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Sarah Volden

Director, Life Sciences & Healthcare Consulting Group

sarahvolden@paulhastings.com

Sarah Volden is a director in the Life Sciences Consulting Group at Paul Hastings, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Sarah has over 17 years of experience leading global compliance programs for pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and digital health companies. Blending consulting and in-house experience, she has assisted teams in navigating regulatory ambiguity to mitigate risk while still enabling teams to meet strategic business objects when building, designing and operationalizing compliance programs. She possesses extensive experience advising and managing across the elements of an effective program, including enterprise and compliance risk assessments, written standards, training and communication, governance and oversight, third party management, and monitoring and auditing. She has designed, built and managed HCP engagement processes and technologies, including FMV.

REPRESENTATIONS

  • Led the redesign of a large pharmaceutical company’s monitoring program across live, transaction and email review; engagement involved aligning global and U.S. requirements and reporting, developing key risk indicators to select samples, enhancing testing attributes and implementing a consistent governance and remediation framework.

  • Oversaw and owned all elements of the compliance program for a digital health company through various phases of program and company maturity, including investigations, monitoring, transparency, policy governance and third-party management.