A mid-size CRO is looking to expand their Business Development team with a Central Labs BD position. If you are interested, please send me your resume and I will submit it.
Send resume or correspondence to me at chris@focmnetworking.com
Let me know if you are interested and I will submit your resume.
The Philadelphia Metro area chapter of FOCM met on Thursday night, November 21 at Champps on 330 Goddard Blvd in King of Prussia, PA.
Good attendance was seen, probably due to me giving more notice than I typically do. Some day I may learn this lesson but then again, probably not. Good representation from my new co-workers, the Y-Primers. Many new members were received in the traditional and solemn card presentation ceremony that you are all familiar with.
First to arrive was Lynn Fehnel (pre-paid her 2014 membership dues), close on her heels were Ryan Gibson (received card) and Mitch Drucker (received card).
Over the next hour or so the following members or soon to be members arrived:
Erica Hill
Matt Cocking (received card)
Ashley Cocking (received card)
Karen McPoyle
Russ Brierley (received card night before)
Shari Brierley (received card)
Vicky Martin (pre-paid her 2014 membership dues)
Shannon McDonnell
David Gibboni
Susan Ruane (showing her dedication by coming straight to the event from the gym)
Dean Stoios (received card)
Last minute “sorry, unable to make it”s were: Nadine Maag and April Bechta
Don’t forget to check out the FOCM recommended businesses and those which give discounts to FOCM members.
Submitted by FOCM Member Nick Hargaden of Ardroe Consulting
DDI is looking for someone to work freelance in pre-sales; mainly conducting
e-clinical product demos and client meetings in USA. Mostly this would
be done remotely but occasional travel could be required.
If you want to know more, email
me at:
and I will do an email introduction.
The RTP, NC Chapter of FOCM met on November 13, 2013 at Trali Irish Pub’s new location in Morrisville, NC.
At this meeting, the first to arrive was the newly employed, Andrew Smith, wearing a tie and a fashionable sweater vest.
The attendees were:
Andrew Smith
Rosina Pavia
Jim Ashby
Nick Macaulay
Renee Brown
Gayle Grandinetti
Terri DeMartino
Natalie Flinchum
Jamey McCarty
Carrie Gallagher
Mike Burrows
Charles Macias
Sherran Brewer
Pete Nieto
Blake Williams
Kelly O’Brien
Jeff Hudak
Vince Hoefling
The companies these people work for include: Pharm-Olam, PPD, Patheon, Aptiv, Cryoport, Stratworks, Almac, Catalent, GSK, Lenovo, Ettain Group and ICON.
There were many first time attendees, it made the formal presentation all the more serious and emotional. Terri DeMartino, Charles Macias, Natalie Flinchum, Jamey McCarty and Blake Williams received their cards. There wasn’t a dry eye in the place, I mean, there wasn’t an empty glass to be found. Much networking was accomplished.
The RTP, NC Chapter of FOCM met on November 12, 2013 at Serena’s Sicilian Gastropub in Durham. This is a key networking site for the clinical research industry in RTP, NC.
At this meeting, the first to arrive was Pete Nieto and he came all the way from Pennsylvania!
The attendees were:
Pete Nieto
Jim Ashby (also all the way from Pennsylvania)
Jon Tenconi (also from out of state and given his accent, it could be said he came from another country)
John Ohrn (also from out of state)
Nick Macaulay
Renee Brown
The companies these people work for include: Pharm-Olam, PPD, Medidata, Aptiv and Cryoport.
Jon and John were first time attendees and received their FOCM membership cards in the traditional presentation. Renee is certainly not a first time attendee, but I’d been neglectful in presenting her card, so she too received her card in the formal presentation.
I spent the first week of September 2013 on the island of Rhodes in Greece. Here is my report:
Well, first I had to adjust to the communication medium.
I was surprised to find out that the Greeks have a different word for almost every English word and their alphabet letters are not the same. It was like trying to read a foreign language! I had expected that “globalization” would have meant that every country would use English! Who forgot to tell the Greeks? Is it the same in Poland, Italy, Germany?!
Leaving that discussion behind – bottom line: the Island of Rhodes was beautiful. The vegetation, scenery and weather was very much like southwestern USA. It was hot, windy and arid. The ocean was very clear. The food was excellent, the beer (alfa, fix, mythos) was tasty and refreshing. Drinking Uzo was like drinking liquefied black licorice with a high percent of alcohol; which was quite tasty with morning coffee. The locals and tourists were friendly and the food was very good. If you ever get a chance to go to any of the islands of Greece, take it.
While Peter had cancer and was receiving treatments either for the cancer or for the side effects caused by the treatments, he wrote on the www.caringbridge.org website. What a great service that website provides people battling a variety of illnesses.
Here is one of Peter’s stories about having to prepare for a procedure that required a clean colon.
The only real humor out of the last 48 hours was my decision to undertake the internal cleansing at my son’s house thirty miles away from my home. The plan was to start the process at 3:00 p.m. and be all done by 8:00 p.m. so I could pick up my brother from the airport on the way home. This plan was not approved with my sister-in-law who is a nurse. She was later horrified that anyone would attempt the cleansing process away from home. It was supposed to be a 20-minute process according to the pharmacist. Not with Peter. I drank the liquid at 3:10 p.m. and expected it would be just like a commercial for Drano. The hours ticked by with no hint of action. By 5:00 I was worried. By 6:00 I was frantic. Fortunately, my brother called and his flight was delayed so he would rent a car and see me in the morning. I still have to get home with a very messy time bomb in my gut. By 6:30 we had some action and it continued every 20 minutes until I had to leave. The 30 minute trip was potentially too long to spare the upholstery in the car. So, being ever clever and highly resistant to public humiliation, I whipped out a garbage bag, punched holes for my feet and pulled on an ersatz diaper. My son was laughing so hard he could not breathe and insisted there be no light on the front porch on my departure to reveal my very uncool behavior. I made it about 5 miles when there were rumblings. Ok, think about something else. Baseball, NAFTA, voter registration by party in rural Alabama, anything. It worked and I sailed on accelerating to cut the time. Then visions of me appearing on “Cops” started and I pictured myself getting out of the vehicle wearing a garbage bag diaper for the camera. That sounded worse than anything else so I slowed down. Then I started to think how I would get out of the car at home in case the diaper’s purpose was fulfilled. I couldn’t park on the inclined driveway for fear of leakage and couldn’t get out normally for the same reason. The proposed solution was to sort of fall out of the seat sideways and take my chances on leakage. Then I would sneak around the side of the house, remove the offending garments and knock on the glass sliding door. My wife was spared all of this as nothing untoward happened. She later told me that she had visions of a very unpleasant cleanup job on the vehicle in the morning.
submitted by FOCM Member Stuart Munson
Joe was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business. When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed to find a wife with whom to share his fortune.
One evening, at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away. “I may look like just an ordinary guy,” he said to her, “but in just a few years, my father will die and I will inherit $200 million.” Impressed, the woman asked for his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother.
Women are so much better at financial planning than men.
Hello FOCM Network,
People to fill the below positions are needed. If you are interested or know of someone who may be, please have them send a resume to: chris@focmnetworking.com by 1:00 p.m. on Friday, November 8.
| Job Titles | Sector | Location | Specific Requirements & Comments |
| Data Manager | MDD | USA | Optometry |
| Medical Writer | MDD | USA | Optometry |
| Clinical Research Coordinator | MDD | USA | Optometry |
| Clinical Research Associate | MDD | USA | Optometry |
| Business Analyst | Pharma | USA | |
| GES Analyst | Pharma | USA | Oncology Therapeutic Area |
| CTA for Early Development and Phase I | Pharma | USA | |
| Local Trial Manager – Oncology | Pharma | USA | See additional Oncology requirements below |
| Site Manager – Oncology | Pharma | USA | See additional Oncology requirements below |
| GTM-CTA | Pharma | USA | Immunology Therapeutic Area |
Job Descriptions:
Work from home with some positions requiring extensive travel
Site Manager:
• At least 5 years monitoring experience
• 2 or more years Oncology Monitoring Experience
• Agreeable to potentially up to 80% travel
• Either solid tumor OR hematological cancer experience
Local Trial Manager:
• At least 5 years LTM experience
• At least 2 or more years oncology LTM experience
• Either solid tumor OR hematological cancer experience