Freda Lewis-Hall is chief medical officer and executive vice president at Pfizer Inc., leading Pfizer Medical. Previously, she was a leader in medical affairs and biomedical product development at Vertex, Pharmacia, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly. Lewis-Hall has held leadership, medical and research positions at the National Institute of Mental Health and the Howard University Hospital and College of Medicine. In 2010, the Obama administration appointed her to the board of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Lewis-Hall serves on numerous boards, including the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation; the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health; and the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows. Among her many honors is being named the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association's 2011 "Woman of the Year" and one of the "75 Most Powerful Women in Business" by Black Enterprise. She holds a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and an M.D. from Howard University College of Medicine.

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Accelerating Innovation in the Medical Industry

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