Woman of the Year*

HBA Past Woman of the Year Recipients


2011     Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer

2010     Deirdre P. Connelly, President of North America Pharmaceuticals,
              GlaxoSmithKline


2009     Dr. Deborah Dunsire, President and Chief Executive Officer,
              Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company


2008     Charlotte Sibley, Senior Vice President, Leadership Development,
              Shire Pharmaceuticals


2007     Meryl Zausner, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Novartis Oncology

2006     Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, President, Product Development, Genentech

2005     Lynn O’Connor Vos, CEO, Grey Healthcare Group Inc.

2004     Christine Poon, Vice Chairman, Johnson & Johnson

2003     Catherine Angell Sohn, PharmD, Vice President, Worldwide Business Development,
              GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare


2002     Sarah S. Harrison, Vice President, Customer Strategy Integration, AstraZeneca
              Pharmaceuticals LP


2001     Carrie S. Cox, Executive Vice President and President, Global Prescription Business,
              Pharmacia Corporation


2000     Myrtle Potter, President, U.S. Cardiovascular/Metabolics, Bristol-Myers Squibb
              Company

1999     Tamar Howson, Senior Vice President and Director, Worldwide Business Development
              and Corporate Development, SmithKline Beecham


1998     Kathy Giusti, Former Executive Director, Searle; Founder and President, Multiple
              Myeloma Research Foundation


1997     Maureen Regan, CEO, Regan Campbell Ward

1996     Lynn Gaudioso, Vice President, Business Development, Consumer Health Care Group,
              Pfizer Inc.


1995     Carol A. Webb, President, Ortho Biotech, Inc.

1994     Carolyn Koestenblatt, Vice President, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

1993     Carolyn Glynn, Vice President, Public Policy and Communications,
              Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.


1992     Joan Keith, Vice President, CV Strategic Business Planning Worldwide, Bristol-Myers
              Squibb Company


1991     JaneTownsend, Cofounder of Gross Townsend Frank Hoffman

1990     Karen Katen, President,U.S.Pharmaceuticals Group, Pfizer Inc.


                                                                           *Titles reflect positions at the time the award was presented.