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Ms. Sheehan joined Inspire in July 2004 as Senior Director, Strategic Markets and was promoted to her current position in February 2007. She is responsible for maximizing the global commercial potential for Inspire with in-licensing and out-licensing opportunities and compounds in research through commercial development, with a large focus on product planning, alliance management and key opinion leader development. Ms. Sheehan has over 20 years of a broad range of marketing and sales experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She was directly involved with the successful global launches of cardiovascular products including Parke-Davis' Accupril and Accuretic, regional launches of Parke-Davis' Lipitor® and CNS product Celexa, and global launches of ophthalmic products including Allergan's Zymar® and Elestat®. Ms. Sheehan headed up Global Marketing for Anterior Segment Products in Pharmaceutical Eyecare at Allergan in Irvine, CA. At the Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Division of Warner-Lambert in Morris Plains, NJ, she first joined the company in International Marketing and held positions of increasing responsibility in Global Marketing Planning, U.S. Cardiovascular Marketing and as a Business Director for the South Central Customer Business Unit. She began her career in the pharmaceutical industry with The Upjohn Company, in general and hospital sales in Georgia and Tennessee. Ms. Sheehan received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC and completed a Clinical Pharmacy Residency at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC. Ms. Sheehan also received a Masters of Management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. | 