director, Health Sciences, Wiley Niamh O’Connor, Chief Publishing Officer, PLOS This session with journal editors was packed with rich and relevant…
For the present purpose: using medical rhetoric to enhance scientific communication in an open world
Scientific communication Champion sponsor of the Annual Meeting Reported by Olivia McKenna Speaker Lisa DeTora, Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and Director, STEM Writing, Hofstra University Lisa DeTora delivered a very interesting presentation on how to improve scientific communication in an open world by leveraging Aristotle’s rhetorical concepts of practical wisdom (phonese), applied…
