John R Ferguson,
Medical Writer and Strategic Consultant

John R Ferguson is a medical writer and strategic consultant. He has delivered over 1100 successful projects to a variety of venture capital, pharmaceutical, and biotech clients, including high-level strategic consulting services (candidate reporting, positioning, message development, and comprehensive, message-based communications plans). He has developed numerous competitive analyses, field force materials, peer-reviewed manuscripts, white papers, slide kits, and a broad range of other materials.

John has taken the medical/scientific lead with great success on numerous scientific meetings around the world, from small advisory boards to major investigator meetings. He also has experience in preparing complex documents for legal/regulatory review, and in facilitating the review process itself.

He has 13 years of industry experience and has provided senior-level strategic consulting or developed materials for >100 early- to late-lifecycle products, including some of the most widely recognized and largest-selling drugs today.

John trained as a molecular biologist at Columbia University in New York City. 

• >250 published, peer-reviewed articles
• High-level strategic consulting for >25 products
• Comprehensive, message-based publications and/or communications plans
  for 25 products (US and global)
  
• Scientific/medical lead for 28 product/new indication launches
• Multiple sales training modules
• >60 speaker programs completed
• >110 advisory boards around the world
  
• >120 slide presentations, with and without notes
• Multiple competitive analyses and white papers
• Multiple visual aids and other field force materials

Therapeutic Expertise

• Antibiotics

• Antifungals

• Antivirals

• Asthma/Allergy

• Cardiovascular

• Cosmetic

• Dermatology
  

• Endocrinology/diabetes

• Gastroenterology

• Hematology

• Managed care

• Medical devices
  

• Neurology

• Oncology

• Pain management
  

• Pharmacogenetics

• Reproductive health
  

• Respiratory

• Rheumatology

• Skeletal/osteoporosis

• Urology
  

• Vaccines