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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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      Revisit the 2025 Edition

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      PATIENT ADVOCATES

      400

      C-LEVEL PARTICIPANTS

      400

      ATTENDEES

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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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      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 

      Gil BASHE

      Gil Bashe
      Chair of Global Health & Purpose, Finn Partners

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      Michaela Dinboeck
      Head Patient Engagement, Novartis

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

      Julie Fleshman

      Julie Fleshman
      CEO, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

      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

       

      Kathy Giusti

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

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      Jennifer Goldsack
      CEO, Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)

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      Margaret Hamburg
      Co-President, InterAcademy Partnership; Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration

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      Daphne Koller
      CEO & Founder, insitro

      Jeremy Levin

      Jeremy Levin
      Chairman & CEO, Ovid Therapeutics

      Tom Lines-1

      Thomas Lines
      CEO, Quercis

      Cheryl Lubbert

      Cheryl Lubbert
      Chief Executive Officer, Reverba Global, an IQVIA business

      Vardit Ravitsky

      Vardit Ravitsky
      President, Hastings Center for Bioethics

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      Kate Sasser
      Chief Scientific Officer, Tempus

      Sheri Strahl

      Sheri Strahl
      President & CEO, ALS Network

      Janet Woodcock

      Janet Woodcock
      Former Principal Deputy Commissioner, FDA and longtime Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

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