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Irvine, California

Edwards is a leading medical technology company focused on structural heart disease. Upon joining the company in 2019, I helped establish the corporate patient engagement function through strategy development and tactical execution. Key accomplishments include co-leading, co-designing and launching the first-ever, employee-staffed med-tech Patient Support Center designed to answer patient and care partner questions about structural heart disease pre- and post-treatment. Annually, I lead the design and execution of the company's flagship Patient Experience event in the U.S. that brings together 100+ patients, care partners and advocacy partners to engage with 3000+ employees, as well as lead the global Patient Experience strategy. Other priorities include developing and maintaining the global guidelines for how the company engages with patient organizations, leading the approval processes for supporting patient organization programs, and facilitating bringing the patient voice into many of Edwards' functions, programs and strategies.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Senior consultant with global experience currently providing integrated patient engagement, advocacy and communications consulting services for some of the world’s leading pharma and biotech companies. Therapeutic areas of experience: immunology, inflammation, liver disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, respiratory, cardiovascular, HIV and rare diseases.

Greater Chicago Area

AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company, was founded on January 1, 2013, following its separation from Abbott Laboratories. Led development of a framework for international affiliates and marketing functions to achieve their business goals through digital and social media channels. Key responsibilities included developing social channel strategies, governance, policy, content and tools to break existing barriers. This also included developing and implementing training, evangelizing to broaden internal support for these new endeavors and contributing to improved customer service through social media channels. Supported the Corporate Communications’ Center of Excellence focused on developing the enterprise digital strategy for AbbVie’s corporate social channels.

Paris, France

Established the company’s first pan-European patient advocacy function. Created processes, architecture and obtained senior management support to enable a "license to operate" patient engagement strategy; created and delivered ongoing training to raise the capabilities of 70+ new managers in 19 countries; established the company's reputation in patient advocacy at the EU-level through developing and implementing a pan-European patient advocacy strategy. Within three years, elevated the company’s overall ranking of patient-centered strategy from #8 to #3 in the global PatientView survey: Corporate Reputation of Pharma - The Patient Perspective.

Greater Chicago Area

Led the external communications vision, strategy and deliverables for multiple immunology and cardiovascular brands, and managed milestone/issues communications for multiple mature brands in Abbott's U.S. pharmaceutical business. Led the co-creation of the award-winning “Not In My House” corporate social responsibility campaign with Partnership for a Drug-Free America which resulted in 2,000 unique media stories, 300 million impressions, 150,000 Web site visitors, one million brochures distributed and a dozen Capitol Hill briefings within 15 months. Influenced culture change by motivating the external communications team to link strategies and tactics to business results, as well as working collaboratively with stakeholders to drive alignment on priorities, goals and diverse ideas to improve the team’s performance.

Chicago, Il

Provided strategic global internal communications counsel to senior leadership and regional operations along with designing and implementing integrated communications programs to develop Innovene’s culture. (Innovene was one of the world's top five petrochemical companies. BP sold Innovene before the Division's spin-off was completed.)

Provided strategic and tactical internal and external communications and community relations support for the West, Northwest and International markets for Verizon's Yellow Pages business unit.

Grad Work Towards Master'S Degree In Journalism

B.S., Journalism With Management Minor