Mi Dong

Mi has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. She served as a director of Intellectual Property Strategy Management in the Patent Group for Pfizer as well as in Licensing and Development department. She served as a senior project manager in Global Project Management at Parke-Davis and Company prior to its acquisition by Pfizer. At Parke-Davis, Mi was involved in all phases of many projects including gabapentin pediatric formulation (Neurontin®) from submission, approval and launching. She also managed pregabain (Lyrica®) development from the lead compound status to the NDA filing. She is proud of winning the naming contest for the winning tradename “Lipitor®”

Mi was a co-founder of Pfizer’s Career Development Committee, the founder of Pfizer’s Asian Network in Ann Arbor, and has served as a member of the advisory committee for Cultural Diversity, as well as chaired the subcommittee of the advisory committee for expatriates. She also was one of the founding team members of the mentoring program at Pfizer as well as implemented the legal mentoring program for Pfizer Global Research & Development.

Mi is the past-president (2007-2008) of the Council of Asian Pacific Americans in Michigan (CAPA). She was honored with two service awards in 2009 by community based not for profit organizations for her contribution to community. She is currently volunteering/serving at the Korean American Community Center of Michigan (KACCM) as an executive director, as an advisory board member of the Council of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA), as a board member of the American Citizens for Justice, and serve as a board of trustee at the Henry Ford Hospital West Bloomfield. She is also serve the not for profit organization “miRcore” as a COO and a board member as well. Mi frequently delivers motivational speeches to middle school and high school students. She has served as a panelist at the Women in Science conference in Washington D.C. as a speaker at the Diversity Conference in New York City, and was a panelist at University of Michigan business school on the topic of “Rising Force of Asia Health Care.”