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Introduction to iCAN

iCAN is for support staff such as executive secretaries, PAs and administrative assistants from all

areas within the pharmaceutical industry. The aim is to inform, educate and offer development for

those in the industry that want to learn more about their chosen profession. The benefits include:

Attendance at three meetings per year

Each meeting has three industry speaker slots. In general, these are the “Doc Spot” – covering a

therapy area or health condition and two further sessions on industry aspects or issues requested by

iCAN members. A list of the outstanding speakers and topics we have enjoyed over the last eight

years is attached in Appendix I.

The business intelligence gathered at iCAN can help members to understand the role of doctors, the

drug delivery processes, modes of action and how their product might differ to others in the market

place, the current industry issues as well as the many roles within the industry.

It is also an opportunity for members to meet and network with each other (although they have

perhaps worked on company alliances together). We are often asked to introduce people to one

another as they know someone by name but have yet to meet them. Networking is not only the

prerogative of the bosses! Recent introductions of workshop activities have provided a good

networking opportunity as we mx the companies up into teams.

In times of reducing training and department budgets, iCAN is an inexpensive way of providing

education and career development for all areas of the pharmaceutical industry.

Outstanding industry speakers

The topics and speaker selection are all Member-driven emanating from the iCAN topic selector

(Appendix II). Three times a year, the members are canvassed for their preferred topics (similar to

our Pharmaceutical Directors Club). Their feedback is reviewed at the next iCAN steering group

meeting and speakers are suggested for the most popular subjects. In this way, we can make sure

that the topics are of interest, current and not duplicated.

Speaker presentations

Typically we provide electronic speaker slides at each of the three iCAN meetings as well as a paper

copy so that members can make their own live notes on the presentations. We hear that members

often pass on the presentations to their bosses for information!

Promoting the Boss

Several of our members have been asked to invite their boss to present at a iCAN meeting to explain

their role in the industry. These could be General Managers, Managing Directors, Medical Directors,

Marketing Executives, Regulatory Managers – the list is endless!

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Membership Booklet

Each member receives a booklet of members with their contact details should they want to contact

someone in between meetings.

Steering Group

The Club is given advice by the iCAN steering group, a small, senior group of PAs and EAs who

enthusiastically participate and contribute to the three steering group meetings. These Steering

group members review the Member feedback, select topics for future meetings and also assist in

looking after new members to the Club.

Enjoy the iCAN experience:

•Participate in three meetings per year

•Learn from outstanding industry speakers

•Network with members at each meeting

•Link with other members via the Member Booklet

•Get involved. Join the iCAN Steering Group

•Encourage iCAN’s future through your feedback

•Promote your Boss!

•Raise the status of top EAs, PAs, Secretaries and administrators!

We would be happy to answer any further queries you may have. Please contact Jill Payne 07799

036134 or jill@ptbusinessgroups.com

Appendix I

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Date of Meeting Speaker Topic

2018

29/11/18 Andrew Benzie, Head of Patient Partnership, GlaxoSmithKline

The Voice of the Patient

Adele Paterson, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Corporate Partnerships, International Health Partners

Enabling access to medicines for the world’s poorest people

John Quinn, Chief Operating Officer Moorfields Eye Hospital

Eye Health

28 & 29/6/18 Red Cross “Save a Life” workshop with certification

Richard Erwin, General Manager, Roche What Keeps me awake at night?

Philip Till, Associate Director Demand and Supply, Astellas

Unravelling the Supply Chain

Dr Monica Marta, Consultant Neurologist, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London

Multiple Sclerosis, its treatment and symptoms

Trishna Bharadia, Patient Advocate for MS Living with Multiple Sclerosis

22/3/18 Martin Andrews, Senior Vice President Rare Diseases, GlaxoSmithKline

Cells as Medicines

Dr Hannah Furby, Imaging Research Associate Huntington's Disease Research Centre, London

Huntingdon’s Disease, a major breakthrough

Helen Kane, Managing Director, Pivot MSL The Role of the MSL

Appendix I

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Date of Meeting Speaker Topic

2017

30/11/17 Dr Tim Ringrose, CEO M3 EU Your Life in Your Hands – Your Future Health

Dr James Gratwicke, Senior Registrar, King’s College Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust

Parkinson’s Disease

Judy Willits, Consultant, Judy Willits Consulting The NHS Explained

6 & 7/7/17 Susan Macdonald, Founder, Macdonald Lewis Associates Find your Little Bit of Calm

Andy Davis, Chairman neoNavitas Working with the new NHS

Mig Sleeper, VP Head of Global Market Access & Pricing, Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd

Are cancer drugs too expensive?

Dr Sam Vaughan Jones, Consultant Dermatologist, Ashford & St Peters Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Skin disease in pregnancy, and Sun and Skin cancer

16/3/17 Geoff McDonald, Executive Director Open Minds & Connecting with People

Mental Wellbeing - a competitive advantage in an ever changing and anxious world

Chris Corbin, Co-founder and CEO , Ashfield Healthcare Past, present and future in Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

Eric Low, Former CEO , Myeloma UK Professionalising the power of patient charities

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Date of Meeting Speaker Topic

2016

1/12/16

Jeffery French, Eli Lilly E-patients and how the digital world is being harnessed to help in the delivery of healthcare

Sebastian Stachowiak, Shire Pharmaceuticals Industry leader discusses his company, the pharmaceutical and healthcare

industries

Renata Russell My journey with cancer

Jasmin Julia Gupta, Founder, Cancer Hair care Jasmin describes her charity which provides real hair wigs, caps and scarves for cancer patients and tools to help children understand with what is happening to them or their mother

30/6 & 1/7/16 Barbara Cosgrave Workshop: Styling for Business Success

Dr Guy Meadows, The Sleep School Sleep to Perform

Ann Brosnan & Jenny Luckett, Carers UK Caring for a dementia patient

Sean Cush, Cognite Rebranding of ICAN

Jane Griffiths, Janssen Realising your true value

10/3/16 Gabrielle Harris, Cancer Patient Dealing with Ovarian Cancer – a Patient View

Professor Trevor Jones CBE Hot Topics for Pharma

Smita Sealey, IMS Health The Change in the Marketing of Medicines

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Date of Meeting Speaker Topic

2015

3/12/15 Mike Young, Founder, Cognite ICAN Branding Workshop

Dr Raja Badrakalimuthu, Consultant Psychiatrist Depression and Anxiety

Dr Jerry Temko, Senior LVP and General Counsel Astellas

Judy Willits, Willits Consulting The Evolving NHS and Five Year Plan

11 & 12/6/15 Jonathan Dancer, redbow consulting Creativity and Branding Workshop

Dr Julia Sinclair Alcohol Use Disorders

Nikki Yates, General Manager UK and SVP UK and Ireland, GlaxoSmithKline

Science with Humanity

Adrian Giles, Commercial Director, neoNavitas How the power of negotiation and influence can improve our lives, our work … and the NHS!

5/3/15 Dr Charles Alessi, GP and NAPC Chairman The Life and Times of a GP working in Primary Care

Karen Harrison Dening, Director of Admiral Nursing, Dementia UK

Dementia Care

Simon McNamara, Group Health Economics Manager, Roche

What benefits will Big Data bring to patients?

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Date of Meeting Speaker Topic

2014

13/11/14 Zinta Krumins, Managing Director, Boehringer Ingelheim What keeps me awake at night?

David Haslam, Chairman NICE NICE Update

Miss Joan Pitkin, Consultant Gynaecologist The Menopause and HRT

5/6/14 Special Interactive Workshop “Developing Personal Effectiveness – without stress” Facilitated by The Garnett Foundation

Nicola Massey, General Manager, Shire Pharmaceuticals What keeps me awake at night?

Dr Jill Rasmussen, GP and RCGP Clinical Champion for Dementia

Dementia

Lucy Pritchett, Digital Researcher, Havas Lynx The role of social media in healthcare

6/3/14 George Magnus, Independent economist, consultant and commentator

An Ageing Population

Professor John Gosling, Royal Liverpool University The Science and Influence of Pathology in our Lives

Robin Bhattacherjee, General Manager, Actelion What Keeps me awake at night?

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2013

14/11/13 Jeroen Dumon, Senior Director Medical Affairs Europe - Scientific Information, Astellas

Medical Leadership

Mr Clifford Stossel, FRCS Eng, FRCS Ed Doc Spot – Rehab for Heroes

Dr Louise Wood, Head of Research Infrastructure and Growth, Research and Development Directorate, Department of Health

NIHR – Improving the Health and Wealth of the Nation through research

6/6/13

AGM Special Interactive Workshop on “Treating people fairly, avoiding racism, sexism and ageism” Facilitated by The Garnett Foundation

Dr Satish Chandran, Senior Registrar,Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust Doc spot – Childhood Allergies

Mike Crooks, General Manager, Astellas What Keeps me awake at night?

Sarah Rickwood, Global Thought Leader, IMS UK - its place in world pharmaceuticals

14/3/13 Dr Gerhard Compion, Medical Director, Urology, Astellas Experience of a Doctor in health services and industry

David Garmon-Jones, General Manager for Merck Serono

What Keeps me awake at night?

Clive Noak, Business Development Manager TSA, (Telehealth and Telecare Services Association)

How telehealth and telecare are improving patient lives

Appendix I

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2012

16/11/12 Professor Trevor Jones, CBE, Former Director General, ABPI and Commissioner World Health Organisation

Medicines for tropical and developing world diseases

Dr Albert Groenwoud, Senior Director, Medico Marketing Operations, Astellas Pharma Europe

The Science and Art of Transplantation

Professor Neena Modi, Professor of Neo Natal Medicine, Imperial College, London

Clinical Trials in Children

15/6/12 Micah Yeung Shi Yin, Men's Health Group Brand Manager, Eli Lilly The Story of Cialis

Sandra Muzinich, Senior Consultant, Across Health Social media – what is it, what it’s good for and how is pharma using it?

Dr Scott Takeda, Consultant Cardiologist, Maidstone Hospital Doc Spot - The treatment of cardiovascular disease

15/3/12 Professor Anton Emmanuel, UCLH Doc Spot – Brain control of diet and weight

Stephen Whitehead, ABPI The Pharmaceutical Industry – working for patients

Steve Davis, Healthcare at Home and Sharron Morrison, a former cancer sufferer who experienced both NHS and home care treatment. The rise and rise of the clinical homecare market

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2011

23/09/2011 Professor Anton Emmanuel, UCLH Doc Spot - Diseases of the Bowel.

Dr Dave Weston and Nurse Practitioner Lesley Waters Practice Perspectives of the new NHS from a GP and Practice Nurse

Richard Bonner, Qualified Person, formerly Head of Manufacturing, Eli Liily Making Medicine from a manufacturing, regulation and safety perspective

AGM 16/06/2011

Mac McKeever, CEO at Mede Analytics International and member of the Future Forum, Formerly Chief Executive of Bexley PCT The changing NHS and implications to Pharma

Melissa Thomas, Managing Director, Nycomed What keeps me awake at night? Managing Director reveals all

Dr Alastair Smith, Consultant Haematologist, Southampton University Hospitals Trust Doc Spot - Myeloma - diagnosis, treatment and trend

17/03/2011 Yosh Tarapore, Senior Consultant, Thought Leadership Team, IMS Great Launches - a review of great launches of medicine

Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman, NICE Mr NICE - as a global brand

Dr David Veale, Consultant Psychiatrist in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust and The Priory Hospital Doc Spot - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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2010

11/11/2010 John Kearney, Managing Director, Amgen What keeps me awake at night - key issues facing the industry and Amgen

Chris Corbin, Managing Director, AshfieldIn2Focus What's happening with the Pharma salesforces?

Dr Michael Feher, Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Clinical Pharmacology, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Doc Spot - Diabetes

AGM 10/06/2010

Patrick Hopkinson, Director Portfolio and Partnership Marketing, GSK Joint Working Initiatives

Dr Andy Dowson, Director of the King's Headache Service at King's College Hospital, London Doc Spot - Migraines

John Freeman, Managing Director, Shire Pharmaceuticals What keeps me awake at night - demands of management and future growth

25/03/2010 Derek Walmsley, Regional Manager, Eli Lilly Counterfeit Medicines

Professor Juliet Compston, Professor of Bone Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Doc Spot - Osteoporosis

Dr Kelvin Tan, Allergan Medical Aesthetics

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2009

29/10/2009 Dr Mary Morrell Doc Spot - Sleep: What is it? And what can go wrong?

Heather Simmonds, Director, PMCPA Industry Reputation and the Code of Practice

Nigel Seear, IMS Are patients at risk because of parallel exporting?

AGM 18/19/2009 Dr Graham Archard A day in the life of a GP - changing practice

Paul Johnson, Managing Director, IMS Health What keep me awake at night - challenges faced by IMS

Mr Andrew McLaren, General & Endocrine Surgeon Doc Spot - Thyroid Problems

02/04/2009 Coll Michaels, IMS Health A day in the life of a pharmacist

Carwyn Jones, Doctors.net.uk Doctor Portals - a revolution is at hand

Dr Rod Hughes, Alison Kent and Ros Meek Doc Spot - Rheumatoid Arthritis

TOPIC SELECTOR Appendix II

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DOC SPOT SELECTOR – Please select two disease areas you would like covered in the near future

(Bold type subjects have been covered in the last 4 years)

ADHD Gastric/Duodenal Ulcer Osteoporosis

AIDS Genetic Diseases Pain/analgesia

Alcoholism Glaucoma Pancreatitis

Allergy Hepatitis (viral) Parkinson’s Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease Herpes Infections Pathology

Anxiety, Depression & Stress Incontinence Psoriasis

Bacterial Infections Infectious Diseases Psychotic Illnesses

Bowel disease Leukaemia Rehab and Surgery

Cancer(s) Mens Health Respiratory Diseases

Cancer Vaccine Mental Health Rheumatoid Arthritis

Cardiovascular Migraine Skin Cancer

Care of the Elderly Motor Neurone Disease Sleep Disorders

Cosmetic Surgery Multiple Sclerosis Thyroid Problems

Cystic Fibrosis Myeloma Toxic Shock Syndrome

Dementia Nausea Tropical Diseases

Diabetes Nutritional Medicine Transplantation

Eczema Obesity Urology

Epilepsy OCD Vaccines

Fungal Infection Obs & Gynae Womens Health

O & R Arthritis

Other please specify

Other industry issue topics

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Name: Company:

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TOPIC SELECTOR Appendix II

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