Sarah Pitluck

Ms. Pitluck has focused the past 20 years of her career on global healthcare access issues including pricing and reimbursement (P&R) strategy, public policy, market access, and patient advocacy for new biotechnology products. Currently, she is consulting for biotech and patient advocacy clients on pricing, reimbursement, and market access strategies for products in development. Specifically, she is helping her clients with the creation of value messaging, health economics and outcomes research, and payer strategies that lead to successful commercialization. Previously, she was Vice President and Head of Global Pricing & Reimbursement at Spark Therapeutics, Inc., a fully integrated gene therapy company, now a member of the Roche group. While at Spark, Ms. Pitluck priced the first US Food and Drug Administration-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease, LUXTURNA®. She also led the roll-out of Spark’s unique alternate payment options and outcomes-based arrangements for LUXTURNA while working across Spark’s entire product pipeline to develop programs to help ensure timely patient access to future one-time gene therapies. Prior to joining Spark, Ms. Pitluck was the Executive Director for Global P&R at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, leading all P&R efforts, including dossier preparation and negotiations for Alexion globally. Ms. Pitluck was also the Director of Genentech’s Coverage & Reimbursement Policy and responsible for all US public payer policy and reimbursement issues for Genentech’s products. She has worked at healthcare consulting companies in the Washington, DC area including Avalere Health and Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services Inc., focusing on policy and reimbursement analyses for a variety of products in different care settings and disease areas. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for two non-profit organizations in Washington, DC—I Support the Girls, an international organization assisting women experiencing homelessness, impoverishment, or distress and the I.M.P. Family Fund created to assist workers affiliated with local music clubs who have experienced hardship. Ms. Pitluck received her Masters of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis.

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