Proven expertise in patient advocacy.

Jamie Ring Advocacy Consulting provides strategic, experience-driven support to biotech and life-sciences companies seeking to build or strengthen their patient engagement and advocacy capabilities. As the founder of Jamie Ring Advocacy Consulting, Jamie partners with companies from early research through commercialization to develop advocacy strategies, conduct landscape assessments, and integrate the patient voice into critical decision-making.

  • Jamie Ring is a globally recognized patient advocacy leader with more than 25 years of experience helping biotechnology and life-sciences organizations build meaningful, strategic relationships with patient communities.  Before launching her consulting practice, Jamie led global advocacy functions at major biopharmaceutical companies, including serving as Head of Patient Advocacy at Spark Therapeutics, where she supported the launch of Luxturna, the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease. She also spent a decade at Genzyme, overseeing global advocacy and humanitarian programs, and held patient-focused roles at Biogen and the ALS Therapy Development Institute. Jamie was honored by PharmaVoice as one of the industry’s “100 Most Inspiring Leaders” and continues to advise several national rare-disease organizations.

Services include:

Development of comprehensive advocacy strategies, landscape assessments, and situation analyses to guide engagement across all phases of development and commercialization. 

Patient Advocacy Strategy & Planning

Communication Support for Milestones & Transitions

Guidance for major program moments—from trial initiations and data releases to challenges such as trial failures or corporate transitions—with a focus on clarity, empathy, and trust.

Provide mentoring and partnership for advocacy function leaders looking to have a thought partner as they seek to strengthen their internal services and capabilities.

Advocacy Mentoring

Planning and facilitating advisory boards, workshops, and insight-gathering initiatives to bring the patient perspective into clinical development, communications, and strategic decision-making.

Advisory Boards & Insight Generation

Patient Engagement & Community Partnerships

Building and managing trusted relationships with patient organizations, advocacy leaders, and stakeholders—serving as an extension of internal teams when dedicated advocacy resources are limited.

Genetic Testing & Disease Awareness Program Development

Expert support designing and launching disease awareness, education, and genetic testing programs, including vendor selection, content creation, and ongoing program management.

Client Feedback

  • "Working with Jamie was invaluable as we built out our patient advocacy function under extremely tight timelines. Her strategic guidance helped us clearly prioritize what needed to be done in both the near term and long term. Her strategic planning skills, expertise and calm, and solutions-oriented approach made a tremendous difference."

    Head of Patient Advocacy, Global Pharmaceutical Company

  • "Jamie Ring is an exceptional patient advocacy consultant whose deep expertise, strategic leadership, and trusted partnership over four years made her an invaluable extension of our team and a transformative asset to our program. She provided guidance and support across a wide range of critical initiatives including guidance of compliant sponsorship processes, patient journey mapping, a company-sponsored genetic testing program, PFDD activities, and the development and stewardship of key advocacy relationships.”

    Patient Advocacy Head, Clinical Stage Biotechnology Company

  • "Our collaboration with Jamie was instrumental in helping us navigate an incredibly complex market environment to ensure the voice of the patients was front and center in our decision-making and assist us in making the right first steps in building valuable relationships with advocacy and community groups relevant to our program."

    Chief Strategy Officer, Development-Stage Company

  • "Jamie built an exceptional patient advocacy team grounded in empathy, trust, and true partnership with patients and families—strengthening our reputation within the rare disease community. She helped our employees feel connected to the real impact of our work and provided strategic insights that shaped both our commercial planning and our R&D priorities.”

    Former CEO, Gene Therapy Company

  • “We were a single product company navigating a regulatory filing with significant corporate effect. Jamie provided executive level expertise to shape our planning efforts and positioned us for success. Jamie’s strategic thinking, vast and deep rare disease knowledge, and ability to plug-in seamlessly to a small, pre-commercial company was best of the best. She is a true partner to our company and to the patient community we serve.”

    Chief Commercial Officer, Global Biopharmaceutical Company

Let’s Talk.

jamie@jradvocacy.com