“I have known Dr. Helene Clayton-Jeter for approximately 5 years as I had the pleasure of working with her on the Enhanced Adherence Strategic Initiative (EASi) Board. I first met her when she proactively recruited me from my division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products at the FDA to serve as a representative from the drug-side of the FDA to the Million Hearts Campaign. Dr. Jeter was enthusiastically involved in this initiative to serve the public by fulfilling the objective to reduce strokes and heart attacks by 1-million. We formed the EASi Board, and Dr. Jeter recruited most of the key board members and orchestrated the initial meetings, starting with an FDA Grand Rounds event. Since that time, Dr. Jeter tirelessly worked on the EASi Board that led to two significant publications on which she is a co-author (State-of-Art paper in JACC on Medication Adherence and Review Paper in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension on Racial and Ethnic Disparities). Through Dr. Jeter, we became integrated into the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention for which she received a National Forum Chair Recognition Award in October 2017 for her outstanding leadership in engaging public-private collaborators. Dr. Jeter is highly intelligent, insightful, clear-thinking, energetic, always enthusiastic, and an outstanding leader producing fruitful outcomes.”

“ Helene is the rare visionary that works tirelessly to see the vision realized! Her capabilities and skill sets run deep, but I especially appreciate two: her passion for finding solutions to ethnic health-related disparities, and her ability to collaborate with disparate stakeholders from renowned researchers to community groups in disease hot spots.”

“While I was at Diabetes Hands Foundation, Dr. Clayton-Jeter was instrumental in helping build bridges between the FDA and the diabetes community, which led to increased involvement of people with diabetes in FDA public events. She helped both sides navigate the space together, resulting in the patient voice being heard even more at FDA.”

“Helene is extremely organized and effective in accomplishing projects. She was my preceptor while I was interning at the Office of Special Health Issues, and provided specific, realistic, applicable guidance for future opportunities, particularly because she also has a clinical background. She is extremely passionate about her work, and inspired the same sense of passion in me. It was a true honor and pleasure working with and learning from Helene.”

“Dr. Helene Clayton-Jeter is a powerful force in the health care policy arena. Since meeting her more than ten years ago, I have observed many of her professional milestones and accomplishments, including as a highly respected frontline clinician, an extraordinarily caring doctor focused on physician education, training and accountability and a dedicated public official committed at all times to safeguarding quality health care standards and advancing the cause of public health. Always highly creative and relentlessly energetic, and an outstanding communicator, Dr. Clayton-Jeter knows how to build and maintain consensus by making full use of her unique blend of experience with patients, with top government officials and with health sector executives, and her record of policy innovation and success reflects exactly that.”