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Toronto, ON, CA

• Led the global payer marketing (4-6 direct reports) and cross functional teams (20-30 colleagues) focused on reimbursement of various rare disease medicines and gene therapies with 10-year revenue potential in excess.
• Led the creation of Pfizer’s strategy to create the policy changes across US, Canada, Europe and developed Asia to enable the leap to gene therapies. Outcomes include the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model for US.
• Created the strategy that led to the global reimbursement of the first medicine for a rare form of congestive heart failure resulting in reimbursement in 44 countries and a top 10 rare disease product globally

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Led the customer facing team of four focused on gaining reimbursement for all of Pfizer’s medicines with the Ontario Public Drug Plan and with the private insurance plans across Canada
• Collaborated with Life Sciences Ontario, Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization and Innovative Medicines Canada to advocate for improved industrial policy for Life Science sector resulting in increased venture.
• Lead Pfizer’s payer & policy innovation efforts across the organization of more than 60 individual culminating in two projects that have become integrated into standard practice delivering reimbursement to patients.

Kirkland, Quebec, Canada

• Led team of 6 that grew portfolio of aging assets by 13% while reducing marketing expenditures and headcount by 45% using an innovative, solution-oriented approach with health care practitioner customers
• Successfully contributed to advocacy efforts that resulted in creation of a Canadian Rare Disease Policy by the Federal government

Kirkland, Quebec, Canada

• Contributed to the advocacy and policy development that led to CADTH adding patient & expert input processed to CDR review which significantly improved the number of positive recommendations from CADTH
• Partnered with a patient association to publish a report on the differences between the drug coverage provided to public servants and the drug coverage provided by government to the public. Report garnered significant.
• Member of the CD Howe Health Policy Committee

Toronto, Canada Area

• Front line leadership experience in cultural change with the evolution of the construction supervision model from a highly detailed, command and control model to one based on measuring essential criteria of the final.

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