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Matt Reaney, PhD, CPsychol, CSci, FRSPH, AFBPsS, MSc, PGDip

Chief Scientific Officer

Matt is Vitaccess’ Chief Scientific Officer, leading the scientific strategy underpinning our patient-centred research, measurement science and digital innovation activities. He is a Chartered and Practitioner Health Psychologist, a Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of both the Royal Societies of Medicine and Public Health, and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London.
 
With more than 20 years’ experience spanning pharma, consultancy, academia and the NHS, Matt has held senior patient-centred research and scientific leadership roles at organisations including IQVIA, Sanofi, Eli Lilly, Oxford Outcomes and ERT. Prior to joining Vitaccess, he led the Patient-Centered Solutions (PCS) Scientific and Analytic teams and the PCS Institute at IQVIA. He also serves as co-chair of the Drug Information Association (DIA) Study Endpoints Group, sits on the Scientific Advisory Board at Breakthrough T1D, and contributes to the editorial boards of several journals.

Matt is passionate about ensuring the patient voice is meaningfully integrated throughout healthcare and drug development, while applying rigorous scientific frameworks to measure and interpret patient experience data. He has been an early adopter of digital technologies to improve the reliability, validity and feasibility of patient-centred measurement approaches across clinical research and routine care.

He has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed publications, edited three books focused on patient experience data and clinical outcome assessment, and presented more than 130 conference abstracts internationally. His expertise spans the development, validation and implementation of clinical outcome assessment tools, digital health measurement, patient engagement methodologies, and the integration of the patient perspective across the drug development lifecycle.

Outside of work, Matt enjoys exploring new technology, keeping up with developments in behavioural science and healthcare innovation, and spending time with family and friends.

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