Planning advisory boards

Pharmaceutical companies set up advisory boards for the purpose, as the name suggests, of getting advice on a particular aspect of the commercialisation of their products. Advisers/consult-ants generally advise the pharmaceutical company on marketing and clinical issues and help to answer questions, so that the company can better direct medical/clinical and marketing efforts. Advisory boards are therefore for the benefit of the company and the participants are usually paid for their services, which are normally delivered under the terms of a contract. 

Advisory boards are not considered promotional and differ from other types of company-organised meeting that have an educational content but are considered promotional. 

Any company personnel attending the advisory board should attend in a non-promotional role for this reason, members of the sales force should not normally even attend an advisory board. 

As mentioned above, it is usual for members of advisory boards to be paid a consultancy fee as laid down in a formal contract. The guidance given with respect to the amount in most codes of conduct is that this should be in line with professional rates of remuneration and should reflect the amount of time spent in the advisory capacity. For individual country guidance, consult Section 7.5, p. 105. 

Advisers must be selected based on their knowledge, experience or other skill-based qualification that will allow the objectives of the advisory board to be met. They must not be selected on the basis of their history of, or potential for, prescribing the pharmaceutical company s products. 

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The three chapters at the start of the book deal with planning core campaigns, planning promotion at international congresses and planning advisory boards. 

Product Safety Science Advisory Board Diseases Radiation Protection Drugs HPB Transition Policy, Planning and Coordination... 

Again, it is a pleasure to acknowledge the indebtedness of the users of these volumes to the Advisory Board that helped plan each volume, to the contributors for their unusually high level of excellence, to the staff of Academic Press for their high professional standards, and to Lyda Boyer, whose editorial and other assistance made many tasks lighter. 

As well as assisting in the review process, the Editorial Advisory Board helps set editorial policy and approve plans for new content or major update. 

We are pleased to note that the masthead hsts a revamped and expanded Editorial Advisory Board. This board is assisting the coeditors in the planning of future volumes in order to ensure that Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry continues to highlight the most important applications of physical and theoretical methods to the characterization of the structure and stabihty of organic molecules and the mechanisms for their reactions. 

The important area of oxidation-reduction enzymes, covered in Volumes XI-XIII, will complete the third edition of The Enzymes. Some of the most remarkable examples of biological catalysis and versatility of coenzyme and cofactor function are found within this group. As with previous volumes, the excellent quality is a result of the outstanding and well-recognized contributors. For planning the volumes on oxidation-reduction, the Editor and readers are indebted to the Advisory Board Members, namely. Professors Britton Chance, Lars Ernster, Bo Malmstrom, and Vincent Massey. 

More engagement for the students to discuss/feedback/evaluate/take part in the process of planning courses and programs [e.g., create Student Advisory Boards for each department on the Graduate and Undergraduate level. 

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The Director-General, in consultation with the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, shall notify each member of the Board of a planned meeting, stating the purpose, the venue, the opening date and the expected duration of the meeting, as far in advance as possible, but at... 

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