Mobilizing Patient Experience: A Look into How mHealth will Transform Patient Care

Christian Reich is currently Senior Program Manager at the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership, a public-private research project between PhRMA and academic research institutions managed by the Foundation for the NIH and chaired by the FDA. The partnership is currently conducting a two-year research initiative to identify methods, technology and governance to evaluate safety issues of drugs on the market and to inform a comprehensive drug surveillance program. In his function, Christian is responsible for the technical infrastructure, medical terminology and successful execution of the research studies.

Christian has more than 15 years of experience in life science research and medicine. He was a practicing physician in Berlin and Ulm, Germany before moving to the European Bioinformatics Institute to work on the Human Genome Project. Christian joined Millennium Pharmaceuticals in 1998, where he was in a number of key positions including the head of Clinical Informatics at Millennium and Head of Computational Biology, where he was involved in the areas of drug development, safety, clinical research and clinical trial management. In his position as VP of Scientific Research at Genstruct, Christian lead the companies internal biology research teams as well as efforts in translational medicine and clinical research with its large pharmaceutical partners. Christian received his bachelor’s degree in preclinical training from Humboldt University in Berlin and holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from the Medical University of Lübeck where he focused research on T-cell activation and regulation.