Overseeing the Post-9/11 U.S. Military Health System

Stepping into a new role comes with any number of challenges, especially if that new job was leading the entire U.S. military’s healthcare efforts just 10 days after 9/11. Bill Winkenwerder assumed the role on September 21, 2001, having spent his early career as a physician and executive for large health insurance companies. While this […]

The Future of Healthcare in the United States

The Affordable Care Act has transformed the future of U.S. healthcare. Kathleen Sebelius was instrumental in shaping and passing The Affordable Care Act. In this video, she shares on the process and what it means. Kathleen Sebelius is one of America’s foremost experts on health policy, healthcare reform, human service delivery, and executive leadership. From […]

A Case Against Fee-for-Service Healthcare

The fee-for-service healthcare model divides policy makers and thought leaders across the healthcare industry. Many believe third-party payments encourage overusing healthcare services and, in turn, contribute to inflation. Howard Dean, a champion of healthcare reform, hopes to shift the incentives of physicians and hospitals away from offering more procedures and imaging toward providing more efficient, […]

How Big Data Can Improve Individual Care

The notion of healthcare as well care—as opposed to sick care—has become increasingly popular in this country. To combat high costs, health insurance companies now offer higher deductible plans with built-in health savings accounts, requiring payers to better educate themselves about services and treatments. Higher out-of-pocket expenses have encouraged patients not only to demand more […]

Measuring the Value of Healthcare Products

How do we measure a drug’s value? Of course safety and effectiveness matter, but Tim Riley, Executive Chairman and CEO of Wellstate Group, tells us that price has become an increasingly important criteria of value. One of the leaders in drug pricing is the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), formerly the National […]

Lessons from a Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran

Research and development for new drugs can take as much as sixteen years. For the former President of R&D at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Bob Ruffolo, that leaves no time for indecision. Having spent thirty-five years in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Ruffolo realized “indecision is paralysis”. It’s better, he believes, to correct a wrong decision than to […]

Pediatric Oncology and the Impact of Molecular

Dr. Jeffrey C. Allen, M.D. is a dad and a doctor. The experience of his own child getting sick with cancer had a profound impact on his career. He discusses the progress that’s been made in pediatric oncology and its next frontier: molecular therapy. Jeffrey C. Allen, M.D., currently serves as Otto and Marguerite Manley […]

Using Smartphones to Prevent Skin Cancer

By utilizing smartphone technology, Christian Bailey’s team is working to allow anyone to identify cancerous mole symptoms at the click of a button. Bailey discusses finding ways to help people diagnose themselves in the convenience of their own home at a fraction of the cost. Christian Bailey is the Founder of Curated Innovation, an MIT-fueled […]

How Trends in the Pharmaceutical Industry are Impacting Healthcare

Rich Fante is currently President and Founder at RF Consulting. He most recently served as President and CEO, US at AstraZeneca from 2008 – March 2013. In this role, Rich was accountable for driving top-line growth, strengthening the company’s product pipeline through licensing and acquisition, generating transformational customer innovations, and maximizing financial contribution in the […]

The Challenge of Valuing Life-Saving Drugs

Valuing life-saving drugs poses a challenge to pharmaceutical companies. In the case of hepatitis C, healthcare costs over a lifetime—for chronic sufferers and their insurance providers—can easily exceed the seven-figure mark. Meanwhile, a full course of recently-approved drugs known to eradicate the virus in a matter of months, comes at a nearly one-hundred thousand dollar […]

Healthcare Systems in Emerging Markets

Richard Pilnik speaks with GLG about how healthcare systems in emerging markets can vary and how Type 2 Diabetes treatment is handled differently across various health systems. Richard recently retired as the EVP and President of Quintiles Global Commercial Solutions (2009 to June 2014) with a focus on the outsourcing needs of the Pharmaceutical Industry […]

The Affordable Care Act: Before and After

Whether or not healthcare should be subsidized by the U.S. government remains a heated debate. Since the Affordable Care Act has been law, more Americans have access to coverage than they did in any time prior. The quality of care has also improved, according to healthcare industry expert Kevin R. Hayden. But will this progress […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.