Q3 T2Bmeet @ Boston 2025
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$50 for Basic members
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Hosted by Syneos at the BU campus, this come-and-go networking event, including a panel discussion, is open to all biopharma communicators in the T2B community. Complimentary refreshments will be provided. Come mix and mingle with fellow comms pros!
Program
4:30–5 p.m.: Registration
5–6 p.m.: Open Networking
6–7 pm: Panel Discussion
7–7:30 p.m.: Open Networking
Panel Discussion Overview
Career Possibilities: Breaking Traditional Career Boundaries in Biopharma Communications
Brought to you by Ticket to Biotech and WEST, hosted by Syneos Health Communications
Communications careers rarely follow predictable paths and the most successful leaders often emerge from unexpected journeys across disciplines, companies, and challenges. This collaborative panel between Ticket to Biotech and WEST brings together communications executives who've navigated these winding paths to strategic roles, offering a candid look at career evolution in our field.
Our panelists have wrestled with career decisions that seemed risky at the time, taking on projects outside their comfort zones, and finding their way when the next step wasn't obvious. They'll share the real story behind their moves between disciplines, including which transitions truly expanded their strategic value, what they wished someone had told them earlier, and how they recognized growth opportunities that others missed. Whether you're considering your next move or building a team with diverse backgrounds, this conversation offers practical insights from those who've built success through nontraditional routes.
Takeaways:
Summarize practical approaches for identifying and pursuing growth opportunities across different communications functions
Review strategies for translating experience from one communications discipline to success in another
Discuss how non-traditional career moves can position you as a more valuable strategic advisor in biopharma
Develop and build confidence to make brave career leaps when conventional paths feel limiting
Moderator:
Lynnea Olivarez, Founder, T2B
Panelists:
Jerry Doyle, Managing Director & Senior Consultant, CommCore
Cynthia Isaac, Ph.D., Group Managing Director, Corporate Affairs Practice, Syneos Health Communications
Heather Nichols, Executive Director, Corporate Communications, Vertex
About Our Guest Speakers
Dr. Cynthia Isaac leads the Corporate Affairs Practice at Syneos Health Communications, delivering strategic advice, corporate branding support, executive visibility, thought leadership and corporate communications counsel to healthcare companies. She works with CEOs and executives across a range of companies, from Fortune 500 corporations to emerging startups.
Dr. Isaac is an expert in helping companies define and tell their story, to unite their stakeholders around a shared purpose. She applies a strong understanding of the healthcare industry’s competitive landscape and increasingly challenging political dynamics to help companies build thought leadership platforms
that both effectively position them against peers and provide a solid reputational foundation to buffer external headwinds.
With her scientific background, she is skilled in explaining complex scientific, data and business strategies to the public, media, investors and other audiences. She is passionate about health equity and diversity, working both within Syneos Health and with her clients to ensure culturally competent programs, communications and training that supports inclusiveness and impacts success in how they serve diverse stakeholders.
She obtained her Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, in Cell and Molecular Biology. With six years of laboratory experience, she is the author of several papers in peer-reviewed publications and has presented at various scientific conferences.
Jerry Doyle is a Senior Consultant and Principal at Yes&CommCore. He delivers media, messaging, storytelling, and speaker skills coaching, and provides strategic counsel to healthcare and pharmaceutical clients. Jerry has extensive experience working with medical professionals across the world and in virtually every therapeutic category. He prepares physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, patients, pharmacists, executives, and global physician key opinion leaders (KOLs) nationally and internationally.
He has delivered coaching and talks in Germany, Mexico, Great Britain, Spain, Austria, Greece, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and The Czech Republic. Jerry has provided counsel to over a thousand medical professionals for clients such as Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pfizer, Eisai, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Bayer, Abbott Labs, Genentech, Teva, Sanofi- Aventis, and Novo Nordisk. He also supports internal and external scientists and executives preparing for key conferences, speeches, and panel discussions, and conducts coaching in a variety of formats including workshops, video sessions, and webinars.
Before joining Yes& CommCore in 1999, Jerry had a successful career in healthcare communications with Edelman Public Relations Worldwide and Earle Palmer Brown, managing campaigns and press events for clients such as Merck, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, and Wyeth.
His articles on crisis communications and media relations have appeared in The Regan Report, The Advertiser, and Media Insider. He’s been profiled in IABC’s Communications Magazine and quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Columbia Journalism Review. Jerry is a regular contributor to PR News and has appeared on Inside Edition. He has also lectured at Harvard, NYU, Manhattanville College, UVA Darden Business School, and Columbia on topics including financial presentations and media readiness.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business.
About Our Host, Syneos Health Communications
Syneos Health Communications is a portfolio of innovative health-first, health-only advertising, branding, creative, medical communications, market access, and public relations agencies. We are fiercely focused on creating platforms that allow our customers to bring life-changing healthcare solutions to the world. We are an unrivaled community sitting at The Heart of Health, operating at the intersection of technology, creativity, and humanity. As part of Syneos Health, we are powered by a global network of clinical and commercial minds engaged at every point of influence in health.
Learn more at syneoshealthcommunications.com or follow us on LinkedIn.