Oleksandr Gorbenko MD, PhD, BCMAS

Dr. Oleksandr Gorbenko, MD, Ph.D., BCMAS, is an expert in public health, patient advocacy, and engagement with overall 20 years of experience in pharma. He graduated as a medical doctor (general practice) in O.Bogomolets National Medical University and Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education and later worked on his Ph.D. dissertation at the Ukrainian Institute of Public Health MOH. His experience across pharma includes several medical and commercial roles in representative offices of big biopharma companies (Nycomed/Takeda, Richter Gedeon, GSK) as well as senior global medical and patient affairs roles at GSK, ViiV Healthcare, and Ipsen headquarters/hubs in the UK. He has an additional experience with UN/UNFPA on equal rights, women empowerment, and combating gender-based violence, stigma, and discrimination. Over the last 7 years, Dr. Gorbenko has been developing necessary patient-centric capacities/capabilities within R&D and corporate patient affairs focusing on getting insights, advice, and information from patient experts throughout the Medicine Development Continuum and a disease continuum/individual experience, collaboration with patient organizations, substantiation, and inclusion of the specific PRO/PCO measurements, KPIs and standards of patient centricity for big pharma and other programs. Since September 2019 Dr. Oleksandr Gorbenko has been working as Global Patient Centricity Director at Ipsen.