Dr. Cheryl Saenz, MD from UCSD Medical Center is today's featured Merck Gardasil KOL

August 10, 2020

By: Stephen

Hi Pharma sales reps and marketing teams. Today’s featured Key Opinion Leader (KOL) is Oncology Specialist, Dr. Cheryl Saenz, MD from UCSD Medical Center. Dr. Saenz had the most active speaker program for the product Gardasil from the company Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation in 2018. The data used for this post is from the 2018 Sunshine Act open payments system.

If you're not familiar, the Sunshine Act is a government law to increase transparency of financial relationships between health care providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers. SpeakerBook uses this data to better understand pharmaceutical speaker bureaus and active Pharma speakers to locate the most active speaker programs in the country.

SpeakerBook is an advanced search tool that matches groups of KOLs that are actively speaking for pharmaceutical manufacturers. This industry overview on any RX product can help sales reps and marketing teams establish a targeted list of KOL and healthcare professionals (HCP). SpeakerBook can be used as a Pharma pre-call planning template or a Pharmaceutical CRM.

The SpeakerBook search for the product Gardasil shows 33 KOLs that have had speaking engagements for the company Merck. The most active Gardasil speaking events happen in California with 11 Gardasil KOL speakers. Florida has 4 KOL speakers with New York and Texas both having 3 of the top Gardasil KOLs each.

SpeakerBook Dr. Cheryl Saenz KOL
SpeakerBook Dr. Cheryl Saenz KOL

This SpeakerBook search has brought us to Dr. Cheryl Saenz, Gardasil’s most active speaker in 2018 with a total pharmaceutical industry payment of $34,250 in speaking fees from the company Merck. Below is a compiled list from SpeakerBook on the most active Gardasil KOLs in 2018.

Top 10 Gardasil Merck speakers in the country in 2018

Image KOL Speaking Fee State
SpeakerBook Dr. Cheryl Saenz Key Opinion Leaders Dr. Cheryl Saenz $34,250 CA
SpeakerBook Dr. William Michael Brown Key Opinion Leaders Dr. William Michael Brown $26,560 FL
SpeakerBook Dr. Anita L Nelson Opinion Leaders Dr. Anita L Nelson $25,515 CA
SpeakerBook Dr. Miriam L Cremer Key Opinion Leaders Dr. Miriam L Cremer $24,255 NY
SpeakerBook Dr. John K Chan Key Opinion Leaders Dr. John K Chan $21,000 CA
SpeakerBook Dr. Marcus Eber Degraw Key Opinion Leaders Dr. Marcus Eber Degraw $17,150 MI
SpeakerBook Dr. Kristin M Rager Key Opinion Leaders Dr. Kristin M Rager $13,720 TN
SpeakerBook Dr. Mark Spitzer Key Opinion Leaders Dr. Mark Spitzer $10,500 NY
SpeakerBook Dr. Kenneth A Alexander Key Opinion Leaders Dr. Kenneth A Alexander $10,500 FL
SpeakerBook Dr. Marietta Vazquez Key Opinion Leaders Dr. Marietta Vazquez $10,316 CT

Now that we have the top Gardasil speakers we can further understand the most active speaker Dr. Cheryl Saenz. Dr. Saenz’s total pharmaceutical industry payments from 2018 totaled $56,154. Dr. Saenz’s speaking events are broken down into two RX product categories. Avastin and Gardasil. Avastin makes up 75.3% of Dr. Cheryl Saenz’s total industry speaking payment with Avastin making up the remaining 24.7%. You can see the Pharma speaking engagements detailed in the calendar below.

Dr. Cheryl Saenz Pharma speaking programs in 2018.

  • January - 2 speaking programs for Gardasil and Avastin totaling $3,900 in speaker fees from Merck and Genentech

  • February - 2 speaking programs for Gardasil and Avastin totaling $8,789 in speaker fees from Merck and Genentech

  • March - 1 speaker program for Gardasil totaling $3,500 in speaker fees from Merck

  • April - 2 speaking programs for Gardasil totaling $7,000 in speaker fees from Merck

  • May - 2 speaking programs for Gardasil totaling $7,000 in speaker fees from Merck

  • June - 1 speaker program from Avastin totaling $400 in speaker fees from Genentech

  • July - 0 speaking programs

  • August - 0 speaking programs

  • September - 2 speaking programs for Gardasil and Avastin totaling $8,789 in speaker fees from Merck and Genentech

  • October - 2 speaking programs for Gardasil totaling $6,250 in speaker fees from Merck

  • November - 0 speaker programs

  • December - 0 speaker programs

The majority of Dr. Cheryl Saenz’s speaking events happened in the first half of the year and slowed down towards the end of the year with no speaking events in the months of July August, November, December. Dr. Cheryl Saenz’s largest speaking engagements were for the product Avastin on Feb 28, and Sept 4, for $5,280 for each engagement totaling $10,560.

SpeakerBook was able to build a detailed speaker bureau in under 5 mins. Once the top speakers are located you can use the detailed payment profiles to fully understand every KOLs activity with pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about the product Gardasil from Merck and some of the top KOLs like Dr. Cheryl Saenz.

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