About Rose-Marie
Rose-Marie Boylan BSc. M.A. is a Canadian business executive with expertise in healthcare lifesciences. Her career includes roles in market access, pricing strategies, and transformational leadership in Canada, US and European markets.
Summary Profile Career: Rose-Marie Boylan BSc. M.A.
Rose-Marie Boylan, BSc. M.A. is a Canadian business executive, dietitian, and healthcare life sciences leader. She has over two decades of corporate experience spanning market access, global pricing strategies, government relations, and transformational leadership across Canada, the US, and the EU.
💼 Professional Background & Corporate Leadership
Throughout her career, she has held high-level executive positions working with six of the largest global pharmaceutical companies along with several smaller life sciences organizations. Her strategic and leadership roles include collaborations with major Fortune 500 corporations such as:
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Pfizer
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Novartis
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Merck
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Abbott
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Teva Innovations
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Mylan
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Baxter
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Theratechnologies
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Jubilant Drax Image
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Sirtex
Her operational expertise centers heavily on healthcare system negotiations, negotiating market access for patients, health technology assessment and international price-setting. She has worked extensively with global Health Technology Assessment (HTA) frameworks and pricing bodies, including CADTH and INESSS in Canada, NICE in the UK, and the G-BA in Germany. She has spearheaded drug launches and managed healthcare negotiations across Canada, for US and EU5 launches. Rose-Marie also has 12 years management experience including managing field sales and Government Affairs teams.
Her operational expertise centers heavily on healthcare system negotiations, market access across all payer types managed care, public & private payers and international price-setting. She has worked extensively with global Health Technology Assessment (HTA) frameworks and pricing bodies, including CADTH and INESSS in Canada, NICE in the UK, and the G-BA in Germany.
🎓 Education, Academic Research & Key Frameworks
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Academic Credentials: She holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Nutrition, completed post-graduate Dietetics training, and earned a Master’s Degree in Leadership Studies from the University of Guelph, completed in 2009.
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Research Focus: Her graduate research integrated developmental and humanistic psychology, leveraging frameworks by Abraham Maslow and Jane Loevinger to map out ego development, post-traumatic growth, and human potential for reaching the highest levels of human development specifically for leadership. Her research, theories and work focuses heavily on humanistic, developmental, positive & transpersonal psychology in leadership, management & coaching. Her work bridges corporate management with psychological development.
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Academic Publications: She has published theoretical models on behavioral leadership, such as her work on the Shadow Psyche in Leadership & Decision-Making. She is a coach and passionate about positive leadership and human development. She publishes and speaks on emergent leadership, performance management as a collaborative negotiation process and the impact of the collective unconscious on corporate and individual leadership decision-making.
🎙️ Media & Advisory Work
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Television & Media: She is the producer, host, creator, researcher of the cable television program "SYNERGIZE", for Fundy Cable which focuses on health, sports nutrition, and debunking wellness myths. She was also the bilingual media spokesperson for the Nutrition Myths Campaign for the Canadian Dietetic Association in Quebec one year. She has done work for Able Cable Television, Nutrition Capers Television show in Nova Scotia for the Department of Health as an expert in Sports Nutrition both radio and television appearances. Rose-Marie has also been featured on CTV’s Pulse News as an expert for weight loss.
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Public Policy Panels: Outside of the private sector, she has served as a thought leader on the UNICEF Canada Observatory panel, advising on child well-being and public health infrastructure. Rose-Marie has served as a Canadian policy writer focused on social progress, health, safety for women and child health. Rose-Marie was also a member of Health Technology Assessment International on the Bioethics subcommittee in 2019 for her framework for women & child health.
Publications, Key Opinion Leader on Panels & Research:
-UNICEF Observatory Panel Key Opinion Leader Canada Policy:
-Burden of illness Osteoporosis: Preventable silent killer by Rose-Marie Boylan, BSc. M.A.
https://juniperpublishers.com/jojoos/JOJOOS.MS.ID.555606.php
-https://scispace.com/pdf/the-shadow-psyche-in-leadership-decision-making-a-praxeology-48t425k3lg.pdf
-Pharmaccess Leaders Forum, Eurostars Hotel, Berlin, Germany
October 16th-18th, 2013
Day 3, Stream 3: Market Access Infectious Disease Medicines R.M. Boylan Speaker
Ethics, economics and social value of a drug choice:
1). Building the social value case for the need for a premium priced medication.
2). Shifting cost to consequence: Ethics, economics & disability prevention.
3). Building the political will & shifting policy.
-5th International Conference on Public Health and Nutrition, Body identity & disordered eating: Food & mind-body medicine for improving health outcomes. October 16th, 17th, 2019.
-Television Show Fundy Cable "SYNERGIZE" Producer & Host, CTV News Appearances, Able Cable Television Interviews & Appearances Nutrition Capers for Department of Health & Radio shows
