Stuart Altman |
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Stuart H. Altman is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University. He has taught at Brown University and University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Altman's research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. In 2006, Health Affairs listed him among the authors of the 25 most read Health Affairs Papers. Modern Healthcare has listed him among the 30 people who have had the most influence on US healthcare over the past 30 years. Dr Altman is a member of The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
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Stanislav Borkowski |
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Stan Borkowski, is currently Board Member in charge of Life, Health and Bancassurance at Allianz Poland. He is member of the Health and Accident Committee of the Polish Insurance Association, and initiator and co-author the its proposed Polish health reform programme. He is Poland delegate to the CEA. Earlier he led pioneering efforts in building private health insurance in Poland with a leading insurer raising that company in the No 1 health insurance position in Poland. His gained a medical degree from the University of Oslo and an MBA at UQAM, Montreal. |
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Dr John Butler |
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John Butler was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. Following an academically excellent but psychologically gruelling first and second level education courtesy of the Christian Brothers, John Butler's career has spanned 30 years of application and research in motivational and behavioural problems, based on studies in academic psychology, clinical theory and neurological research. His practice covers work on motivation, self-programming and resolution of intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts which obstruct the achievement of goals such as smoking cessation, weight control and addictions. He teaches medical psychology and neuroscience to students at Guy's, King's and St Thomas's Medical School in London. |
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Eric Chaney |
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A former professor of mathematics at the University of Strasbourg, and associate professor at ENA, Eric Chaney took up his present position as Chief Economist AXA Group (France) in 2008. He was previously Chief Economist for Europe at Morgan Stanley, and responsible for global economic forecasts at the French Treasury. Since 1997 he has been a member of the French Economic Council of the Nation, which advises the Minister of Finance. |
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Tim Elsigood |
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Tim has over 30 years' experience in senior roles in the public and the private health sectors. including 15 years in the UK NHS during which he was responsible for major transformation of healthcare in Birmingham. He then became CEO of Capio UK in charge of a 21 hospital portfolio, then as SVP of Business Development was involved in acquisitions in France and Spain. Tim now runs a healthcare consultancy developing and implementing pricing strategies for hospital groups across Europe. |
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Orhan Goksal |
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Orhan Goksal is a board member of the Acibadem telehealth project, Turkey. He is an advisor to chairman/board of companies in internet, health, banking, IT and retail industries. He started his career at Birks & Sons Ltd, Montreal, Canada in 1985. Since returning to Turkey, he has held technology executive positions in Irving Trust-Tutunbank, Finansbank, TurkishTourismBank, Interbank and, Intertech. He is a board member of subsidiaries of Turkcell, the leading GSM provider in Turkey. He later acted as CEO of the communication/internet business unit of Dogan Group. He holds a B.Sc degree in Management with concentration on MIS from Middle East Technical University. |
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Luzia Hung |
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Luzia Hung joined AXA in February 2009 and is currently the Chief of Pension & Group Business, overseeing both Pension and Group Insurance Division. Before joining AXA, Luzia worked in HSBC Insurance (Asia-Pacific) Holdings Limited for 19 years and was the General Manager and Head of Employee Benefits managing the medical insurance company. She served for a number of years on the iFHP Council of Management. Born in Macau and educated in Canada, Ms Hung obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree (B.Com) in 1976 and a Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) at McMaster University (Canada) in 1979. |
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Karen Ignagni |
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As CEO of AHIP, Karen Ignagni is the effective voice of the nation's health insurers, representing members that provide healthcare to more than 200 million Americans. She regularly testifies before Congress on key federal legislation, and has won many accolades for her leadership. Washingtonian has named her one of the three "top guns" of trade associations, while Fortune described one of the political programmes spearheaded by her as "worthy of a Presidential election bid". Prior to joining the then AAHP in 1993, Karen directed the AFL-CIO's Department of Employee Benefits. |
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Oliver James |
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Oliver James is President of the British Liver Association and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Ageing & Health, Newcastle University, UK. He was until recently Professor of Medicine and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, UK and has served as Senior Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians and a Non Executive Board Member of BUPA. His clinical and research interests are in Ageing and Liver Disease, on which he has published over 300 research papers. He divides life between work in Newcastle, and bicycling, vegetable growing, wine collecting and drinking in Yorkshire. |
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Dr Clarion Johnson |
| Dr. Johnson is currently the Global Medical Director, Medicine and Occupational Health Department for Exxon Mobil Corporation. His department delivers services to over 80,000 ExxonMobil and affiliate employees worldwide, including traditional work-related health services and travel medicine to those engaged in exploration and production in a number of challenging environments worldwide. He studied medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He is a past Chairman of the Virginia Health Care Foundation. |
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Dr Omer Karahan |
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Having graduated from Tarsus American High School and Dicle University Medical School, Dr. Karahan worked as a hospital executive at International Hospital and American Hospital, Istanbul. He studied Healthcare Management at The Methodist Hospital System in Houston, Texas, before returning to Turkey as the as Area Consultant to The Methodist Hospital and the first Turkish Medical Director of the American Hospital. He has consulted to many healtcare projects. He won a second scholarship to the US in Healtcare and Financing in 1997, worked in Lebanon and Dubai as General Manager of NextCare, before returing to Turkey in 2004 to become the Managing Director of Acibadem, a leading Turkish health insurer and hospital operator. |
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John O’Dowd |
| John is an opinion leader in the delivery of complex musculoskeletal healthcare. A spinal surgeon by background, he founded and leads the Realhealth Institute, delivering evidence based solutions in the UK and Holland, working with the NHS and the private sector. He was a founder of AOSpine the largest membership organisation in spine care globally, has been secretary of the Society for Back Pain Research and is on the board of the UK healthcare think tank 2020Health.
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Sir Michael Rawlins |
| Sir Michael Rawlins has been chairman of the National Institute of Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) since its formation in 1999. He is an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the Ruth and Lionel Jacobson Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1973 to 2006. He held the position of consultant physician and consultant clinical pharmacologist to the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust. He was vice-chairman (1987–1992) and chairman (1993–1998) of the Committee on Safety of Medicines; and chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (1998–2008). |
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Hans Rosling |
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Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. As a young MD he studied in India and worked in Mozambique, where he discovered a formerly unrecognized paralytic disease induced by hunger and malnutrition. His 20 years of global health research concerned the links between economy and health. He initiated Médecines sans Frontiers in Sweden. He co-founded Gapminder Foundation to promote a fact based world view through converting statistics into interactive and enjoyable animations. He now lectures on contemporary economic, social and environmental changes across the world. His award-winning way of summarizing the world has been labeled "humorous, yet deadly serious". |
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Guillaume Sarkozy |
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Guillaume Sarkozy is the General Manager of Malakoff Mederic Group (France). Born in 1951, he obtained an engineering degree from the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics. He began his career in 1974 at the Ministry of the Interior's Department of Civil Security, then worked as an engineer at IBM France. Since 1979, Guillaume Sarkozy has held General Manager positions in several organisations, before becoming a member of the Executive Committee, then in 2004 Vice President of MEDEF (the representative body for French companies). He has been since 2004 a member of the Upper Council for the Future of Health Insurance. |
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Gerard van Olphen |
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Following senior positions in insurance and finance at ABN Amro, Reaal Insurance, NIB Capital Gerard was in 2002 appointed CFO and member of the Executive Board of Eureko, Holland's (and Europe's) largest health insurer, before becoming responsible for Eureko's international strategy. In October 2008 he became vice-chairman of the Executive Board. In 2009 Gerard van Olphen became chairman of the Commission on Financial Affairs of the Dutch Association of Insurers (Verbond van Verzekeraars) and was appointed Chairman of the ECOFIN committee of CEA, the European insurance and reinsurance federation. |
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