As the VP of Musculoskeletal and Metabolic Imaging, I need to stay ahead of industry trends and invest in the advancements being made in research.  Toward these ends, I recently traveled to two conferences – International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 25^th Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI, and the 2^nd International Workshop on NASH Biomarkers in Washington, DC. To me, these conferences were fantastic. Not only did they highlight the potential future state of liver disease, they also brought together two of my passions – Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH).

The global pharmaceutical market is expected to reach nearly $1.4 trillion by 2020, an increase of about 29-32 percent over the 2015 level. As a result of this growth, there has been an increase in the volume of rental device shipments to sites in the United States and around the world. On any given day, BioTelemetry Research (BTR) shipping team manages the inventory of 13,000 devices and twice as many consumables. The manual process of maintaining an inventory of this size in Excel files needed to be replaced with a robust system that enables our team to capture device requirements, and to ship and track them in a timely manner. Our answer to this need is the implementation of the Inventory System, which helps efficiently communicate and automate the shipping and receiving processes.  

As an imaging Project Manager at BioTelemetry Research, my day-to-day consists of overseeing the lifecycle of imaging studies from behind my desk just outside of Rochester, NY.  Although I love my office and my co-workers, it’s a nice change to put on a different hat and venture beyond Rochester, to events where I can meet and talk with our sponsors. For example, I recently attended the Clinical Operations in Oncology Trials West Coast 2017 in San Francisco. I loved this opportunity to wear a different hat. It was:

It’s been one year since Biotelemetry Research acquired VirtualScopics, and I can’t think of a better moment to celebrate our many accomplishments. I’ll list a few below, saving the most important for last.