DEIDRE MEEHAN
WORLDWIDE VICE PRESIDENT
GENERAL COUNSEL
PHARMACEUTICALS
Deidre Meehan is Worldwide Vice President, General Counsel, Pharmaceuticals. Deidre serves on the Law Department Legal Leadership Team and manages the Pharmaceuticals Legal Group globally. Deidre is also a member of the Pharmaceuticals Group Operating Committee. In her role, Deidre continues to build on her years of experience as a trusted strategic partner and legal leader on Enterprise-wide regulatory matters and continues her strong focus on shaping the external environment to accelerate innovation for patients.
Prior to her current role, Deidre held the position of Worldwide Vice President, Regulatory Law, Johnson & Johnson. Deidre led our Global Regulatory Law Group, providing counsel to and collaborating with our business and functional partners in bringing our innovative products from development through commercialization, and ultimately, to patients and consumers. Deidre worked particularly close with our Regulatory, Quality, Medical Safety, Medical Affairs and Compliance organizations in the businesses, R&D and Supply Chain, and focused on other specialty areas such as healthcare compliance and privacy law on a cross-Sector basis. Deidre also led the Regulatory Policy Council, a platform for the heads of the Regulatory Affairs groups, Worldwide Government Affairs & Policy and other key policy stakeholders.
Prior to her Worldwide Vice President, Regulatory Law role, Deidre held positions as the lead regulatory lawyer for the Pharmaceutical Sector and the Health Care Compliance practice group and as a regulatory lawyer supporting the Medical Device sector. Deidre joined the Johnson & Johnson Law Department in 2007.
Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Deidre served as in-house counsel at Schering-Plough and at Daiichi Sankyo. Deidre started her legal career in the Health Care Practice Groups of McCarter & English and Proskauer Rose. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Notre Dame Law School.