• Identify, establish and maintain scientific relationships with both academic and community Opinion Leaders in N. California/N. Nevada and Utah regions.• Develop and execute regional and national initiatives in relation to medical affairs plan of action.• National leader for the U.S. ematology managed care team.• Utilize cross-functional collaborations within the region to maximize territory opportunities in the hematology space.• Liaison to investigators interested in developing and performing investigator initiated research within hematology.• Lymphoma lead for the West Medical Science Liaison team.• Collaborates with internal medical affairs team and external clinical organizations on Celgene-sponsored clinical trials, which involves enhancing patient enrollment, clinical site recommendations and maintaining contact with investigators and clinical coordinators participating in ongoing studies.• Deliver clinical presentations and information in response to unsolicited questions in diverse healthcare settings in both group and one-on-one situations.• Provide scientific and clinical support for current and future company products to formulary committees, congresses and professional societies.• Provide timely medical insights to internal teams and stakeholders on emerging clinical/scientific data from regional, national and local meetings.

• Identify, develop and maintain collaborative relationships with key opinion leaders in the oncological medical/scientific community throughout the Northern California and Nevada territories.• U.S. lead for a global, company supported oncology clinical trial.• MSL lead for the melanoma/lung and immune-oncology speakers’ bureau. • Assist in screening and indentifying potential clinical study sites for supported trials.• Deliver disease education using approved resources to broad audiences and peer-to-peer interactions with scientific leaders.• Trained medical and commercial personnel on approved company products and specific disease area landscapes.• Participate in the review of investigator-initiated proposals and protocol development.• Identify and communicate key clinical and scientific medical insights for strategy development.• Remain current in oncological therapeutic area through literature review, attending relevant conferences and scientific workshops.• Maintained multiple clinical trials in the heme, melanoma and solid tumor space throughout the NW territory.

• Part of cross-functional clinical and basic research team participating in the evaluation of immunosurveillance in pediatric adrenocortical tumor microenvironments.• Consult and actively contribute to relevant decisions regarding research target development.

• Simultaneously coordinated three research projects on the roles of apoptosis during (1) the development of cancer, (2) the immune response to pathogens and (3) its functions in chemotherapy treatment regimens. • Managed multiple students and their research projects in various disciplines.• Presenter at numerous scientific meetings, academic institutions and across division/departmental meetings.• Drafted and published multiple peer reviewed manuscripts.• Peer reviewer for several scientific journals.• Conducted employee interviews as directed.•Served on education and Post Doctoral committees.

• Involved in the discovery and characterization of a novel integrin-like protein, Pactolus (potential involvement in the clearance of apoptotic neutrophils by resident macrophages).