Patrick Hopkinson is a Global Market Access expert with over 25 years’ experience. He is an independent consultant, founder and managing director of PHTA Consulting. He is a senior leader in the life sciences industry with extensive expertise gained from working across multiple functions in global pharmaceutical organisation’s at an executive leadership level. A former Vice President of Global HEOR at Bristol Myers Squibb he has a specialist focus in Market Access, HEOR, HTA Policy and RWE combined with extensive commercial experience including P&L responsibility. An HTA expert, he has delivered over 400 HTA submissions globally and in-market, overcoming HTA and Access challenges to optimise commercial performance. He has been a member of key access policy working groups at EFPIA, PhRMA and ABPI, plus he served as a NICE Appeal Panel member for 10 years. Previously he worked at GSK in Global and Country roles and as a Clinical Oncology Pharmacist in the UK NHS. Patrick is a thought leader and regular conference speaker.