NECINA Career Panel Discussion
#2 Medical/Pharmaceutical
Date/Time:   May 14 (Thursday), 2020 / 8:00pm– 9:30pm

Venue: Online Zoom meeting
Fee: Free to all NECINA community members 
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Overview
NECINA is hosting a series of Career Panels to equip you with proven career tips and techniques necessary to take you to the next level! With one click on your mobile device, you will hear from multiple seasoned senior executives share their diversified career paths, experiences, anecdotes, lessons learned, achievements made, difficulties overcome, and how they arrived at the pinnacles of their professional life! You can also interact with the panelists in Q&A session. You will gain priceless career suggestions and tips without worrying about contracting Covid-19 and do it with more than sufficient social distancing! Don't miss this great opportunity, register early, seats are limited.
The second Zoom panel discussion, featuring three (3) distinguished management and executives in medical device and pharmaceutical industry, will be held on Thursday, May 14, 2020, from 8 PM to 9:15 PM. The panelists are Dr. Mei Zhang, VP, Zyno Medical LLC; Dr. Chao Yang, Medical Safety Officer and Director, Depuy Synthes Spine, Johnson & Johnson; and Dr. Zhiyong Yang, Director, Biology, Johnson & Johnson R&D. The moderator will be Ru Zheng, Senior Business Intelligence Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific, NECINA Board of Directors.  
Agenda
  • 8:00 pm - 8:05 pm - Open Remark: NECINA President Dr. Harry Gao
  • 8:05 pm – 8:10 pm - Panel Discussion moderator: Ru Zheng 
  • 8:10 pm - 9:10 pm - Panel presentation and discussion: Mei Zhang, Chao Yang, Zhiyong Yang
  • 9:10 pm – 9:30 pm Q&A
Panelists and Moderator
Dr. Mei Zhang, VP, Zyno Medical LLC
Dr. Mei Zhang is the Vice President of Quality Assurance, Regulatory Compliance and Engineering at Zyno Medical LLC. She leads R&D, sustaining engineering, manufacturing, quality assurance, global supplier management, and regulatory compliance for class II medical devices. Her passion for innovation has resulted in about 20 patents. 
She has successfully directed the team developing and obtaining FDA 510k clearance for multiple new medical device families. Prior to joining Zyno Medical, Mei worked at an engineering consulting firm, Metis Design Corporation and Sensata Technologies, a global leading supplier of sensing, electrical protection, control and power management solutions with operations and business centers in 12 countries. Mei obtained her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY at Stony Brook and completed her post-doctoral research at MIT.
Dr. Chao Yang, MD, Medical Safety Officer and Director, Depuy Synthes Spine (Johnson & Johnson)
Dr. Yang currently works as Medical Safety Officer with Johnson & Johnson. He oversees product safety issues for Spine and Sports products. He also builds strategic medical affairs, sciences and safety stewardship for DePuy Synthes Orthopedics products in assessing potential safety signals. In addition, he develops and executes risk management in new product development and maintenance, provides medical expertise in Preliminary Risk Assessment (PRA), Health Hazards Evaluations (HHE), and Post-Market Surveillance plans (PMSPs) and report (PMSR). In addition, he serves as medical monitor in multiple clinical studies to provide medical perspective in study design and safety management. Provide product Risk-Benefit Assessment and review of Clinical Evaluation Report (CER).  Dr Yang has medical device industry experience for over 10 years with combined vision in clinical and business development.
Dr. Yang also possesses MD degree with more than 10 years of surgical/orthopedics practices (Spine) and 4-year post-doctoral research training at Mayo Clinic. Dr. previously worked at Kimberly-Clark Roswell, GA as a Medical Director / Associate Medical Director. He was the only medical director of KC Healthcare.  He is a product vigilance expert for safety evaluation and risk management activities for marketed and investigational products. He implemented regulatory requirement and quality procedures into the product safety review. He provided clinical decision in MDR, medical evaluation (ME), health hazard evaluation (HHE) and field action, risk management documents including FMEA.
Dr. Yang was awarded of Ten Best doctors issued by Tianjin Red Cross Hospital in 1998 and 1999.  Dr. Yang earned a Mini MBA in Medical Technology Management: Strategies for Medical Technology Company Growth from St. Thomas University Minneapolis, MN. He also has a Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine from Tianjin Medical University Tianjin, China.
Dr. Zhiyong Yang, Director, Biology, Johnson & Johnson R&D
Dr. Zhiyong Yang is a Director of Biology (Metabolic Complications) at Johnson & Johnson R&D. Prior to joining J&J in 2018, Dr. Yang had a combined 18 years of drug discovery research experience, with roles as a Senior Scientist, Principal Scientist, Senior Principal Scientist, and Associate Research Fellow at Wyeth and Pfizer, mostly in the Inflammation and Immunology research fields.  Dr. Yang has extensive experience in leading research groups as well as cross-functional drug discovery project teams, with goals to develop novel therapeutics (both small molecules and antibodies) to treat chronic kidney diseases, chronic liver diseases, and inflammatory diseases associated with the lung and the joint.
Dr. Yang received his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Nankai University in 1989, and his Ph.D. degree in molecular/cell biology from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. He then conducted post-doctoral research at Yale University and Harvard University in the fields of gene regulation, signal transduction and inflammation. In 2014-2015, Dr. Yang served as the president of Chinese American BioMedical Association.
Ru Zheng, Senior Business Intelligence Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Ru Zheng is a natural relationship builder and enjoys bringing out the best of others. As a certified Dale Carnegie Trainer with over 10 years of training experience, she is passionate about communication and leadership training, team building and executive coaching.
As a Sr. Business Intelligence Manager in a Global Fortune 500 company, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Corporation, Ru oversees a global sales analytics team for the company’s Lab Product Group, a $1.6 billion division. She has over twenty years of business leadership experience in various functions, including Supply Chain strategic sourcing, Supplier management, Process Improvement, Financial Strategic Planning and Analysis, ERP deployment, Sales Operation, Strategic Pricing, and Client Relation Management and Researching, Team Building and Organization Development and Sales Training.
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About NECINA 
NECINA (www.necina.org) is a nonprofit organization that was founded 24 years ago by a group of highly successful entrepreneurs. Our mission is to nourish entrepreneurship, facilitate professional career development, and bridge the business and culture gap between New England and Greater China.
As a non-profit organization, we have a subscription contact base of over 5000 people. We run 40+ events per year and help startup companies raise hundreds of million dollars. The return from Companies founded by our members has been over $10 billion dollars.
Our former speakers include Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360, Chairman and President of Oriza Holdings, Partners of Atlas Venture, President of IEEE. Just to name a few.
We also have built partnership with companies like Dell Computer (EMC), Constant Contact, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, NetBrain, etc.
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