Patient Engagement Leadership Series: Applying The Voice Of The Patient In Making Patient Engagement Work, my colleague, Jeff Terkowitz, discussed a 2015 survey of pharmaceutical companies in which 76% had started or were thinking of starting a patient advocacy program but less than 20% actually had a program with staff and 39% had budgeted less than $50,000.1 Companies that have created a position with the express purpose of patient engagement are seeing significant positive change in their cultures. “The culture at TESARO has always emphasized putting patients at the center of everything we do.  However, the formalization of [...]