VOZ is the leading consultant to pharmaceutical, biotech, device and diagnostic companies around the world on health care constituency relations. We have one focus: building strong, productive and meaningful advocacy relations strategies that improve health, speed drug development and approval, ensure appropriate use, and provide access to patients with legitimate medical need. We understand priorities and strengths of our clients and their potential advocacy partners and create relationships that deliver mutual benefit. Whether it’s connecting a company with key influencers, or prioritizing important patient or consumer groups in particular therapeutic areas and regions, we identify common ground that bridges the gap between our clients’ goals and the missions of key patient or professional focused organizations. As Senior Advisor, Ellen supports the senior team in setting firm strategy and business development. Ellen’s 45+ years in healthcare, including at some of the top institutions in the world, bring a range of perspectives and vantage points; she has worked with hospitals, pharmaceuticals, non-profits, and for-profits. She’s been at the bedside of patients with diseases in which VOZ's clients are engaged, and she has developed services and programs for these patients including cancer, HIV-AIDS, rheumatology/ immunology, infectious disease, neurology and other diseases. She understands what groups need, what pharma needs, and what patients need. She also has published and spoken on the psychosocial aspects of life-threatening illnesses.Ellen has an MSW as well as a Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s executive program, in Public Health. She is a lifelong student of the human condition and brings a calm, thoughtful, and compassionate approach to VOZ and those it serves.
Listed skills include Healthcare, Nonprofits, Program Development, Community Outreach, and 14 others.