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9th Patient-Centered Engagement World Congress 2026 Americas

“Part of ​The Patient Centricity & Collaboration Series”

Driving Partnership, Access & Measurable Outcomes

17th – 18th September 2026, Boston, MA, USA

Associate Sponsor

Firak Consulting Group is a boutique healthcare consulting firm that designs and implements patient-inclusive strategies for pharmaceutical companies, biotech organizations, and patient advocacy organizations.

Firak Consulting Group is a boutique healthcare consulting firm that designs and implements patient-inclusive strategies for pharmaceutical companies, biotech organizations, and patient advocacy organizations. Founded by patient advocacy leader Courtney Firak, MPH, the firm specializes in patient engagement, health literacy, strategic planning, advisory board design, and organizational capacity building. Unlike traditional consulting firms that may deliver recommendations and leave, Firak Consulting Group partners with clients from strategy through execution to ensure patient-inclusive ideas become measurable results. As artificial intelligence transforms healthcare, the firm also helps organizations navigate Responsible AI adoption by building governance, strengthening patient trust, and ensuring innovation supports, not replaces, meaningful human engagement. Every engagement is grounded in the belief that lived experience should inform healthcare decision-making at every level. 
 
 

Associate Sponsor

Elevate Advocacy is an award-winning strategic consultancy proving best in class counsel and execution on patient-focused drug development and care delivery.

Elevate Advocacy is an award-winning strategic consultancy proving best in class counsel and execution on patient-focused drug development and care delivery. Our strategies mitigate risk, accelerate development timelines, and strengthen the relevance and impact of biopharma therapies and devices. The Elevate team partners across patient advocacy, clinical development, HEOR, regulatory, medical, and commercial to ensure that the right insight is operationalized at the right time to eliminate stagnation and ensure maximum impact and benefit. Through rigorous assessment, prioritization, and measurement of key insights and decisions, our work goes beyond traditional patient engagement and insight gathering to ensure patient advocacy is elevated from functional contributor to value driver.

Associate Sponsor

The Human Lens is an independent consultancy that helps pharmaceutical, biotech, and research partners translate patient and caregiver lived experience into decision-ready evidence.

The Human Lens is an independent consultancy that helps pharmaceutical, biotech, and research partners translate patient and caregiver lived experience into decision-ready evidence. Working across the drug development lifecycle, from protocol design and feasibility through prelaunch and commercialization, The Human Lens surfaces the signal that standard research often misses and connects it to the operational and strategic decisions it should inform. Its work draws on diverse patient and caregiver voices from around the world so that the full experience of living with disease is represented in how development decisions get made. Learn more at www.thehumanlens.org

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