Executive Management

Prior to Amgen, Dr. Elegant was the Vice-President, Regulatory and Medical Affairs, APAC, based in Shanghai for Baxter, and Vice President, Medical Affairs, Asia/ANZ for Baxalta.

Professor Elegant is actively engaged in the training and education of physicians in the healthcare industry. She was involved with establishing the first postgraduate training course for pharmaceutical physicians in Australia. Dr. Elegant is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, a member of the FPM International Committee, and is currently working on training programs in the Asia-Pacific region. She is on the Board of Studies for the Masters in Pharmaceutical Medicine, UNSW. She is a founding member of the China Medical Affairs Network. She is on the board of the Medical Affairs Professional Society, and is Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.

Professor Elegant is passionate about promoting diversity and inclusion, especially in supporting women leadership. She was involved in Building Talent Edge, a Catalyst Award-winning program supporting women in Baxter Healthcare and leading to a 50:50 men:women ratio at the senior manager level and above across the Asia-Pacific region.

Placing high value on continued educational development, she earned a second M.S. degree in management. Entering the healthcare market in 2010, Di first worked in the drug discovery field. Her work took her to Belgium and Germany as a Business Development Manager, calling on clinical institutions, medical schools, and pharmaceutical companies.

These projects included: driving the marketing of Zhejiang Whiteson’s Latamoxef (a broad- spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic); facilitating the rapid sales growth (over three years) of Hainan Tianhuang and its nearly 1 billion RMB in revenues after the overall acquisition; assisting Henan Shuaiguang as it became the second company in China to market Clopidogrel there; participating in the formulation of different dose strengths to achieve a greater market success; and indirectly helping Lepu Medical and Gloria Pharmaceuticals to achieve their goals.

Dr. Wang entered the field of translational research in 2013. He headed the Foshan Industrial Technology Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ pharmaceutical project and established strong commercialization partnerships with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University.

Dr. Wang holds a degree in Pharmacy  from the Peking University Health Science Center and was Vice Chairman of the Student Union at the Center.