John Crawford Healthcare Industry Leader, IBM Europe John is jointly responsible for IBM’s Healthcare business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is a member of several healthcare IT industry groups, including COCIR, Continua Health Alliance and Intellect . He represents IBM on the industry Team Steering Group of epSOS, an EU project to [...]
Wendy Currie Editor in Chief, Health Policy & Technology Audencia, France Wendy Currie is Professor of Information Systems at Audencia, School of Management, Nantes, France. She is Editor-in-Chief of the new FPM journal Health Policy and Technology. Her research focuses on ICT and health policy and practice.
Helmut Brand President, International Forum Gastein Helmut Brand is Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Health and head of the Department of International Health at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He studied Medicine in Düsseldorf and Zürich and holds a Master in Community Medicine from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and London School of [...]
Finn Børlum Kristensen Executive Director, EUnetHTA Chairman of the executive committee, European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) and director of its coordinating secretariat, National Board of Health, Denmark since 2009. Adjunct professor in health services research and health technology assessment at University of Southern Denmark from 1999. Formerly director of the Danish Centre for [...]
Jack Bowman CEO, Handle my Health By approaching every project with vigour, Jack has developed everything from patient centred systems to medicine adherence programs to multi-system integrations and much more! At HandleMyHealth Jack works to develop a medication compliance and quality of life support system for more personalized medicine and more effective treatment.
Richard Barker, OBE Founding Director, CASMI Richard is a leader in rethinking the medical innovation process. As head of the UK pharmaceutical industry association (ABPI) he formed the Athenaeum Group, with leaders of the major UK and European regulators, to develop a more streamlined and flexible model for drug development. He subsequently [...]
Andrea Beyer Risk assessment Expert During the past 15 years Andrea has worked in the areas of Statistics and Epidemiology, both in the US and in Europe, for several private and public organizations. For the past 4 years, under a collaborative agreement with the University of Groningen, the Netherlands and the European Medicines Agency, Andrea [...]
James Anderson Director of EU Industry & External Partnerships, GSK James has worked at GSK for the last 10 years on improving the way we develop and commercialise our products by working in partnership with stakeholders. Working collaboratively, he addresses significant health policy issues, often conducting pilots with stakeholders. For example, James led GSK’s engagement [...]
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli CEO, Patients Know Best® Mohammad is founder and CEO of Patients Know Best and has over 15 years of experience in medical software. He trained as a physician at the University of Cambridge; worked as a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health; and was a management consultant to US hospitals at [...]
Ifty Ahmed CEO, Pow Health Iftakhar Ahmed has over 16 years’ experience as chief strategist in high tier, full-service digital and performance marketing agencies. He has managed delivery of world-class global projects, created and run multiple agency teams, won and sustained senior client relationships for blue-chip brands including; Vodafone, Microsoft, Merck Sharp & Dohme, GSK, [...]