Megan Murphy
Meg Murphy is the Associate Director of Events and Engagement at PCOS Challenge: The National Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Association. Serving 57,000 members, PCOS Challenge is the leading nonprofit support organization globally that is advancing the cause for people affected by PCOS. PCOS Challenge hosts the largest and most influential PCOS educational events in the nation, which serve both patients and healthcare providers. They are the leading organization advocating for and shaping public policy with regard to women and girls impacted by polycystic ovary syndrome.
Meg attended her first PCOS Challenge symposium in 2014 and learned more in that one afternoon than she had in years as a patient. She immediately signed on as a volunteer and went on to become a Patient Advisory Board member. In January 2022, Meg joined the PCOS Challenge team full-time. Meg is passionate about empowering other people with PCOS to advocate for their health.
Prior to joining PCOS Challenge, Meg worked in the Office of Research Affairs at UC San Diego. She is a runner and recently launched the PCOS Challenge Race Team at the Los Angeles Marathon. Meg received her B.A. from Boston University and resides in San Diego, California with her husband.
David Stern
David Stern has over 28 years of women’s health experience and has devoted the majority of his career to the fertility industry. He has held executive leadership positions and built successful teams while launching numerous products in pharmaceutical and biotech markets world-wide. Currently, David serves as the CEO of Boston IVF, one the largest IVF center networks in the United States with 11 full service IVF centers and over 30 satellite centers nationwide.
David served as CEO of Symbiomix Therapeutics a venture backed biotech company. He led the transition of the company from development stage to commercial launch in the US, prior to its acquisition by Lupin Pharmaceuticals in 2017. He served on the board of California Cryobank and has held executive positions in startup companies in the women’s healthcare market, building commercial teams, developing strategy and expanding scientific partnerships for Celmatix, Ohana and OvaScience.
David was the Senior Vice President and Head of the Global Business Franchise for Fertility at Merck Serono, responsible for the strategic development and growth of the portfolio world-wide. Prior to his global role, he was responsible for the US commercial operations in the Fertility, HIV and Growth Hormone markets. David started his career in women’s health with Organon Pharmaceutics. He has an MBA with a concentration in International Marketing and Management from the F.W. Olin School of Business at Babson College and holds a Bachelors’ degree in Biology from Brandeis University.
Nitza Basoco
Nitza Basoco is a technology leader with over 20 years of semiconductor experience. At proteanTecs, she leads the Business Development team, responsible for driving partnership strategies and building value-add ecosystem growth.
Previously, Nitza was the VP of Operations at Synaptics with responsibility for growing and scaling their worldwide test development, product engineering and manufacturing departments. Prior to Synaptics, Nitza spent a decade holding various leadership positions within the operations organization at MaxLinear, ranging from test development engineering to supply chain. Earlier in her career, Nitza served as a Principal Test Development Engineer for Broadcom Corporation and as a Broadband Applications Engineer at Teradyne.
Nitza holds MEng and BSEE degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ashwin Sakhare
Ashwin Sakhare, PhD is a Senior Data Scientist at Atos zData, a leading AI and Data Science firm. Ashwin leverages over a decade of industry and research experience to solve key business challenges through novel product development and data-driven machine learning approaches. He is a computer vision expert and has delivered AI and machine vision solutions to clients across a broad range of application domains. He has a strong healthcare industry background, where he led the ideation, design, and development of AI products. Ashwin holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Dana Northcraft
