2022 Peer Group Members

The Southern California Chapter

Director's Peer Group Members

Director of Alliance Management

Pierian

Megan Nacar is an accomplished business executive with a primary focus in alliance management within biotechnology, clinical genomics, and diagnostics.

At Pierian, Megan manages a number of strategic partnerships spanning assay/consumables, sequencers, real world evidence data, laboratory and genetic counseling services, clinical research organizations, and pharmaceutical.

Megan has spent over a decade of her career in healthcare, primarily in the laboratory diagnostics space. Prior to Pierian, she lead commercial strategy at a New Jersey based reference laboratory that provided urology & gastroenterology specialized surgical pathology, PCR-based infectious disease molecular diagnostics, and next generation sequencing testing for hereditary disease.

Outside of work, Megan is actively involved in her community as the Los Angeles Chapter Co-Leader for the Colorectal Cancer Alliance (CRCA). Her role as the chapter co-lead is to develop a stronger advocacy group for the CRCA in Los Angeles as well as to ultimately contribute to ending colorectal cancer in her lifetime.

On her spare time, she enjoys reading, playing paddle tennis at the beach, dancing with her Tahitian dance group, and spending time with her family and friends.

Senior Director, Medical Affairs

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company

Thousand Oaks, California

Sherry Siegert is an experienced medical affairs leader with an extensive breadth and depth of experience spanning key functions of medical affairs. With 13+ years of diverse experience across managed care, commercial, and medical affairs, this broad exposure encompasses large, medium, and small-sized pharmaceutical companies. She thrives in a fast-paced environment alongside high-performing, agile team members. She recognizes innovation and collaboration as vital drivers to achieving corporate goals and believes striving for continuous improvement is at the core of high impact organizations.

She obtained her B.S. in Biopsychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Illinois, Chicago, College of Pharmacy. She was the inaugural pharmacy resident for the Managed Care Specialty Pharmacy Residency program at CVS Caremark-Specialty Pharmacy.

She is currently Senior Director of Medical Affairs at La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company, overseeing day to day functions including, but not limited to: Medical Information, Investigator Initiated Research, Independent Medical Education, Medical Strategy and Operations, Insights, and Scientific Communications. Her passions are helping to improve patient lives and paying it forward through developing young professionals, volunteering in the community, and supporting recurring scholarships at her alma mater.

Director of Marketing

Alpha Cognition

Jami Rogers is a forward thinking, accomplished brand marketer with 16 years’ experience and a proven track record of success launching and maintaining brands throughout their lifecycle in both private and public companies. Expert in strategic planning, branding, campaign development, HCP and consumer marketing, multichannel digital marketing, KOL management, and media.

She is currently the Director of Marketing at a clinical-stage biotech start up, Alpha Cognition, innovating in Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative diseases. She was the second commercial hire and is currently developing the commercialization plans, including market assessment, go to market strategy, positioning, and creative branding elements. She is responsible for corporate branding, including optimizing social media channels to maximize exposure, metrics and ROI. Jami is the lead for preparation and cross functional team for company's potential plans to up list to NASDAQ. She is also, leading the government affairs initiatives to proactively support and advocate a proposed health bill for neurodegenerative disease.