Name: Stacy Hurt

Position: Chief Patient Officer at Parexel

Bio: Stacy is a globally recognized advocate in patient communities, ensuring patients and caregivers have a voice in their experience and an opportunity to provide feedback at early stages to improve drug development. She promotes clinical research accessibility for people with disabilities and equal access to better treatments, improved outcomes and cures. Stacy is an award-winning pharma executive with 25 years’ experience in sales, marketing, training, operations and physician practice management. She is a frequent speaker and influencer, championing patient involvement in research & co-chairs the American Cancer Society NE Region (Pittsburgh market). She has a B.S. in labor/industrial relations (Penn State) & master’s degrees in health and business administration (University of Pittsburgh)

Why I’m passionate about patient engagement: “I am deeply humbled and grateful for this honor. This award is important to me because of the recognition by my peers. It means that the work I’m doing as an advocate and servant leader is making a difference for all of us working in this field. As a patient and caregiver myself, I know firsthand that every minute matters in drug development. The more value we can attach to the positive effect that patient input has on improving and accelerating clinical research, the better.”