Melissa Stevens

Melissa Stevens joined FasterCures in 2007 as Director of Special Projects and Interim Project Director for the Philanthropy Advisory Service initiative. She comes to FasterCures from PricewaterhouseCoopers where, as a Manager in their Health Sciences Advisory Practice, she lead large teams in providing strategic, operational, and business planning services to commercial and federal clients across the healthcare continuum.

Melissa has served academic medical centers, private research institutes, and large health systems in developing strategies for implementing clinical and translational research programs, designing conceptual models for collaboration, and assessing infrastructure to support research enterprises. Melissa served as in-country project manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Middle East healthcare engagement teams. In this role she managed the development of a strategic model and implementation plan for a 350-bed specialty teaching and genomics research hospital, as well as lead the creation of a system-wide strategic operating plan for a growing 600-bed integrated health system. Melissa received both her B.S. in Biochemistry and her M.B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University.