Past Tuesday Talks: Gilan Megeed
Tuesday, March 21
Presented by Seema Kumar, CEO, Cure
We are continuing Women’s History Month with our next Tuesday Talk featuring Gilan Megeed, Principal at Deerfield Management.
Tuesday, March 21
Presented by Seema Kumar, CEO, Cure
We are continuing Women’s History Month with our next Tuesday Talk featuring Gilan Megeed, Principal at Deerfield Management.
Speakers: Gilan Megeed, Principal at Deerfield Management Moderated by Seema Kumar, CEO of Cure
Gilan Megeed is a Principal on the Medical Technologies team. Ms. Megeed joined the Deerfield Management in 2014 as part of the Deerfield Institute, before transitioning to the Medical Technologies team in 2017. Prior to Deerfield, Ms. Megeed spent three years as an epidemiologist at Decision Resources Group, focusing primarily on rare diseases and neurological disorders. Prior to this, she was an Analyst at Children’s Hospital Boston, forecasting disease outbreaks and epidemics with the Computation Epidemiology Group. Ms. Megeed earned her undergraduate degree in Cell Biology and Neuroscience from Montana State University, Bozeman and holds an M.P.H. from Boston University.
Ms. Kumar joins Cure from Johnson & Johnson where she spent nearly 20 years in senior leadership positions, most recently serving as Global Head of the Office of Innovation, Global Health and Scientific Engagement. During her tenure, she led the launch of the company’s Innovation Centers, JLABS and Global Public Health initiatives, as well as the CoLaboratory at the World Economic Forum at Davos and the award winning COVID-19 educational broadcast program, “The Road to a Vaccine.”