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e-mail: christine@ghioneconsulting.com
Phone: +34 637 517 057

Christine Ghione

Chris is a very energetic and motivated patient engagement consultant and advocate passionate about impacting and improving patient care and outcomes. She has over 24 years of experience designing, developing and executing innovative digital educational solutions globally with demonstrable results.

She has witnessed “the” challenges across various geographical regions in diagnosing and treating patients and strives to achieve better access to testing, treatment, and personalized medicine. Chris believes in fostering patient-centric healthcare and raises awareness and empowers patients.

She has excellent stakeholder engagement capabilities, including experience building relationships and partnerships with key opinion leaders, international medical societies, patient organizations, medical education companies and providers of patient support programs.

She enjoys building communities and inspiring teams to co-create and has fantastic leadership skills. She always focuses on creativity and unmet needs. She is sensitive to regional and local needs.

Chris is a catalyst with a strong ability to influence and negotiate. She is ambitious and results-driven and is happiest when she has led, coached and enabled a team to achieve significant change.

My journey

My entire career has been focused on developing independent medical education to educate physicians on new treatments coming to market and enable them to offer the best treatment possible to their patients to improve outcomes.

My journey in patient advocacy and patient engagement began in 2019 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Having dedicated my professional life to healthcare and physician education, I felt the urgent need for better community support for cancer patients. I created a foundation for cancer patients in Spain and led the organization for 2 years.

I was fully responsible for the development of all educational materials and created two digital platforms with information on drug accessibility and reimbursement information along with other patient resources on disease awareness. I advocated for earlier testing and improved access to treatments. I established and managed relationships with patient organizations, medical institutions, pharma global stakeholders and public health administration and drove synergies. I managed advocacy activities focusing on the patient experience and patient journey and led multi-functional teams and assessed patients´ needs and defined creative solutions. I was fully responsible for all fundraising.

During this time, I also volunteered in The Synergist Global Group acting as co-lead of the Patient and HCP Education and Awareness working group. I helped develop disease agnostic adaptable patient tools to empower patients educating about precision medicine and biomarker testing to increase shared decision-making. I worked with various umbrella patient organizations from around the globe to evaluate their existing resources and tools to leverage them for other groups. I collaborated during this co-creation with stakeholders from the industry to integrate their opinions including patient engagement teams, medical affairs, public affairs, communications and market access.

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What I can add to your team

  • Developing patient engagement strategies
  • Overseeing the design and execution of disease awareness campaigns
  • Supporting the creation and execution of patient advocacy initiatives
  • Managing relationships with the patient community and patient organizations
  • Conducting landscape analysis to identify unmet patient needs
  • Creating and leading steering committees, focus groups and advisory boards
  • Gathering insights into the patient journey
  • Strategic planning
  • Incorporating the patient voice into medical education programs
  • Facilitating patient interviews
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Interests
patient engagement strategies, stakeholder management, patient-centricity, health literacy, patient and physician education, patient advocacy, digital health, personalized medicine and equity, diversity & inclusion.

Read my recommendations here:

Christine and I collaborated in the From Testing to Targeted Treatments (FT3) program, where she co-led the Education and Awareness Working Group. As a co-lead and patient organization representative, she provided leadership in the working group by facilitating multi-stakeholder co-creation with the patient community and pharmaceutical and diagnostic company contributors. We were grateful for her medical education background and network, particularly the meaningful insights she shared toward developing tools and resources to support people living with cancer and facilitating connections to include working group contributors to enhance co-creation. I would certainly recommend Christine, especially given her constructive approach, ability to articulate patient community and HCP needs, and the bright, collaborative energy that she brings to the table!
Nicole WickiProgram Director at theSynergist.org
Christine and I served as co-leads of the Education and Awareness working group for FT3. Her knowledge of precision medicine, its promise, along with its challenges for widespread adoption is unparalleled. She's a passionate advocate in a field that definitely needs them!
Susan McClure Founder & CEO Genome Creative
Demonstrating strong stakeholder management capabilities, Christine excels in establishing partnerships with key opinion leaders, medical societies, and experts in medical affairs. Her deep understanding of digital strategies enables her to leverage digital platforms effectively, fostering communication and collaboration within the medical community.
Sanne Viser Marketing Director Global Corporate Solutions at Wiley
Chris and I worked together during our time at Medscape and then again in several consulting projects. She has incredible perseverance, motivation, and energy. The passion she brings to her work is infectious. Her strong inner drive provides her with the motivation to constantly put action behind her ideas. She is skilled at creating powerful teams and in inspiring others who work alongside her. Chris is a great presenter and communicator and has an enviable capability of influencing stakeholders to get on board with recommended initiatives. Outside of her professional abilities, she is a very caring and fun person to be around. Not only am I a colleague of Chris’, but I am lucky and proud to also be her friend.
Debbie Schwartz Strategy and Operations Digital Health Leader | Medical and Patient Education Executive | Health Tech Entrepreneur
Chris and I were colleagues on the Medscape Global team. Chris has a talent for creating communities and engaging with top stakeholders including key opinion leaders, medical societies and institutions. She is incredibly results-driven and motivated to identify unmet needs and gaps in the market and to create creative solutions and programs. She is an enthusiastic team player. I would highly recommend Chris.
Peter Schoonheim Vice President, Team Lead Medical Education at Medscape
Christine played the role of the first general manager of Fundación Alivia in Barcelona, Spain. She showed outstanding leadership and dedication. She established the organization and set up essential internal processes efficiently. Christine successfully built strong relationships with the pharmaceutical industry and other NGOs in Spain. Her ability to connect and collaborate expanded the organization's reach and impact significantly. Christine's passion for supporting oncology patients and their families was evident in her work. Her leadership, marked by empathy and integrity was inspiring. In summary, Christine Ghione is an exceptional leader with a deep commitment to making a difference. I have no doubt she will excel in any future endeavours she pursues.
Bartosz Polinski Founder & CEO at Alivia Cancer Foundation
I was fortunate to work with Chris while she created an organization for cancer patients. Chris has an exceptional ability to build relationships and join different stakeholders together. She united patient organizations, medical societies and KOLs along with experts from medical and corporate affairs. She always put the patient first analyzing their needs and providing innovative digital solutions. She is relentless and is incredibly perseverant even when challenges arise. She is driven by her passion and spreads that energy to others. She truly cares about the teams she constructs and leads and strives to help others succeed.
Joan-Anton Abad Socio Auditing Abogados y Economistas
I had the pleasure to work very closely and successfully with Chris during most of her time at Medscape Global Education. Not only is she a very dynamic and always fully engaged professional with a huge experience in digital marketing but also a very kind and reliable person who can be trusted to deliver in even challenging circumstances. Her social competence, communication and leadership skills are outstanding. Any company having Chris on board should consider themselves lucky!
Joachim Trier Executive Director ASPERA PharmaMarketing
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