HCS Employee - COVID-19 Vaccination Town Hall w/ Dr. Jayne Morgan

This COVID-19 Vaccination Town Hall w/ Dr. Jayne Morgan is for the employees of Henry County Schools to find out more information about the research and science behind the COVID-19 vaccines.

Bio for Dr. Jayne Morgan -
Jayne Morgan, M.D. is a Cardiologist and the Clinical Director of the Covid Task Force at the Piedmont Healthcare Corporation in Atlanta, GA. Within this role, she is developing ongoing community outreach in conjunction with the Division of Diversity and Inclusion between Piedmont and the African American community it serves. Additionally, Dr. Morgan will be analyzing the science and data from Piedmont and nationally, surrounding the disproportionately negative impact of Covid-19 on minority communities. Ultimately, the goal is to identify methods, as well as areas of improved triage, screening, and algorithms for the overall outcomes management of disadvantaged populations positive for Covid19.

Previously, Dr. Morgan was the System Director of Innovation at Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. where she set the vision, trajectory, and strategic scaling opportunities, as well as sought key partnerships and stakeholders to progress these goals. In doing so, the program recognized close to a 50% success rate (national average is less than 10%) including an external investment of $23,000,000.00 for one invention launched from the Accelerator. Additionally, Dr. Morgan was successful in securing the first-ever licensing of a medical device developed entirely within the Piedmont Accelerator allowing Piedmont to receive royalties.

Prior to this role, Dr. Morgan served as the System Director of Research and Innovation also at Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. where she had responsibility for the strategic growth of the newly formed Piedmont Research Institute, including the development of the long-range strategic vision for research programs across all medical specialties, and contract negotiations for all new partners. While here, she formally introduced the importance of increasing enrollment of minorities into clinical trials as a strategic initiative for the system.

Initially, Dr. Morgan came to Piedmont as the Director of Cardiovascular Research where she expanded research to other satellite hospital facilities to ensure that enrollment into clinical trials did not all emanate from large city populations, but had representation from rural communities as well. Additionally, she created the Feasibility Program, thereby introducing First in Man trials to the Piedmont system, and serving both the interests of the Cardiologists and Marcus Valve Center. Both have been huge successes and have propelled Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. to #1 status worldwide in the tricuspid space and #1 nationally within the Mitral space of transcatheter valve technologies. Further, these efforts, as well as the focus on other strategic growth initiatives, realized steadily increasing revenue earnings that converted the Cardiovascular Research department from a cost center to a profit center.

Moreover, Dr. Morgan has served as the Chief Medical Officer of the American Chemistry Council (where she developed a new translational research program), CEO of Forty Million Beats, LLC - with clients such as Novartis, Abbott, and Moderna - working directly with both the Research and Medical Affairs divisions as well as providing guidance and focus on improved minority recruitment into trials, the World Wide Director of the Cardiorenal Drug Development program at Solvay Pharmaceuticals (where she also supported due diligence in company acquisitions and in-licensing), and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Morgan currently serves as the President of the Southeastern Life Sciences Association (single largest biotech association in the Southeast), Co-Chair of the Health and Human Services Conference 2022, Founding Board Member of MedTech Women, Founding Board Member of SE Color, Board Member of the American Heart Association/Atlanta Chapter, Board Member of the National Diversity and Inclusion team at the American Heart Association, the National Board Member of The American Heart Association Technology Team, the Regional Board Member of The American Heart Association Health Equity Committee, previous Co-Chair of the BioScience Leadership Council at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and BioMed Investors Network.

Dr. Morgan is a native Atlantan and completed her B.S. degree at Spelman College (Atlanta, GA), Medical Degree at Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI), Internal Medicine Residency at George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), and both her Cardiology and Pacemaker Fellowships at Mount Sinai Medical Center (Miami, Fl).