Promoting Better Patient and Public Health

Thought Leader Select is a Chapel Hill, NC-based private consulting firm serving the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics industries with strategies, in-house research, and a suite of engagement tools and support for collaborating with and reaching out to key opinion leaders and centers of excellence in medicine.

Thought Leader Select has supported over 30 companies as they develop effective treatments to promote better patient and public health across more than 18 therapeutic areas and 50 diseases and conditions. Thought Leader Select’s customized work strengthens medical marketing initiatives, medical affairs outreach, and payer marketing strategies to support market access, pricing, and reimbursement issues.

Powered by an in-house research arm that has assessed the skills, experience, and sentiments of thousands of leading medical professionals and institutions, we are the “experts on the experts,” building engagement frameworks for physicians and allied health professionals for advisory boards, consulting, and speaker programs, as well as medical science liaison panels and clinical trial collaboration.

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Neil Mellor is a pharmaceutical executive with over 25 years experience in sales, marketing and business development, both in Canada and Europe. Neil's leadership has driven the successful performance of some of the world's biggest prescription drug brands for companies like GSK, Pfizer, and Abbott. 

Neil has extensive experience managing products in the CNS, cardiovascular and GI areas. Some of Neil's greatest success in the market came during his management of Pantoloc (Protonix), which attained sales of +$300m and became the #2 pharmaceutical product in Canada.

In 2009, Neil brought his wide range of understanding and industry acumen to the team at Thought Leader Select, a Chapel Hill, NC-headquartered firm that provides strategy, consulting and research on key opinion leaders and centers of excellence for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. 

As business development lead at Thought Leader Select, Neil routinely engages with companies to understand their challenges and strategic needs for better engagement and compliance in their activities with thought leaders in medicine.  Neil is passionate about Thought Leader Select's work as a bridge that facilitates collaboration among industry companies and the health care community, insuring that better patient and public health result with each interaction.

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Determining the scope of key opinion leader and centers of excellence engagement, as well as determining appropriate research areas to facilitate decision-making for appropriate engagement with health care professionals on industry marketing initiatives, including advisory boards, consulting, and media. 

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