Kari Loeser

Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer at Cytokinetics

Speaker

Kari is Vice President, Compliance at Nuvalent, Inc. where she provides executive management, direction, and oversight for all aspects of the compliance program, policies, monitoring, training, privacy, and compliance-related advisory. Previously, Kari served as Chief Compliance Officer & Chief Data Privacy Officer at Cytokinetics; the US Healthcare Compliance and Privacy Officer and Senior Corporate Counsel at Vifor Pharma, Inc.; and a Senior Director/Senior Compliance Counsel at Jazz Pharmaceuticals. She has extensive experience in providing legal and compliance advice on sales, marketing, promotional and medical materials review, Medical Affairs, managed care, commercial compliance, as well as U.S. Sunshine / aggregate spend and compliance operations and general privacy compliance.

At the senior corporate executive level, Kari serves on various executive management teams, including working with the company’s Compliance Committee and the senior management leadership team. She provides legal, compliance, and risk advisory guidance.

Kari has published various articles and a book chapter on E-Health and Ethics, and she has presented at various conferences including the AHLA-HCCA Fraud and Abuse Conference and the Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum Annual Meeting. She authored an article in the International In-House Counsel Journal on client centricity and authored a book chapter in Cancer Policy: Pharmaceutical Safety entitled “Anatomy of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS)”, Springer Publishing (Germany), published in 2019.

Kari is a licensed attorney in Illinois and registered in-house counsel in California. She earned her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, and her B.A. in Political Science and Religion with Honors from the University of Iowa.