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Prof René Amalberti
René Amalberti, born in 1952, is MD, PhD cognitive psychology, Professor of Medicine, physiology and aerospace medicine.
After a residency in Psychiatry, he integrated the Airforce in 1977, graduated in aerospace medicine, and got a permanent Military Research position in 1982. He retired with a rank of General in February 2008.
He is now working half time as Senior Adviser Patient Safety at the Haute Autorité de Santé and half time as risk manager in a medical insurance (MACSF).
He pioneered in the mid 80’s the concepts of human error, ecological safety, crew resource management, and system safety. In late 1992, he was detached from the military to the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and became the first Chief Human factors and Flight safety of the JAA, then occupied a series of managerial positions in European and French research programs and administration (Land transport, Industrial and Environmental risks). In the late 90’s, he moved his research on patient safety, system approach and resilience. He has published over 100 international papers, chapters, and authored or co-authored 10 books. |
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Prof. Charles Vincent, M Phil PhD
Professor of Clinical Safety Research
Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology
Imperial College London
Charles Vincent trained as a Clinical Psychologist and worked in the British NHS for several years. Since 1985 he has carried out research on the causes of harm to patients, the consequences for patients and staff and methods of prevention. He established the Clinical Risk Unit at University College in 1995 where he was Professor of Psychology before moving to the Imperial College in 2002. He now directs the Clinical Safety Research Unit based in Department of Department of Biosurgery and Technology, Imperial College London. He is the editor of Clinical Risk Management (BMJ Publications, 2nd edition, 2001), author of Patient Safety (2006) and author of many papers on risk, safety and medical error. From 1999 to 2003 he was a Commissioner on the UK Commission for Health Improvement. In 2007 he was appointed Director of the National Institute of Health Research Centre for Patient Safety & Service Quality at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. |
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Prof.Martin McKee
Martin McKee qualified in medicine in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with subsequent training in internal medicine and public health. He is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he co-directs of the European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), a WHO Collaborating Centre. He is also research director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He has published almost 470 academic papers and 35 books and his contributions to European health policy have been recognised by, among others, election to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, and the US Institute of Medicine, by the award of honorary doctorates from Hungary and The Netherlands, visiting professorships at the Universities of Zagreb and Belgrade, the 2003 Andrija Stampar medal for contributions to European public health and in 2005 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). |
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Prof Victor Rodwin
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Victor Rodwin teaches courses on community health and medical care, comparative analysis of health care systems and international perspectives on health system performance and reform. Professor Rodwin was awarded the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair in Paris where he will be based for the Spring semester of 2010.
In 2000, he was the recipient of a three-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigator Award on "Megacities and Health: New York, London, Paris and Tokyo." His research on this theme led to the establishment of the World Cities Project (WCP) -- a collaborative venture among the Wagner School, NYU, and the International Longevity Center-USA, which explores the impact of population aging and longevity on the health care systems in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.
Professor Rodwin is the author of numerous articles and books. further information regarding the books can be found using this link http://wagner.nyu.edu/rodwin
Before launching WCP, Professor Rodwin directed the Wagner School’s International Initiative (1992 to 1998), and its Advanced Management Program for Clinicians (1987-1992). From 1983 to 1985 he was Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the University of California–San Francisco. Professor Rodwin has been a member of the Academy for Social Insurance since 1998. He reviews articles for leading journals in the field on a regular basis and has consulted with the French National Health Insurance Fund, the World Bank, the UN, and other international organizations. Professor Rodwin earned his Ph.D. in city and regional planning, and his MPH in public health, at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Mr Shane D Solomon
Mr Solomon is the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority since 2006. The Authority currently manages 40 public hospitals with over 55,000 staff.
Prior to Hong Kong Hospital Authority, Mr Solomon held various senior health management positions in Australia, including:
•Under-Secretary for Health in the Victorian Department of Human Services.
•Group Chief Executive of Mercy Health and Aged Care Services, a Catholic organization operating public and private hospitals, aged care services.
•Consultant to Australian and New Zealand Governments on health policy and planning.
•Director of Policy and Programs in the Health Department Victoria.
•Founding Director of the Health Issues Centre.
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Dr.Robert S. Bell, MD
Dr. Robert Bell was appointed as President and CEO of University Health Network (UHN) in June 2005. An internationally recognized Orthopaedic surgeon, health care executive, clinician-scientist, and educator, Dr. Bell brings more than 20 years of experience in academic health care to leadership of Canada’s largest research hospital. From 2000 to 2005, he served as Chief Operating Officer of UHN’s Princess Margaret Hospital where he was responsible for leading Canada’s largest comprehensive cancer centre. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Regional Vice President and Chair of the Clinical Council of Cancer Care Ontario.
Dr. Bell earned a Doctor of Medicine from McGill University in 1975 and a Masters of Science from the University of Toronto in 1981. He completed a Fellowship in Orthopaedic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University in 1985. During his career as a clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto, he received more than five million dollars in peer reviewed funding and published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers. He participated in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2005. Dr. Bell is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. |
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Dr. Christof Veit, MD
Christof Veit, MD, is Chief Executive of the BQS Institute for Quality and Patient Safety in Duesseldorf, one of the leading institutions in benchmark projects for hospitals in Germany.
Before becoming responsible for the BQS Veit used to be manager of the Quality Benchmarking Institute for the Hamburg Hospitals (EQS Hamburg), member of the decision board for the National Benchmarking Project at the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), and a member of the Quality Management Committee of the National Hospital Federation (DKG). For the last seventeen years he was involved in theses institutions with the development of the methodology and the technical and cultural realization of the medical benchmarking project.
His institution is involved in a variety of quality management and certification programs in the health care system. He is also in the international advisory committee of the European Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, organized by the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI, Boston) and the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Veit started his career as a surgeon and has studied medicine in Freiburg, London and Boston. |
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Dr Jean-Marie Robine, PhD
Jean-Marie Robine is a Research Director at INSERM, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, and head of the Health and Demography research group, Montpellier, France. He studies human longevity, with the aim of understanding the relations between health and longevity. In particular, he measures the impact that the increase in adult life durations may have on the health status of the elderly population.Since its creation in 1989, he has been the coordinator of the International Network on Health Expectancy (REVES), which brings together more some 100 researchers from 35 countries worldwide (www.reves.net). He is the project leader of the European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU - www.ehemu.eu) supported by the European Union, which begins to provide analysis of disability-free life expectancies in the European Union (Healthy Life Years-HLY). He is responsible for the development of the International Database on Longevity (IDL) in association with the main research demographic centres and is one of the principal investigators of the Genetic of Healthy Ageing project (GEHA, Sixth European Research Framework, 2004-2010 - www.geha.unibo.it).
He was the chair of the Committee on Longevity and Health of the International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population (IUSSP, 2000-2005, www.iussp.org). He is currently the chair of the European Task Force on health expectancies.
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Professor Roger Boyles CBE FRCP FRCPE FESC FFPH
Roger Boyle qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1972 and trained in cardiologyIn London, Manchester and Leeds.He was appointed in 1983 as consultant cardiologist in York where he had long experience as a Clinical Director for General Medicine and also as a General Manager.
Roger Boyle has been a member of the Council of the British Cardiac Society since 1991 and was formerly Chairman of the Specialty Advisory Committee for Cardiology at the Royal College of Physicians. He was a member of the External Reference Group for the National Service Framework for CHD and Chairman of the Focus Group on acute presentations.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the European Society of Cardiology.
He was appointed as National Director for Heart Disease (‘Heart Tsar’) at the Department of Health in March 2000. He took on responsibility for Stroke in January 2006.
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