Donna J. Edmonds
Senior Advisor
Donna has 35+ years of healthcare experience, beginning as critical care nurse, and migrating to operations and senior management as a hospital administrator, GM of a large physician group practice and then recruited to industry, in clinical and business leadership positions.
She spent 8+ years with Baxter in senior (group) global executive positions in business development, sales and marketing of clinical products aimed at improving care and reducing health care costs. She has served in senior C level management roles for 10 diagnostic companies in her career and was in key leadership roles in two company exits.
She is a recognized leader in Cardiovascular Diagnostics, changing clinical practice in this space, as part of the discovery, development and commercial launch of a series of the key diagnostic products in the field.
She is a founder of Virginia Life Sciences Investments, Inc. There they funded several international technology startups, and led the Series A investment in ImmunArray, the original home of the broad portfolio of biomarkers for Neurological Disease Diagnosis, and Monitoring (including TBI). It was spun out in late 2018 to BRAINBox Solutions, where she is a founding member and CEO. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Bio Health Innovations, the founding member of the BioHealth Capital Region, which focuses on Maryland, DC and Virginia, and an active member of Va Bio.