We deliver bold, compliant, and meaningful solutions
at the
of patient advocacy and life science innovation.
Who We Are
PAS adapts the strategic imperatives of leading-edge clinical research with disease communities to address unmet patient needs.
A Few of our Forward-Facing Partners
At Patient Advocacy Strategies, we're like you:
Thoughtful, strategic, and moving with purpose and urgency to bring meaningful, disruptive innovation and solutions to those who need it most.
And with decades of industry and personal, lived patient advocacy experience, we efficiently operationalize your patient engagement efforts at every stage of the drug development continuum to maximize the value you create for patients.
Our approach yields amplified patient perspectives that infuse seamlessly into your organization's most critical functions, driving measurable, ROI-positive value across all patient-facing initiatives.
Who We Are
PAS adapts the strategic imperatives of leading-edge clinical research with disease communities to address unmet patient needs.
A Few of our Forward-Facing Partners
At Patient Advocacy Strategies, we're like you:
Thoughtful, strategic, and moving with purpose and urgency to bring meaningful, disruptive innovation and solutions to those who need it most.
And with decades of industry and personal, lived patient advocacy experience, we efficiently operationalize your patient engagement efforts at every stage of the drug development continuum to maximize the value you create for patients.
Our approach yields amplified patient perspectives that infuse seamlessly into your organization's most critical functions, driving measurable, ROI-positive value across all patient-facing initiatives.
What We Do
Established in 2015, Patient Advocacy Strategies has grown from a leading consultancy into a unified network of products and services that support our global life science clients across all manners of patient engagement needs, throughout the drug development continuum.
From clinical trial support, patient education and access, grassroots engagement, and more, our integrated teams operate in lockstep with yours.
Our unique structure accelerates our work, and allows the the sharing insights and expertise across a continuum of disciplines that is critical to project success.
As such, our team is nimbly able to conceptualize and manifest patient-facing initiatives that meet the highest standard of work and drive meaningful, ROI-positive impact to your team's operations.
Our unique structure accelerates our work and enables sharing of insights and expertise across a continuum of disciplines that is critical to project success.
As such, our team is nimbly able to conceptualize and manifest patient-facing initiatives that meet the highest standard of work and drive meaningful, ROI-positive impact to your team's operations.
Our Workstreams
We leverage authentic patient advocacy engagement for mission-critical initiatives across the clinical research continuum.
Proactive patient engagement enables your clinical trial to become more approachable, informed, and meaningful for your target patient population
Your team's research is groundbreaking, novel, and has the potential to benefit patients worldwide. Ensure that your trial reaches patients where they are with Patient Advocacy Strategies' Clinical Trial Support products and services.
Through leveraging our partnerships with patient advocacy organizations and internal branding and creative services, your team can enhance trial design, recruit more effectively, and accelerate study awareness, enrollment, and retention.
Working with PAS will enrich your clinical programs and drive commercialization and product pull-through.
Proactive patient engagement is more than just good corporate citizenship. It will Increase your company’s profile with the support of grassroots patient community enthusiasm—with consumers, investors, and providers.
Actively demonstrating leadership in targeted disease areas improves a company’s culture and earns trust needed to achieve corporate strategic imperatives.
Medical innovation is only as valuable as a patient's ability to access it. Early engagement with disease communities ensures regulatory, policy, and access and reimbursement barriers are eliminated, and patients and healthcare providers are able to benefit from such innovations.
Our Practices
One team capable of driving projects from conception to execution.
With our internal teams, PAS offers your team end-to-end project execution capabilities.
This allows you to work with a single team across every critical part of your patient engagement strategy.
And our team grows with the needs of yours, ensuring the seamless evolution of the work on which we collaborate.
Build a 360 Degree View of Your Patient Landscape
In the 21st century, patient communities and conversations can form anywhere. Synthesis pulls together patient comments, concerns, questions, and conversations from across the offline and online patient world to build an actionable set of insights for you and your team.
Customized and Strategic Patient Engagement
The foundation for strategy development begins at the convergence of business objectives and patient needs. Under PAS leadership, the patient voice is effectively integrated to enrich the value creation of the drug development process as you evolve your corporate strategy.
Creative Development Designed For Patient Engagement
Every executed strategy benefits from eye-catching and impactful creative content, developed through patient insights that uncover patient needs.
From branding to patient education materials, PA Studio can bring patient-facing concepts to vivid reality, with real-time input to guide your efforts.
How PAS augments your team
Flexible, agile strategies built for your team's unique needs.
Our team brings with us extensive and diverse backgrounds steeped in the life sciences, patient advocacy, public health, corporate communications, design, web development, and more.
We are thought leaders in patient engagement and possess strong, collaborative & trusted relationships with patient advocacy communities, which enables us to forge ironclad partnerships with targeted disease leaders. Patient Advocacy Strategies is uniquely equipped to not only craft purpose-built engagement initiatives for your team's immediate needs, but to drive those initiatives all the way from concept to market launch.
Patient Engagement
A thoughtful & integrated patient advocacy strategy serves as the roadmap for PAS personnel to harness the patient perspective, generating valuable insights internally and demonstrating corporate leadership with disease communities externally.
We establish and enhance your position as the central point of contact and face of your organization with patient communities to provide a feedback loop on patient input to enrich the work of your cross-functional partners.
Our seasoned team of patient advocates and industry patient engagement veterans are poised to support you in flawlessly implementing patient advocacy strategies both internally and externally.
Medical Affairs
Disease-specific engagement with patient communities supports Medical Affairs initiatives in equipping the team with direct, high-touch access to the entire disease state universe of stakeholders involved in a particular health condition.
Harness the entirety of a targeted disease community, including KOLs, providers, patient leaders, and patient advocacy organizations to inform and align with your Med Affairs agenda.
Clinical Operations
Proactive partnerships with patient communities and advocacy organizations supports internal Clinical Operations teams with targeted clinical trial educational materials, outreach strategies, and trial design.
Collaboration with patients will directly support protocol development, patient-facing materials, trial accessibility considerations and patient support to accelerate enrollment and enhance study retention.
Commercial
Proactively establishes an advocacy-focused strategy that puts patients at the forefront of commercialization infrastructure to execute a targeted plan that is centered around patients' unmet medical needs.
PAS fuels your commercialization and brand planning initiatives to engage the true end consumer of your product, ensuring messages, tactics and metrics are validated by the patients to whom you serve.
Corporate Communications and IR
Infuse the patient voice into key company messaging through co-developed disease-relevant information while elevating your corporate profile. The patient voice validates your corporate leadership role within disease community.
Reflect and adapt the patient voice to be appropriate for each key audience through all company communications, including press releases, investor communications and community engagement.
How PAS augments your team
Flexible, agile strategies built for your team's unique needs.
Our team brings with us extensive and diverse backgrounds steeped in the life sciences, patient advocacy, public health, corporate communications, design, web development, and more.
We are thought leaders in patient engagement and possess strong, collaborative & trusted relationships with patient advocacy communities, which enables us to forge ironclad partnerships with targeted disease leaders. Patient Advocacy Strategies is uniquely equipped to not only craft purpose-built engagement initiatives for your team's immediate needs, but to drive those initiatives all the way from concept to market launch.
Patient Engagement
A thoughtful & integrated patient advocacy strategy serves as the roadmap for PAS personnel to harness the patient perspective, generating valuable insights internally and demonstrating corporate leadership with disease communities externally.
We establish and enhance your position as the central point of contact and face of your organization with patient communities to provide a feedback loop on patient input to enrich the work of your cross-functional partners.
Our seasoned team of patient advocates and industry patient engagement veterans are poised to support you in flawlessly implementing patient advocacy strategies both internally and externally.
Medical Affairs
Disease-specific engagement with patient communities supports Medical Affairs initiatives in equipping the team with direct, high-touch access to the entire disease state universe of stakeholders involved in a particular health condition.
Harness the entirety of a targeted disease community, including KOLs, providers, patient leaders, and patient advocacy organizations to inform and align with your Med Affairs agenda.
Clinical Operations
Proactive partnerships with patient communities and advocacy organizations supports internal Clinical Operations teams with targeted clinical trial educational materials, outreach strategies, and trial design.
Collaboration with patients will directly support protocol development, patient-facing materials, trial accessibility considerations and patient support to accelerate enrollment and enhance study retention.
Commercial
Proactively establishes an advocacy-focused strategy that puts patients at the forefront of commercialization infrastructure to execute a targeted plan that is centered around patients' unmet medical needs.
PAS fuels your commercialization and brand planning initiatives to engage the true end consumer of your product, ensuring messages, tactics and metrics are validated by the patients to whom you serve.
Corporate Communications and IR
Infuse the patient voice into key company messaging through co-developed disease-relevant information while elevating your corporate profile. The patient voice validates your corporate leadership role within disease community.
Reflect and adapt the patient voice to be appropriate for each key audience through all company communications, including press releases, investor communications and community engagement.
Market Access
Proactive engagement with patient community influencers arms your team with independent champions who amplify the value of your team's innovations in addressing health needs.
We harness the patient voice to inform coverage and reimbursement discussions, broaden formulary placement, and improve patient access policies to ensure the patient receives the best treatment option.
Proactive & coordinated patient advocacy to engage in ICER and HTA value assessment exercises to ensure the patient voice is clearly and effectively integrated into pricing and access decisions.
From Our Latest White Paper
What can $100,000 do for your commercial pipeline?
How can patient engagement accelerate commercialization timelines? What is the impact of avoiding a costly protocol amendment? And how can your team ensure your patient engagement tactics are built to generate these sorts of measurable results?
In our latest Synthesis report, we dive deep into research that demonstrates what kind of impact a $100,000 investment in early patient engagement activities could have on a team's clinical research pipeline and timelines to commercialization.
From Our Latest White Paper
What can $100,000 do for your commercial pipeline?
How can patient engagement accelerate commercialization timelines? What is the impact of avoiding a costly protocol amendment? And how can your team ensure your patient engagement tactics are built to generate these sorts of measurable results?
In our latest Synthesis report, we dive deep into research that demonstrates what kind of impact a $100,000 investment in early patient engagement activities could have on a team's clinical research pipeline and timelines to commercialization.
Our Past Work
Through our work in galvanizing fragmented patient communities to influencing favorable public policy to developing first-of-kind non-profits for rare, unrepresented patient groups and beyond, Patient Advocacy Strategies has developed and executed innovative, value-added, impactful work on behalf of leading life science clients for years.
Our Past Work
Through our work in galvanizing fragmented patient communities to influencing favorable public policy to developing first-of-kind non-profits for rare, unrepresented patient groups and beyond, Patient Advocacy Strategies has developed and executed innovative, value-added, impactful work on behalf of leading life science clients for years.
Testimonials
Don’t just take our word for it. The best endorsement of our work comes from our trusted partners.
"Patient Advocacy Strategies has uniquely established themselves as pioneers in this important space and will add great value to any company and any patient community, and through this dialogue help accelerate medical innovation and the development of novel treatments."
Robert Coughlin
Former President & CEO, MassBio
"Mike and his team's passion, authenticity and relationship management skills earned him strong credibility and leadership among a variety of patient and professional stakeholders, societies, and healthcare policy organizations.
Mike sees the “big picture,” and knows how to work backwards to execute strategic plans that make tremendous and meaningful change. A rare talent indeed, Mike inspires the best in others, always having his compass set on delivering superior results for both clients and the patients they serve."
Carolyn TenEyck, RN
Sr. Director, Advocacy & Government Affairs, Prolacta Bioscience
"Mike Walsh is the ultimate patient advocate.
Based on my experience working with him during his time at Genentech, I can honestly say I have never met anyone who was more focused and driven to help patients who suffered with lung fibrosis. His innovative ideas are part of the reason patients with lung fibrosis are having more positive outcomes."
Mary Salvatore MD, MBA
Associate Professor Radiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
"wAIHA Warriors would not be the resource it is today for patients with warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia without the expertise of the Patient Advocacy Strategies team.
Experiencing a rare disease has unique obstacles. By including patients, medical experts, and clinical researchers in their strategic vision, PAS created a new landscape of learning about wAIHA. PAS elevated wAIHA Warriors as the leading resource for educational information, clinical trials, and mental health assistance materials as patients navigate this rare disease."
Karen Jones
Executive Director, wAIHA Warriors
"Mike and his team provided deep expertise and guidance in helping me build a right-sized patient advocacy strategy for Flexion in the osteoarthritis/chronic pain space. His counsel on how to develop authentic, trustworthy, meaningful and productive relationships from the ground up with advocacy groups was invaluable."
Kerry Wentworth
Chief Regulatory Officer, Flexion Therapeutics
"Mike and his Patient Advocacy Strategies team are experts in providing all the tools for patient-driven advocacy campaigns. They add value to all areas of the drug development process and are professionals at ensuring the patient voice is at the center of every business decision. They were valuable additions to our internal team."
Jenny McCue
Advocacy Director, Momenta Pharmaceuticals
"Mike is a true champion for patient wellness and access to efficient and effective healthcare. He is an unwavering advocate for wellness and patient health with a clear eyed, innovative approach to proactive partnerships and is an accomplished, patient-centric advocacy professional and we are all better as a result."
Lisa Pieretti
Executive Director & Co-Founder, International Hyperhidrosis Society
Work With Us
Do you have a have a project you would like to discuss with us?
It's never too early to infuse patient perspectives into your research, operations, and commercial activities.
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