Patient Engagement Manager

Established leader in patient and community engagement, with 20 years of experience building advocacy and partnership ecosystems across Europe and North America

Proven connector of patient groups, medical societies, and institutions, with long-standing collaboration across advocacy, KOL, and professional networks central to dermatology engagement

Demonstrated impact in disease awareness and education, delivering guideline-aligned medical and patient initiatives supporting dermatologists, immunologists, and multidisciplinary teams

Founder of a patient engagement function at a pharmaceutical company, integrating patient perspectives into reimbursement dossiers, advisory boards and advocacy ecosystems for high-unmet-need and rare disease contexts

Acts as an independent medical and patient engagement expert supporting value recognition of innovative medical technologies

Applies long-standing expertise in immunology, hematology, oncology and precision medicine to advise on stakeholder engagement strategies

Supports alignment between patient communities, medical experts and institutional stakeholders to cocreate sustainable access and engagement models

Leverages extensive European and North American advocacy, medical and policy networks to foster multistakeholder collaboration

Led policy-focused external engagement addressing systemic healthcare challenges impacting access to innovation

Engaged policymakers, medical experts and advocacy stakeholders at European level to shape consensus and policy narratives

Translated medical and patient needs into policy-relevant frameworks, supporting long-term sustainability of healthcare systems

Strengthened cross-border collaboration across professional and institutional networks

Served as strategic lead for external engagement across medical, patient, access and policy domains

Drove adoption and reimbursement of genomic and liquid biopsy testing for precision medicine through multistakeholder collaboration

Founded and led the Patient Engagement function, pioneering patient-inclusive access strategies aligned with unmet medical needs

Built and maintained long-term partnerships with patient advocacy organizations, patient experts and umbrella networks (e.g., EURORDIS, EUPATI, IEEPO, BEEPO)

Organized and facilitated multi-stakeholder advisory boards with patients, clinicians, payers and policymakers to co-create care pathways and policy roadmaps

Acted as trusted liaison between patient communities, medical societies, laboratories and institutional decisionmakers

Developed disease awareness, biomarker education and guideline-aligned materials adopted globally

Engaged extensively with European and North American medical professional societies and KOL networks

Field-based scientific and medical engagement lead in hematology, oncology and immunology

Built trusted relationships with clinicians and multidisciplinary hospital teams across 70+ institutions

Delivered extensive education and scientific exchange (>100 presentations) supporting best practices and patient-centered care

Supported physicians in disseminating clinical experience through conference abstracts and peer-reviewed publications

Strengthened collaborative networks between industry, clinicians and academic centers