SCIANA NETWORK - Key Persons
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- Chief Executive Officer / National Director - System Development, NHS Sussex / NHS England
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- Chief Analyst for the North West Region, NHS England, United Kingdom
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- Head
- Head of Mental Health ( Perinatal, Children and Young People ), Mental Health Team, NHS England and Improvement, United Kingdom
Ailsa Swarbrick is the head of mental health (perinatal, children and young people) at the Mental Health Team of NHS England and Improvement. She formerly served as director of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) National Unit, and also of Gender Services, in the Tavistock and Portman mental health NHS Trust in London. Ailsa previously worked for the UK Government Departments of Health, of Education and of Employment developing social policy, strategy and legislation. She is particularly interested in reducing inequalities, early intervention, developing relational and patient-centred approaches to service delivery, and in how to stimulate and evidence improvement in complex systems. She has a first degree in English and Russian and an M.Sc. in healthcare leadership (quality improvement) and is a Health Foundation Generation Q Fellow.
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- Head of Healthcare Innovation, Die Techniker ( TK ), Germany
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- Entrepreneur, Co - Founder, Zava ( Previously DrEd ), Europe 's Largest Online GP Service
Amit Khutti is currently starting a new business looking to improve the mental and emotional health of women. Prior to this he co-founded DrEd, Europe's largest online GP service which has delivered over 1.5 million patient treatments. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Amit led on strategy and planning for Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, and also worked on delivering key health targets for then Prime Minister Tony Blair. Amit started his working life as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co, after studying English Literature at Oxford University, UK.
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- CEO, Medgate, Switzerland
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- Advisor, Global Programme on Pandemic Prevention and Response, One Health at Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale Zusammenarbeit ( GIZ ) GmbH, Germany / Deutsche Gesellschaft
Anja Leetz holds an M.Sc. in global health policy, but has also trained as a foundation manager, photographer and teacher. She has worked for 20 years with civil society organisations and foundations in Berlin, London, Brussels and Stuttgart, engaging on EU and UN environmental policy processes, such as REACH, UNFCCC, SAICM and the Minamata Convention. Anja worked as an advisor to the German government on chemicals and the WHO Euro region on environmentally sustainable health systems. In her voluntary capacity Anja is a member of the German Alliance for Climate Change and Health (KLUG) and an advisor to the World Future Council.
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- Head of Directorate for Health Protection and Sustainability, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany
Annabelle Böttcher holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg i.Br. and a habilitation in Islamic Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin. She was affiliated and/or taught at the Institut d'Études Arabes de Damas in Syria, the Free Universität Berlin in Germany, Harvard University and the Universität Wien in Austria. From 2020-2022 worked as vice-president, dean of the Faculty of Social Work and professor at the DHBW in Schwenningen, Germany. She has been affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark since 2016 and currently is a non-residential guest professor.
She spent many years researching and teaching in and about the Islamic world first with a focus on the politics of official Islam. Influenced by ten years of work for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in conflict and war zones, she focuses currently more on Islamic culture, health, war and conflict as well as the weaponization of health care. She has many years of experience in frontline negotiations with non-conventional arms-carriers and armed groups in the Islamic world.
Annamaria Müller has an academic degree in social economics from the University of Berne and will be heading the Cantonal Office for Hospital Services from May 2009 until the end of 2019. The Office is in charge the surveillance and regulation of the acute care hospitals, clinics for rehabilitation and psychiatric care as well as the terrestrial rescue services. It furthermore regulates and funds health promotion programs and addiction therapy as well as health service providers who offer graduate or post graduate training for health professionals. Previously, Annamaria Müller was secretary general of the Swiss Medical Association (FMH). Before this, she worked for the Department of Health of the Canton of Zurich and the Swiss Conference of the Cantonal Ministers of Public Health, each time starting as a scientific collaborator and ending in a leading position. By 2020 she will be working as an independent consultant with her firm Amidea GmbH - New Health Care Solutions and serves as president of the Board of the Hôpitaux Fribourgois / Freiburger Spital.
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- Full Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice President Medicine, University of Zürich ( UZH ), Switzerland
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- Deputy CEO and Managing Director, Programs, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria / United States of America
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- Chief Executive Officer and Spokeswoman for the Management Board, Catholic Hospital Association of Germany E.V. ( Kkvd ), Berlin, Germany
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- Professor and Executive Director, World Federation of Public Health Associations, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Social Media & Digital Health Expert, Patient Expert, Journalist, Speaker, Manufaktur Für Antworten UG, Germany
Bob Klaber is a Consultant General Paediatrician & Director of Strategy, Research & Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Bob trained as an educationalist alongside his postgraduate paediatric training in London and has a strong interest in individual and systems learning, quality improvement, behavioural insights work, leadership development and kindness. He has completed a mixed methods MD researching leadership approaches in healthcare. Bob is also a member of the NHS Assembly.
In 2015 Bob set up a team who continue to drive an ambitious project to create a culture of continuous quality improvement across Imperial College Healthcare, has worked as Deputy Medical Director and led work on the development and implementation of the Trust's new organisational strategy. In his current Executive Director role he is responsible for strategy, research, innovation and improvement across the Trust. This also involves clinical leadership around redevelopment, sustainability, improving population health, developing the Trust's role as an anchor institution and reducing health inequalities.
Bob is also a strong advocate for child health and co-leads the Connecting Care for Children (CC4C) integrated child health programme in North West London www.cc4c.imperial.nhs.uk , which is focused on developing whole population integrated care models of care and learning within paediatrics and child health.
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- Director of Health, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Denmark
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- Professor of Regulatory Affairs, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- CEO of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation
- Strategy
Caroline Clarke is the CEO of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Caroline was formerly director of strategy at NHS North Central London. Prior to that she was an associate partner in KPMG's health strategy team. She has spent most of her career in NHS finance, having been director of finance at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and City and Hackney Primary Care Trust. Caroline was the trust's chief finance officer between 2011-18. In 2012 she was named finance director of the year by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She was appointed as the trust's deputy chief executive in 2012. Caroline is a director of RFL Property Services Ltd and a trustee of Overcoming MS and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), the representative body for finance staff in healthcare.
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- Program Manager
- Program Manager, Health, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
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- CEO of Spitex Zurich Limmat
- CEO, Spitex Zurich Limmat ( SZL ) AG, Switzerland
Christina Brunnschweiler has been the CEO of Spitex Zurich Limmat (SZL) AG since 2000. SZL is a non-profit Spitex Organization in Zurich with approximately 500.000 billable hours per year. From 2000 to 2009 she was managing director of a smaller Spitex Organization in Zurich. In 1990 she started to work with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) as principal consultant process improvement and SAP-consulting in the position of vice president. Christina comes from the world of IT and finance, from 1982 to 1990 she worked as vice president at MOR Informatik AG and Spectrospin AG, responsible for finance, HR, administration, and IT. Christina is a member of the Board of Directors of an integrated psychiatric care organisation (president) as well as for a large rehabilitation group and long term care institution. She obtained her degree (lic. oec. HSGf) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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- Professor of Medicine, University of Zurich Director, Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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- Chairman, Health Education England, United Kingdom
- Health Education England
Dr Claire Lemer combines working as a paediatric consultant with supporting services through clinical management roles. In addition to her clinical role, she is Clinical Director for Evelina Medicine. She is also the Director of Clinical Transformation. Claire spent two and a half years at the Department of Health and the World Health Organisation, where she worked in public health, quality improvement and developing clinical leadership programmes. During 2004-2005, Claire was a Harkness Fellow in Health Policy, in Boston, USA, where she researched the effects of communication in paediatric medication safety. She has co-authored two books on medical management.
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- Chief Executive
- Chief Executive, the Health Foundation, United Kingdom
- Chief Executive, the Health Foundation, United Kingdom / the Health Foundation
- Non - Executive Board Member of the UK Health Security Agency
Dr Jennifer Dixon joined the Health Foundation as Chief Executive in October 2013.
Jennifer was Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust from 2008 to 2013. Prior to this, she was Director of Policy at The King's Fund and was the policy advisor to the Chief Executive of the National Health Service between 1998 and 2000. Jennifer has undertaken research and written widely on health care reform both in the UK and internationally.
Originally trained in medicine, Jennifer practised mainly paediatric medicine, prior to a career in policy analysis. She has a Master's in public health and a PhD in health services research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1990-91, Jennifer was a Harkness Fellow in New York.
Jennifer was appointed as a non-executive board member of the UK Health Security Agency in April 2022. She has served as a Board member of the Health Care Commission 2004-2009; the Audit Commission 2003-2012; and the Care Quality Commission 2013-2016. She has led two national inquiries for government: on the setting up of published ratings of quality of NHS and social care providers in England (2013); and on the setting up of ratings for general practices (2015). She was also a member of the Parliamentary Review Panel for the Welsh Assembly Government advising on the future strategy for the NHS and social care in Wales (2017-2018).
In 2009, Jennifer was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 2019 was elected as a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She was awarded a CBE for services to public health in 2013, and a Doctor of Science from Bristol University in 2016. She has held visiting professorships at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the London School of Economics, and Imperial College Business School.
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- CEO of the Hirslanden Group
Dr. Daniel Liedtke has been CEO of the Hirslanden Group and a member of the Executive Committee of Mediclinic International since January 2019. The development of integrated physical and digital healthcare and operating models, as well as the management of networked healthcare facilities, have been the focus of Daniel Liedtke's work for decades. He sits on numerous boards and is involved in teaching and research. He holds a doctorate in Business Administration from Charles Sturt University and an Executive Master of Science in Health Service Administration (EMSHA). Before becoming CEO, Daniel Liedtke held various leading positions within the Hirslanden Group, such as Chief Operating Officer (2015-2018) and hospital director of the Klinik Hirslanden in Zurich (2008-2015). He initially studied osteopathic medicine (D.O. GDK) and physiotherapy (BSc). He is also a qualified car electrician (EFZ).
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- Dean of Careum School of Health, Part
Dr. Jacqueline Suzanne Martin is Dean of Careum School of Health, Part of Kalaidos University of applied Science in Switzerland. She completed her Master in Nursing Science at the University Maastricht, Netherlands in 2005 and her PhD at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland in 2012. Additionally, she has a Master of Advanced Studies in adult and professional education from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. From 2006 to 2012 she was head of the RCN Clinical Leadership Programme at the University of Basel and now she is programme director of the CAS Shared Leadership-Shared Governance at Careum School of Health. She has an extensive background in critical care nursing and her research is focused on leadership development and evaluation as well as nurses' practices environments. She is engaged in diverse national and international Advisory Boards and Boards of Directors in acute care hospitals.
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- Research Group Leader and Head, Advanced Practices Nurses ( APN ), Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute ( EBPI ), University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dunja Nicca is scientific collaborator and group leader at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute at the University of Zurich. She gained her PhD in Nursing Science from the University of Basel in 2009 and holds a Master's degree in Nursing Science.
Dunja Nicca is a member of the scientific board of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study and member of the Swiss Association for Nursing Science.
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- Health Policy / Digital Health
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- Editor
- Medical Doctor
- First Female Editor
- Medical Doctor, Editor, Writer and Campaigner Former Editor in Chief, British Medical Journal, United Kingdom
Fiona Godlee is a medical doctor, editor, writer and campaigner. She has written, researched and lectured on a broad range of subjects, including the impact of environmental degradation on health, drug policy reform, academic peer review, open access publishing, and the need for transparency, integrity and independence in medical research, education and practice. She is a trustee of the Eden Project and chair of Eden's Board Affairs Committee. She helped to establish and is an ambassador for the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and is chair of the Youth Environmental Service. From 2005 to 2021 she was editor in chief of The BMJ (British Medical Journal) and editorial director of its parent company BMJ. Prior to that she was the founding director of BMJ Knowledge, founding editorial director for medicine of BioMedCentral, and co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences.She was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard Medical School from 1994-1995. She is a Bye Fellow of King's College Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Fiona lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.
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- Head of the Task Force Innovation Fund at the German Federal Ministry of Health
- Head, Task Force Innovation Fund, German Federal Ministry of Health, Germany
Friederike Botzenhardt is head of the Task Force Innovation Fund at the German Federal Ministry of Health (since establishment of the Innovation Fund in 2015). The Innovation Fund is a programme of the German statutory health insurance system, that funds innovative health care models and health care research. Previously, Friederike worked for the division General Health Policy Planning and the EU Health Policy Unit at the Ministry, which included work on health system performance assessment, innovation and the health economy, the German government's demography strategy and the national strategy on sustainable development. From 1999 until 2006, she served as policy advisor at the health policy division of the Federal Chancellery. She graduated from the University of Cologne with a degree in economics, specializing in social and health policy studies.
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- Research Associate, Careum, Switzerland
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- Health Education England
- NHS Primary Care Doctor and VP Primary Care, Huma Board Member, Health Education England, United Kingdom
Harpreet Sood is currently a NHS primary care doctor in London and a digital health expert. He has a portfolio of work advising health systems, digital health companies, multinationals and investment firms. Harpreet also sits on the board of Health Education England, a £4.5bn organisation training and developing 160,000 staff across the NHS, where his focus is on developing digital and data science skills for the NHS workforce and Wesleyan.Harpreet was recently clinical advisor to the NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Programme and prior to this the first associate chief clinical information officer (CCIO) at NHS England. He has also served as Senior Fellow to the CEO of NHS England, where he worked with senior NHS policymakers on NHS transformation, innovation and technology policy. As the associate CCIO, Harpreet was involved in developing and implementing NHS England's digital health and data strategy, including co-founding and leading the NHS Digital Academy, one of the key initiatives from the strategy. Harpreet also has international experience of working in the US where he co-founded a digital health startup in Boston and worked at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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- Consultant Psychiatrist and Deputy Medical Director, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, UK
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Executive Officer of the Charit
- Chief Executive Officer, Charitè - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Heyo K. Kroemer is chief executive officer of the Charitè - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He is the former full-time dean and chairman of the management board of the University Medical Center Göttingen. Before, he was professor at the University of Greifswald and served as dean of the Medical School from 2000 to 2012. His research is about drug metabolism and transport, cardioactive substances and cytostatics, and improving drug targeting. He has published more than 270 papers. He received his Ph.D. in pharmacology with a thesis about hemodilution treatment of stroke.
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- Director of Policy at the Health Foundation
- Director of Policy, the Health Foundation, UK
- Director of Policy, the Health Foundation, UK / the Health Foundation
Hugh is Director of Policy at the Health Foundation. He leads the Foundation's works to analyse, understand, and inform NHS and social care policy England. This includes a mix of research and analysis on national NHS reforms, the performance of the health and care system, and policies on primary care and reducing health inequalities.
Before he joined the Health Foundation, Hugh was a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at the University of California, San Francisco, and Berkeley. Hugh's research in the US focused on health system approaches to addressing patients' social and economic needs, like unstable housing and food insecurity. Before that, Hugh worked at The King's Fund as Senior Policy Adviser to the Chief Executive, where he published research and policy analysis on a range of topics, including national NHS reforms, integration of health and social care services, and opportunities for health systems to improve population health. He also provided policy advice to the NHS and government. Hugh has also worked as a management consultant at PwC, working on health policy and improvement, and on Sir John Oldham's Independent Commission on Whole Person Care.
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- Chairman, International Advisory Board, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
- Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International
Professor Ilona Kickbusch is the Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
She is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, the WHO Council on the Economic of Health for All, Council Chair to the World Health Summit in Berlin and vice-president of the European Health Forum Gastein. She has been involved in German G7 and G20 activities relating to global health and the global health initiatives of the German EU presidency in 2020 and most recently co-chaired the T7 2022 taskforce on global health.
She chaired the international advisory board for the development of the German global health strategy and advised on the establishment of the WHO Hub on Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. She works on a continuous basis with EU presidencies on global health and is advisor to the development of a revised European Global Health Strategy.
She publishes widely and serves on many other commissions and boards. She initiated the @wgh300 list of women leaders in global health. She is program chair of the leaders in health network SCIANA at Salzburg Global Seminar. She is co-chair of a Lancet FT Commission on "Governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world." She is honorary professor at the Charité, Berlin.
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- Director of the Institute for Medical Knowledge Management
Ina Kopp is Director of the Institute for Medical Knowledge Management of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF-IMWi) since its foundation in 2009. She serves as Deputy Chair of the AWMF Standing Commission on Guidelines since 2004.
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- Senior Vice President at the Robert Bosch Center for Innovative Health
- Senior Vice President, Robert Bosch Center for Innovative Health at the Bosch Health Campus, Stuttgart, Germany
- Senior Vice President, Robert Bosch Center for Innovative Health at the Bosch Health Campus, Stuttgart, Germany / Bosch Health Campus GmbH
Ingrid Wünning Tschol is Senior Vice President at the Robert Bosch Center for Innovative Health at the Bosch Health Campus, Stuttgart, Germany. She holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Tübingen, Germany. From 1985-1990, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. Further stations in her career were: Head of Molecular Biology, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Bonn, Germany; Head of Medical Section, European Science Foundation in Strasbourg, France. She is or was member of numerous national and international committees, amongst them as Vice Chair of the European Research Area Board (ERAB), advising the European Commissioner for Research from 2008 to 2011. More recent committee activities include membership in the ETH Zürich Foundation; Universitätsrat Ulm; BOT African Agricultural Technology Trust; Careum Stiftung Zürich and Scientific Advisory Board Zukunftskolleg University Konstanz.
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- Deputy Leader of Council, Lambeth Council, London, United Kingdom
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director of Primary Care, Community and Mental Health, Cwm Taf University Health Board Co - Chair, National Board, PCMH Directors Peer Group, United Kingdom
John Palmer is the executive director of primary care, community and mental health for the Cwm Taf University Health Board; and co-chair of the National Board for the PCMH Directors Peer Group. John was previously the lead director of Welsh Health Specialised Services, the joint committee that is delegated to manage specialised and tertiary services on behalf of NHS Wales. Prior to this appointment, he was Cwm Taf Health Board's turnaround director. John joined Cwm Taf from the Welsh Government where he was the director of public services improvement, responsible for Local Service Boards and Wales Spatial Plan; Audit, Regulation and Inspection; and the Public Services Summits and Efficiency and Innovation Board which responded to UK Government austerity policies. John was previously the assistant head for the Department of Health and Social Services where he covered the corporate management and special projects portfolio. He worked directly to the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chief Executive of NHS Wales on NHS Wales' structural reforms; the 5-year service, workforce and financial strategic framework; the development of the National Shared Services body; and non-emergency patient transport. John's first role in Wales was as assistant chief executive at Monmouthshire County Council. Before this he worked for the Cabinet Office (Office of Public Services Reform) in Whitehall; North Hertfordshire District Council; and the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Trust in London. John has honours degrees in English literature and language and law; is a Warwick University MPA; and is currently studying for an M.Sc. in evidence based medicine. He has broad research interests in public value, local - central relations and improvement and intervention.
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- Co - Chair
- Professor of Public Health, University of Valencia, Spain
Jose M. Martin-Moreno appointed Sciana Cohort 5 co-chair
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- Chief Officer, Edinburgh Integration Joint Board, Scotland, United Kingdom
Karin Holm is a Swiss-American multidisciplinary professional who has been interested in understanding the underlying mechanisms of animal and human decision-making throughout her career. She has explored these questions first by using empirical methods to gather data about learning and motivation in animals and humans, then by examining group behavior through modeling business growth and economic analysis, later by studying the organizational behavior of global health public-private partnerships to develop medicines and vaccines for developing countries, and additionally, by studying governance systems change potential with patient advocacy in health research and treatment. For the last five years, as science writer and editor she has headed the office of research publications at the Blue Brain Project, in Geneva, Switzerland, part of EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), which focuses on simulation neuroscience using computer models to reconstruct and simulate the multiscale behavior of neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters, and other components of neural function and communication in the brain.
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- Professor for Nutrition and Gerontology, German Institute for Human Nutrition ( DIfE ) and Department of Geriatrics, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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- Deputy Chief Executive, Guy 's and St Thomas' ( GSTT ), United Kingdom
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- Senior Health Systems Researcher and Designer, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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- Chief
- Chief Foundation Partners' Officer, Sciana and Bosch Health Campus, Germany
- Global Health / Leadership / Health Systems
Louise Baker-Schuster is Chief Foundation Partners' Officer (CFPO) for SCIANA and a Senior Project Manager at the Robert Bosch Institute for Innovative Health at the Bosch Health Campus. Her career has led her down a number of different paths including a German degree at Liverpool University (UK) and an MA in European Studies at the RWTH Aachen (DE). She moved to Brussels in 2002 and worked for the British Council before taking up a post at the European Commission in DG Education in Culture. Louise decided to return to Germany and joined the Science Department at the Robert Bosch Stiftung in 2007, leading programmes with the aim of strengthening ties between schools, science, and universities before transferring to the Health Department in 2014 (this moved to the BHC in 2022). Since then, she has been responsible for several national and international projects focusing on leadership and inter-professional collaboration in health and health care, such as the European Palliative Care Academy (EUPCA). She was also actively involved in introducing the concept of Community Health Nursing into the German Health System. In her role for SCIANA she is responsible for managing the network's overall resources and operations as well as being the person who connects the dots between all our partners and stakeholders such as the OECD and Charité, our 90+ fellows and the Sciana team at SGS.
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- Professor of Healthcare Management at SRH Mobile University
- Transformation of Healthcare
Lutz Hager is professor of healthcare management at SRH Mobile University. He formerly served as deputy CEO of ze:roPraxen, a provider of ambulatory care in the Rhein-Neckar Region. Since 2017 he has been member of the board of Bundesverband Managed Care e.V. and member of the board of Gesundheitsplattform Rhein-Neckar e.V. Lutz formerly served as executive director at IKK Südwest, a leading statutory health insurer located in southwestern Germany. His responsibilities included benefits management and provider contracting as well as designing and implementing innovative approaches to care. Prior to joining IKK Südwest in 2011, Lutz was an engagement manager at McKinsey&Co. and part of the German healthcare leadership group. Lutz obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Free University of Berlin in 2005. He also serves as founding chair of "Urban Innovation - Stadt neu denken! e.V."
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- Professor, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Bochum, Germany
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- Fellow
- CEO of the Medbase Group
- Co - Founder and CEO, Medbase Group, Switzerland / Medbase Group
Marcel Napierala is co-founder and the CEO of the Medbase Group and has been involved in integrating healthcare services since the company was founded in 2001. Medbase and its partners are committed to connect the prevention, the acute care and rehabilitation. An important milestone for reaching these goals was the involvement of the Retailer Migros as a strategic shareholder. In addition to his position as a CEO, he holds some mandates as a board member. After his studies in Physiotherapy he obtained his diploma in Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW).
Nurse; Director of Nursing, Fondation Asile des Aveugles, Lausanne; President, Swiss Nurse Leaders Association, Switzerland.
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- Program Director, Health, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
Mathias Binswanger graduated in economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and received his PhD from the University of Kassel, Germany. Subsequently, he taught at the University of St. Gallen and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, USA and at Columbia University in New York. In 2000 he was a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Freiberg in Germany and taught at the University of Basle in Switzerland from 2006 to 2008. He was also teaching at Banking University in Saigon as well as at Qingdao Technical University in China. He has published books, articles and discussion papers in the fields of macroeconomics, environmental economics, finance as well as the economics of happiness. He also writes articles for a wider audience in newspapers and magazines and is a prominent speaker at many events. In 2006 he published the Swiss bestseller "Die Tretmühlen des Glücks" (The Treadmills of Happiness). His most recent books are "Sinnlose Wettbewerbe" (Absurd Competitions) published in 2010; "Geld aus dem Nichts" (Money Out of Nothing) published in 2015; and "Der Wachstumszwang (The Growth Imperative)", published in 2019. Additionally, Mathias Binswanger also serves as political advisor to the parliament and the federal government in Switzerland.
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- Medical Director and Therapeutic Area Lead, Global Medical Affairs, AbbVie GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
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- Marketing and Communications Manager, the Health Foundation, United Kingdom
- Marketing and Communications Manager, the Health Foundation, United Kingdom / the Health Foundation
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- President of the Board
- Science Writer
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- Vice - Director General, Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland
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- Director, Santé24, Switzerland
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- Digital Communications Specialist, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
Patrick Jahn is nurse and full professor. He is leading the Health Service Research Working Group at the University Medicine Halle (Saale). His research interests are on evidence-based digital health interventions based on user centered and co-creative development. Areas of clinical applications are supportive care and cancer symptom management with a special interest in improving patient self-management and technical assistance to support patients` autonomy. Patrick is commissioner of the Medical Faculty für digitization and transfer. Prior to joining Halle University, Patrick worked a.o. as a Nurse in Nuremberg and Israel Westbank and as Professor in Tubingen University. He is elected board member of if German Cancer Nursing Society (KOK) and he is scientific head of the "Translational Region for Digitized Health Care" an innovation ecosystem in central Germany (https://inno-tdg.de/).
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- Vice President, Commercial, Babylon Healthcare, England
Paul Bate joined Babylon in July 2016 and leads on work with the NHS and with governments. He is currently interim vice president, commercial. Paul joined Babylon from the Care Quality Commission, where he was a full board member and executive director of strategy and intelligence. He held national system roles including leading the Data and Outcomes domain of the Paperless 2020 programme. Prior to CQC, Paul worked at 10 Downing Street, where he was the senior policy adviser on health and social care to both the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister. He also worked for the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit under the last Labour government, where he led the health targets team. Paul has a background in strategy and finance, including working for McKinsey & Company and as a director of 2020 Delivery. He holds a Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Manchester.
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- Chief Missions and Science Officer, Zinc
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- Chief Operating Officer for St John Ambulance
- Chief Operating Officer, St. John Ambulance, UK
Richard Lee is the chief operating officer for St John Ambulance, the world's largest first aid and ambulance charity. Richard is a registered paramedic and before joining St John spent 25 years within the UK National Health Service ambulance sector. Prior to joining the NHS, Richard served with the Royal Air Force medical services seeing active service in the 1991 Gulf War and undertaking peacekeeping duties with the UN in the former Yugoslavia. Richard is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh where he holds a Fellowship in immediate medical care. He was awarded the Queens Ambulance Medal for distinguished ambulance service in the 2016 Birthday Honours list. Richard is fascinated by frailty and how health systems respond to the challenges this poses.
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- CEO, Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network, United Kingdom
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- Chief Executive, Health Innovation Network ( HIN ), United Kingdom
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- Director of Public Health, Doncaster Council in the North of England Board Member, Association of Directors of Public Health, UK
Ruth Glassborow leads the development and delivery of Scotland wide programmes and approaches that enable the application of quality improvement and large scale system redesign methodology to deliver better outcomes for people who need and use health and social care services. She has extensive knowledge and experience of effecting change through translating national policy priorities into change programmes that deliver sustained improvements whilst also influencing the direction of national policy.
Her remit includes the world renowned Scottish Patient Safety Programme which now sits alongside a wide range of other national improvement programmes focused on issues as diverse as improving access to primary care, implementation of Hospital at Home, commissioning community solutions, implementing an integrated frailty system, reducing elective waiting times, and redesigning services for individuals with substance use and mental health problems.
Before joining Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Ruth worked in the Scottish Government providing strategic leadership for a portfolio of programmes focused on delivering sustained improvements across dementia and mental health services. Prior to this she held a range of senior management positions in health and social care around the UK. Ruth started her career in the NHS as a National Management Trainee. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Warwick Business School and a Masters in Leadership (Quality Improvement) from Ashridge Business School. She is both a Health Foundation Sciana Fellow and Generation Q Fellow.
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- CEO and President of Operose Health
- CEO and President, Operose Health, United Kingdom
Samantha Jones is the CEO and president of Operose Health. She served before as director - New Care Models Programme and led on the implementation of the new care models outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View. This included launching 50 vanguards which took the lead on the developing new care models which acted as the blueprints for the NHS. In 2014, Samantha was named as the Health Service Journal's (HSJ) Chief Executive of the Year, and West Hertfordshire's 'Onion' was highly commended in the patient safety category of the same awards. 'Onion' was an initiative which focused on supporting staff to be open and transparent about concerns and empowered them to help address them. She previously also worked in the independent sector before she was appointed chief executive of West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust in February 2013. Having worked in a variety of operational management roles, and in the national clinical governance support team, she became the chief executive of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. Samantha started her NHS career as an adult and paediatric nurse and was a national management trainee.
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- Department Head, Careum Center for Health Literacy, Careum Stiftung, Switzerland
Shera Chok is a GP in East London and is the former Chief Medical Officer at NHS Digital. She is an experienced national clinical leader who has worked at Board and Director levels since 2000 and has led the redesign and implementation of new models of care in the NHS.
She advised ministers as a member of the NHS Independent Reconfiguration Panel for seven years and worked at Barts Health, the largest acute hospital trust in the NHS as Director of Primary Care for six years, helping to improve patient pathways across organisational boundaries. She started the award-winning national Shuri Network in 2019 as she is passionate about increasing diversity, innovation and safety and to encourage other women from minority ethnic groups to lead and engage with digital transformation.
She has helped to develop and implement health policy as a national clinical advisor on innovative models of care and Integrated Care Systems with NHS England. She is a member of the Sciana Network for European health leaders, sponsored by the Health Foundation.
Shera has volunteered as a clinician in countries including Sudan, Laos, Indonesia and Greece with NGOs working in war and disaster zones and with displaced populations. She studied at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health on an NHS executive leadership programme, focusing on quality improvement, community engagement and leading change and was seconded by the NHS to work with Crossrail. She has completed an M.B.A., M.A. in Inter-professional Education and a Nuffield Trust Fellowship on cross-organisational learning with Sunderland Athletic Football Club.
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- Director - General for Digitalization and Innovation, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany
Susanne Ozegowski is the Director-General for Digitalization and Innovation
at the Federal Ministry of Health in Germany. She previously worked as head of the unit managing integrated care contracts of Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), Germany's largest statutory health insurance fund. In addition, she was involved in the TK's efforts to set up an Electronic Health Record where she was responsible for fostering cooperation with providers and political stakeholders.From 2014 to June 2017 Susanne was the managing director of the German Managed Care Association (BMC), a pluralistic non-governmental association which serves as a think tank and forum for political debate on innovations in health care. Prior to joining the BMC, Susanne worked as a consultant for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for more than 5 years. Susanne has a Master of Science in communication and economics from the University of Lugano, Switzerland, and a Master of Public Health from the Charité (Berlin Medical School). In 2013, she earned a Ph.D. in public health from the Technical University Berlin with a dissertation on geographic variations in ambulatory care.
General Practitioner; Associate Professor in Primary Care, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- President, Swiss Red Cross and WHO Foundation
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- Director, Socialpediatric Center, Children 's Hospital Freiburg, Germany
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- Associate Medical Director, NHSEI Midlands Consultant Neuroradiologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom
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- Digital Health
- Founder of the HealthCare Futurists GmbH
Tobias Gantner is the founder of the HealthCare Futurists GmbH, a globally active organization that is engaged in fostering innovation and change in healthcare. He is consulting with major industry partners worldwide on sustainable integration of novelty products that have the potential to become game changers in healthcare. His interest goes out to digital transformation in healthcare, data analytics and patient centric design thinking. He has spent more than ten years in leading positions in the medical device and pharmaceutical industry after having received residency training in transplant surgery. Tobias holds degrees in philosophy, health economics (M.B.A.), law (LL.M.) and medicine (M.D., Ph.D.). He has received his M.D. from the University of Ulm Medical School, Germany and his Ph.D. from the Medical University of Hannover, Germany.
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- Chief Operating Officer ( COO ), University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany
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- CEO, Stiftung Stöckenweid
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- Personal Assistant of the President Federal Institute of Drugs and Medical Products Head of Innovation Office, Change Management Staff Unit, Germany