Streamlining Effective Patient Engagement through Pharma-Patient Advocacy Collaboration

Trish Davidson, MPA, has extensive experience -- most recently developing an international Biomarkers and Outcome Measures Consortium for a rare disease patient advocacy group and 13+ years at the Lupus Foundation of America -- developing and directing patient and professional educational programs, research symposia and consortia involving diverse stakeholder communities in clinical care and clinical research. Ms Davidson collaborates with Tufts CSDD Executive Director, Ken Getz on a variety of initiatives involving building and sustaining relationships with professionals in government, advocacy, academia and industry. Ms Davidson received her BA and Masters of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of South Carolina.

Matt Reaney has spent much of his life in and around the healthcare system. He is a son, spouse and parent of remarkably resilient people who live with chronic diseases that involve significant self-management, and he is passionate about helping them use their voices to inform healthcare decisions. It was with this in mind that he embarked on his first role in Patient-Centered care and Patient-focused research more than 20 years ago. He has held positions in pharmaceutical companies, universities, charities, consultancies and hospitals since – sometimes simultaneously – advocating for the patient voice to be heard in intervention design and testing, and in clinical care decision-making. In his role at IQVIA, Matt sets scientific direction for the Patient Centered Solutions team and oversees a variety of qualitative and quantitative research projects and patient-focused communication activities. Alongside this role, Matt maintains a variety of other positions including Expert in Residence at the University of Oxford, Scientific Advisory Council member at Breakthrough T1D, Co-chair of the Study Endpoints Committee at the DIA and Guest Lecturer at the Royal Holloway University of London. He is a Chartered and Practitioner Health Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist. He has a PhD and MSc in Health Psychology and a BSc in Psychology and has been awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Medicine, a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Public Health, and an Associate Fellowship by the British Psychological Society.