Medical Assistant

EXPERIENCE

**/****-******* *\S\L Group (www.pslgroup.com) New York/ Montreal/

Atlanta

Chief Medical Officer

. Oversee the creation of all content across the company's

business units

. Overall company growth from ~$4M to over $100M between 2001-2007

. Head the most profitable business unit, PeerView Institute

. Direct report staff of 8 physicians and 18 editors

. Other, dotted line, oversight responsibilities towards sales,

operations, and production staff

Business Units:

PeerView Institute (www.peerview-institute.org)

Managing Director

. >1000% growth in 5 years to $23 million in 2006

. Liaise with pharmaceutical/ biotechnology clients in the US,

Europe and Canada to develop customized educational solutions

based on current scientific data and trends. Long-term strategic

involvement with over 45 brands.

. Developed and created a successful line of sponsored multimedia

content products on company web-site and CD-ROMs as well as CMEs

and print publications. These products are now responsible for

the majority of the PSL Groups earnings. (www.peerviewpress.com)

Peer Direct (www.peer-direct.com)

Chief Medical Officer

. Launched in Fall 2004, 2007 revenues were $35 million

. Create promotional programs for over 35 brands across large and

medium-sized pharmaceutical companies

Doctor's Guide (www.docguide.com)

Chief Medical Officer

. Responsible for one of the largest medical news operations in

the world

. Supervise the creation of 2500 breaking news articles from ~120

medical conferences reported by a team of up to 150 freelance

writers per year

. Supervise a wire service to provide medical content to

pharmaceutical and institutional clients.

FirstWord (www.firstwordplus.com)

Consultant

. Daily newsletter used by over 100,000 pharmaceutical industry

subscribers worldwide

10/1999-11/2001 WebMD Inc.

Atlanta

Medical Editor

Responsible for selecting, assigning and medically editing content and

graphics for physician and consumer websites (www.webmd.com). Review

content sources such as medical journals, wire reports, media reports,

bureau reports and press releases to determine appropriate news.

. Liaison for the company-wide product development and implementation

effort. Provide editorial input for all new products, streamline

new launches and upgrades with the editorial department.

. Launched several new channels for WebMD.

. Advisor for editorial departments of WebMD's international bureaus

such as WebMD Japan, Canada and India. Consulted with planning and

implementation of these sites.

. Written and published nearly 1,000 medical stories and commentaries

for WebMD and outside sites such as CNN.com.

1994-1999 Online Telemedicine Research Inst.

Austin, Texas

Co-founder/ Vice-President for Marketing

Initiated and developed U.S. market for an international manufacturer

of Telemedicine devices, 12 lead EKG machines, Cardiac monitors and

Urodynamics/Uroflow meters.

. Successfully performed market research, patent protection and

regulatory compliance procedures that resulted in the launch of the

Telemedicine device.

1994-1997 Various biomedical publishers

Austin, Texas

Contract Editor

. Responsible for editing, rewriting and indexing technical medical

manuscripts.

1989-1993 The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Austin, Texas

Graduate Research Assistant/ Graduate Teaching Assistant

. Conducted independent research in retrovirology with an emphasis on

molecular oncology

EDUCATION

1982-1989 Baroda Medical College

Baroda, India

. MBBS; Graduated 2nd in my class (97th percentile). My degree has

been independently certified by the relevant US authorities to be

the equivalent of the American MD degree.

1989-1993 The University of Texas

Austin, Texas

. Graduate course work in Microbiology, GPA 3.7, 57 Credits

. Molecular biology (retrovirology) research at MD Anderson Cancer

Center (1991-1993)

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