Speaker Profile
B.S., Co-Founder & SVP, Payor Innovation, Alva10
Biography
Lena Chaihorsky is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Payor Innovation at Alva10, a Precision Medicine company that works to make healthcare more effective and efficient by using patient-specific data to make healthcare decisions. Lenas academic background in mathematics led to a passion for redesigning the financial incentives of the healthcare system, with a focus on the underutilized area of diagnostics. Lena has over 15 years experience in the diagnostics industry, and is a nationally recognized market access and payment expert with a successful track record that spans both private and public companies. Her work around mathematical modeling of diagnostic value led to her appointment as Chairwoman of the World Economic Forums Working Group on Federated Databases in Rare Disease, and to the Study Design Task Force for Pharmacogenomics at the American Society of Pharmacovigilance. She is an Independent Board Member at Cellens, a bladder cancer diagnostics company.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Kristine Ashcraft, YouScript
Program Theme: Addressing Persistent PGx Myths
- PMWC Award Ceremony:
Luminary Honoree: Philip E. Empey, UPMC
Pioneer Honoree: Collen Masimirembwa, University of the Witwatersrand
- Keynote: Genomic Diversity in Africa: Pharmacogenetics and Clinical Applications
- Collen Masimirembwa, University of the Witwatersrand
- PGx is Expensive and Insurance Coverage is Limited (PANEL)
Chair: Jai Patel, Atrium Health
- Lena Chaihorskym, Alva10
- Mark Fleury, ACS CAN
- Kristin Wiisanen, Rosalind Franklin University
- Alison L. Quinn, Kaiser - Science Backing PGx is Limited (PANEL)
Chair: Sara Rogers, American Society of Pharmacovigilance
- Russ Altman, Stanford
- Philip E. Empey, UPMC
- PGx is Hard to Implement (PANEL)
Chair: Kristine Crews, St Jude
- Suzanne Stevens, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
- Deepak Voora, VA
- Jason Roos, ARPA-H
- Jennifer Wick, The Christ Hospital Health Network
- What will It Take to Make PGx the Standard of Care? (PANEL)
Chair: Kristine Ashcraft, YouScript
- Alan Venook, UCSF/ NCCN
- Gary Marchant, ASU
- Dan Hertz, University of Michigan
- Deepak Voora, VA
