Linda Corvari earned her PharmD from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (now the University of Sciences) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although she has experience in both retail and hospital environments, she has devoted her professional career to medical communications services. Her diverse experience includes the following:

•Pharmaceutical sales representative for Eli Lilly – Anti-infectives, Antidepressants, Antihistamines (3 yrs)

•Clinical services for PCS Health Systems, servicing managed care and large employer groups (2 yrs)

•Account services, medical advertising (3 yrs)

•Account services, medical communications (25 yrs)

•Founder and President, p-value communications

By combining her clinical education and experience with her marketing acumen, Linda provides clients with innovative strategies to differentiate their products from the competition. She also devotes unsurpassed service to opinion leaders, as she respects their positions in academia and their focus on improving patient outcomes.

Linda founded p-value communications in 2004 to set new standards in flawless execution and client/thought leader services. She provides the strategic direction, identifies the unique clinical needs, and develops the opinion leader advocacy for brands utilizing her robust experience on both domestic and global levels. She instills accountability and exceptional service within the internal team members. She and her teams define “significant difference” in health care communications and are dedicated to resetting your expectations in innovative learning experiences and flawless delivery.

Patrick DeFeo is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at p-value. Patrick received a bachelor of science degree from Rider University in finance and accounting. He has extensive experience as a senior operations and financial management executive, both international and domestic. He has spent more than 20 years of his professional career within the medical communications field. Patrick has a wide range of strategic planning and tactical knowledge, including operational management, financial systems, contract negotiations, employee motivation, recruitment, and organizational development.

Patrick began his career spending several years in various public accounting positions where he was directly responsible for the management of small business accounting teams. Prior to joining p-value, Patrick was the Vice President of Operations for a medical communications agency in Princeton, New Jersey, where he sat on the Board of Directors and was directly responsible for the management of the Operations, Creative, and Client Services departments.

Patrick’s extensive experience encompasses all aspects of operations as well as sourcing, compliance, and financial reporting. His leadership ability helps drive strategic change to meet organizational goals in a continuously changing environment. This background has provided Patrick with the skills and understanding required to meet the specific needs of p-value’s healthcare clients.

Mary-Beth Infante joined p-value in May 2010 as Vice President, Account Services. She has extensive experience in promotional medical education across various therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease (hypertension), immunology (rheumatoid arthritis), neurology (epilepsy, migraine, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis), gastroenterology (inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease), hepatology (hepatitis B and C), and dermatology.

As a seasoned client-focused professional, Mary-Beth is uniquely qualified to provide clients with innovative and effective communication and education solutions for a broad range of strategic brand needs, across every stage of the product life cycle. Her long-term relationships with clients, faculty, and authors are built on the trust and confidence she inspires that expectations will be surpassed and results will be achieved.

As the account department leader, her collaborative style maximizes the strengths of cross-functional team members and external partners, ensuring on-strategy and on-budget delivery of each initiative. Her everyday goal is to raise the bar for the p-value standard of significantly different health care communication.

Christine Kerrigan is Senior Vice President, Operations, for p-value. Christine has been with p-value since 2005. Christine began her career in Project Management, and moved quickly into Account Management where her project planning, team leadership, and on-site execution became a benchmark for other employees.

In her current role, Christine’s primary responsibilities are to manage internal resources, assist with new business opportunities, and supporting account teams. She interacts daily with teams to ensure efficiencies, best practices, and quality during the development and execution of all projects. She is also responsible for creating and managing standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure consistency among teams.

Prior to p-value, Christine was with Cardinal Health in Wayne, New Jersey. She holds a bachelor of science degree in marketing from Virginia Tech.

Trina Saiya is Vice President of Meeting Operations for p-value. In this role, she manages the complete meeting and event needs of the company, overseeing a multifunctional department of 30 people and more than 26,000 projects annually worldwide. She has been with the company, and directly responsible for overseeing logistical planning and meeting execution, since 2006.

Trina brings more than 20 years of experience in the hotel, meeting, and event planning industry, having served clients in the pharmaceutical, financial, and real estate sectors. She is skilled in event planning, account management, and project management, and she has developed procedures that assure the highest quality standards in meeting planning. Her wide diversity of experience includes gala dinners, president’s club events, holiday parties, incentives, training seminars, executive dinners, product launches, satellite broadcasts, museum events, book signings, wine tastings, and sporting events.

At p-value, Trina’s department handles hotel/venue sourcing and contracting, meeting and event planning, multimedia services, travel fulfillment, and Speaker’s Bureau programs. By establishing a preferred supplier program, Trina has procured and maintained strategic agreements with essential suppliers in order to best meet clients’ needs.

Brian Scaglione joined p-value in 2016 as Vice President, Scientific Services, to lead the clinical team. He received his doctorate degree in immunology from Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, where his research focused on the role of B and T cells in cancer and autoimmunity. He then completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he investigated novel approaches to inducing immune tolerance through microRNA regulation.

After leaving academia, Brian transitioned to the medical communications industry, where he demonstrates his exceptional skill in combing through data and working with key opinion leaders to find the "medical hook,” the story that conveys to practicing physicians a product’s benefit over competitors, as supported by data as well as experts in the medical community.

Brian brings a diverse therapeutic background to p-value, having worked on numerous brands at all stages of a product’s life cycle in medical communications and pharmaceutical advertising. He has led the content development and medical strategy for more than a dozen product launches in various therapeutic areas, with a focus in oncology and rare disease.

As Vice President of Strategic Business Operations, Jerry Schmitt brings a unique customer perspective and focus to our p-value team that enables us to deliver creative, results-oriented, and compliant solutions to our clients.

With nearly 25 years of pharmaceutical sales and marketing management experience with industry leaders such as Pfizer and Wyeth, Jerry has a breadth of expertise spanning commercial development of late-stage pipeline assets to the marketing of multi-billion-dollar brands. His knowledge of neuroscience, women’s health, rheumatology, orthopedics, and cardiovascular disease across global, regional, and US markets enables him to be a valuable contributor to our team’s content and program development process for brand marketing, sales planning, launch planning, training/development, and opinion leader strategy.

Jerry’s academic accomplishments include an MBA in marketing management from Saint John’s University and a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Stony Brook University.