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Dr. Megan McEntire's current role as Associate Director of Scientific Communications enables her to interact with clients and key opinion leaders on a personal basis to facilitate dissemination of medical knowledge. Megan has experience in publication planning, developing scientific manuscripts, planning and implementing scientific development and logistics for advisory board meetings, competitive surveillance reporting, and conducting gap analyses and KOL analyses in the therapeutic areas of pain management, women's health, bipolar disorder, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, infectious disease, rare diseases, and oncology. As the fellowship director, she ensures that the fellows receive a well-rounded education in medical publications with as much hands on experience as possible. She also serves as the primary preceptor for APPE PharmD students from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Rutgers University, Temple University, and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Megan graduated from East Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, concentration in Biochemistry, and worked in the chemical industry. However, her passion was to help people in the healthcare field, so she returned to further her education at the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy at East Tennessee State University, where she received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2011.

Megan completed the 2011-2012 MedVal/PharmaWrite Medical Communications Postdoctoral fellowship program. She was the first fellow to obtain her teaching certificate from the University of the Sciences College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia. In 2012 she joined MedVal as an Associate Manager of Scientific Communications and in 2013 she received her Certified Medical Publication Professional (CMPP) credential through ISMPP. Megan is a member of APhA, ASHP, AMWA, IPhO, and ISMPP and serves on the ISMPP Membership Committee