Thomas Allvin
Executive Director for Strategy and Healthcare Systems at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
The congress' contributors
The congress'
Contributors
Guendalina Graffigna received a PhD in Social Psychology at Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth of Milan (Italy) where she actually is Full Professor. At the same University she is member of the Coordination Committee of the PhD School in Psychology. From 2018, she is Director of the Consumer & Health Engagement Research Center - EngageMinds Hub of the Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth of Milan https://www.engagemindshub.com/ and Director for the Executive Master Program in Patient Advocacy Management promoted by ALTEMS (Higher School of Health Management).
Before her actual appointments, Guendalina has been a Post Doc fellow (A.A. 2007-2008) and visiting professor in Qualitative Health Research (A.A. 2008-2009) at the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, with which she still collaborate for several research and teaching initiatives related to patient engagement in research and to co-creation. Finally she is the Scientific Director of COPE (Consortium for PATIENT ENGAGEMENT).
In 2014 she validated the PATIENT HEALTH ENGAGEMENT Scale: the first measure of the patients' psychological experience of engagement in chronic care management, which is now widely adopted by healthcare and research organizations worldwide. In 2017 she coordinate the First Italian Consensus Conference on Patient Engagement.
Executive Director for Strategy and Healthcare Systems at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
President of the EPF Youth Group
Co-founder & CRO, FibriCheck
Executive Director at the Biomedical Alliance in Europe
CEO, EIT Health
Special Advisor, EPF
Patient Engagement Liaison, European Medicines Agency
EUPATI Director of communications and advocacy
Chief Executive Officer of the US National Health Council
Professor of Innovation and Communication in the health and life Sciences
Director-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Global Head, Patient Engagement Leader, Janssen
Director, Fédération des Etablissements Hospitaliers et d'Aide à la Personne, Privés Non Lucratifs (FEHAP)
Senior Health Economist, Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre
Clinical Director for Personalised Care, NHS England
Patient Representative (ePAG), ReCONNECT
Health Policy Analyst, OECD
Special Advisor, European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC),
Medical Student, Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam
Head of European Affairs for the European Research Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS)
Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Health Policy Analyst, OECD
Director, EngageMinds-Hub
Cand. Mag. Comm., consultant, user background Unit for Co-Creation Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry
Project Coordinator, HTAi Patient and Citizen Involvement Interest Group
President, EVITA, European Reference Network GENTURIS
Director of Policy, European Patients' Forum
Quality & Safety Officer, Platform for Continuous Improvement of Quality of Care and Patient Safety (PAQS)
Patient representative
President of The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD)
Managing Director, EMSP
Chaired Professor of Innovation Management & Value in Health at the University of Paris Medical School.
Executive Director, EPF
Chief Patient Officer and Head of Patient Engagement, LEO Pharma
Independent, freelance consultant
Head of Legal Department, Greek National Organisation for the provision of Health Services
Senior Advisor at the Regional Ministry of Health and Families of Andalusia (Spain)
Director for Patient Safety and Quality Psychiatry Management - Northern Region of Denmark
EUPATI coordinator, EPF
Patient Representative, Ireland
Patient Representative, Ireland
Deputy Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Advisory Board Member, European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC)
Executive Director, for the Centre for Empowering People and Communities
Assistant Professor of Patient involvement in health research, policy-making and care practice at the Athena Institute of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Senior Editor at BMJ Publishing Group
Patient advocate, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Vice-Chair of the European Working Group of People with Dementia, Alzheimer Europe
EU Patient Engagement Lead, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD)
Senior Fellow, Friends of Europe
Data & Improvement Officer for Platform for Continuous Improvement of Quality of Care and Patient Safety (PAQS)
Patient Advocate, Dutch Patient Alliance for Rare and Genetic Diseases
Advocacy Officer, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)
Director of FEANTSA
President, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
Executive Director, European Federation of Neurological Associations
Member, European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)
Expert at the National Institute of Public Health in Slovenia
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President, EPF
Regional Director nominee for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO)
Director General, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations
Chair, Patient Access Partnership (PACT)
Interim Chief Executive, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), UK
Former Secretary of State for Health in Hungary, Director of the Health Services Management Training Centre of the Semmelweis University
Director General, Medicines for Europe
Principal eHealth Policy Analyst, European Health Telematics Association
Chief Advisor, Semmelweis University Health Services Management Training Centre
Young Patient Activist
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