Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, Massachusetts
With over 30 years of experience, Donna Matthews Jarrell has managed laboratory animal programs in government, industry, and academia. Donna joined Mass General Hospital (MGH) in 2002 and currently serves as the MGH Attending Veterinarian and Director of the Center for Comparative Medicine. She received both her undergraduate and veterinary degrees from North Carolina State University and is board certified in the veterinary specialty of Laboratory Animal Medicine. Donna began her veterinary career working for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD as a Commissioned Officer in the Public Health Service. After leaving the government, she has served as the Attending Veterinarian at a contract research organization (CRO) and a biopharm company. One of her greatest accomplishments experienced during her MGH tenure is in leadership and operations management. She introduced the Toyota Production System/Lean Management as the department’s operations strategy in 2004 after first learning about it at the Harvard Business School. In 2006 she earned an Executive Education Certificate from The General Managers Program (TGMP) at the HBS and since then has made numerous presentations at the regional, national and international levels on the topic of TPS/Lean Management in the research & development arena. She was a founding member and the first President of the Vivarium Excellence Operations Network (www.voenetwork.org) and is a Past President of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (www.aclam.org).
E08 - The Patients are Waiting! Balancing the Pressure of Getting New Therapies to Clinical Trial
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
Plenary XVI: Institutional Official as JEDI Master
Thursday, December 15, 2022
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM ET