Laura Howard, an accomplished pharmaceutical sales professional with over 20 years of industry experience, has recently been awarded the 2018 Pinnacle Award for her outstanding work in Eisai Neurology. She has been a consistent top 15% ranking sales leader, and has won 9 national sales awards and 16 SPIFF wins throughout her career. Her expertise includes promoting orphan drugs in neurology and cardiology, and she has successfully launched 11 products in her career.

Laura has extensive knowledge of complex disease states and REMS programs and is skilled in managing patient support programs. Her institutional sales experience includes working with hospitals, long-term care facilities, teaching institutions, group homes, hospice, and specialty pharmacies. She also has vast experience working with managed care organizations, such as Medicare, Medicaid, dual-eligible programs, and commercial payers.

In addition to her professional achievements, Laura holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has trained as a certified life guard at the American Red Cross. Her customers have included neurologists, oncologists, pain specialists, epileptologists, psychiatrists, rheumatologists, gastroenterologists, dermatologists, allergists, internal medicine physicians, hospitalists, medical directors, pediatrics, family practice and urgent care clinics, and hospitals such as MacDill AFB, James Haley Veterans Hospital, USF Health Care System, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa General Hospital, and Morton Plant Hospital System.