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Dr. Martell has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry as a drug developer, strategic advisor, and scientific consultant. She has deep expertise in therapeutic drug development and has brought complex protein biologics, biosimilars, combined drug devices, and therapeutic vaccines through various stages of development while being facile in understanding the Global Regulatory landscape and the requirements to bring medicines through to approval with the appropriate value to patients, physicians, and payers alike. She has work in varied therapeutic areas including oncology, immuno-oncology, rheumatology, pain, addiction, orphan diseases, CNS, cardiovascular, and women’s health. She is currently leading her consulting practice, BAM Consultants, LLC, where she has advised clients since 2013. From 2015 to present she served as the Senior Vice President of New Product Development and Chief Medical Officer of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, a public company with a focus on women’s health therapeutics. Currently, Dr. Martell still actively practices clinical internal medicine part-time at Yale and serves as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence for Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research helping guide Yale innovators on the prospects for their patented technologies, therapeutics, devices, and diagnostics. This work coupled with her deep industry experience adds value and perspective in understanding marketplace dynamics and continued unmet medical need.

Her prior work has included overseeing product development and medical affairs activities for numerous pharmaceutical companies, including Purdue Pharma and several business units within Pfizer Worldwide’s biopharmaceutical business. At Purdue Pharma, Dr. Martell led and built a new medical affairs organization to support the in-line and developing pain medicines. As the Biosimilars Medical Head at Pfizer, she was responsible for clinical development and medical affairs activities of the portfolio in that newly created business. She also held senior clinical development roles at other business units within Pfizer’s biopharmaceutical businesses. She began her clinical investigation career at Yale with a Career Development Award and as a Faculty Auditor in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar conducting the first therapeutic cocaine vaccine trial for adjunctive treatment for cocaine dependence.

Dr. Martell holds a Bachelor of Science in microbiology from Cornell University, a Master of Arts in molecular immunology from Boston University, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from The Chicago Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine, was also an Internal Medicine Chief Resident. She is board certified in both internal and addiction medicine.