We need to more quickly digitize life sciences to benefit health care professionals and patients, and reduce digital and health inequities to meet the medical needs of patient populations.

Jo Ann M Saitta

Managing Director, Digital Transformation, Business Consulting, Ernst & Young LLP

I use data, tech and digital to enable health equity. Advocate for women’s cardiovascular health. Twin mom. Runner.

Jo Ann brings more than 20 years of C-level strategy experience in health care technology to the Health Sciences and Wellness Consulting practice, where she leads large-scale digital enablement and business transformation growth. She focuses on technology and business transformation initiatives across the biopharma lifecycle, from clinical to commercial.

Her work includes leading commercial digital enablement and omnichannel customer experience solutions, and modernizing and optimizing customer engagement with health care professionals, patients and payers. She has a keen focus in digital technologies to support pharma functions of sales, marketing and medical.

Before joining EY US, Jo Ann was the Global Chief Digital Officer for a large global health care communications agency and the Chief Information Officer for a contract sales and commercialization company servicing biopharma.

She has a master’s degree in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Political Science from Rutgers University.

How Jo Ann is building a better working world

As a Northern New Jersey American Heart Association board member and Go Red for Women Heart Disease Survivor Ambassador, I am dedicated to driving awareness and research donations to improve heart health for women. Women are underrepresented in clinical trials, and their heart disease often remains undetected until it’s too late. In my personal life and work, I use my knowledge and experience to make the world a healthier place. 

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