Great Conversations spotlights Healthcare

small, squared KerinsRaymond F. Kerins Jr. – Bayer Corporation – Senior VP, Communications, Government Relations & Policy
Managing all communications, government relations and policy for Bayer HealthCare and Bayer CropScience, Kerins oversees the Bayer U.S. Foundation and chairs Bayer’s political action committee. Previously, he was VP of external affairs & worldwide communications for Pfizer Inc., acting as their global spokesperson, including executive communications, crisis and issues management, financial and products communications as well as Pfizer’s digital properties (website, intranet, and social media). Kerins was also part of a team managing the $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth. Prior to Pfizer, he held similar positions at Merck & Co., and, before that, at GCI, managing numerous global programs for Visa International (corporate reputation initiatives, executive visibility, media relations, etc.) along with GCI’s Crisis and Litigation practice. The team leader for the NYC Host Committee’s press operations for the 2004 Republican National Convention (NYC), Kerins previously worked with many global clients for Porter Novelli (American Express, Tiger Woods), Sprint and Novartis. Recipient of numerous awards (from the Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), PRWeek Magazine, and Bulldog Reporter), he is a member of the CDC Business Roundtable, the US Chamber of Commerce Global Intellectual Property Center and advisor to the CDC Foundation Board of Directors.

 

Turbiner, Eva Turbiner, Zufall HealthEva Turbiner – Zufall Health Center – President & CEO
Serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Zufall Health since 2006, Eva Turbiner transformed a volunteer community clinic in Dover, NJ into a vibrant nonprofit that provides quality, affordable health care to the underserved in six counties. Under her leadership, Zufall serves 26,000 patients and recently received a federal quality award for exceptional clinical care, one of only 57 community health centers across the USA and the only one in the state to achieve this distinction. Formerly, Turbiner was Vice President/COO of Hudson River HealthCare, overseeing 14 health centers throughout New York’s Hudson Valley. Currently, she is a member of the Morris View Nursing Home Advisory Committee and the New Jersey Primary Care Association Board of Directors as well as the Health Policy Committee and the Health Care in Public Housing Subcommittee of the National Association of Community Health Centers. Ms. Turbiner holds BA and MA degrees from Temple University and has completed candidacy requirements for a PhD in Public Policy Analysis at the University of Pennsylvania. Her commitment to improving community health has made Zufall a regional leader in outreach and enrollment of patients into insurance plans and expanded Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act.

 

2015_MakiJohn Maki – Vicus Therapeutics – Founder, President & CEO; BioNJ – Board of Trustees
An entrepreneur, inventor, investor and consultant in healthcare for 30 years, Maki is currently CEO/Founder of Vicus Therapeutics, a Morristown-based immuno-oncology company developing immunotherapies for pancreatic and liver cancers. He is also a Board Member of BioNJ, the biotech trade organization that has helped NJ to become a leading biotech hub in the U.S.  In addition, he is a Board Member and former lead investor of 3DM, a public Japanese biotech company commercializing nanotechnology from MIT.   Previously, Maki was Managing Director of the TDI, a biotech fund, and of Audax Group, a multi-asset class money management firm.  He was also a Principal at Bain Capital where he worked for Mitt Romney for ten years, starting his career there as a consultant focused on healthcare and mergers & acquisitions. With a Harvard AB in Economics, he lives in Mendham surrounded by the arts: his wife is a singer, his children play piano, French horn and oboe and his sister, Lucy Maki is an established professional artist (www.lucymakistudio.com) who shows throughout North America and whose art John collects. Additionally, Maki is active with the Appalachian Service Project, enjoys mountain biking, and is keenly interested in neuroscience, autism, Alzheimer’s, and Buckminster Fuller designs.

 

 

Thursday, April 30, 2015 from 6pm to 9:30pm
The Madison Hotel, Morristown, NJ (directions)
Seats are $225 each

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