Healthcare Industry Association
Officers
Patrick McCullough, Co-President
Patrick McCullough ’10 is the Co-President of HCIA. Prior to Columbia Business
School, Patrick worked as Product Manager in
Medical Devices, where he helped build the Reconstructive Division at
Integra LifeSciences. In addition to launching new products and
technologies, Patrick was heavily involved in the expansion of their
direct sales force. Prior to Integra, Patrick was a Marketing Associate
at Stryker Orthopedics, where he worked on a new product launch team
focused on Total Knee Arthroplasty.
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Shira Shmulewitz, Co-President
Shira Shmulewitz
’10 is Co-President of HCIA. Prior to Columbia Business
School, Shira worked as a Sr. Financial Analyst for New York
Presbyterian Hospital. Before working for NYP, she was an
Associate Underwriter at Horizon Healthcare of NY and a summer intern
at Ethicon Endo Surgery, Inc. This summer, Shira will be working
for Merck in its Marketing Group. Shira received a B.A. in
Mathematics and Economics from Brandeis University.
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Alumni Relations |
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Sachin Nanavati, VP Alumni
Sachin Nanavati '10 is the VP Alumni of HCIA. Prior to Columbia Business School, Sachin worked as Pharmaceutical Sales for Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. This past summer Sachin worked in the Corporate Development and Strategy Group at Becton Dickinson and Company.
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Yusheng Han, AVP Alumni Development
Yusheng Han '11 is the AVP of Alumni Development of HCIA. Prior to Columbia Business School, Yusheng worked as China General Manager in BioTek Instruments, Inc. where he built and led BioTek's team in China. Prior to BioTek, Yusheng was a Product Specialist at Gene Company Ltd., where he worked on product management.
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Nawaz Jadavji, VP Alumni
Nawaz Jadavji '10 is VP Alumni Relations. Prior to Columbia Business School, Nawaz was a healthcare consultant for ~7 years, mostly in the provider space focusing on revenue cycle and business process improvements. While at Columbia, Nawaz has sought to broaden his healthcare experience through his involvement in HCIA and by developing a customer relationship management, marketing, and talent retention strategy for a non-profit hospital in India as part of the International Development Club. He spent his summer at the Courtyard Group, a boutique healthcare consulting firm, and New York Presbyterian Hospital in their finance department.
Nawaz received his B.A. in Biology from Johns Hopkins University and a M.S. in Health Systems in the school of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology |
Kelly Rich, AVP Alumni Outreach & EMBA Liaison
Prior to attending CBS, Kelly worked at The Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco, where her favorite projects were in the healthcare space. Prior to working at BCG, Kelly attended the University of California, Berkeley where she majored in History but pursued a variety of healthcare-related activities - from pre-medical classes, to interning in Health and Welfare at Towers Perrin and working at two hospitals in the Bay Area. At CBS, Kelly is focusing on Health and Pharma Management. She is originally from California.
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Careers |
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Daniel Moskovic, VP Careers
Daniel Moskovic is a joint MD / MBA student at Baylor College of Medicine and Columbia Business School. He also holds a Master of Arts from Columbia University in Biotechnology. Through his training, Daniel has consulted for a variety of start-up healthcare ventures and collaborated with several small venture firms. He has also worked in capital markets for Bank of America, as well as other boutique investment banks. Concurrently, Daniel has pursued both clinical and basic science research interets, publishing in several peer-reviewed journals and presenting research at meetings throughout the country. His current interests include implementation of strategy and technology in healthcare, healthcare finance, and surgical urology and oncology.
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Rachel Martens, AVP Professional Development - Internships
Rachel Yap Martens '11 is AVP, Professional Development - Internships. Prior to Columbia Business School, Rachel spent four years in Investment Banking, focusing on the healthcare industry at BMO Capital Markets, where she was engaged in the execution and origination of private and public equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and debt transactions for middle-market healthcare clients.
At Columbia, Rachel is concentrating in Healthcare and Private Equity. Rachel received a B.A. in Economics from Brown University. |
Conference |
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Emily Berlanstein, VP Conference
Emily
Berlanstein ’10 is VP, Conference Planning & Logistics.
Prior to Columbia Business School, Emily worked in public affairs at
New York–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, where she created
strategic communications plans and managed media opportunities for
department chairs and administrators. Prior to New
York–Presbyterian, Emily was an Associate at the public relations
agency RF|Binder Partners. At Columbia, Emily is concentrating in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management and Marketing. She will spend her summer internship at Amgen. Emily received a B.A. in English from Middlebury College, where she was a member of the crew team. She is originally from Baltimore, MD. |
Satch Sil, AVP Conference Bio coming soon |
Amol Luhadia, VP Conference
Amol Luhadia ’10 is VP, Conference
Marketing. Before starting at Columbia Business School, Amol
spent two years in a business development role at New Jersey based US
Pharma Labs, Inc. Prior to which, Amol was an analyst in the
municipal finance banking group at Morgan Stanley focusing on
infrastructure finance. While at Columbia Business School Amol’s focus is in healthcare management. He will be spending his summer at Bristol-Myers Squibb in their Medical Affairs group. Amol is originally from South Brunswick, New Jersey. He received his bachelors in Finance and Management from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. |
Kristin Stepaniak, AVP Conference
Kristin Stepaniak '11 is AVP of Conference for HCIA. Prior to Columbia Business School, Kristin worked as an Associate Consultant at ZS Associates, where she was involved in marketing analytics, market research, and sales force operations projects for pharmaceutical clients. Kristin received a BA in Public Health Studies from Johns Hopkins University.
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Andrew Tom, VP Conference
Andrew Tom ’10 is VP, Conference
Speakers & Panels. Prior to Columbia Business School Andrew
was a Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Assistant at the Columbia
University Medical Center where he studied surgery outcomes to improve
quality of care and assisted in organ procurements as part of the heart
and lung transplant team. Previously, Andrew was an analyst at
McKinsey & Company. At Columbia Business School, Andrew’s concentration is investment management with a focus on healthcare companies. Andrew is a native New Yorker and received his bachelors in Finance and Information Systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University. |
Elcin Tuna , AVP Conference
Elcin Tuna '11 is AVP, Conference. Prior to Columbia Business School, Elcin worked as a financial analyst for Consumer Lending Business at Citibank, where she organized all analytical support and yearly financial plans for the business. Before working for Citibank Elcin was a pricing engineer at Ford Motor Company. At Columbia Business School she is concentrating on Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management. Elcin received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Corporate Relations |
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Jeremy Cohen, VP New Corporate Relations
Jeremy Cohen, ’10, is VP of New Corporate
Relations. Prior to Columbia Business School, Jeremy was an
independent consultant to life sciences start-ups and venture
incubators including included Seed-One Ventures, Pinyons Medical, and
Tryton Medical. Previously, he was a product development engineer
at Cordis Corporation, where he focused on developing next-generation
drug-eluting stents. At Columbia, Jeremy is concentrating in finance and entrepreneurship and is spending his summer as a Strategy & Business Development Summer Associate at Pfizer. A native of Miami, he received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University and his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University. |
Ryan Perraut, AVP Corporate Relations - New Relations
Ryan Perraut, '11, is AVP of Corporate Relations. Prior to Columbia Business School, Ryan worked at CNF Investments as a senior associate focused on venture capital investments. At CNF Ryan was involved in the entire investment process from screening to working with portfolio companies. Previously, he worked in equity research with FBR Capital Markets and Institutional Investment Management with Citigroup Asset Management.
At Columbia, Ryan is concentrating in healthcare, finance and entrepreneurship. Ryan received his BA from Georgetown University. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. |
Daily Susman, VP Existing Corporate Relations
Daily Susman ’10 is VP, Existing Corporate Relations. Prior to Columbia
Business School, Daily worked at American Express on the Industry
Development team in OPEN, the small business division, where she
conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis of business growth
opportunities. Previously, she worked at Ogilvy Worldwide on the IBM
account managing the creative development and execution of direct
marketing deliverables. At Columbia, Daily is concentrating in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management and Marketing. Daily graduated with distinction from Yale University with a B.A. in Psychology. She will spend her summer as a Marketing Intern at Becton Dickinson. |
Iris (Ting) Wang, AVP Corporate Relations - Existing Relations Bio coming soon |
Events |
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Anthony Capalbo, VP Events
Anthony
Capalbo ’10 is VP of Events. Prior to attending Columbia,
Anthony spent six years at Morgan Stanley, working in both New York and
Tokyo offices. His summer internship will be with Covidien’s
surgical devices division in their strategic marketing department. Anthony is actively involved in public education. In 2008, he co-founded Free To Explore, Inc., a non-profit whose mission is to promote ecological education through hands-on field learning experiences for Brooklyn public elementary school children. At Columbia, Anthony is concentrating on Marketing and Management. Anthony has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from New York University. |
Jon Arkin, AVP Events Bio coming soon |
Finance |
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Ting Chen, VP Finance
Ting Chen ’10 is
VP, Finance & Membership. Prior to Columbia Business School,
Ting was an Associate Manager with The Nielsen Company (BASES),
providing consultancy for global pharmaceutical companies on new
product launch and sales forecast. Ting received her Ph.D. in
Cell Biology from Georgetown University, where she developed novel
strategies for treating multi-drug resistance ovarian cancer. At
CBS, Ting’s concentrating in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
Management and Finance. Ting also serves as a Science and
Technology Ventures (STV) Fellow for technology transfer at Columbia
University. This summer, Ting is a business development intern for
Becton Dickinson.
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Nupur Agarwal, AVP Finance & Membership
Nupur Agarwal '11 is AVP of Finance and Membership. Prior to Columbia Business School, Nupur worked as a Consultant for Deloitte Consulting in its Strategy and Operations group. Her projects have primarily been in the Pharmaceutical industry across various functions - R&D, Marketing, and Operations. Nupur received a B.A. in Biology from Washington University in St. Louis.
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J-Term |
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Sarah Gankina, VP J-Term
Sarah
Gankina ’10 is VP, J-Term. Prior to Columbia Business School,
Sarah worked as a litigation consultant at Analysis Group’s LA
office. She worked on pharmaceutical patent infringement and securities
fraud in the big pharma industry. As part of her work at Analysis
Group, Sarah supported celebrity expert witnesses such as Dr. Glenn
Hubbard! At CBS, Sarah is concentrating in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management and Finance. Sarah has a BA and MA degrees in Economics from McGill University Montreal, Canada. In her free time, she enjoys reading anything by Jodi Picoult, doing anything in Central Park, and watching movies. |
Manar Mohamed, AVP Professional Development - Mentor Program Bio coming soon |
Education |
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Benjamin Bynum , VP of Education
Having graduated in 2007 with his M.D. from Howard University, Dr. Bynum is currently completing a dual MPH-MBA at the Mailman School of Public Health. As an undergraduate at Tuskegee University, Dr. Bynum was a Scholastic All-American on the football team. Since arriving at Mailman and receiving the W.E.B. DuBois Scholarship in 2007, he has worked at Eli Lilly and Healthcare Investigations, LLC, combining his medical background with global marketing strategy implementation and investigative research. Dr. Bynum has completed MPH coursework with a focus on Health Care Management. He is currently completing the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Management curriculum at CBS.
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Sarah Rubenstein, AVP Education
Sarah Rubenstein '11 is AVP of Education for HCIA. Prior to Columbia Business School, Sarah worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She wrote articles about the cost of health care and its impact on patients, focusing on topics such as health insurance, hospital billing, Medicare, pharmacy benefit managers and drug costs. She also covered drug companies including Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck. Before joining the Journal, Sarah was a reporter for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, where she covered Georgia and metro Atlanta government. She received an A.B. in history from Dartmouth College.
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Technology & Communication |
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Joe Kairen, VP Technology & Communication
Joseph Kairen, '11, is the VP of Technology & Communications. Prior to Columbia Business School, Joe worked at J.P. Morgan as an associate on a sell side research desk focused on fixed income, currency and commodity indices. At JPM Joe was responsible for overseeing the daily creation and publication of the developed market indices. Prior to JPM Joe worked in internal audit with Barclays Capital and in an external audit role in the Life Sciences practice at Deloitte.
At CBS, Joe is concentrating in Consulting, Healthcare and Strategy. Joe Received his BS in MIS from Rutgers University. |