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Coffee & Conversation: Building Business Bridges to Government
Third in a four-part series with Massachusetts regulators and legislators
Helping our members and sponsors build networks of access to important government decision-makers who affect their businesses is important. Through our Coffee and Conversation series, we will engage in thoughtful dialogue and discussion outside the contentious scenes of regulation and legislation. These are opportunities to hear how state legislators can help you and your business.
The next speaker in our “Coffee and Conversation: Building Business Bridges to Government” series is Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister, CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
September 14, 2010
8:30 – 9:30 am **Program starts promptly at 8:30**
Posternak Blankstein & Lund
800 Boylston Street, Prudential Tower
Space is limited and is open only to current TCI members, Board, and Corporate Advisory Board members. Limit one ticket per company.
For more details or to sign up, please contact Abby Tracy at atracy@commonwealthinstitute.org or (617) 888-7156.
Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister is the President and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. She assumed this position in July, 2008 as the first leader of this quasi-public entity created by the Legislature in 2006 to promote life sciences within Massachusetts.
The Center is at the heart of the state's new $1 billion life sciences law and is fast becoming the hub of connectivity for all sectors of the life sciences community - encouraging unprecedented public-private collaboration among industry, research, academia and government. The Center is making strategic investments in our life sciences workforce and in translational research at critical stages of the development cycle. These investments will foster and grow the Massachusetts life sciences supercluster, cultivating innovation at
institutions whose research, development and commercialization of therapies, products and cures hold great promise for improving and saving lives.
Dr. Windham-Bannister is former Managing Vice President of the Commercial Strategy Group for Abt Bio-Pharma Solutions Inc. In that capacity, she managed a research-based consulting business that provides consulting services to firms in the life sciences -- health care delivery, pharmaceuticals, biotech, diagnostics, devices and healthcare information technology.
Dr. Windham-Bannister has 35 years of consulting experience in life sciences and has worked with companies that represent all major industry sectors, including Siemens Diagnostics, Roche, Pfizer, Genzyme, Eyetech, Sopherion, Sanofi, Novartis, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, GE Healthcare, The American Cancer Society and The W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Within her client organizations, Dr. Windham-Bannister most often worked with executive level management and/or Boards of Directors on assessment of market opportunities and commercialization strategy.
She has co-authored two books: Competitive Strategy for Health Care Organizations and Medicaid and Other Experiments in State Health Policy. She also has written several articles on competition in today's health care marketplace. She sits on a variety of Boards of Directors and is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on competitive strategy.
