Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes and celebrates the diverse experiences and views of their workforce. They encourage every employee to bring their authentic selves to work so they can fully engage in a meaningful way and drive the company's mission to help patients prevail over serious diseases. Bristol Myers Squibb's PRIDE Alliance is a vital part of that effort, helping to ensure a diverse and inclusive culture that empowers LGBTQ+ inclusion, awareness, and engagement. For this roundtable discussion we are joined by several BMS leaders to share their career journeys and take a deep dive into BMS's Heath Equity approach and work including how how prior partnerships with HIV and LGBTQ+ communities became the playbook for the current initiatives. PowerToFly's Meg Alexander will moderate.
Diversity Reboot Summit
Bristol Myers Squibb Commitment to Addressing Health Disparities and Diversity
Meet The Speakers
Patricia “Patti” Mae Doykos is Executive Director of Health Equity at Bristol Myers Squibb. In this newly created role, Patti leads internal and external health equity efforts across the organization to deliver the best outcomes for medically underserved patient populations.
Patti has 23 years of experience and leadership in transformative corporate philanthropy and corporate social responsibility, product brand and strategic communications, and health equity and social justice at BMS. Most recently, she served as Director of the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation since 2002. In January 2020, she took on the role of lead for BMS’s Health Equity Initiative to develop and implement an enterprise-wide health equity approach and strategy. Previously, Patti has developed and led U.S. and international grant-making and public-private partnership programs for global HIV/AIDS, women’s health, diabetes, serious mental illness, cancer, immunology, and COVID-19.
Among her current service roles are inaugural chair of the board of the Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth-Geisel Medical School, Board of Advisors for Dartmouth-Geisel Medical School, Advisory Board of the Center for Global Health at Rutgers University, and Trustee of Phillips Academy Andover and member of its Anti-Racism Task Force.
