ANGELINA IRIZARI-POLICARPIO, Head of the U.S. HEOR & RWE Field Communications Team, Eisai

•   Angelina is currently the Head of the U.S. HEOR and RWE Field Team at Eisai, leading the team that supports the portfolio for Oncology and Neurology including Alzheimer’s.  Sheis a graduate of MIT Sloanin addition to havingextensive clinical and healthcare experience.  She was a member of the MIT NEWDigs Global Collaborative creating a Financial Model for the Future of Healthcare Innovation.  She has held executive level positions in the Life Sciences industry, National Health Plans and Consulting.

•   In these roles, she spent a significant amount of time around initiatives and projects that require complex collaborations with internal and external stakeholders.  Having received her training in Systems Dynamics and in Systems Thinking at MIT, she designed collaborative work, and executed largescale transformation initiativesand built infrastructure for enduring results with impact.Her clinical training from a Masonic based- program was also rooted in the Systems view of the patient and the healthcare ecosystem, which ultimately led her to earn the distinguished Dr. Deutsch award in clinical practice.

•   Her work in implementing innovation through intrapreneurial programsin 2018 has been featured in the MIT Innovation for Corporations courses and led Real World Evidence and Informatics collaborations in addition to demonstration projects with several health systems in the US.

•    She brings her deep understanding of the US Health Care Ecosystemand her experience in using the Systems Dynamics Principles to her role as a moderator for our segment The Importance of Working Together: Stakeholders- Patients, Physicians, Industry and Payers