Dr. Anne Thorez

As a Senior Director, Anne is responsible for assisting VCLS clients in the creation of long-term and sustainable patient engagement strategies that are incorporated throughout the product development process.

Anne provides advice and support to healthcare companies to develop and drive high priority patient focused activities and help them to integrate patients’ perspectives and insights in regulatory and HTAs pathways.

In her role, Anne also builds bridges between clients and patient organizations and providing a comprehensive analysis of the patient landscape in a specific disease area. She educates companies on meaningful and effective patient engagement and creates a patient engagement roadmap for clients that is aligned with clinical, regulatory and market access roadmaps. Clinical gap analysis from the patient ‘s perspective and advise on strategies to understand patient views and preferences on clinical trial design as well as recruitment and retention are also part of her scope of activities.

Anne brings more than 25 years in pharmaceutical industry, with main experience in renal and rare diseases areas. She has over 5 years of expertise in Patient Engagement consulting and has held several positions (direct customer interaction on the field, EU and global medico marketing, patient engagement strategist, patient relationship) in several international companies such as Janssen, Sanofi and also start-up companies (i.e. Dynacure, Clementia being part of Ipsen now)

Anne has a master’s in biology at University of Liège (Belgium), is a member of the Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) taskforce for Avicenna Allinace, and is officially based in our Boulogne offices.