Kathleen Gondek, MS, PhD

Lexington, MA

Vice President of Global Health Economics Outcomes Research and Epidemiology, Shire PLC

Represented: Industry

Kathleen Gondek, MS, PhD, is currently the Vice President of Global Health Economics Outcomes Research and Epidemiology at Shire. Prior to Shire, Kathleen spent 15 years at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, where she held numerous positions including leading the US medical science liaison and medical affairs operations department. Gondek also worked for the Health Care Finance Administration, now CMS, in the Office of Research and Demonstrations.

She has coauthored more than 45 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 presentations. Gondek holds a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a PhD in Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Science from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. While at Bayer, Kathleen was a lecturer at Yale University in the School of Public Health. Gondek is a member of the Boston Club, ISPOR, and a previous committee chair at PhARMA, and was a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Council as well as a member of the Steering Committee for the Women’s Leadership Initiative at Bayer.

Gondek served as a member of the Advisory Panel on Rare Disease from August 2016 to August 2019.