Denise currently serves as Group Vice President, Life Sciences, leading Premier’s Applied Sciences (PAS) team which is the research and analytics division of Premier. She is responsible for developing strategic business relationships with life sciences companies and health systems and expanding the utilization of Applied Sciences’ solutions.

Prior to Premier, Denise retired from Merck & Co. after a successful 30-year career where she worked for MSD, an innovative, global division of Merck & Co. that is committed to improving health and well-being around the world. She spent the last 5 years of her career focusing on managing all enterprise efforts with their top customers as part of an executive leadership initiative to transform the company from product and geographically focused into a leading customer-centric organization.

Denise graduated magna cum laude, with a degree in Health Science from Seton Hall University. She also obtained her master’s degree from East Stroudsburg University in Exercise Physiology/Cardiac Rehabilitation. Denise participated in Executive Education at the Harvard Business School of Harvard University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.