Investigator Meetings: Compliance Q & A
Chief Compliance Officer Mary Long at Miller Tanner Associates (MTA) shares with us the challenges and best practices for addressing compliance when planning investigator meetings (IM). Frequently Asked Questions About Compliance When Planning an Investigator Meeting What needs to be considered to approach compliance comprehensively when it comes to investigator meetings? When initiating plans to conduct an investigator meeting, reviewing the hospitality sections of the Manufacturers Associations’ country codes of conduct along with the sponsor’s hospitality guidelines (if provided) are essential. What is currently the biggest challenge for pharma companies...
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{Infographic} How to Automate Your Onboarding
Make your onboarding easily repeatable. Train your team with virtual ease. Share your expertise. Here's how you can automate your onboarding process.
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Miller Tanner Associates Celebrates 22 Years in the Meeting and Event Industry
Miller Tanner Associates (MTA) celebrates 22 years of service in the meeting and event industry. Marnie Miller Battistini, CEO, shares how MTA has adapted, shifted, and innovated over the past 22 years.
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The Miller Tanner difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our clients. Today we introduce you to Christina Serra, Global Event Director. Christina has the ability to juggle and problem solve any event challenge that comes her way. She’s dedicated to providing only the best service to our clients and event attendees. Meet Christina Serra Tell us about your current role with MTA? What are your primary responsibilities? As a global...
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How Event Technology Can Improve Investigator Meetings
At Miller Tanner, our Global Sales Team is often asked what differentiates us from the competition when it comes to organizing events for the pharmaceutical industry. We truly believe what differentiates our company are our people and our service expertise including compliance and proprietary technology to support and enhance MTA’s 22 years of direct planning and logistics for both clinical and commercial events.
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Meet MTA: Carla Mahlberg, Technical Projects Lead
The Miller Tanner difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our clients. Today we introduce you to Technical Projects Lead Carla Mahlberg. Carla brings her versatile technology skill set to our Technology Services Team ensuring that all in-house software projects are delivered on target. Meet Carla Mahlberg Tell us about your current role with Miller Tanner Associates (MTA)? I am the technical projects lead which means that my job is never...
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Case Study: Investigator Training Engagement To Improve Event Management
The Partnership Miller Tanner Associates is a meeting planning company that provides cost-effective, technology-based solutions for your meeting and event needs. We use our advanced event technology and meeting planning expertise to help pharmaceutical companies discover how to more effectively train and engage their study sites. We partnered with a pharmaceutical company whose initiative was aimed at improving investigator meetings’ content for more engagement, creating best practices for all future investigator meetings and measuring ROI. The Challenge Miller Tanner Associates were responsible for developing solutions for challenges related to improving...
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Using Video and Visual Content to Improve Your Onboarding
If you are looking for a creative approach to onboarding new employees, optimize your onboarding with video and visual content as part of your training. At Miller Tanner Associates, we use our own VALTs, Virtual Assessment Learning and Training Source, for onboarding and to introduce new hires to all aspects of our company. We go a step further to create visual content that will improve engagement and excite our new employees about their new role with our company. Training magazine has an excellent list of 10 reasons to optimize your onboarding with...
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How to Improve Your Meetings and Trainings
Message from Mary Long, Chief Compliance Officer Training yesterday versus today… When I first started working in the CRO industry (back when the dinosaurs roamed), the training of healthcare professionals selected to participate in an investigational trial took on two basic formats: 1) holding an investigator meeting that lasted at least 2-3 days and 2) site initiation visits that lasted all day at each site. This is still the most common practice today; however, the time spent at the investigator meeting and the site initiation visits has been cut in half. ...
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Jenny Decker, CMP, Global Experience Manager – Events
The Miller Tanner difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our clients. Today we introduce you to Global Experience Manager – Events Jenny Decker, CMP. Jenny brings her extensive background in event management with expertise in conference and exhibition planning. As a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), Jenny is a valuable asset to our team, planning both clinical and commercial events for our clients.
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