Title: One Piece of Paper The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership

ISBN: 9781118049594

Topic/Genre: Business/Management/Leadership/Innovation

Publication Date: October 2011

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Mike Figliuolo is an honor graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in the top 5 percent of his class. He served in the U.S. Army as an armor officer. After several years of leading soldiers in the army, Mike spent time in corporate America as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and as an executive in various roles at Capital One Financial and the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company.

Mike is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC ( www.thoughtleadersllc.com ). He and his team train senior executives at leading companies on topics of leadership, strategy, communications, and innovation. A highly sought – after speaker and trainer, Mike has delivered his message to thousands of executives and leaders through keynote presentations, classroom instruction, and personal coaching.

Mike’s clients include Abbott Laboratories, Discover Financial Services, Heinz, Oracle, Cardinal Health, the Federal Reserve Bank, Bain Capital, Nationwide, ServiceMASTER, and many other industry-leading firms.

Mike speaks on topics of leadership, strategy, communications, decision making, innovation, and problem solving.  The topics he covers focus on real-world, practical, and applicable perspectives that help organizations improve their performance.  Mike ensures a healthy dose of reality permeates every subject because businesses aren’t run in ivory towers or sterile academic environments – they’re full of day-to-day complexities that must be factored into how you lead.  His combination of theory and reality helps these subjects come to life and resonate with any audience.

Author Website:

www.thoughtleadersllc.com

Title: Photoshop CS6 All-in-One For Dummies

ISBN: 9781118174562

Topic/Genre: Technology/Graphics/Photography

Publication Date: June 2012

Price: $39.99

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Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. Her clients include both national and regional companies from a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, insurance, construction, entertainment and performing arts. Her work encompasses several areas of design including publication, corporate identity and branding, direct mail and advertising. She’s the author or co-author of over two dozen publications on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, PowerPoint and Digital Photography. Barb currently teaches graphic design at Brooks Institute and has also taught at University of California, Santa Barbara, California Lutheran University, Ventura College and numerous private training facilities.

Author Website:

linkedin.com/in/barbaraobermeier

Title: Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C#

ISBN: 9781118026434

Topic/Genre: Technology/Mobile Programming

Publication Date: April 2012

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Wallace B. “Wally” McClure graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. He continued his education at Georgia Tech, receiving a Master’s in the same field in 1991. Since that time, he’s done consulting and development for the U.S. Department of Education, Coca-Cola, Bechtel National, Magnatron, and Lucent Technologies, among others. He’s worked with products and services such as COM, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, and SQL Server, as well as applications in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Wally has been working with the .NET Framework since the summer of 2000. He specializes in building applications that have a large number of users and large amounts of data as well as user interface specific technologies, such as AJAX and now the iPhone. He is a Microsoft MVP and an ASPInsider, and a partner in Scalable Development, Inc.

In addition, Wally travels around the southeastern United States doing user group talks and sessions at various CodeCamps.

Author Websites:

Blog: http://morewally.com/CS/

Twitter: @wbm

Title: Drug Truths: Dispelling the Myths About Pharma R & D

ISBN: 9780470393185

Topic/Genre: Pharmaceuticals/Research & Development/Medicine/Chemistry

Publication Date: December 2008

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Dr. John L. LaMattina is the former Senior Vice President, Pfizer Inc and President, Pfizer Global Research and Development.  In this role, Dr. LaMattina oversaw the drug discovery and development efforts of over 12,000 colleagues in the United States, Europe and Asia.  He retired from this position in December, 2007.

Dr. LaMattina spent 30 years at Pfizer Inc having joined as a medicinal chemist in 1977.   Over the years, he held positions of increasing responsibility for Pfizer Central Research, including Vice President of US Discovery Operations in 1993, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Discovery Operations in 1998 and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Development in 1999.

Dr. LaMattina graduated cum laude from Boston College in 1971 with a B.S. in Chemistry.  He attended the University of New Hampshire working with Professor Robert E. Lyle and received a Ph.D. from UNH in Organic Chemistry in 1975.  He then moved on to Princeton University as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor E. C. Taylor.

During his tenure as head of global R&D, Pfizer produced new treatments for cancer, smoking cessation rheumatoid arthritis and AIDS. Dr. LaMattina is the author of numerous scientific publications and holds a number of U.S. patents.  In addition, he is the author of Drug Truths:  Dispelling the Myths About Pharma R&D.

Dr. LaMattina has received a number of awards including the 1998 Boston College Alumni Award of Excellence in Science, an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire in 2007, and the 2010 American Chemical Society Earle Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management.

Dr. LaMattina is a Senior Partner at PureTech Ventures.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of Human Genome Sciences,the Board of Directors of Ligand Pharmaceuticals, and the Scientific Advisory Board of Trevena.   Dr. LaMattina also serves on the Board of Trustees of Boston College where he chairs the Academic Affairs Committee.

Dr. LaMattina lives in Stonington, Connecticut, with his wife, Mary.  They have three children.  He has had a long history of community activities most recently serving as President of the Board of Trustees of the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation.

Author Websites:

Blog: http://blogs.forbes.com/johnlamattina/

Twitter: @John_LaMattina

Title: Auditing Social Media: A Governance and Risk Guide

ISBN: 9781118061756

Topic/Genre: Audit/Social Media/Marketing

Publication Date: March 2011

Price: $49.95

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Mike Jacka, CIA, CPA, has worked in internal audit for nearly thirty years with wide-ranging responsibilities including designing the training curriculum and materials for a 200-person audit shop, establishing fraud protocols and procedures, developing continuous auditing techniques used to streamline field audit processes, and management responsibilities for audit departments as small as five and as large as forty people.  However, there is another side to Mike’s work including being responsible for the humor pieces in Internal Auditor magazine (e.g. “Alice in Auditland”, “Auditing Songs for the Holidays”, and “Do You Take this Auditor?”) and providing his sideways look at the profession through the blog “From the Mind of Mike Jacka”.  He is the co-author of two books – Business Process Mapping:  Improving Customer Satisfaction (now in its second edition) and Auditing Social Media:  A Governance and Risk Guide. Mike is a highly regarded speaker on subjects such as creativity, social media risks, process analysis, and leadership development.

Author Websites:

Blog: http://www.theiia.org/blogs/jacka/

Twitter: @figre

Title: The Dose Makes the Poison: A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology, 3rd Edition

ISBN: 9780470381120

Topic/Genre: Toxicology/Chemistry

Publication Date: March 2011

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Patricia Frank is president of Patricia Frank & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm founded in 1993 which assists companies in the development and registration of human and veterinary pharmaceutical agents. She is a past president of the American College of Toxicology, a past president of the Roundtable of Toxicology Consultants, a former councillor for the Midwest Regional Society of Toxicology, and the 2008 winner of the SOT’s Kenneth DuBois award.

Title: Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics

ISBN: 9780470555170

Topic/Genre: Pharmaceuticals/Chemistry

Publication Date: February 2011

Price: $99.95

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Hedley Rees is a practicing consultant, coach and trainer in Pharmaceutical Operations and Supply Chain Management.   Clients include pharmacos, from top 10 the emerging biotech, private equity, a global strategic consultancy, contract manufactures, facility design & build specialists and third/fourth party logistics service providers. Assignments span early stage clinical trial supply chains up to complex multi-product supply networks covering global territories.

Prior to this, Hedley held senior positions at Bayer, British Biotech, Vernalis, Johnson & Johnson and OSI Pharmaceuticals. His skill set covers the range of competencies from strategic procurement, production and inventory control, distribution logistics, information systems and improvement.  His early career was spent as an industrial engineer in the automotive, consumer durables and FMCG sectors.

As an expert in Lean Thinking and Production Systems, Hedley is a zealous advocate of the regulatory modernization frameworks of FDAs 21st Century Modernization and ICH Q8 – Q11. He graduated from the University of Wales as a production engineer and holds an Executive MBA from Cranfield University School of Management. He is a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS), a member of the UK BioIndustry Association’s (BIA) Manufacturing Advisory Committee and on the Advisory Boards of the International Institute for Advanced Purchasing & Supply (IIAPS) and Marken, the only supply chain service provider dedicated 100% to the pharmaceutical and life science industries.

Hedley regularly speaks at international conferences and is co-chair of the highly regarded FDA/Xavier University sponsored Global Outsourcing Conference held in Cincinnati annually. In collaboration with Xavier Health, he works closely with industry, FDA, patient advocacy and other key stakeholders in finding solutions to today’s supply chain integrity issues.

Publications include:

Book

“Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics”, J Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ 2011

Journals

“Virtual Pharma, But Not Virtual Responsibility”, Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality, Feb/Mar 2009

“ICH Q9 and Beyond”. European Biopharmaceutical Review, Autumn 2009

“Delivering 21st Century Modernization Through Effective Supply Chain Management” European Biopharmaceutical Review, Autumn 2010

“A New Model for Product Development” Chemistry Today (peer reviewed), Jan/Feb 2011

Book Reviews

“The subject matter of this book is supply chain management and excellence….Starting with the basics, and building up the complexity of the challenge and solutions, the author provides insights and opinions through each chapter. A strong insight is in building teams that plan for the future full life cycle of the product with stakeholders, such a marketing and technical development, working together from the beginning…A recommended read for all wishing to shift performance to greater levels.” — Supply Management (Head of Development, Strategic Sourcing, Novartis Pharm) February 2012

“This book is ideal reading for those entering or currently working in the field of supply chain management, such as clinical supply managers, or those in operations or production and planning … This book would be an excellent resource for small pharmaceutical companies that may have limited experience of supply chain implementation or outsourcing, giving a thorough overview of the process and plenty of food for thought.” —The Pharmaceutical Journal, 16 November 2011

“Got me fast into the pharma industry supply chain: I am from the electronic assembly industry. I have worked in the supply chain management many years. I wanted to learn as much as possible about the pharmaceutical industry supply chain and compare to my industry. This book gave me exactly what I wanted. Well written and easy to follow with a lot of different opinions from people in that industry. Great book”. —Ricardo (Amazon.com) September 26, 2011

Recent Media:

pharmaphorum.com/2011/12/12/the-supply-chain-patient-is-sick-is-there-a-cure-for-the-pharma-supply-chain-part-2/

outsourcing-pharma.com/Commercial-Services/Pharma-needs-to-rethink-supply-chains-in-an-era-of-patent-expiry-and-global-outsourcing

Author Websites:

pharmaflowltd.co.uk

Twitter: @hedleyrees

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/hedley-rees/0/993/550

YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=DbnqFGFMCcI

Title: Innate Immune System of Skin and Oral Mucosa Properties and Impact in Pharmaceutics, Cosmetics, and Personal Care Products

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Formulating, Packaging, and Marketing of Natural Cosmetic Products

ISBN: 9780470437773 & 9780470484081

Topic/Genre: Skin Research/Cosmetics/Personal Care/Pharmaceutics

Publication Date: September 2011

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Nava Dayan is currently the R&D Director at Lipo Chemicals Inc. and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University. During her 20 years of experience she has specialized in a variety of areas related to skin treatment. Dr. Dayan has received numerous awards of excellence for various papers she has authored.  She is the author and co-author more then 80 publications.  Dr. Dayan is a member of the Dermatopharmaceutics Focus Group, and the Abstract Review Committee for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and the Consumer Products Group of the International Controlled Release Society (CRS).

Author Websites:

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nava-dayan/14/667/11

CFPA Classes: http://www.cfpa.com/SiteSearch.aspx?usterms=Nava%20Dayan

Title: Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting: Combating the Real Danger from Fake Drugs

ISBN: 9780470616178

Topic/Genre: Pharmaceuticals/Chemistry

Publication Date: August 2011

Price: $89.95

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Mark Davison is a pharmaceutical consultant and entrepreneur with over twenty years’ experience in the industry. He was formerly Business Development Director for Healthcare at SICPA, one of the world’s leading anti-counterfeiting and product security technology providers, where he gained an in-depth, global perspective on the problem of counterfeit medicines and medical devices.  Mr. Davison started his career in anti-infectives research at SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) and subsequently held various senior management roles in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and contract research environments. He is a Member of the Institute of Clinical Research and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Author Websites:

http://www.bluespherehealth.com/wordpress/

Twitter: @StopFakeDrugs

LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/markdavison100

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Title: The Story of Purpose: Why Business Can’t Put It Down

ISBN: 9781118443699

Topic/Genre: Business/Marketing/Leadership/Innovation

Publication Date: December 2012

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Named One of the 100 people who will change the way the world thinks by Fast Company, Joey Reiman is CEO & Founder of the global consultancy, BrightHouse, a company whose sole purpose is to bring soul to the world of business.

Father of ideation – a term he coined – Reiman has emerged as the subject matter expert in the area of purpose-inspired leadership, marketing and innovation.

His breakthrough purpose methodology and frameworks have been adopted by the likes of Procter & Gamble, The Coca Cola Company, McDonald’s and many other Fortune 500 companies across the globe.

Reiman is a professor at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University where he teaches tomorrow’s executives his revolutionary theories and applications for purpose-inspired profit.

His wildly selling business book, Thinking For A Living, spawned an ideas movement and his forth-coming title promises to bring business back for good, which is coming out this year.

Winner of hundreds of awards, including the Cannes Lion and Corporate Marketing Leader of the Year, Reiman says his greatest accolade is his self-proclaimed title of FAMILLIONAIRE, a person whose real wealth is in his family.

A world-renowned speaker, Joey has inspired hundreds of thousands of leaders to move from seller to server, even healer of society.  Through his ability to engage an audience with relatable experiences, motivational messages and taking his speeches that extra step, Joey makes a speaking opportunity not only a memorable one, but a meaningful one as well, where he takes you on a journey to expand your imagination, feeling inspired, empowered and purposeful.

Joey is the recipient of the Graham Executive in Residence at Sewanee University, which is a distinct honor that only a handful of individuals have received. These select individuals include: the Founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines, the President of LionsGate Entertainment Studio, and the President and CEO of Gulf Oil.

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Author Websites:

www.dailyjoey.com

www.thinkbrighthouse.com

Twitter: @dailyjoey and @TheJoeyReiman

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/joey-reiman/5/88/977