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Every Christian CEO or business owner needs a tool box to use as he or she leads their company for Jesus Christ. Some of these tools may be bibles, tracts, booklets, cards, grief kits, or character training

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

materials. I believe that one of the primary tools that are needed in every CEO’s tool box is a corporate chaplain program. In our distribution firm that operated across the country, we used a corporate ch

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

aplain service for 17 years. Hundreds of lives were affected by that service to our employees. I now have a minority interest in a manufacturing firm, and we recently hired a chaplain service. Within the fi

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

st few weeks one of the employees lost his mom. He had no church home, no one to turn to, and no one to do the funeral grave side service. The chaplain was able to step in and immediately give help to the e

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

mployee, and the family, and represent the firm. A couple of weeks later the chaplain was able to lead the employee to Christ. Your church or mine would never be able to reach that employee and perhaps even

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

you as an executive could have not be able to connect, but the chaplain could.

This year I was in Reno, Nevada, meeting with some of our key business owners for dinner. The subject of a corporate chaplain

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

came up. They wanted to know if hiring a chaplain took away from the CEO’s responsibility to minister and serve the employees. I told them that the CEO still has that responsibility from God as do the other

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

believers in the firm. But, all are needed to do the job. The chaplain, the CEO, key Christian executives, and any employee who is a follower of Jesus all have the responsibility and opportunity to model C

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

rist daily and proclaim His Word to fellow employees, customers, and vendors in a non forceful way. I wish that every pastor and church staff person would serve one day a week as a volunteer chaplain to the

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

firms of the members of their congregation. If this was done, our churches would increase in size overnight. We would be much more connected to the real world as we relate to the problems of the community

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

s we encounter them in the reality of the daily workplace.

Boe Parrish is a workplace executive. He believes so much in the value of corporate chaplains, that he served as a part time chaplain for some loc

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

al firms for the last twenty years. He spent an average of four hours a week doing this service. I asked Boe how many people came to Christ over these last twenty years. I was shocked when he told me that a

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

pproximately 700 people had prayed to receive Christ during that period. I wondered how many small to mid sized churches had seen 30 to 40 adults come to Christ every year for the last twenty years. I wonde

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ed what would happen if we changed how we did church and trained all of our members to be workers, executives, and some to be chaplains in the workplace. Not only did these people turn their lives around bu

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

t they became better employees and more loyal to their employer who cared enough for them to provide a free chaplain service. Christian Business Network

Boe shared the following story with me. “I had been

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

on the job about 2.5 weeks when I received a call from the HR director. He explained that the 13 year old son of a couple, who both worked for the company, had committed suicide. The younger ten-year-old br

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

other had just come home from school and found his older brother dead in their bedroom. The trauma from this discovery was almost unbearable for the young boy. The parents were devastated and the entire com

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

pany of 350 employees was in shock. Immediately I raced across town to be with the family who had no church affiliation and no network of support to lean on. Their grief was so heavy and impossible to carry

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

alone. Hours turned into weeks and weeks turned into months of walking this tough walk of love with this family. Over the course of the next three to four months God used this tragedy and turned the curse i

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

nto a blessing. The mother, father, and younger brother asked Jesus Christ into their hearts. God turned things around for many of the employees, with eight employees also inviting Christ into their hearts.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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