The Directors at Facilitate share a common vision: to create a company that offers excellence in medical education, high standards of service and the enthusiasm and commitment to ensure not only that our projects are delivered successfully, but also that the process of working together is an enjoyable experience for our clients.
Responsibilities: Company director with responsibility for editorial services and administration
Alan began working in the medical communications field in 1982, after gaining his doctorate from the University of Birmingham in the UK and following a short period of undergraduate teaching.
After 5 years at a medical film company in London, Alan spent 14 years in an agency on the south coast of England, starting in an editorial role and progressing to business unit leader and head of editorial and publishing for what became one of the largest medical communication companies in the world.
Alan has experience in a number of therapeutic areas but, more importantly, his many years in the business have given him expertise in delivering global meetings-based programs, editorial and publishing projects (including publication strategies), video and digital media. Alan's innate ability to see the broad picture as well as his attention to detail, coupled with his hands-on experience of project management, delivery team management, and account handling across a wide range of media, mean that he has the ability to get things done efficiently and with the minimum of fuss, skills that have been much appreciated by his clients over the years.
Responsibilities: Company director with responsibility for meetings services and new business
Ann has 20 years' experience in international medical communications. One of Ann's strengths is her commitment to achieve client objectives and her ability to negotiate successfully with all other parties to achieve this. Opinion leaders appreciate her efficiency and patience when dealing with difficult situations, while clients have high regard for her loyalty, knowledge and diligence. For many projects, Ann's role in opinion leader liaison and meeting facilitation is an important component in successfully achieving commercial objectives on behalf of clients.
Ann's formal education includes a first degree from Oxford University and continued study in Broadcast Journalism at Boston University in the US. Her varied skills and background, which includes video production (at British Medical Television), internal and motivational conferences (at The Visual Connection), and her account director role at Parexel MMS, are brought to bear on all communications work she undertakes.
Sponsorship – Brighton FestivalEvery year, we sponsor an event at the Brighton Festival, which runs throughout May in Brighton and Hove, and gives us the chance to support new, inspiring and artistic performers.
2008
Johnny's Midnight Goggles by SharpWire – a one-man operatic thriller is described in The Guardian as "an intoxicating and intimate passion play of sound, song, movement and video."
2007
Ockham's Razor – four aerial artists specializing in creating physical theatre around new pieces of aerial equipment and combining circus, dance and visual theatre.
2006
Simunye – South African/UK choral group, made up of I Fagiolini and the SDASA Chorale of Soweto.
2005
zygo – a Brighton-based theatre group performed two plays: The True History of the Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World and The False Corpse
2004
Sponsorship of the Live Performance section of the Brighton Fringe Festival.
2003
Pieter-Dirk Uys in Foreign Aids – a cutting insight into the problems on HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Sponsorship – FilmThe Final Cut
Final Cut is a short film-screening event that takes place in the city of Brighton & Hove on Sunday every month at the Komedia, Gardener Street, Brighton. Its aim is to provide an opportunity for filmmakers, mainly those living and/or working in the South East of the UK, to show their work to other filmmakers and the general public. Established in October 2002, Final Cut has now become the largest screening event of its kind on the south coast. Facilitate are sponsors of their website.
Cine-City 2008
A celebration of the very best in international cinema, with a global mix of premieres and previews, archive treasures and digital reissues, artists' cinema and exhibitions, live soundtracks, short film programs and education events.
Facilitate also sponsored the 2007 Cine-City festival.
Sponsorship – Health InitiativesThe Lion Ward at King's College Hospital, London was the recipient of the 2006 Facilitate charity donation. The choice was very personal for one of Facilitate's staff Morag Chambers whose daughter Eleanor had successful neurosurgery at King's to treat intractable epilepsy during the Summer of 2006.
Eleanor and her sister Heather presented the cheque for £5000 to Eleanor's surgeon Chris Chandler in December 2006. The sensory room was fully equipped and ready for business in September 2007.
AVERT
www.avert.org
AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of providing advice on the prevention of HIV and AIDS worldwide, through its web site and through sponsored projects in some of the neediest countries.
Health & Development Networks - Thailand
www.hdnet.org
The Health and Development Networks (HDN) is a non-profit organization helping to mobilize a more effective response to AIDS and other health- and development-related issues by improving information, communication and the quality of debate.
International Workshop on Strategies for Scaling-Up HIV/AIDS Treatment in Resource-Poor Settings
Held in Amsterdam, July 9-11, 2003, Facilitate provided some in-kind support in the form of logistical services. Workshop organizers included the AIDS Healthcare Foundation-Global Immunity, Harvard Medical School Division of AIDS, Helping AIDS in Resource-Poor Areas, Partners in Health, and UN Millennium Project HIV/AIDS Task Force.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation - Uganda
www.aidshealth.org
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation's mission is to provide cutting-edge medicine and advocacy, regardless of ability to pay. In support of its mission, AHF is committed to:
- Working to end the AIDS epidemic through prevention, research and advocacy
- Providing the finest medical care
- Assuring that medically indigent persons infected with HIV have equal access to healthcare
- Partnering with other organizations in order to insure appropriate outreach and continuity of care
- Advocating for the rights of all persons living with HIV / AIDS, with particular emphasis on the most underserved including women, gay men, people of color, the incarcerated and drug users
- Advocating for equal access to healthcare for all persons
www.raceforlife.org
Race for Life is Cancer Research UK's flagship event, which brings together thousands of women each year to walk, jog or run 5k and raise money to beat cancer. More than 735,000 women took part in Race for Life events across the country in 2009 and it is hoped that they will raise over £60 million. 10 Facilitate staff participated in the event and as an incentive we started the sponsorship fund with a one-off donation.
