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Key Opinion Leader (KOL) Identification & Profiling
Since our launch in 2006, Thought Leader Select has been known as an industry leader in the core service area of KOL identification and profiling. Life sciences companies collaborate with medical experts from product development phases to post-launch scientific exchange, and they can count on Thought Leader Select to pair them with the right experts, at the right time, for the right reasons.
Our bespoke methodologies capture the leaders in scientific activities ranging from clinical research to publishing and speaking, and our veteran research team carefully matches companies with KOLs according to their areas of expertise, interests, and the scope of their geographic impact. Our methodologies are therapeutic area-agnostic, ensuring that we find the right experts, whether your needs lie in a large therapeutic area or rare disease. When medical affairs and brand teams need to know they are reaching out to KOLs with a diverse range of skills and deep therapeutic expertise for consulting, advisory boards, and more, they turn to Thought Leader Select.
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TLS VP, Castle, Earns Elite DEI Certification
Thought Leader Select’s Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, Brian Castle has earned certification at the highest level for professionals and executives in the practice
Schoeman Named General Manager of Clear Point Health
Thought Leader Select has announced another leadership appointment, as Mark Schoeman has been named General Manager of the company’s Clear Point Health division. Clear Point
How is the Role of a Thought Leader in Healthcare Changing?
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead For many decades, the healthcare thought Leader, also known as a key opinion leader (KOL), or key external expert
The MSL Playbook for Creating Value
By Mark Schoeman, General Manager Prior to and over the course of the pandemic, assessments have shown that scores for MSL teams have remained consistent.
Understanding Customer Beliefs and Preferences
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead In 2022, there are hundreds of thousands of healthcare companies in the United States alone. With this level of
Metrics That Determine Success for Field Medical Teams
By Mark Schoeman, General Manager When you’re in the medical field, one of the key things you need to be thinking about is what your
Technology is Getting Smarter
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead It has become apparent that in order for a healthcare organization to succeed, they need to be able to
Thought Leader Thursday: The Evolving KOL/MSL Engagement Model
Mark Schoeman, General Manager at Clear Point Health talks about the ways in which the KOL/MSL engagement model is changing.
New White Paper: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in KOL Identification
Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices are sweeping the business world, particularly in diverse countries like the United States. Generational turnover in the US workforce is
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 3)
Brian Castle, VP of Marketing & Strategy, shares more DOL personas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNErxICmb1g
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 2)
VP of Marketing & Strategy, Brian Castle, is back with the second persona of DOLs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1R0XorFok
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 1)
Brian Castle, VP of Marketing & Strategy, kicks off our series on the 6 personas of DOLs.
Digital Opinion Leader (DOL) Identification & Profiling
Over the last decade, digital opinion leaders (DOLs) have taken a critical role in shaping therapeutic spaces. Life sciences companies know that DOLs can be experts that they understand to be traditional KOLs, but that they can also embody a variety of individual stakeholders in healthcare, including treating physicians, allied health professionals, medical researchers, patient advocates, and healthcare journalists. Even more, these companies also understand that institutional stakeholders, such as hospitals, health systems, clinics, centers of excellence, medical societies, patient advocacy groups, and health plans can also play key roles in educating the public and promoting better health.
At Thought Leader Select, we bring together the human intelligence of our research professionals and the artificial intelligence of industry-leading social listening tools to provide a unique look at therapeutic areas and geographies. Our clients benefit from an approach that takes into account the variety of medical conversations by topic, where those conversations are happening online, in places like social media, forums, blogs, and websites, as well as who are the people, groups, and entities driving those conversations. We tailor our work to fit channel-specific strategies for scientific exchange, educational partnerships, and medical engagement. Most importantly, we help clients avoid data dumps and leverage carefully curated data sets for efficient engagement with DOLs.
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TLS VP, Castle, Earns Elite DEI Certification
Thought Leader Select’s Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, Brian Castle has earned certification at the highest level for professionals and executives in the practice
Schoeman Named General Manager of Clear Point Health
Thought Leader Select has announced another leadership appointment, as Mark Schoeman has been named General Manager of the company’s Clear Point Health division. Clear Point
How is the Role of a Thought Leader in Healthcare Changing?
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead For many decades, the healthcare thought Leader, also known as a key opinion leader (KOL), or key external expert
The MSL Playbook for Creating Value
By Mark Schoeman, General Manager Prior to and over the course of the pandemic, assessments have shown that scores for MSL teams have remained consistent.
Understanding Customer Beliefs and Preferences
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead In 2022, there are hundreds of thousands of healthcare companies in the United States alone. With this level of
Technology is Getting Smarter
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead It has become apparent that in order for a healthcare organization to succeed, they need to be able to
Thought Leader Thursday: The Evolving KOL/MSL Engagement Model
Mark Schoeman, General Manager at Clear Point Health talks about the ways in which the KOL/MSL engagement model is changing.
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 3)
Brian Castle, VP of Marketing & Strategy, shares more DOL personas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNErxICmb1g
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 2)
VP of Marketing & Strategy, Brian Castle, is back with the second persona of DOLs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1R0XorFok
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 1)
Brian Castle, VP of Marketing & Strategy, kicks off our series on the 6 personas of DOLs.
Clear Points | Episode One: COVID-19
Episode One: COVID-19 A conversation featuring Paul Meade, founder of Clear Point Health and a faculty member at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health,
Focus on Micro-Influencers
By Brian Castle, Digital Insights Lead Influencers and micro-influencers both play a key role in medical innovation and communication. Let’s discuss the difficult task of
Institutional Provider Identification & Profiling
Thought Leader Select’s consultants work with industry clients to determine priorities for institutional outreach worldwide. The scope of our institutional profiling and segmentations includes integrated health systems, including hospital networks, accountable care organizations, physician practice groups, and payers, including pharmacy benefit managers, independent health plans, and benefits tied to integrated health systems. Our in-house research team combs multiple proprietary and subscription databases to analyze multiple attributes for enhanced targeting of medical initiatives, enabling companies to go where their expertise is needed most and enhance collaborations with providers and plans to make a positive impact on patient outcomes and quality of life.
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Technology is Getting Smarter
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead It has become apparent that in order for a healthcare organization to succeed, they need to be able to
Digital Insights: A Gold Rush For Medical Organizations
By Kristen Smithwick, Digital Insights Lead In the past few years, we’ve seen the rise of digital opinion leadership in the medical community. With more
Speaker Bureau Selection
Thought Leader Select assists clients in finding and retaining the most effective speakers in the healthcare community. Our consultants develop plans based on speaker bureau goals for specialty and geographic distribution, and our in-house research group conducts national searches based on rigorous processes to identify the most compelling speakers, providing experiential data for fair market value contracting. Thought Leader Select compiles speaker CVs and cross-references databases of sanctioning agencies to build rosters that meet both business and compliance demands.
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Thought Leader Thursday: The Evolving KOL/MSL Engagement Model
Mark Schoeman, General Manager at Clear Point Health talks about the ways in which the KOL/MSL engagement model is changing.
New White Paper on Digital Opinion Leaders
It seems nothing (and no one) in our modern world has escaped the changes brought on by a migration to the digital space. In the
White Paper: Building Speakers Bureaus
The pharmaceutical industry has long used speakers bureaus and their associated meetings and events to educate healthcare providers (HCPs) about drug therapies and the diseases those drugs
The Science of Selecting Promotional Speakers
What makes someone an influential promotional speaker? That’s the question that many businesses ask themselves and it’s not an easy one to answer. As part
KOL Alerts
With our KOL alerts service, client companies stay updated on the dynamic activities of KOLs as they are mentioned in media circles, perform grand rounds, and speak at key conferences and congresses. We deliver newsflash alerts on a monthly and quarterly basis, depending on the level of activity prevalent among KOLs by therapeutic area. Medical and marketing teams use newsflash alerts to engage in more thoughtful conversation and scientific exchange with KOLs as well as ensure they attend important meetings where KOLs actively lead the medical community.
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TLS VP, Castle, Earns Elite DEI Certification
Thought Leader Select’s Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, Brian Castle has earned certification at the highest level for professionals and executives in the practice
Schoeman Named General Manager of Clear Point Health
Thought Leader Select has announced another leadership appointment, as Mark Schoeman has been named General Manager of the company’s Clear Point Health division. Clear Point
How is the Role of a Thought Leader in Healthcare Changing?
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead For many decades, the healthcare thought Leader, also known as a key opinion leader (KOL), or key external expert
The MSL Playbook for Creating Value
By Mark Schoeman, General Manager Prior to and over the course of the pandemic, assessments have shown that scores for MSL teams have remained consistent.
Understanding Customer Beliefs and Preferences
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead In 2022, there are hundreds of thousands of healthcare companies in the United States alone. With this level of
Metrics That Determine Success for Field Medical Teams
By Mark Schoeman, General Manager When you’re in the medical field, one of the key things you need to be thinking about is what your
Technology is Getting Smarter
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead It has become apparent that in order for a healthcare organization to succeed, they need to be able to
Thought Leader Thursday: The Evolving KOL/MSL Engagement Model
Mark Schoeman, General Manager at Clear Point Health talks about the ways in which the KOL/MSL engagement model is changing.
New White Paper: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in KOL Identification
Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices are sweeping the business world, particularly in diverse countries like the United States. Generational turnover in the US workforce is
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 3)
Brian Castle, VP of Marketing & Strategy, shares more DOL personas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNErxICmb1g
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 2)
VP of Marketing & Strategy, Brian Castle, is back with the second persona of DOLs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1R0XorFok
Thought Leader Thursday: The 6 Personas of DOLs (Part 1)
Brian Castle, VP of Marketing & Strategy, kicks off our series on the 6 personas of DOLs.
Patient Journey/Decision Maps
Voice of patient research demands that healthcare providers understand the challenges and decision points that patients must face and mitigate, in order to improve their experience and keep them engaged.
Providers think of the patient journey as ongoing sequence of care events, where a patient must follow from their point of access into the health clinic or system, continuing toward diagnosis, care, and maintenance whenever applicable. When the patient journey does have an actual end point, it’s usually via outpatient care or at-home follow-up. Since many of us require care for a variety of diseases and conditions in a lifetime, In reality, the patient journey is and engagement should be ongoing.
Patient journey and decision mapping at Thought Leader Select addresses the complexities of patient decision-making—patient capacity for decision-making, provider interaction, insurance direction, family and community, and even social media influence—with a sophisticated, customizable strategic approach. In our work, we consider care pathways, longitudinal data, qualitative patient insights, and much more, as we help providers increase patient acquisition and retention.
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New White Paper: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in KOL Identification
Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices are sweeping the business world, particularly in diverse countries like the United States. Generational turnover in the US workforce is
Mapping the Patient Journey
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead Mapping the Patient Journey A vital step to improving patient engagement is defining and understanding the patient journey. While
White Paper: Optimizing Patient Engagement for Pharma
Technological and cultural forces are shifting the expectations that patients bring to their healthcare. Armed with the ever-growing availability of information (and misinformation) on the
The Importance of Patient Flow Mapping
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead Healthcare providers and life sciences companies are increasingly looking for ways to improve patient engagement. In the past, many
Clear Points | Episode One: COVID-19
Episode One: COVID-19 A conversation featuring Paul Meade, founder of Clear Point Health and a faculty member at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health,
Thought Leader Thursday: Human-Driven Approach to Social Media
Chief Operating Officer Kristen Smithwick is back with more advice for healthcare companies looking to improve their digital strategy. This week, we’re talking social media.
Thought Leader Thursday: Digital Strategy for Healthcare Companies
Chief Operating Officer Kristen Smithwick shares a few quick tips for healthcare companies looking to improve their digital engagement strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJxYDboJkGY
The Emerging Case for Patient Engagement in Life Science Companies
By Paul Meade, Patient Engagement Lead Just a few years ago, it may have seemed an insurmountable barrier for life sciences companies to forge a
TLS Sister Company, Clear Point Health, Launches Patient Engagement Services
Clear Point Health, a Research Triangle, NC-based research and consulting firm focused on optimizing the customer experience for healthcare and life science companies, announces the
And from our sister company, Clear Point Health…
