M. Joseph Scobey
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Experienced Medical Affairs Professional
Knowledgeable professional with almost 9 years experience in all functions of medical affairs. A team player that recognizes the impact and importance of a medical affairs team that integrates with the sales and marketing teams. A versatile person who can identify data trends and trends in the medical community to help direct research efforts. Someone who excels in a thriving, dynamic environment.
Key competencies
Publication Planning
Product Launches
Management of IITs
KOL development
Management of MSLs
LMR approval process
Medical Information
Phase IV studies
Sales training
Experience
5/05-6/11 Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. Parsippany, NJ
Director, Medical Affairs
Responsibilities included publication planning, participation in LMR reviews, phase IV studies, participation in sales training meetings, working with medical information on FAQs and call center training, participation in launch teams for new products, providing medical support for all major conferences, KOL development and management of a team of medical science liaisons.
4/03-5/05, Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. Parsippany, NJ
Associate Director, Medical Affairs
Responsibilities included publication planning, participation in LMR reviews, phase IV studies, participation in sales training meetings, participation in launch teams for new products, providing medical support for all major conferences and KOL development
8/02-4/03 Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. Parsippany, NJ
Assistant Director, Medical Affairs
Responsibilities included reporting of adverse events, publication planning, medical information requests, providing medical support for all major conferences and KOL development.
11/01-7/02 Andrology Laboratory Sciences Chicago, IL
Consultant
I worked to develop new assays to assess male infertility
6/01-11/-01 Technomic Bioscience Group Northbrook, IL
Senior Consultant
I worked with a team to prepare market assessments for new products, develop competitive intelligence reports and business strategies for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies. Business proposals were created based on client needs
7/98-5/01 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoctoral Fellow
I conducted research on gene expression in the testis using standard molecular biology assays. I also wrote and submitted a grant to provide funding for my research.
8/94-6/98 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL
Teaching assistant
I tutored pharmacy students on the mechanism of action and side effects of current prescription drugs. The course covered drugs from all major therapeutic categories.
8/92-6/98 Andrology Laboratory Services Chicago, IL
Lab technician
I met with patients, instructed them on lab procedures and performed clinical assays to assess male fertility.
06/89-07-92 Northwestern University Hospital Chicago, IL
Lab Technician
I worked as a lab technician in an in vitro fertilization hospital.
Education
Ph.D., Department of Pharmacodynamics and Pharmaceutics. School of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL August 1998.
B.S., Microbiology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1989
Memberships
2000-2007 Endocrine Society
2002-present American Society of Reproductive Medicine
Publications
Abstracts
1. Scobey MJ, Holmgren W, Lanzendorf S, Chenette P, Wentz A. The evaluation of powder free gloves in the two cell mouse assay. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Fertility Society, Washington D.C. October 1990.
1. Chen D, Scobey M, Jeyendran R. The ability of sperm recovered from the urinary bladder environment (Retrograde Ejaculates) to penetrate zona-free hamster oocytes. Proceedings of the American Society of Andrology, Tampa, Florida, 1993.
1. Scobey MJ, Holmgren W, Jeyendran R. Effect of milk on the ability of spermatozoa to penetrate zona free hamster oocytes. Proceedings of the American Society of Andrology. Tampa, Florida, 1993.
1. Johnson D, Scobey M, Barisic D, Jeyendran R. Yolk supplemented Tyrode’s salt solution: a simple medium for gamete culture. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Fertility Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 1993.
1. Scobey MJ, Gunawardana V, Jeyendran R. Effect of media and thermal shock in inducing sperm capacitation as determined by the sperm penetration assay. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology, Springfield, Illinois, 1994.
1. Chen D, Scobey MJ, Rana N, Jeyuendran R. Effect of urine and pH and osmolality on the sperm penetration assay. Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology, Springfield, Illinois, 1994.
1. Scobey MJ, Milad M, Jeyendran R. Three sperm selection techniques yield different sperm penetration outcomes. Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology, Springfield, Illinois, 1994.
1. Barisic D, Scobey MJ, Jeyendran R. Milk enhances sperm penetration assay outcome when compared to TEST-Yolk medium. Proceedings of the X Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Brussels, Belgium 1994.
1. Scobey MJ, Jeyendran R, Waller D. Alterations of human spermatozoa penetration of hamster oocytes after exposure to Actinomycin D and Doxorubicin. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology, Cincinnatti Ohio, 1997.
1. Scobey MJ, Jeyendran R, Waller D. Sperm mediated embryo exposure to 7-amino actinomycin D. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology, Seattle, Washington 1998.
1. Scobey MJ, Somers J, Bertera A, Zeleznik A, Walker W. Targeted disruption of CREB activity in Sertoli cells causes germ cell death. Serono Symposia, testis workshop, Louisville, KY 1999.
1. Scobey MJ, Somers J, Bertera A, Zeleznik A, Walker W. Targeted disruption of CREB activity in Sertoli cells causes germ cell death. Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA 1999.
1. Scobey MJ, Walker W. Id2 is induced by camp in Sertoli cells and represses androgen receptor promoter activity. Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2000.
1. Scobey MJ, Fix C, Walker W. Testosterone maintains sertoli cell CREB phosphorylation and CREB mRNA levels in the absence of FSH. Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado 2001.
Publications
1. Lanzendorf S, Holmgren W, Johnson D, Scobey MJ, Jeyendran R. Hemizona assay for measuring zona binding in the lowland gorilla. Molecular Reproduction and Development 31: 264-267, 1992.
1. Barisic D, Scobey M, Johnson D, Jeyendran R. The effect of pre incubation of human spermatozoa in milk on sperm penetration into zona free hamster oocytes and on sperm binding to the human zona pellucida. Fertility and Sterility 62:172-175, 1994.
1. Scobey MJ, Holmgren W, Jeyendran R. Effect of pre incubation of human spermatozoa in milk on penetration of zona free hamster oocytes: comparison to test yolk extender. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics 11:163-164, 1995.
1. Scobey MJ, Bielfeld P, Krussel J, Jeyendran R. Effect of milk-yolk on the fertilizing capacity of spermatozoa. Andrologia 27:229-231, 1995.
1. Chen D, Scobey MJ, Jeyendran R. Effect of urine on the functional quality of human spermatozoa. Fertility and Sterility 64:1216-1217, 1995.
1. Scobey MJ, Bielfeld P, Gunawardana V, Jeyendran R. Influence of media and thermal shock on sperm capacitation. Andrologia 28:171-174, 1996.
1. Scobey MJ, Bertera A, Somers J, Watkins S, Zeleznik A, Walker W. Delivery of a cyclic adenosine 3’, 5’ monophosphate response element binding protein (creb) mutant to seminiferous tubules results in impaired spermatogenesis. Endocrinology 14:948-954, 2001.
1. Scobey MJ, Fix C, Walker W. The Id2 transcriptional repressor is induced by follicle stimulation hormone and camp. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279:160**-*****, 2004.
1. Scobey MJ, Raike E, Marshall D. Mixed protocols: multiple ratios of FSH and LH bioactivity using highly purified, human-derived FSH (BRAVELLE) and highly purified hMG (MENOPUR) are unaltered by mixing together in the same syringe. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 3:61, 2005
1. Keye W, Webster B, Dickey R, Somkuti S, Crain J, Scobey MJ. Subcutaneously administered Menopur, a new highly purified human menopausal gonadotropin causes significantly fewer injection site reactions than Repronex in subjects undergoing in vitro fertilization. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 3:62, 2005.