Dr. Stephanie Rock
Psychology graduate with MSc from Kansas State University and PhD in Psychobiology of Addictions from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Currently working as Sr Medical Education Associate at Eli Lilly and Company.
| Headline: | Educator |
| Groups: | Linking Indiana |
| Interested in: | Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities |
| Schools: | Indiana University System - Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, Kansas State University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Eli Lilly and Company, Global Medical Education, Global Neuroscience Platform Team |
| Position: | Sr Medical Education Associate |
| Time period: | July 2006 - Present |
| Description: | • Recognized leader across Neuroscience Platform Team and Medical Education
• Consultant and Core Team Member for several Six Sigma projects, saving the company 14 million dollars • Provided technical data and disease-state education to the life sciences community (over 12,000 Health Care Physicians in 2008) • Project management and implementation of global educational programs (Global Medical Conferences and symposia) across the Neuroscience Platform (average 25 per year) • Responsible for Medical Information at global congresses; to be cost-effective and green, decided to electronically distribute manuscript reprints • Led the affiliate medical and promotional congress global approval process eliminating redundancy and saving time • Keen sense in critical evaluation of programs, publications, and presentations, reducing the time to review • Coordinate and implement medical education strategy for medical teams applying marketing messages and scientific objectives from Brand Councils • Develop a slide set process to increase efficiency and consistency across the company • Skillfully influential and credible in the development of Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) • Created and developed the Neuroscience Theater cross-functionally for marketing teams responding directly to customer feedback (see Awards below) • Produced a robust set of educational resources (CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, Pamphlets) to ensure the successful global launch of several indications and molecules • Consistently recognized for active listening and responding (see Awards below) |
| Employer: | Various institutions |
| Position: | Teaching Experience |
| Description: | Adjunct Professor:
Psychology as a Biological Science, freshman-level course, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, Columbus, IN, January 2001 • Developed course including lectures, mini-experiments, demonstrations, and tests from a neuroscience perspective • Didactic teaching experience Abnormal Psychology, upper-level undergraduate course, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, September 1999 • Prepared and administered lectures and tests • Organized several outside speakers on relevant topics • Taught American Psychology Association paper style Introduction to Biology, non-major course, College of Mt St Joseph, Cincinnati, OH, June 1999 • Taught relevant lectures, laboratories, field trips and tests Experimental Methods, upper-level undergraduate course, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, January 1999 • Composed lectures, laboratories, several original experiments, and tests • Trained students on statistics and American Psychology Association paper style Experimental and Statistical Methods laboratory, upper-level undergraduate course, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, January 1994 – December 1995 • Developed lectures and tests • Conducted computerized experiments and statistical analyses Guest Lecturer: Teratology, graduate-level course, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, OH, June 2000 • Developed and administered lectures and an essay test on the neuroteratological effects of cocaine and nicotine Psychopharmacology, graduate-level course, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, June 1996 • Composed and delivered lectures on drugs of abuse pharmacology General Psychology, freshman-level course, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, August 1995 • Prepared and delivered lectures on topics such as memory and learning |
| Employer: | Eli Lilly and Company, Global Scientific Information and Communications, Global Neuroscience Platform Team |
| Position: | Sr Scientific Communications Associate |
| Time period: | July 2004 - July 2006 |
| Description: | • Effective leader of a collaborative working relationships across medical, marketing, conference management, procurement, and compliance to define and deliver medical education programs
• Created the Global Medical Education role across the Neuroscience Platform Team • Responsible for content of neurology medical education symposia and medical conferences • Planned, facilitated, created content, developed, and owned comprehensive clinical presentations and slide sets • Coordinated and implemented CME strategy for neuroscience teams • Expert in Global Policies and Compliance Practices, Ethical Interactions with Health Care Physicians, and financial responsibility policies • Project Director, successfully overseeing up to five diverse vendors for programs |
| Employer: | Eli Lilly and Company, Global Scientific Information and Communications, Zyprexa Product Team |
| Position: | Sr Scientific Communications Associate |
| Time period: | July 2003 - July 2004 |
| Description: | • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of Neuroscience therapeutic area
• Worked with Key Opinion Leaders to create and write scienitific communications under tight timelines and deadlines (see publications) • Medical writer for regulatory submissions and journal articles • Publication Coordinator • Planned, wrote, edited, and reviewed medical communications • Responsible for several Ad Hoc advisory boards and steering committees |
| Employer: | Department of Psychology, Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychology, Indiana University |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Research |
| Time period: | June 2001 - July 2003 |
| Description: | • Studied the underlying judgmental processes of decision-making in drug abusers using cognitive mathematical modeling and other personality assessments
• Investigated the inhibitory reasoning processes in drug abusers in the clinical setting |
| Employer: | Department of Developmental Biology, Neuroteratology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital |
| Position: | Post doctorate |
| Time period: | August 1998 - June 2001 |
| Description: | • Examined the methamphetamine effects on corticostrone levels in preweanling rats
• Explored the effects of stimulants on rats measuring spatial learning and memory via mazes and conditioned place preference • Determined the neurochemical effects of stimulant administration via receptor autoradiography on dopamine transporters, dopamine (D1) receptors and glucocorticoid receptors |
EDUCATION
| University: | Indiana University System - Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis |
| Time period: | 1994 - 1998 |
| Degree: | Psychobiology of Addictions , PhD |
| University: | Kansas State University |
| Time period: | 1992 - 1994 |
| Degree: | Physiological Psychology, MSc |
| University: | Kansas State University |
| Time period: | 1988 - 1992 |
| Degree: | Psychology, BSc |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Keefe RS, Young CA, Rock SL, Purdon SE, Gold JM, Breier A; HGGN Study Group (2006) A One-year Double-blind Comparison of the Neurocognitive Efficacy of Olanzapine, Risperidone, and Haloperidol in Patients with Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 18, 1-15
Keefe RS, Seidman LJ, Christensen BK, Hamer RM, Sharma T, Sitskoorn MM, Rock SL, Woolson S, Tohen M, Tollefson GD, Sanger TM, Lieberman JA; HGDH Research Group (2006) Long-term Neurocognitive Efficacy of Olanzapine in First-Episode Psychotic Disorders: A Randomized Double-Blind Comparison with Haloperidol. Biological Psychiatry 59, 97-105 Stout JC, Rock SL, Campbell MC, Busemeyer JR, Finn PR (2005) Psychological processes underlying risky decisions in drug abusers. Psychology of Addictive Behavior 19, 148-57 Yechiam E, Stout JC, Busemeyer JR, Rock SL, Finn PR (2005) Individual differences in the response to forgone payoffs: An examination of high functioning drug abusers. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 18, 97-110 Vorhees CV, Reed TM, Morford LL, Fukumura M, Wood SL, Brown CA, Skelton MR, McCrea AE, Rock SL, Williams MT (2005) Periadolescent rats (P41-50) exhibit increased susceptibility to D-methamphetamine-induced long-term spatial and sequential learning deficit compared to juvenile (P21-30 or P31-40) or adult rats (P51-60). Neurotoxicology and Teratology 27, 117-134 Williams MT, Morford LL, Wood SL, Rock SL, McCrea AE, Fukumura M, Wallace TL, Broening HW, Moran MS, Vorhees CV (2003) Developmental 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) impairs sequential and spatial but not cued learning independent of growth, litter effects, or injection stress. Brain Research 968 (1), 89-101 June HL, Harvey SC, Foster KL, McKay PF, Garcia RCM, Mason D, Grey C, McCane S, Williams LS, Johnson TB, He X, Rock S, Cook JM (2001) GABAA Receptors Containing {alpha}5 Subunits in the CA1 and CA3 Hippocampal Fields Regulate Ethanol-Motivated Behaviors: An Extended Ethanol Reward Circuitry. Journal of Neuroscience 21(6), 2166-2177 Williams MT, Inman-Wood SL, Morford LL, McCrea AE, Ruttle AM, Moran MS, Rock SL Vorhees CV (2000) Preweaning treatment with methamphetamine induces increases in both corticosterone and ACTH in rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology 22 (5), 751-759 Facilitated Publications Thompson PM et al (2009) Time-Lapse Mapping of Cortical Changes in Schizophrenia with Different Treatments. Cereb Cortex Mamo D et al (2008) D2 Receptor Occupancy of Olanzapine Pamoate Depot Using Positron Emission Tomography: An Open-label Study in Patients with Schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology 33 (2), 298-304 Green AI et al (2006) Olanzapine and haloperidol in first episode psychosis: two-year data. Schizophr Res 86 (1-3): 234-43 Perkins DO et al (2006) Predictors of antipsychotic medication adherence in patients recovering from a first psychotic episode. Schizophr Res 83 (1): 53-63 |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Mentor for an Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Grant (2002)
Facilitator for the Cincinnati Youth Group (Fund Raiser and Event Coordinator, 1998 - 2001) Referee for the journal of Neurotoxicology and Teratology (1998 - 2001) Graduate Student Council Representative at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (1997 1998) Psi Chi Psychology Honorary (Chapter President, 1991 1992) |
| Awards: | Rated in the top 1% of Lilly two years in a row (2006 – 2007)
Lilly Global Team Spirit Award (2008) Lilly Team Work Award (2008) Lilly Partnering with Vendors Excellence Award (2007) Lilly Customer Excellence Award (2007) Lilly Active Listening and Responding Award (2007) Commitment to building and strengthening partnerships resulting in enhanced delivery of a capability Lilly Excellent Marketing Award (2006) External focus in successfully leading the development and implementation of the Promotional Neuroscience Theatre National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Travel Award (2003) Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) Travel Award (1995 – 1999) National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Graduate Training Fellowship (1995 – 1998) American Psychiatric Association (APA) Outstanding Dissertation (1997) Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis Graduate Travel Award (1995, 1997) Psi Chi Graduation Honors (1992) Semester GPA Honors (37/40) (1989 – 1992) |
