The Long Read: CEOs Unplug At AAM Conference

Four US Leaders Dive Deep On PBMs, Pricing, Biosimilars And Shortages

The AAM’s annual Access! 2024 conference brought its much-enjoyed CEOs Unplugged panel to Tampa again for another engaging discussion on critical issues, challenges and opportunities for generics and biosimilars in the US.

CEOs Unplugged panel
• Source: AAM

The 80-minute ‘CEOs Unplugged’ roundtable was introduced by the Association for Accessible Medicines’ interim CEO David Gaugh as – typically – the most anticipated event at the AAM’s two-day annual conference. So it showed, as seats filled quickly and other attendees stood or leaned at the back of the large conference hall in Tampa, eager to hear from the gathered panel of four esteemed US leaders, each boasting decades of experience across a wide range of backgrounds and geographies.

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