ABOUT US:
PharmaThought.com offers the highest quality analysis of strategy, marketing, finance, R&D, operations, and policy trends in the global life sciences industries. Our contributors are experts in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and diagnostics. They come from a variety of backgrounds – consulting, venture capital, NGOs, and academia, as well as from the world’s leading life sciences companies – and provide their firsthand perspective on the latest issues within their sectors. With compelling insights from true industry leaders, PharmaThought.com is the preeminent forum for identifying cutting-edge developments in the life sciences.PharmaThought.com is the blog of the Center for Healthcare Innovation.
Editor
James
J. Gillespie, Ph.D., is Editor of PharmaThought.com. Dr. Gillespie is President and CEO of the
Center for Healthcare Innovation (www.chisite.org), a not-for-profit thought-leadership
organization focusing on the global life sciences industry. He is a
scholar, executive, and entrepreneur, with an expertise focusing on the
strategy and operations of the biotechnology, medical device, nanotechnology,
and pharmaceutical industries. He serves on the Board of Directors
for i.c.stars (Chair, Program Committee), and the Board of Directors of the
America Israel Chamber of Commerce Chicago (First Vice President; Chair,
Membership Committee). Dr. Gillespie is President of the National
Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Association, the leading professional
organization for African-Americans in the life sciences industry, and he is President
the National Hispanic Life Sciences Society, a leading professional
organization for Hispanic/Latino-Americans in the life sciences industry.
Dr. Gillespie leads the symposium “Globalization of Innovation:
China, India, and US Pharmaceutical Markets” hosted by Microsoft
Corporation. His research has appeared in Academy of Management Review, European
Journal of Social Psychology, Harvard Business Review, and Strategic
Management Journal. His education includes
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, M.A., Ph.D.; Harvard
University School of Law, J.D.; Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of
Public Policy, M.P.A.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S.; and
Carnegie Mellon University.
Associate
Editor
Charlotte
Rocker is Associate Editor of PharmaThought.com. Charolotte is an MS candidate in the
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. In May 2011, she earned
her MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Both degrees are part of the
Sloan/HST Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP), which aims to create the next
generation of business leaders in the life sciences through an
interdisciplinary curriculum of business, medical and entrepreneurship courses.
While at MIT, Charlotte interned with Booz and Company in their life sciences
practice and with Edimer Pharmaceuticals, an early-stage orphan drug company
based in Cambridge. Most recently, she spent the summer in Nairobi, Kenya
building a market entry strategy for Daktari Diagnostics. Daktari is a US-based
company developing a point-of-care CD4 monitoring system as an affordable,
accessible alternative to flow cytometry in emerging markets. Prior
to MIT, Charlotte was an Assistant Science Director in Medical Strategy at
Publicis Healthcare Communications Group, one of the world’s largest networks
of pharmaceutical marketing, advertising and medical education
agencies.Charlotte graduated with her BS in psychology from Brown University,
where she worked as a clinical researcher at Rhode Island Hospital and
volunteered as an Emergency Medical Technician for the university’s ambulance
service.
The
Center for Healthcare Innovation
- The Center for Healthcare Innovation is a
501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan, independent organization committed to
serving as a key driver for stimulating ideas, people, groups, companies,
and institutions to achieve excellence and innovation in the global
life science industries.
- We are a “think tank” supplying international
thought leadership regarding the strategic, financial, and operational
aspects of the biotechnology, nanotechnology, and pharmacetical sectors.
Core Values
- Commitment to Service
- Commitment to Innovation
- Commitment to Excellence
- Commitment to Collaboration
- Commitment to Global Thinking
Vision
- Serve as an
international thought leader in the practice, research,
teaching, funding, and discussion of global life science issues,
challenges, and opportunities.
Mission
- Support and stimulate global life
sciences innovation by encouraging collaboration among academia,
corporations, entrepreneurs, professional firms, governments, investors,
and non-profit organizations.
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