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Lee Ann McDowell

Lee Ann McDowell

VP, Site Relations & Medical Affairs at Poplar Therapeutics — a medical affairs executive with 15+ years in pharma industry and 11 years as an MSL.

Aug 10, 2026

5:12
Do you have any horror stories of a person being majorly unprepared so that we can really understand what you mean by be prepared?
5:22
You know, I think that you're going to be on a schedule, right? You're going to be meeting with your trainers.
5:28
You're going to be doing probably... modules online, you're going to have publications that you need to read.
5:34
What I really find difficult is that when we lay out a training program for onboarding somebody, we know how long it takes somebody with the background that an MSL has to go through the training.
5:50
And we've tested this.
5:52
We know that you should be able to, at this point in time, you should know how to answer these questions.
5:59
You should feel confident in understanding this background or this mechanism or what plays into this disease.
10:21
So I know you have five of these, so I want to keep going, but what is the third best practice to impress your manager?

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