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Alia Bucciarelli

Director of Health Communication, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Content & Education Director, Pfizer

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Anisha Gangotra

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Anne-Marie Hamoir

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Plain Language Specialist, Simplifying Science

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Global Lead, Patient Partnerships, Envision the Patient, Envision Pharma Group

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Plain Language Health Writer for adults and children, Please Read Carefully™

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Communications Team Leader, Patient Engagement, Oxford PharmaGenesis

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Simon Stones

Health Advocate and Consultant; Associate Medical Writer, Envision Pharma

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Sudipta Chakraborty

Senior Manager, Clinical Trial Transparency, Biogen

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Sylvia Baedorf Kassis

Program Manager, Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard

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T.J. Sharpe

Patient Engagement Program Manager, Medidata Solutions

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Tom Smith

EUPATI Fellow, European Health Parliament member, Non Executive Director, Independent Chairman and Life Sciences Public Engagement Specialist

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Owner, The Spark Global; Health Advocate & Patient Engagement Consultant

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