Paula Verderber

• Medical Education team member
• KOL engagement and development
• Creation and execution of Fellows training programs to include all of Abbott portfolio
• Subject matter expert to field and cross functional teams as needed
• Partnership with KOL and physicians for development and content creation
• Monitor and analyze business performance to identify areas of improvement and education and training gaps
• Controlled costs to keep business operating within budget and increase profits.
• Communicated clearly with employees, suppliers and stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established business goals.
• Trained personnel in equipment maintenance and enforced participation in exercises focused on developing key skills.
• Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence.
• Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements.
• Reduced waste and pursued revenue development strategies to keep department aligned with sales and profit targets.

• Responsible for developing relationships within the medical/scientific community, provide medical and/or scientific data about CSI products and research to healthcare professionals
• Maintain clinical, scientific, and technical expertise through review of scientific literature and attendance at medical conferences
• Serve as the clinical lead in physician training and device certification
• Serve as the clinical expert for the business unit and provide assistance in regulatory submissions, marketing materials, and sales force training
• Creation and execution of Fellow's training and certification

National Clinical Science Manager responsible for developing KOL engagement plans, collecting insights, identifying clinical investigators, communicating medical and scientific data, connecting internal and external stakeholders research activities, and to responding to medical information requests.

• Responsible for delivering onsite physician and staff training, guidance in documentation and reporting, and techniques to lessen the risk of adverse events
• Support customer and commercial needs for education during procedural patient cases as needed
• Respond to field based medical information inquires with appropriate and accurate materials and data
• Provide insights to internal stakeholders through proactive engagement with medical KOLs and customers as well as collaborating with internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate with ongoing clinical trials or investigator initiated studies. Gather and review new study proposals and test their merits for clinical impact and organization strategy
• Assist in internal education on disease states, portfolio solutions, and alternative therapies for Commercial, Marketing, and R&D teams
• Serve as internal subject matter expert on cross functional teams and organizational projects
• Provide Global support to international team members by acting as US Global Liaison

• Conduct training programs for domestic and international sales force and customers
• Creation of clinical education materials and programs to support products for internal/external sales teams.
• Creation and delivery of CEU courses
• Provide clinical expertise to sales and marketing as needed
• Develop and maintain KOL relationships
• Participate on cardiovascular education councils and steering committees.
• Train newly hired Clinical Specialists and Sales Representatives
• Assist in "hands-on" physician training courses

• Engaging external stakeholders, developing KOL engagement, building peer-to-peer relationships
• Provide medical and scientific information in response to KOL technical questions about the company drug
• Hosting advisory boards: analyzing clinical trends and practices, consulting with internal teams such as sale, marketing, R&D
• Monitoring the scientific literature for new developments and review of relevant academic literature
• Responding to information requests; providing training to sales and marketing teams
• Attending medical conferences serving as a resource for physicians and other healthcare professional, networking with attendees
• Providing scientific presentations to physicians, researchers, as well as internal stakeholders.
• Devised and implemented processes and procedures to streamline operations.
• Created and managed project plans, timelines and budgets.

• Clinical Nurse II - Critical Care, Cath Lab, CCU
• Responsibilities include clinical care and resource leader to ICU and Cath Lab
• Think through complex, multifaceted problems to anticipate needs, recognize potential and actual complications, and to expertly communicate with the team
• Responsibilities include monitoring, assessment, vital sign monitoring, ventilatory management, medication administration, intravenous insertion and infusion, central line care, Swan-Ganz catheters, and maintenance of a running record of the patient's status
• ACLS certified
• Participated on Code Team