The Consultants' Forum was founded by Dr. Lorna Speid (Speid & Associates, Inc.) and Dr. Marilyn Carlson (entremedica, Inc.) in July 2004. The Consultants' Forum was incorporated as a non profit in 2008. The vision of the organization is to provide a vehicle by which consultants serving the life sciences community in San Diego and abroad can be more effective.

Lorna Speid - President
Bonne Zoe Winn - Treasurer   
Silvia Bendiner - VP Marketing

EntreMedica, Inc.

Speid & Associates, Inc.

Lorna Speid - President Bonne Zoe Winn - Treasurer Silvia Bendiner - VP marketing Robin Allgren, MD PhD,Breakthrough Bio Development, LLC Steven Biedenbach Barbara Dillon Susan Hochschwender Kathy Rangus

Lorna - lspeid@sndtm.com

The goals fall into three areas:
To provide education to expert life science consultants.
To provide education to life science companies in areas of expertise to promote the success of these companies.
To assist expert consultants as they provide consulting services to life science companies.

Speid & Associates, Inc. is a regulatory, drug development and drug discovery consultancy. Lorna collaborates with other organizations (toxicology houses, CROs, consultants) to provide..


entreMeDica has extensive experience in Medical Affairs. "Hands-on" support is avaiable for medical information (FAQs and standard responses), safety surveillance, field-based science liaisons, SOPs...