Archives: Speakers

Nan Doyle is a patient engagement catalyst with a passion to strengthen access to diagnosis and treatment for people living with rare genetic conditions. She has deep roots in medicines development, and is known for building durable relationships based on a foundation of active listening and inquiry.
Most recently, Nan established and built the Rare Disease Patient Engagement function for Takeda Pharmaceuticals. The role required strategy-driven partnerships with patient organizations; and tight, de-siloed collaboration with R&D, Clinical Development, Commercial, Regulatory, Access, and other colleagues around the world.
Nan is also a board-certified genetic counselor, where she developed front-line understanding of patient and care partner practical, emotional, financial and policy needs.

Rana Said is a second year Biomarker Development fellow at Novartis in conjunction with MCPHS. She graduated from Rutgers with her PharmD in May 2022. At Novartis her primary focus is operational support for biomarker sampling on early clinical trials including setting up CRO support for studies. In addition, she works closely on the team that manages the CRO relationship for the Translational Medicine group, with a focus on managing issues.

Neha Ghosh is an Associate Director of Clinical Research at Fresenius Medical Care North America, where she led and manage clinical studies and related activities, from design to conduct to analysis, for various dialysis products and services. She had a PhD in Biological Sciences and multiple certifications in remote work, personal branding, and career development. She is also certified Clinical Professional by ACRP. She had also contributed to several scientific and medical literature in several areas of research and presented her findings internally and externally.

Emily has been working at Relay Tx for almost 3 years in the Clinical Business Operations group focusing on contracting, budgeting as well as site and vendor management.  Prior to Relay Tx, she worked at bluebird bio in a similar capacity within the Clinical Business Operations team.

Jordan lives in south Jersey and has been involved with clinical supply management for the last 7 years. Currently he works for a small biotech, Keros, located just outside of Boston.

Missy Hansen MSN, CPNP, joined ICON in 2019 as a paediatric strategy liaison (PSL) . As a PSL, Missy considers the patient and family throughout the study and is a resource to both internal and external teams. Missy has 25+ years of experience as a paediatric nurse practitioner, including 17+ years in paediatric haematology/oncology at Children’s Minnesota, the largest haematology/oncology service line in the region providing care for infants through young adults diagnosed with haematologic and/or oncology conditions