Ms. Okun coordinates with the Executive Committee in the development and execution of strategies to accomplish CTTI’s mission. She provides senior oversight and management of CTTI operations and organizes efforts to leverage the participation of member organizations and external stakeholders. Prior to joining CTTI, Ms. Okun led a consultancy firm that specialized in projects related to patient and public involvement in research, care, policy, and socially accountable ethics. From 2013 to 2019, she served as vice president of the online patient research network PatientsLikeMe (PLM) where she was responsible for the company’s patient advocacy initiatives, contributed to health policy discussions at the national and global level, and was PLM’s liaison with government and regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Ms. Okun joined PLM in 2008 as the manager of Health Data Integrity and Patient Safety, where she oversaw the site’s medical ontology including the curation of patient-reported health data, and the patient voice vocabulary.
