2022’s industry leading agenda: 6 tracks, 100+ sessions and 40+ case studies



Agenda At A Glance

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Time Day 1
7:00am – 8:30am REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
8:30am – 12:00pm

Opening Keynotes

12:00pm – 1:20pm LUNCH
  COMMERCIAL MARKETING MEDICAL AFFAIRS PATIENT ENGAGEMENT MARKET ACCESS & RWE
1:20pm – 2:20pm Advance inclusive stakeholder-led commercial strategies to achieve exponential growth Connecting the digital dots in your HCPs journey Medical Affairs: The forefront of pharma Reprioritize for actionable patient centricity. Part 1 Overcoming market misalignment to deliver faster access
2:20pm – 3:20pm INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
3:20pm – 3:50pm NETWORKING BREAK
3:50pm – 5:30pm Customer expectations are elevated user experiences (UX) Design digital metrics to meaningfully engage Master the art of medical engagement in the new digital age Reprioritize for actionable patient centricity. Part 2 Break free of old processes and boost patient access
5:30pm – 7:00pm NETWORKING DRINKS
Time Day 2
8:00am – 9:00am REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
  COMMERCIAL MARKETING MEDICAL AFFAIRS PATIENT ENGAGEMENT MARKET ACCESS & RWE
9:00am – 10:30am Make your data sing to enable new precision engagement strategies Orchestrate your omni-channel symphony Harness digital tools, enrich your medical insights Empower patients in the age of inequity and misinformation Reimbursement redefined
10:40am – 11:20am NETWORKING BREAK
11:20pm – 1:00pm Mindset, skillset, toolkit – the pillars to fieldforce excellence New data opportunities are new marketing opportunities Lead the way: The strategy and skills of Medical Digital patient touchpoints – know and meet yours Realize the true value of RWE across your organization
1:00pm – 2:30pm END OF CONFERENCE BANQUET LUNCH

Opening Keynote

08:30am – 08:40am (EST)

Chair Address

Izzy Gladstone Head of Marketing, Pharma & Healthcare Reuters Events

Hannah Brady Head, North America Reuters Events

08:40am – 09:00am (EST)

Case Study The consumerization of healthcare must drive a customer obsessive approach

  • Create new plans that nullify the friction points in the customer experience with a refreshed focus on access, HCP engagement and patient support services
  • Maximize your agility by going beyond the bounds of healthcare to focus squarely on the customer

Gail Horwood Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer, US Pharma Novartis

09:00am – 09:20am (EST)

Pharma’s Future Is Not What We Are Made To Believe

  • How is patient journey evolving with the advent of technology, and why pharma must pay close attention
  • How the healthcare ecosystem is getting disrupted across the entire value chain
  • What can pharma do to not just stay relevant but drive the future of healthcare

Prakash Pothamsetti BU Head & Client Partner Axtria

09:20am – 09:40am (EST)

Keynote Presentation Powerful Partnerships: The New Disruptive Mindset

  • How to break the mold in your approach to strategic collaborations
  • Emerging opportunities to engage patients and providers amid a shifting healthcare landscape

Alisha Alaimo President, US Biogen

09:40am – 10:10am (EST)

Panel Business-driven and technologically enabled. Unlock your commercial potential through data-centricity

  • Realign strategies based on your wealth of data to proactively meet your customers’ needs
  • Invest in IT and data systems to deliver unparalleled insights that sets out your commercial strategy with confidence. Create a culture of data-first decision making

Elaine O'Hara Chief Commercial Officer, North America Vaccines Sanofi

Bradlay Pryde COO OneThree Biotech

Jaya Subramaniam Chief Strategy Officer Analytical Wizards

10:10am – 10:40am (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Opening Keynote

10:40am – 11:00am (EST)

Epidemics hidden in plain sight: Unmet patient needs are driving disruption in healthcare

  • Case study: The power of pharma to address unrecognized and undertreated diseases like obesity that contribute to health inequities and co-morbidities
  • How pharma can address patient, HCP and payer challenges in the treatment of obesity and shift public perceptions to break down societal barriers to care

Doug Langa EVP, Head of North America Operations & President of Novo Nordisk Novo Nordisk

11:00am – 11:20am (EST)

Case Study: Cell therapy’s giant leap in changing the treatment paradigm in blood cancer

  • Hear how, despite pandemic challenges, passion and patients are leading a new era of personalized cancer treatment
  • Learn how recent scientific advancements, like CAR T, are signaling a shift away from traditional, historic cancer treatments
  • Identify key success factors needed when bringing a completely new approach, like cell therapy, to market
  • Understand the differences between traditional pharma and cell therapy and what the “Team Sport” of cell therapy requires in the way of real-time integration across functions

Christi Shaw CEO Kite, A Gilead Company

Dr Michelle McMurry-Heath President & CEO BIO

11:20am – 11:40am (EST)

Saving Lives with Data – Empowering pharma with real-time access to the USA’s medical records

  • Learn how COVID-19 inspired 20 of the largest US health systems to form the most complete and highest quality data platform for use by Pharma
  • Explore the advantages of robust clinical data and how claims data, as just the tip of the iceberg, is insufficient for learning
  • Consider how a real-time connection to all your patients and products could enable the digital transformation already experienced in other industries (media, finance, retail) – but has not yet been experienced in health

Terry Myerson CEO Truveta

11:40am – 12:10pm (EST)

Panel Reaffirm your role in ensuring medical innovation gets to patients

  • How you can remain leaders in transformative medical advancements through dynamic stakeholder collaboration
  • See how pharma goes beyond treatments to ensure affordable access and increased patient value

Keren Haruvi President, Head of North America Sandoz

Sandra Milligan EVP, Head of Research & Development Organon

Moderator: Debbie Drane SVP, Global Commercial Development & TA Strategy CSL Behring

12:10pm – 1:15pm (EST)

Lunch

Advance inclusive stakeholder-led commercial strategies to achieve exponential growth

1:15pm – 1:20pm (EST)

Chair Address

Jay DeWalt Chief Operating Officer Arria

1:20pm – 1:40pm (EST)

How a global mindset powered an extraordinary response to unprecedented challenge

  • Identify how to re-envision existing assets to solve new problems
  • Hear how to tackle international logistical challenges — on a tight deadline — to ensure that transformative treatments are broadly accessible across the world
  • Learn how a global mindset can increase adoption of new tech, strategies, and ways of thinking to streamline performance
  • Discover tips to transform pressure-learned lessons into longstanding wins with resilient teams and cross-functional collaboration

Jacopo Andreose SVP, Intercontinental & Global Patient Solutions Gilead Sciences

1:40pm – 2:00pm (EST)

Rx for XM: Agile Experience Management

As technology continues to permeate and modernize the Life Sciences industry, the need for experience management has gone from a nice to have to mission critical.

The need to listen, understand and act on both patient and healthcare practitioner's needs has never been more important. As COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation in Life Sciences and Healthcare, it's so important to meet your customers where they are and exceed their expectations across all channels.

DP Brightful President, Worldwide Field Operations Qualtrics

Heidi Celeghin Global XM Strategy Qualtrics

2:00pm – 2:20pm (EST)

Fireside chat Delivering on the Promise of Omnichannel

Alison Reichert Head, Digital & Omnichannel Marketing, US Oncology Takeda Oncology

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST)

Interactive Hour

To learn more about the interactive sessions - inlcuding workshops and roundtables - at Pharma USA, click the Interactive Sessions tab at the top of the agenda sections

3:20pm – 3:50pm (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Customer expectations are elevated user experiences (UX)

3:50pm – 4:10pm (EST)

Case Study Plan for all outcomes to create an agile go-to-market launch strategy: GSK’s successful BLENREP launch

  • Identify, educate and motivate all stakeholders across the launch journey to maximise launch impact
  • Plan for every eventuality and account for any pivotal points in your strategy
  • Agree on technologies required to support your campaign
  • Define and implement KPI’s by which you will measure launch performance

Amy Garrison Senior Director, US Brand Lead, Hematology Marketing GSK

4:10pm – 4:30pm (EST)

Engaging and Empowering HCPs, Consumers and Patients on Their Post-Pandemic Terms

  • Discover how the pandemic era has ushered in a new dawn of direct to consumer and patient digital engagement and empowerment.
  • It’s 50:50. Post-pandemic HCPs want Virtual and F2F interactions split evenly. We discuss how this profoundly shifts the HCP engagement model.
  • Learn how to excel in this radically shifted landscape starting with the 4E’s of Customer and Patient Experience.

Ric Cavieres Partner and Commercial Leader IBM Life Sciences Consulting

4:30pm – 4:50pm (EST)

Case Study New environment, new models, new experiences: Product development 101

  • Account for external stakeholder expectations throughout your product development lifecycle
  • Reshape and innovate to truly address patient unmet need
  • Engage your organization on conversations that matter

Cynthia Queano Associate New Product Leader, Global Neuroscience (Rare Disease pipeline) Takeda

4:50pm – 5:30pm (EST)

Panel Create personalized user experiences through innovation investments

  • Ensure you get the full value of your data investments to develop experiences that exceed HCP expectations
  • Break down existing one-size-fits-all strategies to identify customer segments and build corresponding experiences
  • Build on existing insights by understanding where there are blind spots to accurately map your customers journey across your product lifecycle
  • Your customers don’t see internal silos! Connect across teams and functions to align digital and engagement strategies and create more holistic experience

Vaibhav Katkade Global Therapeutic Area Lead Pfizer

Samer Ansari Head of Data, Digital & Technology Takeda Oncology

Stephanie Grgurich Head of Customer Experience - Vaccine Sanofi

Bharti Rai VP, Insights, Analytics, Data and Commercial Operations Novartis

Akeel Williams VP, Strategy & Operations, Manufacturer Solutions GoodRx

5:50pm – 6:50pm (EST)

Networking Drinks


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Connecting the digital dots in your HCPs journey

1:15pm – 1:20pm (EST)

Chair Address

Seth Gordon General Manager, Engage HCP EVERSANA

1:20pm – 1:40pm (EST)

Keynote Cutting through the Noise: How to get real world value from your real world data and avoid only getting artificial benefits from your artificial intelligence

Daniel Rothman Chief Information Officer Sumitovant Biopharma & Chief Digital Officer Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma

1:40pm – 2:00pm (EST)

HCPs are people too: Creating individual experiences with content hyper-personalization

  • Think about how HCP preferences affect the way they see the world around them
  • Consider the importance of personalized interactions across digital channels as the market dynamics and other contextual drivers shift HCP tendencies
  • Explore how can AI and machine learning-driven personalization and modular content help elevate strategies beyond what the current next-best-action programs are delivering
  • Understand how pharma is using agile experimentation and transformation at scale to pursue this next frontier

Kumar Ritwik Associate Principal ZS

2:00pm – 2:20pm (EST)

Accelerating Business Strategies by Innovation Disruption and Embedding Data, Digital & Technology Capabilities

  • Balancing Innovation and Foundation based on your portfolio. Create your prioritization framework where most impactful is most innovative
  • Re-usability and build vs buy strategy in foundational capabilities
  • Augment Field rep capabilities using advanced data and digital innovation
  • Decluttered data strategy to create hyper targeted omnichannel HCP experiences
  • Outside in approach using disruptive technologies in Pharma

Samer Ansari Head of Data, Digital & Technology Takeda Oncology

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST)

Interactive Hour

To learn more about the interactive sessions - inlcuding workshops and roundtables - at Pharma USA, click the Interactive Sessions tab at the top of the agenda sections

3:20pm – 3:50pm (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Design digital metrics to meaningfully engage

3:50pm – 4:10pm (EST)

Fireside chat Leveraging the voice of the Patient with HCPs to change behavior

Engaging hearts is just as important as engaging minds with Healthcare Providers. Leveraging the Voice of the Patient with Healthcare Provider audiences can be a powerful tool to overcome biases, ensure full appreciation of patient unmet needs and influence treatment decisions.

Larry Schneeberg Brand Director - Cabotegravir ViiV Healthcare

4:10pm – 4:30pm (EST)

Cracking the Code: Creating a Support Program Where Patients Start, Stay and Succeed

  • Discover the latest industry insights for personalized support programs including trends, common challenges and solutions to enhance engagement and adherence
  • Explore the framework and path to designing and implementing a holistic program, customized for the patient and additional stakeholders involved in their treatment journey
  • Case Study: Learn from a top pharma company’s cutting-edge patient experience and engagement approach in one of the most prevalent, yet unmanaged diseases of our time

Swathi Rangan Principal Herspiegel Consulting

Brian Torres Partner Herspiegel Consulting

Christine Szymanski Obesity Consumer Marketing Lead Novo Nordisk

4:30pm – 4:50pm (EST)

Fireside chat What can pharma learn from up and coming start-ups?

Jessica Federer Partner, Boston Millennia Partners & ex-Chief Digital Officer, Bayer Boston Millennia Partners

4:50pm – 5:30pm (EST)

Panel Remain relevant and connected with HCPs in a rapidly evolving digital landscape

  • Devise a feedback system to determine what your HCPs find engaging and compare how their preferences align with your brand strategy
  • Deliver wanted real-time digital connectivity with your HCPs by maintaining tabs on engagement trends
  • Implement feedback models that will enable precise HCP segmentation to broaden your customer reach
  • Define digital-centric KPIs from the get-go to monitor engagement and adjust future strategy where needed

Daphne Earley Senior Director of Multi-channel Marketing ViiV Healthcare

Amit Phull SVP of Strategy & Medical Director Doximity

Mica Bard VP of User Experience Novartis

Moderator:: Elaine Gamble Director, Digital & Omnichannel Engagement - CNS Division Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies (U.S.)

5:50pm – 6:50pm (EST)

Networking Drinks


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Medical Affairs: The forefront of pharma

1:15pm – 1:20pm (EST)

Chair Address

Stacey Rivkin Vice President of Client Solutions H1

1:20pm – 1:40pm (EST)

Case Study Medical 2.0: The new, solution orientated horizon in Medical to lead transformation in Oncology

  • The decade of Medical: Learn how AstraZeneca is aiming to achieve their vision of bringing innovation and solutions to clinical ecosystem and patients
  • Learn how to go beyond medicines by bringing science to care, not just medicine to care
  • Understand how medical leaders have a leading role in scientific exchange and education with internal and external stakeholders

Sunil Verma SVP, Global Head of Oncology, Medical AstraZeneca

1:40pm – 2:00pm (EST)

Case Study The Road to MVP: Accelerate your digital transformation journey to unleash scaled and personalized engagement

  • Navigate new digital HCP and stakeholder expectations, creating a strategy to transfigure Medical engagement and position MSLs as the ultimate pharma superstar
  • Scale Medical influence across health stakeholders by honing the use of evolving digital capabilities with new training and education programmes – both internally and externally
  • Become a KOL on KOLs - traditional, new, and digital – extract the richest insights on all types of opinion leader to move the needle in your therapeutic area

Andrew Rosen Senior Director, Integrated Evidence Team Leader Moderna

2:00pm – 2:20pm (EST)

Case Study The North Star of Medical Affairs: How the Medical function is still evolving to meet the needs of patients

  • Position your patient advocacy groups as new opinion leaders, to achieve the best treatments and provide access and education to those most in need
  • Understand how Medical roles have evolved to achieve sustainable relationships with patient communities
  • Learn from Pfizer as they continue to grow their Medical voice through reimaging their capabilities to meet the needs of their patients

Eddie Power VP, North America, Medical Affairs Pfizer

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST)

Interactive Hour

To learn more about the interactive sessions - inlcuding workshops and roundtables - at Pharma USA, click the Interactive Sessions tab at the top of the agenda sections

3:20pm – 3:50pm (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Master the art of medical engagement in the new digital age

3:50pm – 4:10pm (EST)

Case Study Hybrid Medical engagement: Monitor rapidly changing HCP needs, MSL virtual vs in-person best practices, and new value-add opportunities

  • Think beyond the content: leverage multichannel strategy to balance the different types of interaction and communicate with your stakeholders in their preferred setting
  • Enable your MSLs to breakthrough rising digital noise by ensuring flexibility in engagement approaches
  • Gather HCP insights effectively through digital channels to inform your content delivery strategy going forward

Luca Dezzani VP, US Oncology, Medical Affairs Johnson & Johnson

4:10pm – 4:30pm (EST)

Utilize medical insights and outcomes to drive strategic KOL engagement plans and build meaningful relationships

  • Develop effective strategies and objectives to obtain measurable outcomes for a Medical Affair Launch Plan
  • Learn how to set up a laser focused strategic imperative, based on medical needs, to determine your outcomes framework
  • Create a strategic plan for MSLs to effectively identify KOLs, maximize engagement and develop a long-term relationships
  • Implement an appropriate system to capture insights and outcomes from KOL interactions to qualitatively showcase the impact of Medical Affairs

Manish Sharma CEO & Founder TikaMobile

Hung Khuc Senior Director, Client Engagement & Delivery TikaMobile

4:30pm – 4:50pm (EST)

Case Study Open your eyes to Open Innovation

  • Open Innovation: inviting experts outside of your organization to participate in problem-solving and product development initiatives
  • Learn how Novartis utilized Open Innovation to tap into a diverse range of digital communities to help solve complex challenges and encourage bi-directional learning exchange
  • Uncover the opportunity that crowd sourcing has to catapult your customer engagement and increase the diversity in the way Field Medical teams operate

Stan Tsvirko Head, Medical Affairs Innovation Lab Novartis

4:50pm – 5:30pm (EST)

Panel Evolve your Medical congress strategy to maximize engagement and allow your MSLs to continue gathering meaningful insights in the digital era

  • Congresses provide a great opportunity for Medical Affairs teams. How to continue enabling Medical leaders to meet new KOLs and share important information whilst online
  • Plan ahead of time: develop an engagement plan ahead of a congress by knowing what you want to MSLs to achieve and in turn extract the richest insights
  • Upscale your on-demand Medical content to continue creating impact and achieving your scientific objectives
  • The “On-Demand MSL”: Assess the value of novel digital solutions to meet HCP needs

Melissa Levy Director, Medical Engagement & Scientific Communications GSK

Laura Engles-Horton Director, Medical Affairs Training Bayer

Jaya Subramaniam Chief Strategy Officer Analytical Wizards

Moderator: Darin Dobler Executive Director, WW Congress Medical Strategy Bristol Myers Squibb

5:50pm – 6:50pm (EST)

Networking Drinks


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Reprioritize for actionable patient centricity

1:15pm – 1:20pm (EST)

Chair Address

Lou Lanza Survivor and Patient Advocate

1:20pm – 1:40pm (EST)

Rewriting the patient-centric story

  • Explore how typical patient-centric approaches fail to optimize patients’ experiences engaging with pharma
  • How Merck’s patient-directed ‘Listen – Act – Impact’ methodology is generating improved patient insights, effective collaborations, and better accountability
  • What needs to change across industry to collectively identify and address shortcomings for both patients’ and pharma’s benefit"

Maria Rivas MD SVP and Chief Medical Officer EMD Serono

1:40pm – 2:00pm (EST)

Transform patient experience amid accelerated consumerization in healthcare

  • How shifting power structures in healthcare from provider to patient require pharma companies to personalize HCP experiences across in-person and digital channels
  • Enhance patient experiences with personalized disease and treatment education delivered via digital channels to drive higher engagement leading to improved outcomes
  • Accelerate digital content velocity with streamlined workflows to improve operational efficiencies and drive cost savings for pharma companies

Tom Swanson Head of Healthcare Strategic Marketing Adobe

2:00pm – 2:20pm (EST)

Case Study A new eco-system for actionable patient centricity

  • Case study: Learn how Pfizer Oncology collaborated with 45+ advocacy organizations to create their Patient Centric Ecosystem (POPCE)
  • How Pfizer worked with patient networks to identify gaps in the cancer care system to build a new foundational infrastructure that is centered around the patient
  • Catalyze ongoing dialogues with diverse advocacy leaders to deliver on patient- centric practices for all patient demographics
  • Transform patient centricity from a program or policy into a cultural mindset that embeds patient experience into all activities"

Marianne Gandee VP, Patient Solutions & Alliances, Oncology Pfizer

Shelley Fuld Nasso CEO National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST)

Interactive Hour

To learn more about the interactive sessions - inlcuding workshops and roundtables - at Pharma USA, click the Interactive Sessions tab at the top of the agenda sections

3:20pm – 3:50pm (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Reprioritize for actionable patient centricity

3:50pm – 4:10pm (EST)

Case Study Patient services aren’t fit for purpose: Reinvent your function to meet new patient expectations

  • Case study: How Novartis are reimagining patient services at an organizational level to ensure patient needs are best met
  • Explore how patient services teams can envision and execute new strategy so that patient-centric action can be pulled through to all aspects of PSP design and outreach
  • Review where decision-making on key investments sits to streamline workstreams around patient needs

Eden Wells VP & Head, Patient & Specialty Services Novartis

4:10pm – 4:30pm (EST)

Patient engagement redefined - patient centric and consumer led

  • Understand how consumer-led transformation is driving pharma’s portfolio mix across therapy areas to deliver better patients outcomes across emerging treatment pathways
  • Hear how advanced pathway analytics combined with enriched patient data is helping spotlight the right therapy for the patients and target relevant resources guiding pre and post Rx patient engagement
  • How to identify undiagnosed/misdiagnosed patients coupled with disease awareness helps organizations provide the right kind of support during the early phases of a patient’s treatment/care journey
  • Provide practical instances and experiences in leveraging leading analytics techniques and approaches to help enhance understanding of patients and how to study health in real-world

Manish Menon Principal ZS

Asheesh Shukla Principal ZS

4:30pm – 4:50pm (EST)

Case Study Develop patient centricity mindsets among your sales teams to improve the patient experience

  • Case study: How Genentech improved patients’ financial experiences through focused field engagement
  • Empower sales teams with training on the patient journey line to elevate empathy, understand key opportunities to better support patients, and improve patient experience and health outcomes
  • Workshop with sales and field teams to instil an authentic patient-centric mindset that benefits all customer interactions

Kathleen Hill Oncology Therapeutic Area Manager & Field Leadership Advisory Group Genentech

Venu Vittaladevuni Director, Patient Engagement & Field Leadership Advisory Group Genentech

4:50pm – 5:30pm (EST)

Panel Patient centricity’s state of play – what has pharma actually achieved?

  • Shifting patient centricity from mission statement to business-wide action has been a core focus of many pharma companies over previous years – has our approach served pharma and patients as much as hoped?
  • Identify the greatest areas of investment and review where ROI can best be demonstrated and increased going forward
  • Discuss whether transformational Chief Patient Officer roles have established sustainable models for patient centricity, or if a new strategy for patient-directed workstreams is due
  • Set whole-company priorities for in 2022 and beyond, and understand what is most critical to ensuring patient satisfaction and improved outcomes

Hazel Moran VP, Global Patient Insights & Advocacy EMD Serono

Laurie Meyers Executive Director, Engagement & Experience Design Genentech

Ashley Lora Eczema Patient Advocate

Sarah Krug Founder & Executive Director Health Collaboratory / Cancer 101

David Kiger GVP, Therapeutics biofourmis

5:50pm – 6:50pm (EST)

Networking Drinks


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Break free of old processes and boost patient access

1:15pm – 1:20pm (EST)

Chair Address

Brandi Greenberg VP, Market Strategy & Customer Insight Optum

Solomon Banjo Managing Director, Life Sciences Research Advisory Board

1:20pm – 1:40pm (EST)

Fireside Discussion: Policy implications and outcomes for US access: Innovation will suffer if current legislation moves forward

  • Deep dive into how the three-year delay to Medicare Part D Rebate will empower PBMs and fail to address a key tenet to a dysfunctional health system
  • An assessment of the devastating effects HR3 will have on medical progress
  • Why it’s time for health plan lower cost sharing, cap patient out of pocket costs, and spread costs over time

Lisa Joldersma SVP, Policy & Research Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

1:40pm – 2:00pm (EST)

Launch is too late: Why pharma execs should rethink evidence generation strategies to support the coming wave of precision therapies

  • Understand how payers, IDNs, and HCPs are evolving their approaches to value-assessment, access, and contracting
  • Consider the kinds of data and evidence that can best support outcomes-based contracts
  • Learn what some progressive biopharmaceutical companies are doing to succeed with outcomes-based contracts

Brandi Greenberg VP, Market Strategy & Customer Insight Optum

Solomon Banjo Managing Director, Life Sciences Research Advisory Board

2:00pm – 2:20pm (EST)

Facilitate increased access and adherence by reducing patient and HCP burden

  • How to work within the confines of increased utilization management as payers strengthen their influence on providers
  • Provide better support pathways for providers through your field re-imbursement teams as they help overcome HCPs administrative burden

Rob Truckenmiller VP & Head of GSK US Market Access GSK

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST)

Interactive Hour

To learn more about the interactive sessions - inlcuding workshops and roundtables - at Pharma USA, click the Interactive Sessions tab at the top of the agenda sections

3:20pm – 3:50pm (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Upgrade your stakeholder engagement

3:50pm – 4:10pm (EST)

Case Study How ViiV successfully deployed specialist payer science liaisons with clinical and formulary expertise to upgrade their payer engagement

  • A strong value proposition: Why ViiV launched their PSL pilot to focus on access decision makers and key characteristics for increased payer reception and engagement impact
  • How ViiV effectively leveraged their PSLs to facilitate pre and post-approval decisions
  • Use of PSL as clinical trainers for strengthening market access teams ability to engage with their stakeholders

Debra Kronschnabel Director, NA Medical Scientists & Global Medical Capability ViiV Healthcare

Aimee Metzner Payer Medical Science Liaison ViiV Healthcare

4:10pm – 4:30pm (EST)

4 Common Roadblocks When Using Real-World Data in Regulatory Submissions

  • Asking and answering the right scientific and regulatory questions
  • Utilizing fit-for-purpose data
  • Identifying the appropriate patient population
  • Exploring limitations with sensitivity analyses

Cherrishe Brown-Bickerstaff, PHD MPH Senior Scientist, Real World Evidence and Insights Cardinal Health

4:30pm – 4:50pm (EST)

Case Study How to adopt a customer experience mindset in Market Access to create more informed engagement with stakeholders

  • Orchestrate your communication to deliver a seamless CX strategy and ensure that your messaging is getting to the correct POC
  • Bring an agile and lean mindset to your stakeholder engagement to streamline work and remove wasted effort

Erica Paine Director, Value & Market Access Chiesi USA

4:50pm – 5:30pm (EST)

Panel Your role in clearly articulating value to successfully maneuver the market landscape

  • How to ensure access to treatment; balance multiple stakeholders, maximize engagement and deliver on your social responsibility
  • Answering key payer and healthcare system questions: Ensure high-impact communication when telling pharma’s, and your products, value story
  • Anticipate new healthcare market trends in an era of unrecognized change to make sure unmet needs are being addressed

Reg Waldeck VP, Oncology Market Access Strategy Leader Bayer

Indranil Bagchi SVP, Global Head, Value & Access, Oncology Novartis

Nancy Ruscio-Bell VP, Head of US Access Marketing & Oncology Enterprise Accounts EMD Serono

Sharon Phares Chief Scientific Officer National Pharmaceutical Council

5:50pm – 6:50pm (EST)

Networking Drinks


Sponsored by:

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Make your data sing to enable new precision engagement strategies

9:00am – 9:40am (EST)

Data Simplification vs Complification

A panel discussion with AstraZeneca discussing how to simplify your data’s journey through a clean and simple data governance initiative - during uncertain times

Adell Mendes Commercial Data Management Director AstraZeneca

Helen Brady Data Acquisition Leader AstraZeneca

Josh Greenberg Commercial Data Management AstraZeneca

Preston Redd Associate Director Data Governance AstraZeneca

Fransis Utama Senior Manager, Data Management (Omnichannel) AstraZeneca

9:40am – 10:00am (EST)

Activating the omni-channel strategy to enable seamless orchestration across channels

  • Changing environments and market drivers in COVID19 Era.
  • Digital Engagement is the new Normal
  • Foundational components of the Omni-Channel Strategy
  • Methodology to Enable Seamless Omni Channel Experience

Rajeev Rangachari CTO D Cube Analytics

Ankit Kohli Chief Data Scientist D Cube Analytics

10:00am – 10:40am (EST)

Panel Centralize data in your commercial strategy and remove barriers that feed into your strategic roadmap

  • De-silo your organizations data pools and connect them cross-functionally to empower your workforce with actionable insights
  • Enable accurate product tracking by utilizing data feedback from across your organization
  • Find a common platform across functions and prioritise use to create synergy
  • Centralize data as your core decision mechanism to tailor growth strategies and gain a deeper understanding into your competitor landscape

Mayank Misra Head of Business Insights & Analytics Takeda Oncology

Ketan Paranjape VP, Commercial Business Operations, Business Intelligence and Analytics Roche

Ken Park SVP & GM, Life Sciences Solutions Clarify Health Solutions

Moderator: Thomas Lampron U.S. Woman’s Cancers & Eisai Collaboration Leader, U.S. AVP Merck

10:40am – 11:20am (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Connecting the digital dots in your HCPs journey

11:20am – 11:40am (EST)

Case Study Timing is everything: How to create competitive advantage through digital engagement excellence across all customer groups

  • Identify digital engagement success and apply to strategies that will bring stakeholders across the ecosystem into one omni-channel driven campaign at the right time
  • Provide a seamless connected journey in order to create long lasting connectivity between your organization, HCPs, and other stakeholders
  • Cut through the noise and simplify digital communication with HCPs

Zhen Su CEO Marengo Therapeutics

Design digital metrics to meaningfully engage

11:40am – 12:00pm (EST)

GTN: Easy To Say, Not Easy To Do! Gross-to-Net is not a process, it’s a way of doing business

As a Life Sciences company trying to best create accuracy and transparency in Gross-to-Net, you quickly learn that high risk is involved when discovering that a multitude of pricing scenarios is quickly mounting. Attempting to do this in as many as 25 spreadsheets linked together will render erroneous results. But there’s more to reaching the cornerstone of GTN than tools and technology.

  • Defining what Gross-to-Net mean and why its important to Life Sciences companies
  • Identify who in the company benefits in utilizing information from GTN
  • Get insights to successfully define and manage GTN process

Bob Steller Industry Principal, Life Sciences Vistex

12:00pm – 12:20pm (EST)

Case Study Collaboration between marketing and sales functions is not a suggestion, it’s compulsory

  • Deliver a successful go-to-market strategy by redesigning your marketing and sales models to be consumer behaviour focused
  • Equip field sales with real-time insights through live marketing feedback campaigns
  • Remove power play behaviour between functions and implement common digital metrics to enable a collaborative revenue driven strategy

Ketan Paranjape VP, Commercial Business Operations, Business Intelligence and Analytics Roche

Mindset, skillset, toolkit – the pillars to fieldforce excellence

12:20pm – 1:00pm (EST)

Panel Is your salesforce keeping up with rapidly evolving HCP preferences?

  • With a shift in HCP preferences, expectations and a hybrid future, learn how to maximise your salesforce outputs by shifting the way your organization sets KPI’s as well as the metrics used to read them
  • New methods to provide value to your HCPs in virtual calls
  • Learn how to match HCP preferences with sales rep interactions to leave long-lasting impressions that lead to conversions
  • How can we you empower the digital rep experience from a service orientation perspective?

Frank Armenante Director, Commercial Execution Novo Nordisk

Tatiana Yglesias Executive Director Marketing Novartis

Dion Warren VP, Head of U.S. Oncology Business Unit Takeda

Krista Pinto President, Deployment Solutions Eversana

Moderator: Nithya Srinivasan Director of Marketing, Rheumatology Janssen

1:00pm – 2:30pm (EST)

End of Conference Banquet Lunch

Orchestrate your omni-channel symphony

9:00am – 9:20am (EST)

Case Study Meet demand for authority through Enterprise Digital Governance

  • Learn how to build an enterprise digital governance framework from the ground up to better manage externally facing digital assets
  • Understand the various approaches to global/enterprise-wide governance to regions, countries, products and brands

Stephen Framil Enterprise Digital Governance - Founder & Associate Director Merck

9:20am – 9:40am (EST)

Case Study Embrace the cookie concept! Stay connected with your HCP through their entire journey with your brand

  • Just like a cookie on the internet, post-initial connection, you need to remain with your HCP at every step along their journey – this is made easier through online feedback systems and surveys where we can identify preferences and deliver accordingly
  • The adoption of digital tools vary much like the skill levels of a physician, it’s important to know this when designating digital touchpoints in your campaign, learn how to increase digital adoption to drive meaning in future HCP engagement
  • Learn how to engage the right channels, rather than every channel
  • Once you have a localized proof of concept, learn how to scale data tactics across national strategies to create hyper-personalized experiences

Kinshuk Saxena Associate Director, Commercialization Strategy & Operations Novartis

9:40am – 10:00am (EST)

Critical Insights into designing and implementing results-oriented virtual HCP engagement programs in 2022

  • Current state of HCP access post-COVID
  • Do you have a clearly defined objective for virtual results?
  • Critical considerations design and implementing your 2022 virtual HOP

Michael Carlin General Manager, Engage HCP TrialCard

10:00am – 10:40am (EST)

Panel Enable your full omnichannel capability by de-siloing function strategies

  • Centralize engagement activities on one platform and looping in all functions with marketing strategies to ensure everyone is on the same page
  • Track engagement campaigns to bolster transparency and accountability across your entire organization
  • Legacy platforms are stunting your ability to be agile in decision-making. How to analyse emerging technologies and platforms that will increase investment margins and break-down barriers between organization functions

Ryan McGinnis Multichannel Director Eli Lilly

DeAnn West Editorial Manager, Content Operations GSK

John Lineen Senior Director, Engagement Lead (Immunology & Cardiovascular) Bristol Myers Squibb

Moderator:: Shannon Hartley EY Americas Managing Director, Business Transformation, Health Science & Wellness Ernst & Young, LLP

10:40am – 11:20am (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

New data opportunities are new marketing opportunities

11:20am – 11:40am (EST)

Case Study Build brand obsession by leveraging data with your customer experiences and touchpoints

  • Data vs. Insights: why too much information could turn you idle, and enough insights make you stand from the crowd
  • Learn how to sync channels and stories to personalise your customer journeys and be ready to scale
  • Tame your marketing funnel: use data and insights to build dynamic acquisition and retention tactics, delivering measurable brands performance
  • Understand how to structure your organisation, within and with external ecosystems, to be ready for a cookie-free experience

Haider Alleg Global Head of Digital Excellence Ferring

11:40am – 12:00pm (EST)

A Holistic Medical & Marketing Omnichannel Does Not Need to Cost A Million Dollars

  • Understand how omnichannel is much more than investing in cutting-edge technology and data
  • Learn how omnichannel can drive one-customer-view by combining Medical and Marketing customer engagement
  • See how a good omnichannel becomes great when the field-colleagues embrace it
  • Best practices from scaling omnichannel design and implementation across 25+ global markets

Gaurav Kandhari Founder & President ValueDo Life Sciences Consulting

12:00pm – 12:20pm (EST)

Case Study Put a price tag on data: recognize the ROI potential data has to offer

  • Treat data as an asset in its own right. Understand the journey it has been on and knowing your HCP strategic next best action will come naturally
  • Remain agile and create various campaign roadmaps by learning how to rapidly interpret your data sets correctly
  • Pick the right data points relevant to your brand strategy and marketing campaign to render a more rounded HCP impression

Milena Mitova Director, Digital Marketing Data Enablement Novartis

12:20pm – 1:00pm (EST)

Panel Unlock true customer centricity through consistent feedback insights assisted through AI, ML and Deep Learning

  • Atone your data gaps to design acute product launches around HCP behavioural insights
  • Understand what impression you have made, rather than if you made an impression – evolve from standard KPI’s to VoC (Voice of Customer) metrics by lining your product and strategy with trackable metrics from the outset
  • Continuously identify new touchpoints and amend those that aren’t working by mapping your HCPs journey

Bharti Rai VP, Insights, Analytics, Data and Commercial Operations Novartis

Amy Brown Founder & CEO Authenticx

Christopher Nugent Senior Director, Digital Marketing & Strategy Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals

Harish Nankani Executive Director, Human Health Data & Analytics Merck

Moderator: Tatiana Sorokina Solutions Director, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Novartis

1:00pm – 2:30pm (EST)

End of Conference Banquet Lunch

Harness digital tools, enrich your medical insights

9:00am – 9:20am (EST)

Case Study The HCP horizon: Widen audience reach and elevate Medical authority with social media

  • Discover how Eli Lilly employed a novel social media strategy to drive awareness of Medical information, Medical education and the latest scientific data.
  • Reactive and proactive: raise HCP awareness at congresses while effectively navigating compliance requirements
  • Use social listening to identify HCP conversation trends and provide the information that customers want

Riley Kim Global Medical Affairs Digital Strategy Eli Lilly

9:20am – 9:40am (EST)

Case Study Demystify Artificial Intelligence: What really works in the analysis of Medical Insights?

  • Learn how to effectively and pragmatically use artificial AI to gain actionable Medical Insights from HCP interactions
  • Beyond the buzz. Learn what works, what doesn’t work and how AI can help you deliver more informed actions from your Medical Insights analysis

This educational session is approved for 1 CME/CE credit(s) approved and accredited by the Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA). To redeem your credit(s), register for Pharma USA 2022 today then apply for the credit via our event platform app.

Roy Palmer VP Global Medical Affairs Operations Lead Pfizer

9:40am – 10:00am (EST)

Case Study Pandemic and beyond: Specialize your MSL team to ensure they keep pace through current and future landscapes

  • Empower your MSL team with specialized training to adopt the deep knowledge needed to enhance clinical practice in relation to their therapeutic area
  • Enhance scientific exchange: Execute on an effective engagement plan that can enrich the generation and dissemination of evidence
  • Learn from ASC Therapeutics on how they specialized their MSLs to interact with the right KOsL, extract meaningful insights and thus improve outcomes in the space of rare diseases

This educational session is approved for 1 CME/CE credit(s) approved and accredited by the Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA). To redeem your credit(s), register for Pharma USA 2022 today then apply for the credit via our event platform app.

Oscar Segurado Chief Medical Officer ASC Therapeutics

10:00am – 10:40am (EST)

Panel Transform your Medical Affairs function with a digitally enabled omni-channel strategy

  • Generate an effective omni-channel strategy that can enable enhanced, evidence-based decision making
  • Your closed-feedback loop: Deliver actionable insights from every engagement point to further optimize physician experience and enhance their interactions with patients
  • Next generation engagement: utilize your strategy to deliver personalized content to the right stakeholders going forward
  • How to navigate global and local restrictions to deliver industry leading omni-channel excellence

Liliana Alfaya VP, Head of Medical Affairs & Patient Advocacy Cellectis

Paul O'Grady Global Oncology Scientific Communications & Strategy Head GSK

Moderator: Stacey Gorski Head of Medical Excellence, US Oncology AstraZeneca

10:40am – 11:20am (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Lead the way: The strategy and skills of Medical

11:20am – 11:40am (EST)

Case Study Medical Affairs 2032: Building a Capabilities Roadmap for the Future

  • Learn what the leading benchmark data reveals about what are the most critical KPIs across the industry in medical affairs.
  • Compare and contrast various professional development frameworks for medical affairs
  • Explore the role of Board certification for Medical Affairs and MSL professionals as a road map for continuing development and standards setting.

Jill Massey, PharmD, MBA, BCMAS VP, Global Medical Strategic Operations Gilead Sciences

11:40am – 12:00pm (EST)

Fireside Chat The modernized MSL strategy: Envision the evolution of Medical Affairs

  • Understand how the core medical roles are changing going forward and how this will impact wider external engagement strategy across the business
  • Driving value: A guide to the essential skills MSLs must have to stand out to physicians
  • Learn from AstraZeneca as they reimagine their medical roles to optimize insights, diversify clinical trials and create value for patients

Camille Hertzka VP, Head of Oncology, US Medical AstraZeneca

12:00pm – 12:20pm (EST)

Case Study Move from generalized to personalized content to maximize on every HCP and KOL engagement opportunity

  • The right channels, the right time: Learn how Pfizer first gained clear understanding of their audience segments to enable dynamic content provision
  • Understand how to incorporate the value of storytelling in the ways you communicate, to prevent physicians from feeling “zoomed out” and develop long-lasting relationships

Vaibhav Katkade Global Therapeutic Area Lead Pfizer

12:20pm – 1:00pm (EST)

Panel New world, new skills: transfigure your engagement strategies with new skills and capabilities

  • Understand how digital advancements have impacted the role of MSLs and what new competencies are now required to keep up with the competitive landscape
  • Utilize digital resources to best train your Field Medical team on how to personalize HCP engagement strategies and approach the next generation of physicians and researchers
  • Drive a digital culture change: Upskill and retrain your MSLs for emerging digital roles and responsibilities to optimize insight generation and maximize the value of Medical Affairs

Yuichiro Nishimura Worldwide Director of MSL Excellence Novartis

Larry Stern Director, Digital Innovation US Medical Affairs Merck

Moderator: Andrew Moore Associate Director, Global Medical Affairs Digital & Multi-Channel Solutions Abbvie

1:00pm – 2:30pm (EST)

End of Conference Banquet Lunch

Empower patients in the age of inequity and misinformation

9:00am – 9:20am (EST)

Case Study Advance health equity by amplifying and embedding minority patient voices throughout healthcare

  • Support the growing visibility of underrepresented groups in healthcare by investing in programs that encourage diverse leadership in patient advocacy and among HCPs
  • Acknowledge and address historical mistrust of pharma among minority patient groups by championing diverse voices within
  • Prioritize an inside-out approach by tackling internal unconscious biases in hiring practices, and ensure patient teams and stakeholders are diverse across the value chain

Patrice Matchaba, MD Head, US Corporate Responsibility at Novartis and President, Novartis US Foundation Novartis

9:20am – 9:40am (EST)

Case Study Seize the moment! Embrace patient enthusiasm for pharma collaboration to drive co-creation

  • Respond to new patient openness towards working with pharma and create critical opportunities for patients to collaborate across the value chain
  • Learn how to embed the patient voice in key workstreams through long-term and proactive co-creation strategies
  • Establish iterative feedback processes to ensure that company strategy adapts to changes in patient needs and delivers real value to communities

Lisa Shea Director, Scientific Patient Engagement Research Leader Janssen

9:40am – 10:00am (EST)

Pharma Brandemic 2022: How COVID vaccine brand awareness has turbo-charged patient empowerment

  • Learn how the COVID vaccine race has transformed the way patients now engage with pharma brands
  • Discover how COVID vaccine misinformation has reshaped patient perceptions of pharma brands, and what you can do about it
  • Find out which patient segments are most/least engaged with pharma information
  • Hear what patients of color want to see Pharma brands do to address healthcare inequities
  • See the ways HCPs are adapting to more empowered patients and how pharma brands can play a role

Karen Strauss Chief Strategy Officer M Booth Health

Mark Westall SVP, Research & Innovation M Booth Health

10:00am – 10:40am (EST)

Panel Healthcare’s most -trusted source? Champion patient empowerment in the age of misinformation

  • Patients have never been more autonomous and hold unprecedented power as an industry stakeholder, while navigating health information online is more precarious than ever before
  • Review the impact of shifts in the pharma-patient dynamic and the increasing role of patient/industry collaboration on the wider healthcare continuum
  • Empower diverse patient groups with a contextualized approach to engagement that takes social determinants of health and historic distrust of medical authority into account
  • Prioritize partnerships with minority HCP and patient leaders to ensure accurate information is front and center for all patient demographics

Camille Hertzka VP, Head of Oncology, US Medical AstraZeneca

Trellis Usher Patient Experience SME, DEI Strategist & Advocate Nova Health Labs

Frank Spinelli Medical Director, US Patient Affairs ViiV Healthcare

Moderator: Michael Petroutsas SVP, US Oncology Business Unit GSK

10:40am – 11:20am (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

Digital patient touchpoints – know and meet yours

11:20am – 11:40am (EST)

Rethinking adherence through the patient journey

  • Harness digital data held by non-dispensing online pharmacies to better understand the patient prescription journey
  • Gain real-time insights on why patients are or aren’t adhering to therapies, and the prevalence of adherence barriers faced by patients
  • Redefine patient support services and develop targeted strategies that can successfully intervene to ensure adherence is upheld

Scott Simpson SVP, Pharmaceutical Partnerships BlinkHealth

11:40am – 12:00pm (EST)

Transforming Patient Engagement with Artificial Intelligence

  • Learn how pharma is adopting AI technologies to revolutionize patient engagement
  • Identify key use cases for AI to provide more personalized and targeted patient engagement
  • Explore the future role of AI in advancing patient engagement

Jen Wilson Chief Financial Officer VMS Biomarketing

12:00pm – 12:20pm (EST)

Case Study Reimagine the patient experience and maximize digital engagement

  • Explore strategies around re-designing your current PSP programs, including establishing strategic imperatives, organizational re-design, and updating business rules
  • Share insights around operationalizing your strategy, and the impact of this on the business and your stakeholders
  • Create digitally inspired channels to personalize HCP and patient engagement that delivers on the unmet needs of your customers/li>

Justin McCabe Patient Marketing Lead for the Oncology Business Unit Takeda

Vashti Gray Patient Support Program Lead for the Oncology Business Unit Takeda

12:20pm – 1:00pm (EST)

Panel Ensure digital accessibility: Achieve universal patient access to pharma’s digital tools

  • Understand what digital equity and accessibility is and why it is so important for the future of patient-centric practice
  • Learn how task forces comprising stakeholders from pharma, big tech and health bodies (including WHO) are convening to address the impact of digital inaccessibility on health outcomes
  • See how adjustments to your customer-facing digital touchpoints can increase access and engagement for patients and other stakeholder groups across the business

Stephen Framil Enterprise Digital Governance - Founder & Associate Director Merck

Melissa Penn Director, Patient Engagement R&D Bayer

Anthony Stephens Director of Development & Communications American Council of the Blind

Jon Cohen Head of Life Sciences Industry Go-To-Market - Americas Service Now

moderator: Shelley Fuld Nasso CEO National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

1:00pm – 2:30pm (EST)

End of Conference Banquet Lunch

Reimbursement redefined

9:00am – 9:20am (EST)

Case Study Reassess your HCP and patient journeys for better service implementation

  • Improve patient enrollment by finding the most important points in provider and patient journeys for new service initiatives
  • Ensure your service’s target and solve real-world patient unmet needs, not just business needs, through a complete understanding of patient pain points
  • Break current boundaries and Rethink the possibilities to improve key concerns within the journey that unleash new opportunities

Dane Hartung Senior Director, Market Access Marketing Acceleron

9:20am – 9:40am (EST)

Case Study Insurance Design, Financial Toxicity and Affordable Access: Who’s paying the Price?

  • Data trends: Key stats on health plan premiums, deductibles, co-insurance and patient access
  • Scientific Analysis: Research on the relationships between patient cost-sharing, adherence and health outcomes
  • Affordable Access: Understanding patient out-of-pocket costs, causes and consequences
  • Paths Forward: Aligning all stakeholders around clinically-driven payment reform and value-based insurance designs

Ulrich Neumann Director, Market Access Scientific & External Strategy Janssen

9:40am – 10:00am (EST)

Convergence of RCT and RWD – How integrated capability between EHR and EDC can shape the future of evidence development

  • Current state of clinical research is still heavily dependent on manual and duplicative data collection process while the value of EHRs have not yet been leveraged
  • Investing in digital innovations like EHR-EDC can lead to faster approval, reduced patient and researcher burden and innovative evidence generation

Richard Yeatman Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer IgniteData

Qin Ye Principal ZS

10:00am – 10:40am (EST)

Panel Navigating specialty access and reimbursement landscapes without any good analogues

  • How to understand what data payers are looking for, and what they should be looking at, in submissions for first-to-market therapies
  • Payers want a ‘willing participant in negotiating an optimal contract’ – a discussion into value, outcomes, and discount-based contracts that meet payer needs and increase access
  • Educate payers on the scientific and economic value props of your therapy to help them better understand long-term value of approving access

Lung-I Cheng Head of Global Value & Access, Cell Therapies Takeda

Kris Thiruvillakkat Sr Director, Global Evidence, Market Access & Pricing CSL Behring

Larry Bressler Head of Value and Market Access Chiesi Global Rare Diseases

Swami Subramanian Head, US/Global Pricing and Contracting Regeneron

10:40am – 11:20am (EST)

Networking & Coffee Break

From Medical to beyond: Realize the true value of RWE across your organization

11:20am – 11:40am (EST)

Fireside Chat Generate meaningful evidence from broad, vast data sets

  • Navigate through unstructured data and free text to your 'needle in the haystack', using AI technology and machine learning analysis methods
  • Expand data science capabilities internally to source meaningful evidence from large RWD sets and translate it across the company
  • Work smart with data providers to navigate and narrow down large data sets, while also exploring new data channels

Paul Petraro Global Head, RWE Analytics CoE Boehringer Ingelheim

Moderator: Manu Garg Manager ZS

11:40am – 12:00pm (EST)

Put Real-World Data to Work for Comparative Effectiveness Research

  • Leverage real-world data to generate evidence around comparative effectiveness, including RWE methods and reducing bias
  • Understand special considerations when using RWD for CER for regulators
  • Examine case examples of how large real-world datasets can generate more powerful comparative effectiveness insights

Jess Paulus Director of Epidemiology OM1

12:00pm – 12:40pm (EST)

Panel RWE and Medical Affairs: the strategic roles in product optimization from the early stage to post launch

  • Identify the crucial real-world evidence needed during the different stages of product development for awareness of disease burden and product approval
  • Maximise the value of Field Medical: Reveal the ultimate RWE and Medical collaboration to effectively generate actionable insights and documented evidence for product launch
  • Understand how MSLs can champion their deep understanding of science to become the main coordinators of information, not just on post-approval stages but earlier on in the product lifecycle
  • Successfully identify the right physicians to participate in studies through leveraging your Field team relationships and in turn enhance patient outcomes

Jun Su Senior Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs Astellas

Souhila Ahdjoudj Senior Director, Worldwide Field Medical Excellence - Immunology & Fibrosis Bristol Myers Squibb

Kristen Slangerup Medical Director, Scientific Partnerships AstraZeneca

Suzanne Giordano VP, Head of Field Medical Sunovion Pharmaceuticals

1:00pm – 2:30pm (EST)

End of Conference Banquet Lunch

Interactive Sessions

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST) March 16

Workshop Bring market access insights and experience to your sales teams

Successful Sales teams need to be able to lean into market access conversations, understand how EHR functionality can benefit their brands, and be in the loop with what’s happening with their brands in treatment plans and clinical pathways.

Join this 60-minute, interactive workshop to learn:

  • Pro tips for your Sales Team’s market access pull-through acumen
  • Discover how you can leverage EHR functionality to support your brand strategies
  • Understand why the Oncology environment is unique and what you need to know about it to pull-through your brand

Lead and Sponsored by PRECISIONxtract

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2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST) March 16

Workshop Increasing relevance and amplifying brand impact with AI: A practical approach to using Real-World Data

Identifying and reaping the benefits from AI and real-word data (RWD) tools can prove difficult in the marketing function. Understanding how to apply RWD and artificial intelligence to the patient care and HCP journey is key to overcoming this challenge.

Join this collaborative, 60-minute workshop, where you’ll learn:

  • How to target brand engagement through AI tools and real-world data
  • The “difference-maker” use cases where AI and real-world data have the most impact
  • How to give your brand a competitive advantage by anchoring your AI strategy in the patient care journey
  • A practical approach for analyzing your brand journey and developing an AI strategy

Lead and Sponsored by OptimizeRX

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2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST) March 16

Roundtable Delivering patient-centered care with advanced digital health solutions

  • Adapt to shifting patient needs and empower people to take control of their health journeys
  • Shape the future of healthcare, disease prevention, and patient support
  • Increase your reach and maximize impact with RWD-driven insights to improve long-term outcomes

Prof. Peter Bannister VP, Life Sciences Ada Health

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST) March 16

Roundtable How can Medical Affairs pioneer cross-functional collaboration to breakdown silos, create valuable internal alignment and improve business strategy

Jake Mathew Head, Medical Affairs Radius Health

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST) March 16

Workshop Your First Nudge: Learn how to use Behavioral Science to boost your commercial & marketing impact

Don’t get left behind - Behavioral Science is fast becoming a foundational tool in the expert marketers’ toolbox, not only in pharma but in global organizations across industries.

This session will give you the knowledge and skills to help you stay at the cutting edge to remain competitive and impactful, no matter if your target audience is patients or HCPs (we’re all human, after all).

You will:

  • Learn what behavioral science is – no previous knowledge required!
  • Understand how behavioral science can be used in the pharma space through case studies and examples
  • Get hands-on practice in creating your own “nudges,” or behavioral science solutions, so you can walk away ready to apply the tools to your own work

Suzanne Kirkendall CEO, North America BVA Nudge Consulting

2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST) March 16

Workshop Capture the Societal Impact (SI) of pharmaceutical products & solutions for ESG Sustainability reporting

We believe pharma companies’ impact on society is more than just shareholder value, revenues, and profits. It’s time we explore and understand the importance of SI as part of ESG reporting. In this 60 minute, interactive workshop you’ll learn about Societal Impact (SI) as a concept plus:

  •  Discuss the leading frameworks to capture SI (Harvard Business School, WifOR, and others)
  • Brainstorm and evaluate which factors we must cover to quantify SI (health benefits, productivity gains, associated averted costs, community spillovers, and many more…)
  • Get stuck in: With no established standard, let’s push the boundaries of what’s possible in SI!

Lead and Sponsored by Campana & Schott

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2:20pm – 3:20pm (EST) March 16

Workshop "Evolving the patient experience to drive engagement and advocacy "

  • Personalization that accelerates engagement
  • Using content to help turn patients into advocates
  • Putting data to work to enhance the patient experience

Lead and Sponsored by Harte Hanks

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