Reclaim Our Health & Revive Our Planet @Medical Affairs Innovation Olympics 2023 #MAIO2023
Tim Mikhelashvili
Adding Energy Excitement & Character to Pharma and Business One Meaningful Relationship at a time!
One of the best investments you will make this fall in September is to attend a second annual global event in pharma and biotech that is designed to inspire, challenge, and reward you with meaning and certainty during a time of disorder, a shared experience you will not forget, exclusive Olympic caliber community of scientists, and prizes you will be guaranteed to bring to good use immediately - the 2023 Medical Affairs Innovation Olympics #MAIO2023 (registration link for competitors or attendees ). At this event you will take part in a timeless, intense format of competition over 16 days to champion our contributions across healthcare into a new Global Destiny and?Prosperity!?
We are advancing far past our ambitions alone in identifying, screening, and personalizing treatments earlier for new patients worldwide as well as in implementing AI to accelerate drug development and diagnose diseases. Yet the volume of medical publications is doubling, the costs of medical care are increasing, demand from patients and healthcare professionals to know what part of decision-making in healthcare they truly own and government pressures to restrict resources which may possibly limit long-term innovation are rising, while the health of our global ecosystem is declining rapidly and has reached a critical point.?
A person who lives in a particular location in this world should not have to wait for years until the new treatment or trial also makes it to their country or town.
A patient that moves from one hospital or doctor to another should claim and access their data easily in real-time wherever they go next.
With more ways to communicate and find information than ever, a person who changes jobs or retires should be able to have full certainty of continuing to receive preventive, maintenance, or rescue care, as well as medical information to make more confident decisions in their own care.
And regardless of the doctor, hospital or health insurance coverage, because of the incredible advances we have recently made in medicine, pharma and biotech, a patient anywhere on this earth should expect to receive a sufficiently high quality of care for a reasonable chance to improve, prolong his/her life or survive.
1. As a result, the fundamental platform for this year's event is intended to inspire attendees and competitors to connect our health to that of our planet, and visualize farther and longer ahead than ever before in order to assume a more global responsibility for not only what we do but how we innovate to ultimately benefit our human longevity, environment and society at large for generations ahead.
2. The specific emphasis of this year's edition of the Olympics will be to give life to new real world operations and appropriate implementation of the best ideas that advance?Access, Continuity, and Quality of healthcare.?
At the first ever Innovation Olympics last year,?our winners and finalists demonstrated new technology solutions to:
The amount of networking and new economic opportunities the event created last year exceeded all expectations. Several competitors from last year recognized this event to directly contribute to their startup's success and new business partnerships (Telemedicx ), and have since announced a successful raise of $5 million in a seed round (AvoMD ). Thus in 2022 we recognized that innovation takes competition, risk, but also collaboration and we "dared to share for our healthcare" ideas globally across pharma and biotech in Medical Affairs.?
However, the pace of change since last year alone calls for more guides to heroes in healthcare across pharma, biotech and life sciences who can inspire them to connect their daily contributions to their global responsibility to extend the pulse of life of patients and this planet, environment, and society. Therefore, this year the stakes are higher and even more critical, and the prizes will be even more significant - $10,000 to the gold medal winner of the Top Idea of the Year, followed by $5,000 to the silver medalist, and $3,000 to the bronze medalist, among many other prizes and recognitions across various categories.?
The event will take place virtually September 18 through October 4 over two rounds of elimination followed by live stream semifinals and final.
When you register , those of you who currently or previously worked, consulted, or volunteered in pharma, biotech, or in life sciences either in Medical Affairs or collaborated with this function (R & D, Sales, Health Economics, Marketing, etc) will be able to submit a current, draft or finished idea completed within the last year (September 2022 – today).
The entry may be a solution, unique project, position statement, proposal aimed at elevating your organization or specialty across the industry to advance? 1) Access, 2) Continuity, or 3) Quality of Healthcare.
You will maintain 100% intellectual property of your idea, and will have ample opportunities to modify and present it throughout the event, which will be judged by pharma, biotech, and healthcare experts and executives based on 5 criteria to assess the: 1) Validity, 2) Predictability, 3) Causality 4) Novelty, and 5) Applicability of your arguments.
The competition will conclude with a series of Live stream debates which will feature a unique format of real-time, agile, and transparent communication of results.
The semi-finals and final live debates will determine the Top Idea of the Year Winners & Gold Medalists across 6 event categories: Evidence Generation, Scientific Communication, Field Medical, Insights, Medical Strategy/Launch, and Operations.?They will be featured in the @Amedea Pharma Blog article, and Global Medical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS) Innovate Article and interviewed on the @Alloutcoach Podcast .
The event will also distribute 6 types of Amedea Pharma special awards and recognitions for particular, most unique and noteworthy attributes of the submissions.
This Olympics competition is a huge opportunity to make their mark in life sciences for all individuals and companies truly vested in and concerned about accelerating the pace and growing the global responsibility of advances in healthcare currently.?
Healthcare is often considered by many stakeholders and decision-makers as a vehicle of "utilization", "expense", "spending", or related to various medical or different industry "costs", yet it can also be the best and most critical "investment" for our society and economy at large. Therefore, Amedea Pharma , the host and sponsor of this event, is an agency that has created a new science of quantifying the business impact Medical Affairs organizations on our healthcare system that all other functions and stakeholders will touch and translate to their own benefit. Thus, we invite healthcare, health tech, and life science investors to watch this event closely to gain unique real world insights from experts who have dedicated themselves to healthcare, stay tuned with the updates on the Amedea Pharma website and via LinkedIn #MAIO2023 and share it within their network!
Various levels of sponsorships are available for organizations that are aligned with the urgency and the cause the Innovation Olympics event brings to light. Contact me at [email protected] if you are interested in becoming a sponsor.
Leading up to this event, the 2023 Medical Affairs Innovation Olympic Trials took place in person on March 28, 2023 in Nashville, TN. The event truly brought to life and celebrated the character of this new yet timeless format of ideation and competition because of the unprecedented quality of ideas submitted from all the competitors including those who did not advance as well as the unprecedented level of excitement and engagement that unequivocally filled the room. The 6 winners from the Trials have automatically qualified for this global event in 2023 Christi Marsh, PharmD Dixil Francis, DHSc Thang Trieu Scott Fultineer Niki A. Georgiou, PhD Desiree Goodson, DMSc, MPAS, PA-C and we cannot wait to recreate the same enthusiasm and take the meaning and responsibility of our ideas to a global level! Judging by the competitors from last year's event, the road to victory will certainly be tough but the experiences and opportunities we will share create for each other will only take your ideas higher regardless how far they advance at this competition.
This year's event will feature special guests such as Gary Hall, Jr. OLY , a 5-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer, founder, board member and active patient advocate; James Peyer, PhD CEO & Co-Founder of Cambrian Bio , a longevity platform company focused on extending our healthspan; Jim Greffet , Head of ESG Strategy at 礼来 ; Rob Adamoski , former Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at Provention Bio, a Sanofi Company , Suzanne Giordano PhD , Vice President and Head of Medical Affairs at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals , M. Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH, FACP , Visiting Faculty Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and global healthcare quality expert; Johnny KNATT Chief People Whisperer at JJK Workplace, veteran pharma executive and mentor in Commercial, Manufacturing, HR; and Melissa Norcross , AVP Corporate Strategy and ESG at Hyland , PhD in Values-Driven Leadership, former Global Chief Strategy Officer with 30+ year success in 3 continents across financial, technology, and pharma industries in various executive consultant roles including at 麦肯锡 as well as a wide variety of global expert judges, mentors, and innovators across pharma and biotech who cannot wait to evaluate and recognize the best new proposals for Medical Affairs in 2023 throughout the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and 16 days of competition!
Get ready to illuminate your mind to regenerate new life in this memorable experience will share.
We are only one life long and one planet strong.?
So let's reclaim the health we own and revive the one planet we know!
Tim Mikhelashvili
CEO & Co-Founder @Amedea Pharma
Host @Alloutcoach Podcast
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See you soon fellow Olympians!
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