Kristie Champlin Gurley
Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC
Kristie Gurley advises life sciences clients on complex pricing, reimbursement, and market access issues for drugs and biological products. She previously served in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she was a lead attorney for implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation and Inflation Rebate Programs, as well as Medicaid Drug Rebate Program rulemaking and CMS innovation initiatives for cell and gene therapies. In private practice, she provides strategic, policy, and regulatory advice on federal health care program coverage and reimbursement, Medicaid price reporting, agency engagement, payer and value-based contracting, and broader commercial, compliance, litigation, and policy advocacy matters.
Dr. Dr. Adem Koyuncu
Law firm Covington & Burling LLP, Brussels & Frankfurt
Lawyer and Medical Doctor,
Partner in the Brussels and Frankfurt offices
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Dr. Sebastian Werner
vfa - Verband Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller e. V., Berlin
Dr Sebastian Werner is a Market Access and HTA Specialist at the vfa (German Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies) and serves there as an expert on benefit assessment and market access issues, with a focus on EU HTA and EU market regulations. Previously, he worked, among other roles, in the drug assessment department at IQWiG and conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research. He is a psychologist and a neuroscientist specialising in neuro- and behavioural sciences.
19/11/2026
19/11/2026
02:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
online
online
Event - 690€ plus tax
The fee includes high-quality course material for download, a certificate of participation, access to our Learning Space and technical support, including a test meeting.
Event - 690€ plus tax
The fee includes high-quality course material for download, a certificate of participation, access to our Learning Space and technical support, including a test meeting.
Leila Dörfler
Team Leader
+49 6221 500-695
l.doerfler@forum-institut.de
The US Most Favored Nation policy is already reshaping pharmaceutical pricing in Europe. Kristie Champlin Gurley, formerly with the US Department of Health and Human Services where she advised directly on the CMS drug pricing portfolio, brings first-hand regulatory insight into how GUARD and GLOBE were designed. Leave with concrete strategic orientation for 2027.
This online seminar provides pricing, market access and regulatory professionals with a structured and expert-guided overview of the current MFN policy landscape and its direct consequences for European pharmaceutical pricing. Participants gain a clear understanding of the proposed GUARD and GLOBE models, their interaction with International Reference Pricing, and the strategic implications for global launch sequencing ahead of 2027.
14:00 Welcome and introduction
14:15
Kristie Champlin Gurley
15:15 Break
15:30
Dr. Dr. Adem Koyuncu
16:15
Dr. Sebastian Werner
17:00 End
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