Deshawn Stevenson

About Deshawn Stevenson

Accomplished pharmaceutical, healthcare services leader with a decade of progressively responsible experience as an infectious disease and reproductive specialist. Deep understanding of clinical pharmacy practice, disease management, pharmacy benefit management (PBMs), and pharmacovigilance. Adept in operations management, team building and leading, staff training and development, policy and procedural development, best practice implementation, performance management, succession planning, and new program and process implementation and improvement. Coordinates professional patient education and community outreach. Relationship builder and Subject Matter Expert (SME). Collaborates and communicates with both internal and external stakeholders, including key opinion leaders (KOLs) and cross-functional team. Demonstrates deep scientific and clinic knowledge about products, nutrition, diseases/disease state management, new and existing therapeutic options. Patient focused, analytical and evidence based. Featured in multimedia including the first WebMD international in-store health magazine, WebMD international commercial and the Elton John Aids Foundation commercial. Featured in advertisements with Essence and Black Enterprise. SKILLSData Analysis | Budget Management | Project Management | Product Management | Risk Management | Regulatory/Compliance Knowledge | Process Improvement | Communication: Written, Verbal, Correspondence, Reports, Presentations | Patient Centered Care | Provider Relationship Management | Product Development | Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)

Experience

1. Associate Director, U s Medical Affairs Scientific Collaboration

   Gilead Sciences

   Jul 2024 — Present · Foster City, CA, US

   Lead strategic partnership engagementwith 35+ professional societies and medical organizations aligned with virology priorities and aligned strategies with oncology teams. Overall reach of 1 million providers.• Spearhead congress strategy of 25+ innovative symposiums and digital tools, increasing provider knowledge by 60%• Partner cross-functionally across 5 departments to align stakeholder strategies and streamline hyper localized efforts in priority regions throughout the nation• Built academic health center partnerships for co-developed initiatives and data dissemination • Integrated latest scientific data from 10+ publications into provider-facing education and materials

Education

• Duke University

  Certificate Program , HIV Specialty Pharmacist

• Butler University

  Pre-Pharmacy Studies

  2002 — 2004

• Xavier University of Louisiana

  Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Pharmacy

  2006 — 2010

• Duke University

  Certificate Program, Healthcare Leadership

• Harvard Medical School

  Executive Program for Senior Life Sciences Leaders

• Xavier University of Louisiana

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology

  2005 — 2006

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Certificate Program , Product Management