Valerie has over 18 years of strategic business planning and tactical execution with a primary focus on patient and consumer communications, including grass-roots and community-based initiatives including the development of the HIV University Peer-Based Treatment Education Training Program, which helped 40 teams of women start peer-based treatment education programs in their communities. While she has worked in several specialty disease areas, Valerie has largely concentrated in HIV disease, helping pharma and biotech companies better engage patients in accessing HIV treatment.
