The articles are written by key opinion leaders and practicing clinicians.

Some pharmaceutical companies identify key opinion leaders through direct inquiry of physicians (primary research).

HIV risk behavior reduction following intervention with key opinion leaders of population: an experimental analysis.

Pharmaceutical companies generally engage key opinion leaders early in the drug development process to provide advocacy and key marketing feedback.

MSLs build relationships with key opinion leaders or thought leaders and health care providers, providing critical windows of insight into the market and competition.

Amir Kalali, MD, editor, oversees an editorial advisory board that comprises nearly 80 key opinion leaders covering all areas of psychiatric medicine.

This program is aimed to allow participants to learn the necessary skills to become the future key opinion leaders in oncology and promote French oncology in the international community.

POL (Popular Opinion Leader), which identifies, enlists, and trains key opinion leaders to encourage safer sexual norms and behaviors within their social networks.

As well as being one of the key opinion leaders, also from its top-class domestic construction revenue, it is seen as one of the leading companies in the construction industry in Japan.

Key opinion leaders Key opinion leaders (KOL), or "thought leaders", are respected individuals, such as prominent medical school faculty, who influence physicians through their professional status.

Results of the research were shared with policy makers, Government officials from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, NGOs business partners and key opinion leaders of the Malaysian society.

For example, GlaxoSmithKline marketed paroxetine (Paxil) by promoting the previously obscure diagnosis of "social anxiety disorder" through phony support groups, celebrity spokespeople, a direct-to-consumer illness awareness campaign, and generous payments to key opinion leaders [22].

CHIMES is a Singaporean non-profit society founded by a group of key opinion leaders in stroke, Southeast Asia regional experts, and clinicians interested in implementing a research project on Traditional Chinese Medicine efficacy on stroke recovery.

Key opinion leaders generally belong to a specific area of expertise, such as oncology, cardiology, diabetes, or sometimes do specialized work in very niched therapeutic areas such as Colorectal Cancer (CRC), Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).

Both start-up and established organizations would hire biotechnology consultants mainly to receive an independent and professional advice from key opinion leaders, individuals with extensive knowledge and experience in a particular area of biotechnology or biological sciences, and, often, to outsource their projects for implementation by well qualified individuals.