What the findmyKOL directory covers
This is the first post on the findmyKOL blog, and it is short on purpose. It exists to prove the publishing pipeline end to end, and to answer the first question most readers bring here: what is actually in the directory?
Where the profiles come from
Every profile starts from the public record. The facts that matter about a medical expert are already published somewhere: their papers and citations, the clinical trials they run, the payments companies report for working with them, and the registry entries that identify them as clinicians. The hard part is stitching those records to the right person and keeping them current. That stitching is the product, and every number on a profile names the source it came from. The methodology page explains how records are matched and verified.
How the directory is organized
The directory is the front door: search by name, then narrow by specialty, indication, region, institution, and the other dimensions of the data. Around it sit browse pages for therapeutic areas and regions, plus pages for individual institutions, companies, and registered trials. Each of those pages rolls up the same underlying records, so a trial page and an investigator's profile always agree with each other.
What this blog is for
Posts here will be working guides: how to find the investigators for an indication, how to read industry payment data, how to build a defensible expert list from sources anyone can check. Where a guide describes a task the directory performs, it links straight to the page that performs it, so you can follow along with real data instead of screenshots.