Quick Overview
Arbor Scientia Group is an award-winning global promotional medical education and communications agency founded in 2005. The group has grown to include three sister companies—Arbor Scientia, Metis Medical Media, and Sirona Medical Education—all headquartered in Carlsbad, California, with staff located across the US. We partner with medical affairs, marketing, market access, and sales teams in the healthcare industry to deliver strategic, comprehensive, and measurable educational programs and content that support client objectives across disease states and product life cycle stages.
Arbor Scientia Group provides a full range of strategic support, medical education, and communications services designed to help clients communicate scientific and product information effectively. Our core offerings are all grounded in evidence-based communication science to maximize learning and impact.
Arbor Scientia Group offers a broad range of services across medical content (strategy, medical education, and medical communications), training, meetings and events, and creative.
Memory is built on associations, and storytelling creates lasting ones. Visual processing is one of the fastest ways the brain absorbs and retains new information, and tapping into this natural physiology enhances learning and achieves greater results.
A large international pharmaceutical company conducted their own research on the impact of Arbor Scientia Group’s evening symposia dinner programs. In the 10 weeks following the program, attendees showed an 18% relative increase in product share over the control group in the same region who did not attend the program.
We also conducted a series of five evening symposia dinner programs for a US-based pharmaceutical company. The prescribing habits of the 267 healthcare professionals (HCPs) from the six months prior to the program and six months after the program were assessed. There was an ~80% average increase in prescriptions of the brand in the six months after the program among attendees, which translated to a two-to-one return on investment for these programs.
Our online excellence courses have shown deep engagement and commitment with more than 2,000 HCPs spending more than 5,000 hours learning over the first 18 months following launch.
About the Company
The company was co-founded by Rick Davis, a business consultant and expert on communication science and adult learning principles, and Dr. Stephen M. Stahl, an internationally renowned psychopharmacologist and best-selling Cambridge University Press author of more than 40 books. Their vision was to change the way medical education was delivered worldwide and improve patient outcomes by incorporating communication science and adult learning principles to accelerate learning.
Arbor Scientia Group was founded in 2005 and has been refining its methods for over two decades, delivering high-quality medical education to audiences in more than 70 countries.
Arbor Scientia Group supports promotional medical education and medical communication for all disease states, including:
- Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Hematology
- Oncology
- Rare diseases
- Immunology
- Virology
- Cardiovascular
- Women’s health
- Urology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
Yes. All of our medical writing team are highly skilled, PhD-trained, published scientists who have taught at the college level.
Services
Arbor Scientia Group’s medical content services fall into three areas: medical education, medical communications, and strategy.
- Medical education
- Slide decks
- Video production (key opinion leader [KOL], patient, 3D/2D animations, etc.) for all audiences
- Online excellence courses
- eLearning modules
- Core visual aids
- Educational leave-behinds
- Activities and games
- Medical communications
- Publications
- Plain language summaries (written, graphical, and video)
- Scientific posters
- Medical illustration
- Publication planning
- Strategy
- Scientific communication platforms
- Disease state and market development strategic planning
- Messaging guides
- Situational analysis
- Impact analysis
- Advisory boards
- Workshops
Arbor Scientia Group’s meeting and event services include:
- Evening symposia dinner programs
- Congress product/disease state theater
- Conference management
- Advisory boards
- National broadcasts
- Launch meetings
- Sales meetings
- Working sessions
- Executive encounters/KOL engagement
- Investigator summits
Arbor Scientia Group’s training services include:
- Advanced communication training
- Medical science liaison (MSL) training
- Speaker training
- Sales training
- Clinical investigator training
- Individual communication coaching
- eLearning modules
- Online excellence courses
- Activities, games, and workshops
Arbor Scientia Group’s KOL engagement services include:
- KOL identification, outreach, and management
- Advisory boards
- Working sessions
- “Executive Encounters” (one-on-one meetings with KOLs)
- Investigator summits
Creative services include:
- Graphic design
- Videos (2D and 3D)
- Animations
- eLearning modules
- Games and apps
- Digital ads and drivers
- Websites
- Promotional materials (print and digital)
- Registration sites
- Interactive PDFs
- Online excellence courses
Arbor Scientia Group’s project management team serves as the primary point of contact for all client initiatives. Our project managers provide end-to-end oversight, coordinating all activities from project initiation through closeout. This includes managing schedules and timelines, overseeing meeting and event logistics, and ensuring seamless execution across all workstreams. The team also supports compliance reporting (including Sunshine Act reporting), as well as financial tracking, accruals, and billing to ensure accuracy and transparency throughout the project life cycle.
Arbor Scientia Group’s advanced communications training teaches participants how to utilize principles of communication science and personality dynamics to maximize communication effectiveness. This includes consideration of audience personality types, proxemics, alignment of verbal and nonverbal messaging, and instinctive elaboration. Advanced communications training programs enhance communication effectiveness for various teams, such as MSLs, sales representatives, HCP speakers, and executives.
Methodology and Educational Approach
Our method is grounded in communication science as well as key adult learning principles and instructional design strategies: self-directed learning, interval learning, visual storytelling, activity-driven learning, and metrics-based measurability, which are all designed to accelerate learning, increase learner confidence, and drive lasting behavioral change.
We incorporate metrics and measurability as a core part of our method, providing real-time information about learning to ensure educational success. The approach is designed to deliver lead-indicator metrics so clients can track the progress of their initiatives.
Yes. The co-founders developed and published their medical education research in a Cambridge University Press book titled Best Practices in Medical Teaching, and the approach has been refined over more than two decades.
Reach and Recognition
Arbor Scientia Group has delivered promotional medical education to audiences from more than 70 countries.
Yes. Arbor Scientia Group is recognized as an award-winning global medical education agency noted for its innovative educational formats and measurable results. Its educational programs have been cited for excellence by organizations including the American Psychiatric Association and the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Additional awards include:
- BASA Award® for Best in Class – Outstanding Business of the Year 2025
- Inc. Power Partner 2024 and 2025
- Top Veeva Solutions Provider 2022 and 2025
- Richard Davis: 2024 Silver Stevie® Lifetime Achievement Award – Business Services Industries
- Richard Davis: 2016 Businessperson of the Year Award – Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce
- Communiqué Awards finalist 2016
Working With Arbor Scientia Group
Arbor Scientia Group serves pharmaceutical and medical device companies across medical affairs, marketing, market access, and sales departments and works with clients both nationally and internationally.
Arbor Scientia Group blends scientific expertise, communication science, adult learning principles, and creative execution—not just producing content but partnering with clients to craft strategically sound educational solutions that are measurable and impactful. Arbor Scientia Group has refined its methods for more than two decades and serves clients globally with tailored programs that can be executed in a GDPR-compliant manner and drive learning and retention.
Arbor Scientia Group serves as a strategic partner, working in close collaboration with clients to understand objectives, target audiences, and product life cycle needs. We support projects end to end—from early ideation and strategic planning through content development and execution—followed by post-execution impact assessment and data-driven recommendations to guide next steps and future initiatives. Your dedicated project manager will serve as your primary point of contact, overseeing all aspects of the project from initiation through completion.
We serve clients globally, and we are certified to execute any projects in a GDPR-compliant manner as needed.
With more than 20 years of experience navigating evolving medical, legal, and regulatory guidance, our team is well prepared to create content that is accurate, fair balanced, and approvable. We have extensive Veeva Vault experience and pride ourselves on our attention to detail and referencing accuracy to help ensure a smooth review process for materials. In fact, Arbor Scientia Group was recognized as a Top Veeva Solutions Provider in both 2022 and 2025.
You can reach Arbor Scientia Group by phone, email, or through the contact page to set up an exploratory call. From there we will listen to your needs and strategic goals to help us develop a proposal with our recommendations and the associated costs for your consideration. We will then work with you to refine the proposal to meet your objectives and budget.
Contact
You can reach us by phone at 760-795-2005, by email at customerservice@arborscientia.com, or through the contact form on our website at arborscientiagroup.com/contact. We do not collect personal data except through this contact page, and any inquiries are not shared with third parties.
