Jodie Gillon is currently a consultant with Oncoverity serving in the Role of SVP Patient Advocacy & Medical Affairs. She is a core member of the R&D Leadership team and supports the CMO as his Chief of Staff. In this capacity she leads all patient focused activities including recruitment and retention and has started building out our Medical Affairs department from a Medical Communications subcommittee, Congress planning, through HCP Engagements. Jodie additionally serves as the R&D lead on Corporate Communications.

Jodie started her career in Advocacy, Hospitals and Government and transitioned to industry over three decades ago holding various roles across Development, Patient, Medical & Corporate Affairs.  Most recently Jodie served as the SVP of Corporate Affairs & Patient Advocacy with Peptilogics. In this role she built out several key functions for the organization including Patient Advocacy, Stakeholder Engagement, Grants & Sponsorships, Medical, External & Internal Communications, Congress & Event Management and Medical Information.

Prior to Peptilogics, Jodie served as the Chief Patient Officer and Head of Corporate and Medical Affairs at Abeona Therapeutics, a cell and gene therapy company. Previously, Jodie cumulatively spent over a decade with Pfizer as the Global Medical Lead, Patient Engagement, for the Rare Diseases Business Unit and the Director, Medical Communications, within the Chief Medical Office. She served as a core member on all Medical, Commercial, Launch, Global and Regional Leadership Teams ensuring the patient voice drove strategy and facilitated collaborations with Patient Groups.

Prior to Pfizer, Jodie was the Head of Patient Advocacy and Professional Affairs with Achillion Pharmaceuticals where she led Policy, Alliances, Patient Engagement, Contributions/Grants, Compassionate Use, Medical Information, Medical Communications, Field Medical, and External Affairs. Previously she served as the Head of the Chief Medical Office (CMO) of AstraZeneca where she managed Patient Engagement, Compassionate Use, Trial and Payment Transparency, Meetings and Events, an HCP Engagement Center, companywide policy, external contributions, alliances, and crisis management.

Jodie held additional roles as the Global Communications lead at Novartis, Director of Medical Education for Oridion Medical and as a Health Economist with the Israeli Center for Disease Control and Ministry of Health.  She holds a Master’s of Public Health with a dual degree in Health Economics and Epidemiology from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a BSFS from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. She currently serves on several industrywide Boards & Committees and has published and spoken externally across a wide variety of topics. A born and bred New yorker Jodie currently resides in CT and has one son who just started University.