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This article is an excerpt from an interview with golf course architect Kevin Norby.

What are the most important considerations for a developer when choo

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

sing a golf course designer? Knowledge and experience. As an owner, you want to make sure you're working with someone who can guide you through the project approval process and provide some as

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

surance that, when complete, the project will be successful. In particular, it is important that the client determine who they are building the golf course for: Whether the course is designed for private, p

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ublic or resort play will have a considerable bearing into the design elements. These are important factors as an owner considers what their maintenance budget will be, as well as the caliber of golfer that

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

will play the course.

A golf course architect is also valuable to the owner in terms of providing guidance regarding maintenance facilities, maintenance equipment, sighting of the clubhouse, the amount of

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

parking required, finding good contractors, where to look for when hiring a manager or golf professional. In many ways, we become a sounding board for the owner because we have a wide variety of experience

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

in getting these golf course projects up and running smoothly. That is where having an experienced golf course designer is particularly helpful for a golf course owner; simply in having worked through a lot

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

of the unforeseen challenges that an owner can have when setting up their golf course.

It is also important that you find someone whom you can work well with. You will want to find someone who is really wi

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

lling to listen to your goals and your concerns. You want to make sure you've got a golf course designer who isn't just imposing their personal biases, style or budget onto your golf course. Issues like siz

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

es of greens, species of grass, the type of sand in your bunkers are all important considerations whicxh all affect the initial construction budget and ongoing maintenance budget.

A designer without experi

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

nce may lack the necessary understanding of how all these elements can affect the final costs. The last thing you want as an owner is for your costs to skyrocket and to jeopardize the success or the project

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

. This is where knowledge and experience will be invaluable.

Having an experienced golf course designer is essentially like having access to a Rolodex of industry professionals whom your designer has a rel

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ationship with and they can call upon for specialized knowledge when necessary.

What is your philosophy of golf course design? What is really important for us is

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

to have a clear understanding who will be playing the course and their level of skill. We will design a public course much different than a private course. The public and semi-private courses will typicall

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

have more play by higher handicap players. If you don't set the course up to accommodate that, you will end up with a course that wont be enjoyable for the customer and will suffer from slow play.

People

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

just don't want to come back to a course that takes more than 5 hours to play. So in that case, we intentionally design this type of public course to be a little more forgiving, with wider fairways larger g

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

reens and more forgiving hazards.

Having said that, one of the real tricks to golf design is to create a great course that is fair and relatively forgiving for the beginning golfer, yet strategic enough th

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

t the better player feels challenged. We can do this by not only providing multiple tees but by manipulating the angle to the green, contouring of the green and landing areas, placement of bunkers and hazar

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ds and also by adjusting the width and angle of the fairways.

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elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

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tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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