Speakers

Linda Kollmar, MD, FACC leads the Patient Insights and Engagement (PI&E) team and holds the position of Associate Vice President in Value & Implementation. Under Linda’s leadership, the PI&E team collaborates with patients to understand their experiences, capture insights, and develop solutions to advance our work across the organization and product lifecycle. Prior to this role, Linda was an Executive Director in Global Medical Affairs, Oncology, where she led the Medical Consult and Review Physician team and was the Patient Advocate Lead for Medical Affairs - Oncology. Other former roles include that of Executive Director in the Office of the Chief Patient Officer where Linda was responsible for leading and facilitating the planning and execution of Patient Engagement activities to ensure that the patient’s perspective remained central to MSD’s mission. Linda collaborated with partners inside and outside of MSD to solicit and include the voices of the patients in and across the MSD enterprise. Prior to this, Linda worked in the MSD MedicalInformation department for seven years, where her focus was first on Cardiovascular medicines. She transitioned to Oncology in 2013 and supported the successful launches of Keytruda for Melanoma and Lung Cancer. Before joining MSD, Linda worked in private practice as a Non-Invasive Cardiologist. She graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History. Linda earned her MedicalDegree from Temple University School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and her Cardiology Fellowship at Hahnemann University Hospital. When not at work she enjoys spending time with her husband, Jim, three sons, Jack, Ben, Will, family, friends and Havanese dogs (Lilly and Daisy). She enjoys cooking, reading, and exercising.