Bridget McMahon, RN, BSN,
Vice President, Site Management Core

Bridget McMahon joined the team at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders in April 2021. A nurse by education and background, she comes with more than 15 years of experience in clinical research, mostly in leading clinical operations teams in trial execution at sites. For nine years Ms. McMahon led the clinical operations team at a private company, an early phase clinical trials center, located at the BioPark, University of Maryland. She managed more than 150 studies from feasibility assessment and study initiation through completion and data delivery. Additionally, she led teams conducting phase one trials on vaccine candidates for tropical and respiratory infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for five years. Ms. McMahon coordinated clinical trials at the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania for a year. As a nurse clinician at Johns Hopkins Hospital for seven years, Ms. McMahon worked with patients with mood disorders and eating disorders, including medically fragile individuals. Prior to beginning her nursing career, Ms. McMahon worked as a caseworker with homeless families in Kansas City, MO, and in long-term volunteer program leadership in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. McMahon has degrees from the University of Scranton (BA) and the University of Pennsylvania (BS Nursing) and now lives in Baltimore, MD.