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Day 1 // Conference Agenda
June 2, 2010

Session 1: Market Access, Pricing & Reimbursement

8:00 am     Registration Coffee

9:00 am    Chairman’s Address
                   Cyrus Chowdhury, Vice President, Global Market Access, Insight Strategy Advisors

9:10 am    How to work with your regulatory team
                   •    Discover how to navigate your brand through the FDA, find out what the restrictions and differentiate yourself
                   •    Break the silos within your company and learn to communicate with all involved teams
                   •    Find out what the role of regulatory is and who should get involved in Market Access planning
                   Dirk Haasner, Vice President External Scientific Affairs, Lundbeck

9:50 am     Maximize patient access and supply chain strategies
                    •    Case study: Medication Possession Ratio
                    •    Patient access solutions
                    •    Maximizing the supply chain in specialty drugs
                    Rob Osborne, Sr. Director, Specialty Pharma Sales, CuraScript Pharmacy

10:30 am     Break & Exhibition

11:00 am     Build trust and transactions with payers
                      •    Identify where your organization is “mapped to win” in building sustainable relationships with payers 
                      •    Deepen your understanding of the roles, needs and wants of various stakeholders inside payer organizations
                      •    Broaden your thinking about what ‘value’ can mean – and how you can enhance it
                      •    Ideate with your peers on an actionable targeted relationship marketing program
                      Karen Carr, Vice President, Strategic Growth & Innovation, imc2 health & wellness     

Session 2: REMS & Risk Management

11:40 am   Maximize Your Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS)
                      •   What is REMS and how does it impact key marketplace stakeholders?
                      •   Understand the current landscape and trends
                      •   Learn how to optimize the balance of patient access, medication safety and the burden on the healthcare delivery system
                     Heather Gagnier, Director, Risk Management and Commercial Services, UBC

12:20 pm   Lunch & Exhibition

1:30 pm     Risk Communication: Collaboration to Create a Value Opportunity
                    •    Identifying the key messages related to a specific product risk
                    •    Developing an effective risk communication strategy using a variety of tools and resources
                    •    Implementing a comprehensive risk communication program globally
                Carla Perdun Barrett, Senior Director & Head, Safety Sciences Research, Worldwide Safety Strategy, Pfizer


2:10 pm     A balanced approach to Risk Management and REMS planning: achieving clinical and commercial objectives
                   •    Situation: unnecessary gap between Risk Mitigation and Commercial Objectives
                   •    Principles and methods: achieving a balanced approach
                   •    Future: promising findings and cutting-edge trends
                 Jeffrey Fetterman, CEO, ParagonRx

2:50 pm    Break & Exhibition

3:20 pm     REMS Implementation: Steps to Consider
                   •    Coordinating the implementation process
                   •    Cross functionality of the implementation process
                   •    REMS and non-REMS considerations throughout the implementation process
                  Heather Schiappacasse, Director US Risk Identification, Surveillance and Communication, sanofi aventis


4:00 pm    Early and innovative pricing strategy
                   •    Understand the difference between a price and a pricing strategy
                   •    When should you start thinking about pricing and why?
                   •    Determining what your strategy plans to optimize – profit, sales or market share?
                   •    Gathering data to support a product value message and the price and reimbursement status

Erik Schultz, Vice President, US Pricing and Market Access, HERON Evidence Development


4:40 pm     Chairman’s closing remarks

4:50 pm     Networking Drinks in the Exhibition area

6:00 pm     End of Day 1


 
Day 2 // Conference Agenda
June 3, 2010

8:30 am    Registration Coffee

9:00 am     Chairman’s Address
                    Jeffrey Fetterman, CEO, ParagonRx

9:10 am     Achieving integrated  market access opportunities in the commercial plan, challenges and opportunities. 
                    •    Overview of challenges facing organizations in integrating market access into the commercial model.
                    •    Strategies for increasing pull-through success in sales and marketing efforts.
                    •    Building integrated teams to deliver real brand value to customers.
John Vieira, Senior Director, Marketing Operations and Strategic Marketing, Daiichi Sankyo

Session 3: Payer Relations

9:50 am    Payer engagement- Collaborating with payer and channel to optimize product success.
                   •    Identify the appropriate stakeholders to set up collaborations
                   •    Utilize those relationships to assess your strategies
                   •    Discover how to use your value proposition to gain “buy-in”
                  Jeff Christensen, Senior Manager, Managed Markets, Azur Pharma

10:30 am     Break & Exhibition    

11:00 am     Maximizing Access with your Federal Customers
                      •    Find out how to leverage key touch points with your customers
                      •    Discover how to leverage customer access policy and the new rules of engagement
                      •    Best practice guide for executing pull-base sales model
                      Kevin J. Brown, Senior Manager, Government Accounts – DoD/VA, Astellas Pharma

11:40 am     Payer Marketing: Creating Value in a Rapidly Evolving Market Segment
                     •    Understand the payer value proposition & how you can leverage it to gain brand access
                     •    Create organizational excellence to optimize the payer marketing model
                     •    Build a sound platform for launching effective payer marketing campaigns
                     Drew Desjardins, Executive Director, Brand Payer Marketing, Pfizer


Session 4: Health Economics & Outcomes Research

12:20 pm     HEOR – the customer way
                    •    Discover the importance of linking up with the end user
                    •    Find out what your customer needs and feed your research results back in the approach you take for higher credibility level
                    •    Getting your data outcomes information through legal – the battle of on and off label
                     Todd Williamson, Vice President, Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Bayer

12:30 pm     Lunch & Exhibition

1:30 pm       Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and preparing for the access challenge
                    •    Outline examples of the current access challenges created by HTA
                    •    Discuss the tactical challenges for addressing HTA in a global pharmaceutical company
                    •    Discuss key considerations in order to achieve success
                    Lee Bowman, Research Fellow, Global Health Outcomes Research, Eli Lilly

2:10 pm     Product Value Demonstration in the Eyes of Stakeholders
                   •    Demonstrate different values to disconnected stakeholder with different incentives
                   •    Tie product value to healthcare quality improvement
                   •    Let customers see their own data
                  Jay Lin, Director, Evidence Based Medicine, sanofi Aventis (former)

2:50 pm     Chairman’s closing remarks

3:00 pm     End of conference

Gold Sponsors
Paragon Rx ic2 UBC Heron Health