Megan Kinnane
Falls Church,USA
Summary
Strategic Senior Advisor with a proven track record in enhancing productivity and efficiency. Expertise in policy development, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning drives organizational success. Strong communication, problem-solving, and adaptability skills facilitate impactful contributions to team dynamics and growth initiatives. Committed to leveraging experience to support innovative strategies that align with long-term objectives.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Acting Senior Advisor to the Director
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH
Rockville, MD
08.2016 - 02.2017
- Established organizational and communications operations procedures for new NIMH director and transitional Office of the Director Steering Committee and staff
- Developed, managed, and conducted two workshops to increase internal knowledge base and develop guidance on the most important science within the priority areas of the new Director
Scientific Review Officer (SRO)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH
Rockville, MD
04.2007 - 02.2017
- Led the NIMH team on all review related activities for President Obama’s BRAIN initiative, including coordination of activities of five SROs, and the collective review of more than 600 applications
- Trained two new SRO recruits
- Identified, recruited, and assigned reviewers with appropriate scientific expertise to assess the scientific and technical merit of approximately 20-100 grant applications per round
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of a wide variety of scientific areas through the coordination of reviews in a variety of scientific areas of interest to the NIMH including basic and translational neuroscience, cognitive and neural development, HIV, childhood interventions, and training
- Developed strong relationships with reviewers and applicants, frequently reengaging reviewers, and engaging former applicants as reviewers
- Prepared a succinct written synthesis of the discussion for each discussed application, and edit reviewers’ critiques in accordance with guidelines to provide Program staff and Council with the most helpful information for making funding decisions
- Founding member of the Scientific Outreach Team, a small committee responsible for development and running of an interactive demonstration adaptable for children ages 6-18, including activities such as 'take your child to work day,' and presentations at underserved schools in the DC area
- Lectured (2012) and served as a team to run an NIMH booth (2014, 2016) for the USA science and engineering festival
Detail, Science Writer
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH
Rockville, MD
05.2012 - 09.2012
- Worked with the Institute Director, OSPPC Chief, and SWPD Branch Chief in the development of time sensitive presentations, blog posts, and stakeholder communications
- Provided scientific perspective in the development of a strategic plan for the communication of NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
Senior Medical Copywriter
OgilvyHealthworld
Paris, France
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Engaged medical copywriting and creative staff to accomplish pitch presentations resulting in the acquisition of two major clients
- Developed a variety of materials that led to regulatory approval, were used in conference booths, were distributed for continuing medical education, were used to assist physicians in patient education, and were distributed in patient waiting rooms all in pan-European campaigns for top-ten pharmaceutical companies
- Determined trends in research; identified emerging areas of study and the adequacy of the research community to address these problems
- Served as lead copywriter and Ogilvy scientific lead for the European launch of SPRYCEL, a multi-million dollar Bristol Myers Squibb drug targeting patients with resistant or intolerant Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
- Served as primary or secondary medical copywriter on variety of other indications including Multiple Myeloma, HIV, Multiple Sclerosis, smoking cessation, dermal fillers
- Coordinated local adaptation of deliverables, including culturally sensitive adaptation and translation for release in more than 15 markets worldwide
- Built collaborative working relationships with client-side medical and marketing teams, and commercial and creative directors internally to ensure high quality, informative, and timely materials were released
- Integrated feedback from market research, and in-field sales representatives and Medical Science Liaisons to ensure the delivery of compelling and understandable product messaging
- Engaged key opinion leaders in for early market analysis (i.e., identification of unmet consumer needs), market research, competitive intelligence, and early product reconnaissance
- Developed and presented summary reports following conferences and internal meetings
Post-doctoral Fellowship
CNRS
Paris, France
01.2003 - 01.2006
- Focused on multi-leveled approaches to the understanding of neural plasticity from the system to the cell to the gene, to develop overall understanding of learning, memory formation and consolidation, plasticity, and potential mechanisms of dysfunction in disordered brains
Senior Advisor to the Director
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH
Rockville, MD
- Primary liaison for the Office of the Director and Director
- Track and coordinate strategic priorities for the OD steering committee (Institute Director, Deputy Director, Executive Officer, Senior Advisor), including weekly meetings
- Manage demands on the Directors time, negotiating internal versus external requests
- Work with internal staff to ensure the Director and Deputy Director are prepared for talks, meetings, travel, etc
- Represent the Director/Institute on several trans-NIH initiative committees
- Serve as a liaison between the Office of the Director and Leadership team, Team leads, special interest group leads, and staff
- Coordinate bimonthly leadership meetings including running agenda maintenance, note taking and dissemination, and rescheduling when necessary
- Coordinate biyearly listening sessions with individual Divisions and Offices to ensure transparency and positive culture among employees
- Coordinate monthly All Hands meetings to ensure accurate, timely, and transparent dissemination of information to staff
- Ensure strong relationships between the Office of the Director and internal and external stakeholders, including tracking of engagements; ensuring appropriate internal stakeholders are engaged, including Subject Matter Experts, Communications, Legislative; and managing communications
- Lead the annual fiscal year initiative development process to plan out our Requests for Applications to specialized areas of science in need of specific growth
- Led the preparation and actuation of 5 year strategic plan development for NIMH’s cross cutting teams
- Manage projects at the request of the Director, or in the interest of the Institute
- Lead efforts towards continuing education of Leadership team in anti-bias and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion using both internal and external resources
- Served as OD representative on an NIMH/Deloitte contract to improve extramural workflows, managerial systems, in order to reduce staff burden and increase efficiency
- Serve as a NIMH representative to the Climate Change and Health (CCH) Steering Committee
- Led day long symposium focused on future directions in mental health research in celebration of NIMH’s 75th anniversary
- Lead the organization of a quadrennially NIMH research track at the American Psychological Meeting
- Supervise the five person Office of the Director administrative support team, including performance evaluation, hiring, and identifying training activities
Education
Ph.D. - Neuroscience
Boston University
Boston, MAB.A. - Psychobiology
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MAIntercalated BSc program -
University College London
London, UKTraining
- International Coaching Federation certification, 2023, 2024
- Senior Leadership Program, 2019
- Mid-level Leadership Program, 2015
Awards And Honoraria
- NIH Directors award, 2015, 2021, 2023
- NIMH Director’s Group award for Significant Achievement, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Accomplishments
NIH Directors award (2015, 2021, 2023)
NIMH Director’s Group award for Significant Achievement (2008, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Languages
French
Professional
Spanish
Limited
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Acting Senior Advisor to the Director
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH
08.2016 - 02.2017
Detail, Science Writer
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH
05.2012 - 09.2012
Scientific Review Officer (SRO)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH
04.2007 - 02.2017
Senior Medical Copywriter
OgilvyHealthworld
01.2005 - 01.2007
Post-doctoral Fellowship
CNRS
01.2003 - 01.2006
Senior Advisor to the Director
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH
Ph.D. - Neuroscience
Boston University
B.A. - Psychobiology
Wellesley College
Intercalated BSc program -
University College London
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