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We believe that improving health starts with listening, and challenges find their solutions via an open dialogue.

Here you will find views from healthcare professionals, patients, public policy experts, social innovators, and the European medical technology industry.

This platform is curated by MedTech Europe, the European trade association for the medical technology industry including diagnostics, medical devices and digital health.

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Teodora Angelova

Senior Manager Market Data

1 Article

Teodora Angelova is a Market Data Coordinator at MedTech Europe, working mainly on In Vitro Diagnostics and Cardiovascular industry trackers. She is supporting the Market Research Committee – responsible for the management and development of the market statistics services (MIS and GDMS) and the annual update of the Global In Vitro Diagnostics Classification (GIVD).  Teodora’s goal is to deliver […]

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Lisa Ann Hill

Managing Director

1 Article

Since January 2022, Lisa Ann Hill has the honor to lead the Johnson & Johnson MedTech business in Spain. She assumed this responsibility after spending 17 years in the Johnson & Johnson Vision Care business, where she started as Marketing Manager for Iberia, followed by roles in regional marketing for EMEA, including that of Communications […]

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Lieven Annemans

Senior Full Professor of Health Economics at the Faculties of Medicine at Ghent University and Brussels University, Belgium

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Lieven Annemans is Senior Full Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at Ghent University, Belgium, and is specialized in the economics of health and wellbeing. Main topics of interest are the economics of health promotion, health technology assessment applied to pharma and medtech solutions, epidemiological models, financial incentives to stimulate integrated care, and the […]

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Boris Arendt

Data Protection Officer at Biotronik

1 Article

Boris Arendt leads the Data Protection team at BIOTRONIK, a leading provider of cardiovascular medical technology active in over 100 countries. He has more than 14 years of experience in data protection law and cybersecurity law.

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Dr. Dale Athey

Managing Director, OJ Bio

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Dr. Dale Athey is CEO and Founder of OJ-Bio Ltd, a joint venture that develops a range of smartphone connected devices that enable laboratory quality testing outside of the traditional laboratory setting.   He began his career as a clinical biochemist in the UK National Health Service, and gained then over 20 years industrial experience […]

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Rifat Atun

Professor at Harvard University

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Dr. Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair for the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program. In 2008-12 he was a member of the Executive Management Team of the Global Fund as Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation. In 2006-2013 he was a Professor of International Health Management at Imperial […]

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Dr. Ed Baker

Roche Molecular diagnostics

1 Article

Dr. Baker trained received his medical training at Loma Linda University.  After completing his specialty training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, he practiced in the San Francisco bay area as a community physician for nearly 10 years.   In 2002 he became interested in drug development and took a position with Organon Pharmaceuticals, a company focused on Women’s […]

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Ralf Baldeweg

Senior Manager - PwC

1 Article

Ralf Baldeweg is a Senior Manager with PwC in Hamburg.

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Ken Banks

Founder, kiwanja.net

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Ken Banks, Founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS, devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world. He has worked at the intersection of technology, anthropology, conservation and development for the past twenty years and, during that time, has lived and worked across the African continent. He […]

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Satschin Bansal

Satschin Bansal - Senior Director, Head Signature Solutions EMEA, Zimmer Biomet

1 Article

Satschin Bansal –  Senior Director, Head Signature Solutions EMEA, Zimmer Biomet

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Sameer Bansilal

Attending Physician in the Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Institute

2 Articles

Dr. Sameer Bansilal is a clinician and investigator with a broad range of expertise in cardiovascular medicine and outcomes research on a global scale.

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Sam Barnes

Director, Head of PR at AXON

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Sam Barnes spent 7 years working in marketing roles for GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis, and 10 years working in communications for Burson-Marsteller and Weber Shandwick/dna medical communications before joining AXON in 2010. Sam specializes in public relations and is particularly passionate about developing communications strategies that integrate multiple disciplines across PR, medical communications, market access and […]

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