A Strategic Alliance between next-level strategies and IPC Launch

Our Mission: To accelerate growth for innovators in healthcare quality, patient safety, and infection prevention.

Whether you’re a startup with momentum or an established company navigating resource constraints, we provide strategic, high-impact support to help you grow faster, smarter, and more credibly in today’s complex healthcare landscape.

 

OUR SERVICES:

Innovation and Commercial Launch

Support from Concept to Commercialization 

  • Design 
  • Beta Testing
  • Launch

Tailored Growth Acceleration Roadmaps

  • Drive Adoption in Hospitals, Health Systems, and Across the Healthcare Provider Continuum

Growth Strategy for Complex Markets

Scalable Advisory Support or Hands-on Execution 

  • Based on Your Team’s Bandwidth

Focused Acceleration Strategies

  • Expand Footprint and Revenue in Healthcare

Messaging that Moves Decision-Makers

  • Value Proposition Development Aligned with Hospital and Payer Priorities
  • Branding, ROI Modeling, Strategic Communications, and Earned Media

Market Insights That Matter

  • Custom Qualitative, Quantitative & Ethnographic Research
  • Actionable Insights to Sharpen Your Strategy and Close Knowledge Gap

Sales and Talent Optimization

  • Outbound and Boots-on-the-Ground Sales Planning, Training, and Support
  • Retained Search for High-Impact Commercial, Marketing, and Research Hires

Influence and Engagement

  • Connection to Key Opinion Leaders, Associations, and Healthcare Forums
  • Advisory Board Development and Strategic Stakeholder Engagement

Conferences and Events with Purpose

  • Symposium and Webinar Design, Development and Execution
  • Exhibit Planning, and Speaker Strategy
  • Podium Appearances on your Behalf
  • Booth Traffic-Driving Tactics and Onsite Messaging Alignment

Clinical Evidence Bundle Development

Outcome studies with experienced and highly credentialed PIs to:

  • Support adoption
  • Strengthen your clinical credibility 
  • Expand your Evidence Road Map

Studies, Posters, Abstracts, Articles, and White Papers for Peer-Reviewed Journals and Industry Media

Let's Talk

We will explain how we create Customized Growth Acceleration Road Maps and Clinical Evidence Bundles designed to:

Accelerate Your Growth Trajectory!

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About Next Level Strategies

Founded by Paul Alper, Next Level Strategies specializes in strategic advisory services for healthcare innovations (products, technologies, and services). Paul’s notable achievements over the past 30+ years include:

  • Leading the launch of PURELL® for GOJO Industries in North America, creating the instant hand sanitizer category.
  • Inventing and commercializing the DebMed® (now SC Johnson Professional) Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring System (with four issued patents) – the first system to be validated & shown to reduce infections and associated costs in peer reviewed studies.
  • Driving hand hygiene product growth at Medline, boosting U.S. market share by 122% between 2019 and 2022.
  • Leading the 300+% growth of Leapfrog’s Partnership Revenue from 2022 - 2025

Paul currently serves as a Senior Advisor to The Leapfrog Group, leading corporate partner and annual meeting sponsor recruitment.

Paul has advised leading healthcare innovators including:

  • GOJO Industries, The Maker of Purell
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • SC Johnson Professional
  • Kimberly-Clark
  • Smith & Nephew
  • Nozin
  • SureWash

About IPC Launch

Dr. Ericka Kalp, PhD, MPH, CIC, FAPIC, brings 20+ years of experience in epidemiology and infection prevention.

• Director of Infection Prevention and Control at ECRI

• Associate Clinical Professor & Co-Director of IPC Academic Programs at Drexel University

• Leadership roles at PA Department of Health & WellSpan Health, focusing on HAIs and antimicrobial stewardship

Dr. Kalp is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology and is a Fellow of APIC.

Let's Connect!

Next Level Strategies, LLC

Paul Alper, Founder & CEO

Email: paul@next-levelstrategies.com

LinkedIn: Paul Alper LinkedIn Profile 

Website: www.next-levelstrategies.com 

E Biz Card: https://blinq.me/Wq3GFdfv1Gtv6RfZi2Ln

IPC Launch

Dr. Ericka Kalp, Founder & CEO

Email: ericka@ipclaunch.com

LinkedIn: Dr. Ericka Kalp LinkedIn Profile 

Website: www.ipclaunch.com