Amy Pledger Philo Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, Georgia, United States

Gainesville, Georgia

Barrow Regional Medical Center And Clearview Regional Medical Center

Greater Atlanta Area

An industry leader in providing comprehensive urine and oral fluid drug testing to assist clinicians in the supervising of patients' therapeutic monitoring. PCLS is dedicated to improving the safety and quality of life for patients, while protecting physicians and increasing their office efficiency.

• Work closely with a variety of specialty physicians and treatment centers to increase awareness, screening and treatment of opioid dependence.
• Streamline patient treatment by networking physicians, staff, counselors, treatment centers, and hospitals.
• Assist physicians, treatment centers, and hospitals in setting up detox/maintenance and reimbursement protocols.
• Ensure proper physician training for Suboxone. Physicians must complete specialized training to acquire a special DEA license to prescribe Suboxone for treatment of opioid dependence. Prepare physicians for DEA.

• Worked closely with physicians to increase their comfort level in prescribing an injectable product and in getting patient/physician reimbursement (buy/bill) for Aranesp.

• Challenged to create a market for breakthrough pain, develop an underperforming territory for Actiq, and sell against widely prescribed generic products. With sales force expansion, trained six new representatives in.
• Successfully promoted Provigil, Actiq, and Gabitril in competitive CNS, pain, and oncology markets.
• Significantly grew my territory from a baseline of $28,000 in monthly sales to over $400,000 in monthly sales in less that one year.

• Successfully sold Diovan in a market with heavy managed care influence.
• Developed a strategic launch plan for Starlix, a new drug for Type II diabetes.
• Organized district wide Clinical Learning Forums and Advisory Boards.
• Maintained a high level of teamwork with all counterparts to assure proper coverage of high target physicians.
• Assumed leadership roles in training new representatives and in making presentations at sales meetings.
• Identified key community hospitals to assure formulary coverage for products promoted.

Developed a previously underperforming territory and doubled marketshare for products promoted. Responsible for Duke University Medical School and UNC-Chapel Hill Medical Center.

Successful representative responsible for growing business and product lines. Authored several training manuals that are still used in training new representatives.

Bs, Biology

Activities and Societies: Basketball

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