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Healthcare Panel
Jersey Liang
Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan
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Jersey Liang is a Professor of Health Management and Policy and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Gerontology. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Wayne State University in 1978.
Dr. Liang's teaching interests include international health systems, global aging and health, and methods of health services research. As a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Dr. Liang has received two National Institute on Aging MERIT awards. He was the editor for Social Sciences, Journal of Gerontology, and has served on study sections at the National Institutes of Health and the editorial boards of a number of professional journals.
Dr. Liang's research interests focus on health related quality of life and geriatric care from a cross-cultural comparative perspective. His current research centers around three major themes. First, Liang is interested in issues related to the conceptualization and measurement of quality of life at the individual level and the estimation of health expectancy at the population level. Second, he is interested in modeling the dynamics of health and health care in old age. The third interest concerns the comparative analysis of geriatric care management and policy. Since the mid-1980s, Liang has been actively engaged in comparative studies of health, health care, and aging in the U.S. and several countries in East Asia. Longitudinal databases involving population based samples of elderly people have been established and maintained in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and China.
In addition, Liang has collaborated in research regarding the self-management of heart disease, biomechanics of mobility, and geriatric medicine, respectively, at the University of Michigan Schools of Public Health, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Mi K. Dong
Director, IP Strategic Management, Legal Division, Pfizer
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Mi-Kyung. Dong is a director for the Intellectual Property Strategy Management Group within the Patent Department for Pfizer’s Legal Division where she is responsible for leading IP lifecycle management and strategy. Prior to this, Ms. Dong was an assistant director for Licensing and Development within Pfizer Global Research and Development where she led the Neurodegeneration, Psychotherapeutic and Pain licensing teams. She also worked as project manager and senior project manager in the Global Project Management Department from 1992 to 2001.
Ms. Dong has been extremely active in helping others with their career development within Pfizer. She was one of the founders of the Career Development Committee and served as chair for the committee in 1993. From 1993 to 1995, she served as a member of the Advisory Committee for Cultural Diversity. In 2000, Ms. Dong helped to establish the Pfizer Asian Network and served as the network chair in 2001 and 2002. She also served on the implementation team for the formal mentoring program in Pfizer Global Research and Development from 2001 to 2004. She helped to implement the mentoring program within the Legal Division in 2004 and the Patent Department in 2005.
Ms. Dong began her pharmaceutical career with Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert in 1982 as an assistant scientist in the Pharmacology Department where she did drug discovery research in the area of inflammation.
Ms. Dong was born in Seoul, Korea. She holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from Sun Kyun Kwan University in Korea and an M.S. degree in biochemistry from Wayne State University.
A Prescription for Access
How the world’s leading pharmaceutical company is promoting access to medicines in developing countries
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Jesse Moore
Director of Communications/Director of Private Sector and Development CARE Canada
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Jesse Moore works for CARE Canada, a major partner in the CARE International federation which assists some 45 million poor people in over 60 developing countries. In his time with CARE, he has managed two photo-advocacy projects to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the first in 2002 called "HIVPositive: AIDS through a new lens" and the second in 2006 called "AIDS: Picture Change," both of which have been presented at major global events including the G8 Summit and the International AIDS Conference. Through these projects, Jesse has traveled extensively in Asia and witnessed front-lines AIDS prevention and treatment programs in Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Jesse has worked in over 30 developing countries with CARE and other development organizations. He holds a degree in Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he attended courtesy of a prestigious Morehead Scholarship. He is also a fellow in the 2005-2006 Action Canada program for promising young leaders.
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