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No Decision for Me Without Me: Embedding Patient Expertise at the Heart of Innovation

Thursday Oct. 29, 2026

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NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
7:30 AM - 5 PM

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PATIENT ADVOCATES

400

C-LEVEL PARTICIPANTS

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Thursday Oct. 26, 2023

Science Meets Society:

Balancing Innovation, Equity and Public Health in a Post-Covid World

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The Galien Patient Summit creates a collaborative platform where patient voices, experiences, and needs directly shape the future of medical research, drug development, and healthcare delivery. For the second year, the Galien Patient Summit will take place concurrently with the annual Galien USA Forum - the premiere industry meeting of the minds on the future of human health.

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In the program Galien Forum 2023

Thursday Oct. 26, 2023

Preliminary Program

PANEL 1

Breakthroughs & Blind Spots:
What Will Today’s Consensus Regret Tomorrow?

PANEL 2

Medical Triumph vs Pricing Paradox:
Can We Afford the Medicines We’re Capable of Creating?

PANEL 3

20 Years in 20 Minutes:
A History of Breakthroughs + Lessons for the Next 2 Decades

PANEL 4

The Biology We Still Don’t Understand:
Frontiers That Will Define the Next 20 Years

PANEL 5

Life Science Diplomacy & Scientific Sovereignty:
Strategy for the Next 20 Years

PANEL 6 I CEO PANEL

Biopharma Leaders:
Leading the Leap

FIRESIDE CHAT

FDA Commissioner
(1 Year Later)

PANEL 7

The Science Trust Conundrum:
When Society Doubts Its Own Progress

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PANEL 1
Promise & Reality:
Decoding AI’s Impact on Drug Development
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PANEL 2 
Advancing the Pipeline:
Ensuring Academic and Government Discoveries are Translated for Medical Impact

Mental Health in America
PANEL 3 
Therapeutic Area Advances and Challenges (mRNA & CRISPR): Getting Gene Therapy Innovation to a Critical Mass of Patients
Fireside with J&J’s Alex Gorsky
FIRESIDE CHAT 
Fireside Chat with Alex Gorsky
AI, Digital Health and Clinical Trials

PANEL 4a 
AI's Impact on Personal and Public Health -- Now & in the Future

PANEL OBESITY SCIENCE (1)

PANEL 4b 
Advancing Brain Health: Innovations and Insights for a Healthier Future

Fireside with J&J’s Alex Gorsky
CEO PANEL

How to Build a Paradigm-Transforming Blockbuster

Who will be speaking in 2026

Confirmed Speakers (as of June 18, 2026)

Eric Horvitz

Jeremy Abbate
Vice President & Publisher, Scientific American

Amy Abernethy

Amy P. Abernethy
Co-founder, Highlander Health; former Principal Deputy Commissioner, FDA 

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Michaela Dinboeck
Head Patient Engagement, Novartis

David Fajgenbaum-1

David Fajgenbaum
Founder, Every Cure; Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Julie Fleshman

Julie Fleshman
President & CEO, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

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Kathy Giusti
Founder, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation; Author, Fatal to Fearless

Atul A. Gawande

Atul A. Gawande
Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice, Harvard Medical School; Distinguished Professor in Residence, Ariadne Labs

Atul A. Gawande
Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice, Harvard Medical School; Distinguished Professor in Residence, Ariadne Labs

 

Jeremy Levin

Jeremy Levin
Executive Chairman, Ovid Therapeutics; Former Chair, BIO

Vardit Ravitsky

Vardit Ravitsky
President, Hastings Institute for Bioethics

Sheri Strahl

Sheri Strahl
President & CEO, ALS Network

Janet Woodcock

Janet Woodcock
Longtime Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Former Principal Deputy Commissioner, USFDA; Board Member, Every Cure

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