Dana Haza, Senior Director
Dana is an experienced alliance builder in the public and private sectors, finding creative solutions for large-scale
systemic health care challenges. Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, Dana served the Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS) as the Acting Director of Programs and Coordination for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology. Also at DHHS, Dana was the Executive Director of the American Health Information Community for the Office of the
Secretary. She was responsible for directing integration of all endeavors across the office of the National Coordinator and
supporting dissemination and adoption of Administration policy on health information technology.
Prior to working for DHHS, Dana was the Director of Policy for Newt Gingrich at the American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research (AEI), one of America's largest and most respected think tanks. In her role as Director of Policy, Dana
worked closely with a variety of federal agencies and branches of the government on such projects as the 2003 Medicare bill,
patient safety issues, electronic health records, as well as with the National Cancer Institute on creating a model of
eliminating suffering and death by cancer by 2015. She has co-authored the book,
Saving Lives & Saving
Money, with Newt Gingrich and Anne Woodbury. While at AEI, Dana served on a congressional panel for the AcademyHealth
and Friend of AHRQ.
Dana received a Presidential appointment to be the Director of the Commission on Systemic Interoperability early in January
of 2005. Dana is passionate in her pursuit of health and wholeness for every American.
Contact Dana:
DHAZ@novonordisk.com
202-359-2893
Karin Gillespie, Senior Manager
Karin joined NCDP in May 2009, bringing with her over 15 years of experience in the health care industry. Previously, Karin
worked as a Senior Consultant for Elayne Howard & Associates, a Philadelphia-based health care marketing strategy firm,
where she worked with academic medical centers, community hospitals, philanthropies, pharmaceutical companies, and other
health care organizations. Throughout her career she has done strategic marketing plans, market analysis and research, and
marketing communications in areas such as complementary and alternative medicine, pediatrics, children’s specialty
services, aging, cancer, and ambulatory diagnostic facilities.
Karin has also written extensively in the health care field, and her work has been published in a number of professional
journals, including Business & Health, New Jersey Medicine, and Marketing Health Services. She authored a book on
shaping healthy eating habits in young children for the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute that is being disseminated
by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and served as medical editor for two other books for physicians and other health care
professionals.
Karin is an alumnus of Princeton University and holds an MBA degree from The Wharton School. She currently lives in
Kingston, NJ, with her husband, six children, dog, and two Chinese dwarf hamsters.
Contact Karin:
KGIL@novonordisk.com
609-987-5872
Erin Byrne, Manager
Erin Byrne brings an extensive amount of diabetes and public health knowledge to the National
Changing
Diabetes® Program. It was her interest in nutrition and diabetes that brought her to Novo Nordisk in January 2006
as a Diabetes Care Specialist (DCS) in New York, NY. During her time in as a DCS, she was very active with the diabetes
community. Her achievements there included bringing type 1 patient and world-class mountain climber, Will Cross, to New York
to participate in Mount Sinai’s Pediatric Endocrinology summer camp in 2006. Erin also led her district’s participation with
the JDRF Walk for a Cure in 2006 and 2007. She continued to work closely with Mt. Sinai and other professionals to assist in
many diabetes awareness campaigns. In 2007, Erin was awarded the Novo Nordisk Circle of Excellence award for her work.
Erin’s background has enabled her to bring analytic and assessment skills to NCDP, as well as a unique perspective from her
time as interacting with physicians about diabetes care, and through her public health coursework.
Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, Erin worked as a Professional Sales Representative for Ortho-McNeil Jansen Pharmaceuticals, a
Johnson and Johnson Company. While at Johnson and Johnson, Erin won the Presidents Pinnacle award in 2004 and the District
Representative of the Year for 2004.
Erin currently is working to obtain her Master’s in Public Health degree at New York University. She lives in the Princeton area with her husband and Boston Terrier, Lola.
Contact Erin:
EBYR@novonordisk.com
609-514-8095
Manan Shah, Associate
Manan joined NCDP in January 2009. Among many roles, Manan is responsible for the development of the NCDP website as well
the team’s official “Twitterer”, posting tweets on
www.twitter.com/NCDPnews.
Prior to joining the team, Manan worked at New Jersey Network, the public television and radio for the state, as a
Development Analyst in the office of the executive director.
Manan graduated with Honors from American University, with a double major in International Studies and Government. He
currently serves on the university’s Honors Alumni Board. Manan is an avid runner, currently working on a personal
goal of running a race in all 50 states for charitable causes.
Contact Manan:
MNXS@novonordisk.com
609-514-8319
Connie Chiarolanzio, Senior Administrator
Connie joined the NCDP team in January 2009 and responsible for logistics, travel and general support for the team.
Connie brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this role, having worked previously in Legal, Patent and Sales
departments of Novo Nordisk Inc. Prior to her time with the company, Connie worked as a legal assistant and administrator
for a law firm, focusing on intellectual property, patents and trademarks. Prior to that, Connie also worked as a programmer
and analyst for two corporate computer and training organizations.
Along with these roles, Connie is an avid cook and has been a sales director for The Pampered Chef for over ten years.
Connie currently resides with her family in Plainsboro, NJ.
Contact Connie:
COCI@novonordisk.com
609-919-7701
