Arbor Scientia Group

What Arbor Scientia Group does

Arbor Scientia Group is a privately held promotional medical education and communications agency founded in 2005 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California. Operating through three sister companies—Arbor Scientia, Metis Medical Media, and Sirona Medical Education—the firm serves pharmaceutical and medical device companies across medical affairs, marketing, market access, and sales departments, with program delivery spanning more than 70 countries. Its enterprise customer base consists of large pharma sponsors and medical device manufacturers, supported by direct strategic-partner relationships rather than self-service or SMB distribution channels.

The company's offering is anchored by a proprietary methodology that combines communication science, adult learning principles, and a measurability framework providing real-time lead-indicator metrics. Core service lines include Medical Affairs Services, Marketing Services, Sales Services, and Measurability, supplemented by KOL engagement, storytelling, live programs (including signature Evening Symposia dinner programs), creative services, training, strategic consulting, and client services/logistics. In late 2024, the group launched Online Excellence Courses, a digital learning platform focused on complex and underrepresented disease states; within approximately 18 months, more than 2,000 healthcare professionals engaged for over 5,000 combined learning hours. The methodology is documented in the Cambridge University Press book "Best Practices in Medical Teaching," co-authored by founders Rick Davis and Dr. Stephen M. Stahl.

The business operates as a B2B professional services firm with direct enterprise sales motion, custom quote-based pricing, and multi-year project-based engagements. No public revenue, funding, or valuation figures are disclosed. Recent recognition includes the 2025 BASA Award for Outstanding Business of the Year, Inc. Power Partner designation in 2024 and 2025, Top Veeva Solutions Provider in 2022 and 2025, and a 2024 Silver Stevie Lifetime Achievement Award for CEO Rick Davis. Co-founder Dr. Stephen M. Stahl—an internationally renowned psychopharmacologist and one of Cambridge University Press's most prolific authors—provides reputational depth and talent differentiation that is central to the firm's positioning.

Name

Arbor Scientia Group

Legal name

Arbor Scientia

Website

https://arborscientiagroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Arbor Scientia Group is a privately held promotional medical education agency serving pharmaceutical and medical device companies across medical affairs, marketing, and sales. The company delivers evidence-based programs grounded in communication science and adult learning principles across 70+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Promotional Medical Education Services

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAGANAH

Operations, Quality & Process Improvement (Lean/Six Sigma)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional Development & Training Materials

Keywords

• Promotional medical education
• Medical communications agency
• Healthcare professional training
• Pharmaceutical marketing services
• Medical affairs consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Carlsbad

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Medical Education Services: Full-service promotional medical education agency providing strategic support, medical education, and communications services to pharmaceutical and medical device companies across medical affairs, marketing, market access, and sales departments
2. Training Programs: Communication training, MSL training, speaker training, sales training, clinical investigator training, and individual coaching services for healthcare industry teams
3. Creative Services: Graphic design, video production, animations, eLearning development, games/apps, websites, and digital/print promotional materials
4. Live Programs and Events: Evening symposia, congress management, advisory boards, national broadcasts, launch meetings, sales meetings, and KOL engagement events
5. Strategic Consulting: Scientific communication platforms, impact analysis, messaging guides, and market development strategic planning

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Arbor Scientia Group is a promotional medical education agency that delivers end-to-end strategic medical education, communications, training, creative, live event, and consulting services to pharmaceutical and medical device companies across their medical affairs, marketing, market access, and sales departments. Its work is grounded in a proprietary methodology combining communication science, adult learning principles, and a Measurability analytics framework that produces real-time learning outcome metrics and pre/post knowledge assessments.

Product overview

Arbor Scientia Group is an award-winning promotional medical education and communications agency providing a full-service, integrated portfolio spanning three core divisions: Medical Affairs, Marketing, and Sales. The offering is organized as a platform of interconnected service lines anchored by Measurability — a proprietary metrics and analytics framework that provides real-time learning outcomes data as a core differentiator. The product portfolio includes KOL Engagement Services, Storytelling Services, Live Programs (including the flagship Evening Symposia dinner programs), Online Excellence Courses, eLearning Modules, Creative Services, Activities and Workshops, Strategic Consulting, Training Services, and Client Services and Logistics. All offerings are grounded in communication science, adult learning principles, and instructional design strategies to accelerate learning, increase learner confidence, and drive measurable behavioral change.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Medical Affairs Services Strategic partnership for pharmaceutical medical affairs teams covering communication of scientific data and stories, KOL engagement, MSL training, and medical communications support.
• Marketing Services Strategic partnership covering HCP, consumer, and managed markets marketing across all product lifecycle stages, including branded and disease-state content, congress support, and speaker training.
• Sales Services Designed training and tools to position pharmaceutical sales teams as valuable resources, including sales training, core visual aids, and pre-launch, launch, and post-launch support.
• KOL Engagement Services Facilitates access to key opinion leaders through strategically designed advisory boards, working sessions, Executive Encounters one-on-one meetings, and investigator summits.
• Storytelling Services Visual storytelling applied to branded and disease-state content including slide decks, videos, core visual aids, publications, scientific posters, and figures/graphics development.
• Live Programs Live event programs including Evening Symposia dinner programs, congress activities, advisory boards, national broadcasts, launch meetings, and sales meetings designed to raise disease-state and product awareness.
• Evening Symposia Signature interactive dinner programs that serve as dynamic learning opportunities with measurable results, featuring presentations, interactive knowledge application, knowledge checks, and key message metrics.
• Online Excellence Courses Digital learning courses for healthcare professionals focused on complex and underrepresented disease states, integrating instructional design with measurement and analytics frameworks.
• Creative Services Accomplished design and development team providing graphic design, videos, 2D and 3D animations, games, apps, eBlasts, websites, and digital/print promotional materials.
• Strategic Consulting Consulting services including scientific communication platforms, impact analysis, and messaging guides to help identify the right message, delivery, and targets.
• Training Services Communication science and adult learning-based training including MSL training, speaker training, sales training, clinical investigator training, and individual coaching.
• Client Services and Logistics Project management and logistics including strategic planning, KOL relationship management, on-site event management, compliance and PhRMA guidelines adherence, and Sunshine reporting.

Quantifiable outcome

• 18% relative increase in product share over 10 weeks following evening symposia programs (from large international pharma research)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Pharmaceutical Clients (Unnamed)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 January 2026Strategic partnerships with pharmaceutical companies to deliver measurable medical education programs. The company integrates strategic brainstorming, instructional design, and technology-enabled learning with measurement and analytics frameworks to support pharmaceutical clients in delivering sustained medical education for healthcare professionals.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Syneos Health Communications: A global clinical and commercial services firm with a substantial medical communications and education practice serving pharma across medical affairs, marketing, and sales — a broad incumbent and key competitive threat on enterprise RFPs.
• Havas Health & You: The global health communications network of Havas, offering medical education, KOL engagement, and pharma marketing — a broad incumbent whose scale and global footprint compete with ASG on multinational pharma accounts.
• Publicis Health: The healthcare arm of Publicis Groupe, providing medical communications, education, and HCP engagement to global pharma — a major broad incumbent competing for the same enterprise medical education budgets.
• Klick Health: A large independent health agency offering medical affairs, marketing, and digital learning across pharma — broader incumbent with overlapping medical education, KOL engagement, and digital HCP capabilities.
• Intouch Group: A large digital health agency providing medical communications, marketing, and HCP engagement to pharma — broader incumbent operating across the same functional services but at significantly greater scale.

Direct peers

• AbelsonTaylor: An independent healthcare advertising and medical education agency serving pharma and medical device clients across HCP, consumer, and sales-support programs — a like-sized independent peer with comparable services and pharma customer base.
• Dudnyk: A healthcare communications agency focused on specialty pharma, providing branding, medical education, and HCP engagement — directly comparable as a specialty pharma-focused medical education and creative agency.
• MedThink Communications: A specialty medical communications and education agency serving pharma clients across medical affairs, marketing, and sales — closely comparable to Arbor Scientia in scope, customer base, and boutique professional-services model.
• Continuum Clinical: A medical communications and patient-engagement agency with deep pharma relationships across medical affairs, market access, and outcomes research — closely comparable in mission, methodology emphasis, and enterprise pharma customer base.
• MedErgy HealthGroup: An independent medical communications agency offering medical affairs, marketing, and sales support to pharma — a directly comparable boutique peer with overlapping service lines and customer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/arbor-scientia

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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