Medical Affairs

Advisory boards that turn into decisions

We design and facilitate consultations with expert physicians and deliver a report that structures their clinical experience as input for planning.

  • Questions refined with your team
  • A session facilitated with method
  • A findings report you can act on
Panel of experts talking in an advisory board

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An advisory board pays off when it is designed

Pharmaceutical companies talk to expert physicians all the time, but an advisory board only pays off when that conversation becomes structured input for decisions. That takes upfront work: defining what you need to know, writing good questions, running a discussion that produces comparable opinions and summarizing the results in a format your team can use.

Leaderlix joins from the preparation stage. We review the questions with your team so the consultation captures relevant, comparable information rather than unstructured opinions, and we moderate it with the same communication method we use to train key opinion leaders.

How we run an advisory board

  • Preparation: working calls with your team to review and refine the questions before they reach the specialists.

  • Design: the consultation format, the session dynamics and the discussion materials.

  • Facilitation: we moderate the conversation among diverse profiles so every specialist contributes and opinions are comparable.

  • Report: we document the answers and findings and review the report with your team until it is approved.

  • Follow-up: we support the implementation of the recommendations after the session.

Who it is for

Medical Affairs

Teams that need to structure the knowledge of expert physicians to feed their planning.

Therapeutic areas

Teams that want to understand real clinical practice before deciding their strategy.

Advisory councils

Organizations that bring in outside perspectives in a structured way, in healthcare and beyond.

What your team receives

Refined questions

A questionnaire refined with your team to get relevant, comparable answers.

A designed session

Format, dynamics and discussion materials built for your specialists.

Facilitation

Session moderation with method, so every board member contributes.

Findings report

A document that organizes clinical experience around the defined topics, ready for planning.

Advisory board guides

Pharma advisory board best practices for Medical Affairs

Governance, member selection, questions and follow-up.

Read the guide

How to facilitate a pharmaceutical advisory board

Preparing, running and closing the session.

Read the guide

Advisory board moderator skills in pharma

What the person leading the expert conversation needs.

Read the guide

Prepare the presenters too

KOL speaker training

Speaker training for physicians and scientists who present their evidence at congresses and advisory boards.

See the program

FAQ

What is an advisory board in the pharmaceutical industry?

It is a consultation in which a company brings together external physicians or specialists to ask for their expert opinion on defined topics: clinical practice, patient needs or the evidence in a therapeutic area. Its value lies in turning that experience into structured input for Medical Affairs and therapeutic-area decisions.

What does Leaderlix do in an advisory board?

We take care of design and moderation: we review and refine the questions with your team, design the session format and discussion materials, facilitate the conversation among the specialists and deliver a report with the answers and findings.

Who invites the physicians?

Your team defines who is invited. We prepare the consultation with you, run it and document what the specialists contribute.

How long does it take?

It depends on the scope. As a reference, in the case published in our Library the whole process took about four months, from the first preparation calls to the approved report.

Can you prepare the physicians who present at the advisory board?

Yes. Our KOL speaker training prepares physicians and scientists to present their evidence clearly at congresses, clinical sessions and advisory boards.

Let's make your next advisory board input for decisions.

Tell us what you need to learn from the specialists and we will propose the consultation design.