HBA Advisory Board

The HBA Advisory Board provides strategic direction on how the HBA can further the advancement of women’s careers in healthcare worldwide through HBA initiatives. The Board is made up of an invited group of senior executives in the healthcare industry that represent a diverse membership and who are willing to support the HBA mission for a three-year term. This year’s Advisory Board will be chaired by Alex Gorsky, Company Group Chairman, Ethicon, Inc., Johnson & Johnson. The full 2008 Advisory Board can be found below.

Steve Benscoter
VP Global HR, Stryker Instruments
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Carolyn Buck-Luce
Global Pharmaceutical Sector Leader
Ernst & Young LLP

Lonnel Coats
President & COO
Eisai Inc.

Ginger Constantine
Vice President
Women's Health, Wyeth

Patricia Danzon
Health Economist, Professor
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Matthew Emmens
CEO
Shire Pharmaceuticals

David Epstein
President & CEO, Novartis Oncology
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Paul Fonteyne
Head, Prescription Medicines, USA
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Alex Gorsky
Group Chairman and Worldwide Franchise Chairman
Ethicon a Johnson & Johnson company

Toni Hoover
Senior Vice President PGR&D
Pfizer Inc.

James Hynd
Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations
Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Leonard Kanavy
VP, Commercial Operations
Genentech, Inc.

Lesa Lardieri
Vice President, Customer Medical Affairs
Pfizer Inc

Sharon Larkin
DVP, Human Resources
Abbott Vascular, Abbott

Nancy Larsen
President
PROmedica Communications, Inc.

Freda Lewis-Hall
Executive Vice-President of Medicines Development
Bristol Myers Squibb

Kathy Lundberg
Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, Global Compliance, CRM/CS
Boston Scientific Corporation

Mark Mallon
VP, Marketing & Sales Ops
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP

Patty Martin
Vice President, Global Diversity
Eli Lilly and Company

Lynn O'Connor Vos
CEO
Grey Healthcare Group, Inc.

Kathryn O'Fee
VP, New Product Planning U.S. Pharmaceuticals
GlaxoSmithKline

Joe Pieroni
President & CEO
Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.

Christine Poon
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Medicines & Nutritionals
Johnson & Johnson

Barbara Pritchard
President
The Pritchard Group / Intermedica, Inc.

Tom Reynolds
ETHICON

Timothy Rothwell
President & CEO
sanofi-aventis US

Adriann Sax
EVP Bus Dev & Strategic Planning
King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Renee Selman
Worldwide President
ETHICON Women's Health and Urology

Charlotte Sibley
SVP, Leadership Development
Shire Pharmaceuticals

Wayne Yetter
CEO
Verispan

Meryl Zausner
VP and CFO Novartis Oncology
Novartis Oncology