Upcoming Conference, to be held April 8th, 2005, Provides Compelling New Thoughts on Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Marketing

Upcoming Conference, to be held April 8th, 2005, Provides Compelling New Thoughts on Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Marketing

Agency.com, Alliance Healthcare Information, BBDO, Hall & Partners Healthcare, and Targetbase are sponsoring an upcoming conference, Can Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Marketers Learn From the Automobile Industry? Yes...here's why. The conference will be held on Friday, April 8, 2005, at the Hyatt Regency Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey.

The conference will introduce many new and incisive thoughts regarding how Pharmaceutical and Medical Device companies can learn from other industries' best practices as they relate to DTC, more targeted communications, and compliance. Topics covered will include:

• The purchase process, as identified and defined by the automobile industry through extensive research, and an explanation of its resemblance to the pharmaceutical and medical device purchase process.
  
• Building awareness and interest via pharmaceutical DTC advertising and how DTC's role parallels that of automotive national advertising.
  
• How the healthcare industry can leverage proven direct and database marketing strategies that are being successfully deployed in the automobile industry today.
  
• What common threads exist when building brands in the pharmaceutical and automotive spheres.

Upcoming/Add one

• The comparable roles of cyberspace in the two equations.
  
• How considered purchase service programs are similar to pharmaceutical compliance/adherence programs.

An expert lineup of speakers will feature Lewis G. Pringle, PhD, former EVP and Research Director of BBDO Worldwide and holder of the Chair of Marketing at Miami of Ohio University, currently Chairman of the Department of Managerial Economics and Professor of Marketing at Yorktown University; Thomas Abrams, R.Ph., MBA, Director, Branch Chief Marketing & Surveillance Branch 1 with DDMAC of the FDA; as well as other industry experts in the pharmaceutical and automobile markets.

The conference is free, by INVITATION ONLY, and will include breakfast and lunch. If you are interested in this conference and would like to be added to the invitation mailing list, please e-mail Sarah Schaeffer, sschaeffer@alliancehealthinfo.com.