Dr. Zhu Shen is invited to speak at:
Pfizer La Jolla
Tue March 8, 2011
11:30 am – 1 pm

“The Art & Science of Social Media, Networking & Leadership”

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Dr. Zhu Shen is an award-winning business leader, author, speaker, filmmaker & producer, media personality, parenting expert, and thought leader in cross-Pacific life science business. She is the CEO of BioForesight, a life science strategic consulting company providing media/public relations, licensing, partnering, investment advisory, CRO/outsourcing strategy, cross-cultural communications & negotiation training to clients globally.  She writes extensively about major cross-Pacific business trends in the life science industry for leading trade publications.

Dr. Shen is the producer of the acclaimed business DVD, “The Art & Science of Networking and Social Media: A Practical Guide to Your Professional Networking Success,” with rave reviews by Cornell Johnson School Dean Joseph Thomas, BIOCOM CEO Joseph Panetta, best-selling author and The Economist’s China senior correspondent Ted Plafker, UCSD Rady School Director of Career Services Robin Darmon, and more. http://socialwebnetwork.com

Dr. Shen is a co-producer of “Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest,” an educational animation short featuring animation by her 5^th grade son Perry Chen about a young Holocaust survivor, in partnership with twice-Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton.  The film is slated to complete production in March 2011, and premiere at various film festivals in 2011.

http://bit.ly/eBhrBI

(San Diego Channel 6 interview of Perry Chen, Bill Plympton, Kevin Sean Michaels, and Dr. Zhu Shen about Beyond the Forest, July 22, 2010)

http://www.toonboom.com/products/toon-boom-studio/userstories/story/?id=PerryChen

(Toon Boom Animation: Producing a First Animated Short at 10 Years Old)

Dr. Shen is co-writing books with her son Perry on parenting and movie review writing for children. She was also the executive producer of “Perry Previews the Movies” on wsRadio, featuring Perry Chen, the award-winning child film critic who reviews movies for the San Diego Union Tribune and San Diego Entertainer.

Dr. Shen is widely known as the “Queen of Networking.”  Over the course of her career, she has over 12 million contacts in her Linkedin network across life science, technology, business, non-profit, education, media, and entertainment industries worldwide.  Her ability in “creating lasting and meaningful business relationships” and her “sharp intuitive sense of how to find, reach and draw in the people who can help achieve professional goals” are evident in her success in building a rich and fulfilling career in varied fields, and in her efforts to give back to the community.

Mindeliver Media 5on5 Expert Blog Series, featuring Dr. Zhu Shen:

http://www.mindeliver.com/2010/01/534/

Dr. Shen is a frequent speaker and chair of business conferences and has been featured on CBS Evening News, Business Week, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, China Economic Review, The Young Icons TV show, Pharmaceutical Executive, PharmAsia News, The Scientist, Genetic Engineering News, Biotech World, Cornell Enterprise, Ernst & Young Pharmaceutical Report, San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Business Journal, San Diego Magazine, ASIA Media, The China Press, and more:

http://tinyurl.com/24fww28

(Pharmaceutical Executive, Dec 2010: China Pharma 2020 – Walled in No More, by Zhu Shen)

http://www.the-scientist.com/supplements/china/toc.jsp

(The Scientist China Life Science Supplement, Dec 2009, Co-produced, edited, & written by Zhu Shen)

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b4099052479887.htm

(Business Week: Chinese Scientists Build Big Pharma Back Home, September 4, 2008)

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/sep/12/little-critic-has-big-vision/

(San Diego Union Tribune: Little Critic Has Big Vision, Sep 12, 2009)

Dr. Shen is active in several non-profit organizations, serving as Vice Chairman and on the Board of Directors of Sino-American Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SABPA), the most influential life science organization in Southern California that focuses on cross-Pacific alliances.  She launched the inaugural SABPA Pacific Forum in 2005 and has served as an organizer and co-chair and helped to make this a flagship conference that draws over 300 attendees and C-level executives from across the Pacific:

http://sabpa.org/web/news_details.php?ID=285

Dr. Shen is on the advisory board of American Chinese Culture & Education Foundation (ACCEF) that raises funds to build schools in remote rural areas of China and serves on the board of Asian Art Coordinating Council since 1997.

Dr. Shen received the 2006 Asian Heritage Award. She was nominated for the Athena Pinnacle Award in 2007, 2008, and 2009; and the San Diego Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business Award in 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Dr. Shen earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of Colorado and her MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.  She attended Peking University and Peking Union Medical College.  Prior to starting BioForesight, she held positions at The Wilkerson Group/ IBM, Bayer, Chiron, and Immusol with increasing responsibilities in marketing, strategic planning, corporate communications, and business development.  Further information is on her websites:

http://www.bioforesight.biz

http://socialwebnetwork.com

http://www.perryspreviews.com

http://www.wsRadio.com/perry

Connect with Dr. Shen on Social Media:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/bioforesight

http://www.facebook.com/zhu.shen

http://twitter.com/bioforesight

http://www.youtube.com/perryspreviews