ISMPP Highlights
2024 ISMPP Academy Takes Place in Philadelphia
ISMPP Academy was a great success leaving attendees equipped with new knowledge, practical tools, and a strengthened network to propel their careers in medical communications and publications. We look forward to the continued growth and success of ISMPP Academy in the years to come. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this remarkable event!
20-Year Milestone: 700+ Attendees Gather for Memorable Meeting
More than 700 ATTENDEES connected last week in DC for the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMPP. This year’s theme, ‘Storytelling: Its Art and Power,’ highlighted the transformative role of art in storytelling within healthcare and medical communications. The storytelling concepts and tools learned during the three-day meeting helped our professionals to find ways to break down stigmas, combat misinformation, help change perceptions, and ultimately improve patient care.
ISMPP’s 2024 European Meeting: Record Attendance Explores Innovation and Tradition in Industry
From January 23-24, ISMPP members gathered together in London for two days of collaboration, networking, learning and sharing. The 2024 European Meeting welcomed a record-high number of attendees with 395 industry professionals gathering at Novotel London West and 155 of those attendees participated in this meeting for their first time!
Message from Our Leadership
Robert J. Matheis
ISMPP President and CEO
News and Trends
Who Gets Paid for What? A Practical Guide for Medical Publication Professionals
Compensation for publications activities is highly regulated to protect patients, healthcare professionals (HCPs) and the reputation of the pharmaceutical, biotech and device industries, and to limit perceptions of bias and conflict. This article aims to address the practical application of current regulations and guidelines that apply to industry-sponsored research, and to give the reader insights into our own experience as publications professionals….
AI Tools for Systematic Literature Reviews
A systematic literature review (SLR) allows us to find and evaluate existing evidence to answer a specific research question… many people are turning to artificial intelligence (AI), especially when considering large and complex SLRs, which would otherwise not be feasible without AI because of cost or turnaround time…
Publication Planning for Medical Devices: The Opportunities in an Underserved Field
For nearly two decades, ISMPP has helped identify and refine what goes into a successful, ethical, and transparent publication plan, most recently in the form of the Good Publication Practice (GPP 2022) guidelines. But how applicable are these recommended practices to the medical device industry, whose technologies represent a crucial but oft-overlooked sector of contemporary healthcare?…
What Would You Do?
In our role as medical publication professionals, we may occasionally encounter situations in which it is not obvious how to ensure good publication practice. Have you ever wished you could consult the ISMPP membership for guidance when these situations arise? Here’s your opportunity!
What Would You Do? is a section of The MAP that presents case scenarios as an educational tool for medical publication professionals. The section provides a case scenario to ponder, and readers are invited to participate in a poll by selecting one of the listed solutions. Readers can also submit their thoughts on the scenario anonymously. The poll results, plus educational insights, are posted in a later issue for readers to digest.
POLL RESULTS: Encore at Original-only Congress
The publication team is eager to submit an abstract to a prestigious congress, but you face a dilemma. The congress explicitly states that it accepts original content only, whereas the publication team wants to develop an abstract based on data from three previously shared abstracts/publications. As the publication lead, you need to decide on the best course of action. What would you do?
ISMPP (pronounced IzMap) is the only nonprofit organization founded by medical publication professionals for medical publication professionals