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Contributors
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Dana Fox, PhD, ISMPP CMPP™ Managing Client Service Director Caudex
Dana has over 10 years of medical communications and scientific publishing experience. She joined Caudex in 2008, and is now Managing Client Service Director for Caudex, based in the United States.
In this role, she provides high-level commercial, operational, financial, and scientific insight combined with account leadership of client services and scientific services teams. She effectively manages and coaches her team to ensure excellence in product delivery across the communication mix.
She is also responsible for promoting best practice across client accounts ensuring operational effectiveness.
Dana has led communication and publication planning activities in several therapy areas including oncology, immunology, cardiology, virology, neurology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, and metabolism.
Dana obtained her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Massachusetts and Virginia Tech. She has been a Certified Medical Publication Professional since 2010, served as Chair of the Recertification Committee, and currently serves on the ISMPP Certification Board.
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Megan Weigel, ISMPP CMPP™, Publication Advisor Specialist, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Megan Weigel is the Publication Advisor Specialist at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), where she provides guidance to colleagues on company and industry publication policies, procedures, SOPs, and best practices. Megan has held roles in medical communication agencies, providing project management support to diverse pharmaceutical and biotech clients in a range of therapeutic areas since 2014. Throughout her growing career, Megan has developed training materials and implemented training sessions to new employees as part of larger efforts to provide education on industry and client best practices. She also has experience creating content, SOPs, and training guides specific to publication management systems that have been successfully used for employee onboarding and promoting adherence to industry best practices.
Megan is ISMPP CMPP™ certified, and is a mentor for the CMPP mentorship program, where she continues to provide guidance to many publication professionals as they prepare to take the credentialing exam. Megan also serves as Vice Chair on the ISMPP Certification Board. Currently, she is leading an initiative within BMS to encourage colleagues to gain CMPP certification and provides direct mentorship opportunities to interested employees. Megan earned a BA in Organizational Communication from SUNY New Paltz.
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Danita Sutton, PhD, ISMPP CMPP™, Director, Credentialing, International Society for Medical Publication Professionals
Danita is Director of Credentialing at the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP). In her past, she has served as Chair of the Certification Board and is proud to have been among the subject matter experts who developed the first ISMPP CMPP certification exam.
She joined the ISMPP staff in April 2019 after a 20-year career in the medical communications and publications industry, where over the years she held the positions of medical writer, medical director, and medical communications consultant for her own company Proficiency Science. She earned a PhD in Pharmacology from Yale University and has held the ISMPP CMPP™ credential since 2009.