Pharmaceutical Officers Academy exists to give working professionals the practical, applicable knowledge their roles demand — taught by people who've actually done the work.
Courses built to accelerate your career and impact
Our purpose is simple: give you a series of individual capabilities that help you and your company succeed, bring products to market, and provide society with a wider array of useful pharmaceutical products.
We're built on the "People Teaching People" promise — every course is developed and taught by practitioners who've held the roles our students aspire to, not by generic content writers translating theory secondhand.
1
Active department, more in development.
30+
Years of practitioner experience behind the Core Curriculum
Our Faculty
Founder & Principal instructor
Matthew Holley, JD, MEd
Matthew Holley has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech world. He has served as General Counsel of companies and has developed and presented training across a wide range of pharmaceutical and IP topics. Prior to law school, he taught high school and developed training programs as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force.
Ram Bardenstein, JD
Generic Entry Course Instructor
Tom LaGrandeur, PhD, JD
Intellectual Property Department Chair
Beyond the Individual Learner
Bring POA to your team — or teach with us
For Companies
Corporate Accounts
Custom content for your company and team-teaching with your executives. Volume access with discounts, plus courses designed around your business.
How companies partner with us
Team licenses & volume access
Custom curriculum for your business
Executive cohort teaching
For Experts
Teach With Us
Share expertise you've earned in the field. Teach a core curriculum course for a department, or a specialty course in your area.
Ways to get involved
Teach a Core Curriculum course
Lead a specialty expert course
Guest-teach alongside our faculty
Education Standards & Compliance
See how our courses are built, reviewed, and maintained — including SCORM & xAPI compliance and our approach to keeping content current with practitioners in the field.
Get in Touch
Questions about a course, a corporate account, or teaching with us? Our Learner Services team is ready to help.
The content on this site is only for educational purposes so that the user may better understand and manage business operations generlly. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought.
Relevance and Application. Not just random facts -- With each course, we are attempting to materially improve one of your skills.
This differs from some of the presentations we have seen at conferences. Some conference
presentations communicate a few interesting facts about the topic, but do not leave us
feeling as though we really improved on our skills.
Thus, at the Academy we are working to take the
best from the conference presentations and mold each one into a cohesive course, with application tools so that you can apply the knowledge to your job performance
What's a Provost? A provost is the chief academic officer at a university. Well, that is one definition. At many universities the Provost supervises the deans, and spends a lot of time on budgets and personnel matters.
Not our Provost. At the Academy our Provost is focused on learning effectiveness. Leading our
instructional design efforts, the Provost works with the Department Chairs and faculty members to design the courses so that the instruction is as effective as possible, with application of consistent teaching principles and techniques across all of our courses.
By ensuring that all courses in all departments are structured with a flow from basic to advanced, with section breaks and memorization
techniques appropriate for the complexity of the material the Provost works to minimize your
administrative time and maximize your learning.
Faculty -- not just instructors. We work to have faculty members that are experts in their subject matter, but who also are skilled at teaching the material. Good teaching is difficult, and not as easy as it looks.
Our instructors are selected for their commitment to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the industry by providing training that will contribute to the capabilities and performance of the students;
We seek out people who see clarity where others see only chaos. People who have a vision of what the basics are, and who want to teach those basics. We deliberately avoid having faculty members who “hide the ball” or convey only that the topic is difficult and that their consulting services are the path forward.
Our faculty members work to provide you with useful skills and insight
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