For the past 30 years, Mimi is helping Patients and Caregivers Access Medicines through Policy-Shaping & Research By Partnering w/ patients, WHO, WEF, HTAs, Pharma, Civil Society, Families and Survivors.
Mimi is the Chairman, Board of Trustees at Partners for Patients NGO (Serving 193 United Nation Countries For Non-Profit). She founded the organisation in 1990. Her first partnership over 30 years ago was with The International Lions Club and New York City Schools serving Glaucoma Patients. Over the years, she also worked very closely with The African Enterprise to help educate HIV orphans including supporting a food, medical and orphanage program. Recently, her research included partnering with Sub-Sahara Africa medicinal military leaders to spur policy-shaping to support healthcare infrastructure improvements in Uganda, specifically to find the cure for Burkitts Lymphoma and Blood Cancer.
In addition to her volunteer work at the Betty Ford Childress Segment and Butler Research Center she is also employed at the International Myeloma Foundation. Her role at the IMF is Sr. Vice President, Global Policy, Access, Research and Advocacy in 140 countries and through relationships and partnerships. Mimi has successfully created multilateral and bilateral agreements and collaborations. Mimi has worked in Pharma for +25 years working at Merck, Novartis and Roche.
She is passionate about advocating for people, patients and caregivers by shaping healthcare policies, advancing medical knowledge, driving innovative digital solutions in the quest to increase medical access to treatments for patients, especially in the most marginalised regions of the world.