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Róza Ádány, Prof. Dr. (1952), Hungarian, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, Head of the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary; Consulting member of the Hungarian Academy of Science (HAS); President of the Epidemiology Committee of HAS; 2001–2003: President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER). Tit Albreht, Dr. (1961), Slovenian, Medical Doctor, Doctorate of Science in Health Services Research (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Adviser to the Director, Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia, Researcher in the field of health services research, health policy and health systems research, member of the Scientific Committee of EUPHA, member of Academy Health, member of the Slovenian Preventive Medicine Society – currently also member of its Board. Gerald Bachinger, Dr. (1961), Austria, Jurist, Patient Ombudsman, Spokesman of the Patient Ombudsmen of Austria; responsible for complaint management in the field of health services and representation of patients. Alessandra Badellino, European Investment Bank. Rita Baeten (1959), Belgian, researcher at the Observatoire Social Européen, Brussels, Master of Social Sciences. Her research activities focus on the impact of European integration on national healthcare systems and on their social character. She is core team member of the ‘Europe for patients’ project, funded by the European Commission, DG research and advisor to the Belgian federal authorities on EU level developments with a potential impact on healthcare. Anne Bakilana, Economist, World Bank. Ian Banks, Dr.; A&E doctor and general practitioner, medical journalist; While working part-time as a family doctor and A&E officer in Belfast, he also represents doctors for the British Medical Association as a member of Council for the UK and awarded the highest BMA accolade, the Association Medal. He worked on the Developing Patient Partnerships (DPP formerly Doctor Patient Partnership) for six years. Being a member of the BMA’s Patient Liaison Group fits with his role as the official spokesman on men’s health issues for the BMA, president of the European Men’s Health Forum and the England & Wales Men’s Health Forum, vice president of the International Society for the Study of Men’s Health, deputy editor of the Men’s Health Gender Journal and for six years the medical editor for The Men’s Health Magazine. The BBC book The Trouble with Men was written by Ian in 1996 to accompany the television series of the same name. It was followed by Men’s Health, The Good Patient Guide, The Children's Health Guide, Get Fit with Brittas, Men’s Health in General Practice, Ask About Sex and the 50th NHS Anniversary book from the NHSE/HEA The Home Medicine Guide. Ian is the editor of the Men's Health Journal and the UEMO Clinical Journal. His latest books are The Dad’s Survival guide, Haynes ”Man Workshop Manual”, Haynes “Baby Workshop Manual”, Haynes Sex Workshop Manual, Haynes “Woman Workshop Manual” Haynes “Cancer Manual”, Haynes HGV MAN manual on men and weight. He is currently working on the Haynes Brain Manual about men and mental well being. Ian was appointed visiting professor of men’s health in Europe by Leeds Metropolitan University in 2005. Steve Barnett (1957), English, Director, NHS Employers – the employers’ organisation for the NHS in England. Joined the NHS Confederation from the Home Office where he was senior director human resources. Previous posts include deputy director HR for the NHS at the Department of Health. Steve is a member of the National Leadership Network for the NHS, the Cabinet Office Public Sector Employers Forum, the Government’s Public Services Forum, National Stakeholder Council for Health, Work and Wellbeing and the Council of the Institute for Employment Studies. He is also a member of the Open University’s governing council and chair of its staff strategy committee. Steve holds visiting

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Professorships at Cranfield and De Montford Universities. Nicola Bedlington, British; she studied business and human resource management in the UK. She lived for almost ten years in Brussels, and has lived near Geneva for the last six years. Nicola was the first Director of the European Disability Forum, a umbrella organisation uniting over 70 European disability NGOs and National Councils of Disabled People to advocate for the human rights and inclusion of disabled citizens in Europe (1996 to 1999), and prior to this she headed the NGO unit within the HELIOS Programme, a European Commission Action Programme promoting equal opportunities for disabled people (1991–1996). Over the past two years, she has led the Environment and Schools Initiatives Secretariat (ENSI), an international government-based network set up by OECD focussing on innovation, action research and policy development in the field of Education for Sustainable Development. Whilst in Switzerland, she has also worked as an independent consultant/evaluator, specialising in European social and development policy and health advocacy. She joined European Patients’ Forum as Executive Director in June 2006. Werner Bencic, Regional Health Insurance Fund, Upper Austria. Philip C Berman, Irish, Director, European Health Management Association. Member of the EU’s High Level Committee of Reflection on patient mobility and health care developments in the European Union (2003). Completed three major multi-national studies for the European Commission: the introduction of market forces in health systems; the impact of EU directives on health services in the European Union; Managing services for older people. Currently directing two EU projects – HealthBasket and HealthAccess. Member of Board of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, and member of the Irish Health Services Accreditation Advisory Council. Member of Advisory Board of Eurohealth and Editorial Board of International Journal of Health Planning and Management. Luigi Bertinato, Dr. (1955), Italian, graduated in medicine in 1982 at the University of Padua, and got his PhD in Internal Medicine at the Unversity of Verona in 1987. He joined WHO in Zimbabwe from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 to 1997 he worked in Rome at the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome and the Italian Agency for Regional Health Care Services. Since 1998 he has been Director of the Office for International Affairs at the Department of Health and Social Services of the Veneto Region, based in Venice. Member of the Italian Society for Tropical Diseases, member of the IUHPE and of the ALASS. Board member of the WHO Regions for Health Network. Elbieta Bieńkowska, (1964) MA in Philology, graduate from National School of Public Administration in Warsaw and Warsaw School of Economics, Director of Regional Programming and European Funds Department in regional administration in Sląskie Voivodship (PL), responsible for preparing and implementing both pre-accesion and Structural Funds programme for the region, member of monitoring Committees on national and regional level. Franz Bittner (1953), Austria; lithographer, academic in the field of Social Sciences, Chair of the Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse, President of the Association for Austrian Social Insurance Agencies, Chair of the Union for “Druck, Journalismus und Papier”, Laureate “Preis der Menschlichkeit” (2003). Finn Børlum Kristensen, Prof., MD, PhD; Director of Danish Centre for Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment (DACEHTA), the national HTA Agency, from its launch in 1997 (www.dacehta.dk). Adjunct professor in health services research and health technology assessment at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense from 1999; Project leader, European Network for Health Technology Assessment, EUnetHTA, from 2006 (www.eunethta.net); International projects in the areas of health services research, epidemiology, health technology assessment, and clinical practice guidelines. Adviser to WHO Europe and EU; Chief Editor of three peer reviewed publication series from DACEHTA: Medicinsk Teknologivurdering, Medicinsk Teknologivurdering, Puljepro-

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jekter, and Danish Health Technology Assessment; Chairman International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA) 2003 -06 (www.inahta.org). Nick Boyd, Head of International Affairs at the Department of Health (DH) since 1999. He leads a team with responsibility for the UK for international health policy both in Europe and globally. He studied history and German at University, and joined the Department in 1977. He has worked on many policy areas in public health, social services and health care – including on disability, ageing, embryo research, HIV/AIDS – as well as being secretary to the top management board of the Department from 1993-96. In 1981–82 and again in 1991–93 he worked, on secondment, on public health and European policy in the Federal Ministry of Health in Germany. One of his recent tasks was to oversee DH's programme for the UK’s Presidency of the European Union, and also the project to introduce the European Health Insurance Card. He is a member of the EU High Level Committee on Public Health, and alternate member for the UK on the EU High Level Group on Health Services and Medical Care, which is looking at various issues connected with patient mobility. James Buchan, Prof. (1958), British, Health workforce policy and human resource management. Research Professor, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. Visiting Professor, University of Technology, Sydney. Associate Fellow, Kings Fund, London. Jan Bultman, MD (1947) Dutch, Medicine, Health Management; Lead Health Specialist World Bank (Europe and Central Asia Region); Ex-Officio member of International Accreditation Program Council of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQUA); 1983 to 1998 Director Netherlands National Health Insurance Fund and responsible for establishing and running the Dutch program on Health Technology Assessment as well as its implementation: benefits package and quality assurance. Gabi Burgstaller (1963), governor of the Land Salzburg; after spending a year in England she went on to study law at Salzburg University, 1987–89: Assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law and the Institute for Sociology of Law. She started her political career in 1994 as a member of the Salzburg Landtag (county council) and chair of the social-democrat faction in the Landtag. On 27 April 1999 the Landtag elected her as a member of the provincial government where she was responsible for women, construction, traffic, trade and industry and consumer protection. On 31 March 2001 Gabi Burgstaller was elected chairwoman of the Salzburg Social Democrat Party (SPÖ). On 25 April 2001 the Landtag elected her as the first female deputy governor in Salzburg. She took new responsibilities for municipalities, health and youth and continued to be in charge of women and consumer protection. Since 28 April 2004 she is the first woman to be governor of the Land Salzburg. She was elected to this office by the new Landtag with an overwhelming majority. Burgstaller took responsibility for education, health, civil protection, women and Europe. Sandra Canadelo (1973), Portuguese, Diploma in Translation by the Institute of Linguists, London ; currently working as self-employed translator; Member and International Relations Coordinator of the Liga Portuguesa contra as Doenças Reumáticas (LPCDR, Portuguese League Against Rheumatic Diseases) ; Chair EULAR (European League against Rheumatism) Social Leagues; Vice Chair People with Arthritis and Rheumatism in Europe (PARE ) Manifesto Steering Group. Peter Chang, Prof., MD, MPH, ScD; is the Director-General, Bureau of International Corporation, Department of Health, Taiwan, and the Executive Director of the Taiwan International Health Action, TaiwanIHA, a public-private partnership, inter-sectoral international health program based in Taiwan. Dr. Chang is also a professor in the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Institute of Public Health in the National Yangming University Medical School, in Taipei, and currently the Secretary General of the Urbani Internaional, UI, a charity NPO based in Geneva. He has been the former health representative for UN, Geneva and European health affairs in the past, and former advisor to

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the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also former President of the National Association for Radiation Protection, NARP and former advisor to the City of Taipei. Dr. Chang has published around scientific articles and commentaries in the international scientific journals. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Dr. (1966), German and Greek, Member of the European Parliament for the German Liberal Party, Member of the Committee for Industry, Energy and Research, Substitute of the Committee for External Trade and the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament and Member of the Pharmaceutical Forum, a high level group designed to provide a political mandate for relevant public health issues. FDP (German Liberal group) Secretary General of the Sarre Region in Germany. Lecturer at Sarre-University. John Chave, Secretary General, Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union. Mukesh Chawla, World Bank. Grete Christensen (1957), Danish, Nursing, State Registered Nurse, specialized in intensive care; member of the Executive Committee and General Assembly of the European Federation of Nurses Associations, Vice President of the Danish Nurses’ Organization; member of the Standing Committee on Health and Social Services of the European Federation of Public Service Unions. Americo Cicchetti, Prof. (1969), Italian, Professor of Management and Health Care Policy and Management at the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University, Rome Italy. Director of the Laboratory of Health Economics. Head of Research of the Health Technology Assessment Unit of the “A. Gemelli” University Hospital and Network (Catholic University). Werner Clement (1941), Austrian. University assistent at the University of Innsbruck and the the University for International Trade. 1968–70: advisor to the Austrian Minister of Health. Professor at the University of Innsbruck (1970–73) and the University of Economics, Vienna (1973–2000). Visiting professor at the Universities of Cairo, Cambridge, Stanford and others. Expert at the OECD, UNIDO, UNESCO, EU, World Bank and other institutions. 1985–2003: Founder, scientific director and managing director of the Institute for Industrial Sciences (Industriewissenschaftliches Institut). Since 2003: Founder and chairman of the board of the Institute for Pharmaeconomic Research. Richard Coker, Dr. (1960), British, Public Health, Reader in Public Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; research on heath systems and communicable disease control. Francis P Crawley, Director General of the Good Clinical Practice Alliance (Brussels, Belgium) and a World Health Organization (WHO) Expert in ethics responsible for the coordination of the Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review (SIDCER). He is a philosopher specialised in ethical, legal, and regulatory issues concerning biomedical research, teaching at several European universities.Author or expert for the leading international and European ethics guidelines, as well as for several in-country guidelines in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. He is currently Chairman of the Ethical Review Committee of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR), a member of the INCTR Tissues Committee, and a member of the Ethics Committee of the European Organization for Research & Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). For 2006 he is Visiting Expert in research ethics in the Health Manpower Development Programme, Ministry of Health, Singapore. He is the Co-facilitator for the Ethics Roundtable at the Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies in South Africa where he also chairman of the GCP course jointly organized with the GCPAlliance and where he sits on a DSMB for an HIV vertical transmission study. He is also a member of several regional organizations for ethics in research in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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Branko Cveticanin, M.D. (1961), Slovenian, Medicine, Radiology, Head of Radiological Department General Hospital Izola Slovenia, Vicepresident of Executive Council of General Hospital Izola, Member of Board of Slovenian Radiologists, Member of Slovenian Radiological Society, Member of Council for Health Care Informatics. Marc Danzon, Dr.; Mr. Danzon took office as WHO Regional Director for Europe on 1 February 2000. Dr Danzon is of French nationality. His specialized areas of study were in the fields of public health, psychiatry, health administration and economics. Dr Danzon's career has unfolded in three institutions involved in the various areas of public health: the Comité français d'éducation pour la santé (French Health Education Committee), the Regional Office for Europe of WHO, and the Fédération nationale de la Mutualité française (National Federation of Mutual Insurance Societies). Manuel M Dayrit, Dr. (1950), Filipino, Medicine, Epidemiology, Health care Management; currently Director of the Department of Human Resources for Health at WHO, Geneva; Founder and Director of the Philippines Field Epidemiologist Training Programme (1986–97); Former Secretary of Health in the Philippines (2001–05); Honorary Fellow of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for "outstanding contribution to the development and implementation of health policy in the Philippines and international leadership in public health" (March 2006). Francois Decaillet, Lead Public Health Specialist, World Bank. Maxime Dougados, Prof. (1952), French, Rheumatologist. Chief of the Department of Rheumatology at AP-HP, Cochin Hospital, Paris. His current major fields of research include the outcome measures in rheumatic diseases (osteoarthritis, bone diseases, inflammatory rheumatic disease) as well as the classification criteria and prognostic factors of rheumatic diseases. Since 2003 he is Chairman of the EULAR (European League Against Rheumatism) standing committee for clinical studies including therapeutic trials (ECSISIT). Mark Duman (1968), Scottish, Pharmacist, Management Consultant; Chair of Patient Information Forum (www.pifonline.org.uk); Department of Health (DH) Information Accreditation Scheme Reference Group, DH Information Taskforce, DH Working in Partnership Programme, DH/ National Consumer Council Health Literacy Collaborative; EMIS Record Access Collaborative; NHS Direct Online Readers Panel; NHS Institute In View Editorial Board. Jean-Christophe Dumont, Economist in the Direction for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (Division for Non-Member Economies and International Migration) at the OECD, Paris, Jean-Christophe Dumont joined the Secretariat in 2000 to work on international migration issues. He has several publications on the economic impact of the international mobility of persons. He holds a PhD in development economics from the University Paris IX-Dauphine and has been working as a research fellow in Laval University, Quebec Canada. Previously he was a research assistant at DIAL, a European centre for research on development economics in Paris Stephen P Dunn, Dr. (1972), a 2003-04 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is a senior policy advisor in the Department of Health in England. Previously he has been head of policy on the Our Health, Our Care, Our Say White paper. He was a principal architect of the flagship NHS Foundation Trust policy and was primarily responsible for designing and implementing the financial regime that Foundation Trusts operate under. Dunn has been a policy advisor in the Strategy Unit in the Department of Health, providing policy advice directly to the Secretary of State for Health on a range of strategic issues including system management and regulation. He was also a principal contributor to the 20-year review and costing of health trends led by Derek Wanless. The review underpinned the Chancellor’s decision to nearly double UK health care expenditure between 2002/3 – 2007/8. He has served on several national committees on system management and regulation, re-

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source allocation, incentives in the healthcare system and public performance ratings systems, and published numerous articles on Post Keynesian economics and the economics of the firm in leading international journals. In 2003-04 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a Health Policy Researcher at the University of California San Francisco. In 2000 Dunn received the prestigious K William Kapp prize from one of Europe’s largest economics associations. Dunn is an international authority on J.K.Galbraith. Martine Durand, Deputy Director, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs; Martine Durand was appointed Deputy-Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs in 2002. In her present capacity, Martine Durand oversees the OECD work on employment and training policies, social policies, health and international migration. Martine Durand joined the OECD in 1984 as an economist in the Economics Department. In 1991, she was appointed senior economist, heading the team responsible for monitoring and projecting trade and current account balances of OECD countries. In 1992, she also assumed the G-10 Secretariat responsibilities, in collaboration with representatives from the IMF and the BIS. Between 1994 and 1997 she was responsible for preparing general assessments of the economic situation and policy orientations in OECD Member countries for publication in the OECD Economic Outlook. In 1997, Martine Durand was appointed Counselor to the OECD Chief Economist. In early 2001, Martine Durand took up the position of Deputy-Head of the OECD Secretary-General’s Private Office where she worked on a number of national and international policy issues requesting the attention of the Secretary-General and his Deputies. Prior to joining the OECD, Martine Durand worked in a French research and consultancy institute, specialising in forecasting trends in sectoral activities and providing consultancy services to business and industry. During her career at the OECD, Martine Durand has co-authored numerous articles and publications. Martine Durand graduated in mathematics, statistics and economics from the Paris VI University, the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, MD, PhD, Professor of public health, AP-HP hospitals and university of Paris. She obtained her medical degree from Paris university and has additional training in political science, public health and economics. After working two years as a director in the French National Health Authority she is now head of the Department of Public health at Henri Mondor hospital (Paris). Maciej Duszczyk, PhD. (1971), Polish, specialises in social policy and migration; Ph.D. in political science (Warsaw University, 2002). Other affiliations: Institute of Social Policy, Warsaw University; Office of the Committee for European Integration – Deputy Director in Department of Analyses and Strategies, Advisor of former Polish Negotiations Team for Poland’s Membership in the European Union. Collaborator of International Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, Member of Centre of Migration Research. Ivor Ralph Edwards, Professor and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring (the Uppsala Monitoring Centre); Chairperson of the Advisory Group, WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, Uppsala, Sweden (1985–90); Leprosy Officer, South Island, Ministry of Health New Zealand (1983–90); Director of the National Toxicology Group & Assoc. Professor in Clinical Pharmacology, Otago University and Medical Research Council (1981–90); Professor of Medicine-University of Zimbabwe (1978–81); Consultant physician at several hospitals; Clinical research adviser Leo laboratories (1975–78); Sub-dean, Sheffield University Medical School (1972–75); Tutor, Lecturer. Gottfried Endel, Dr. (1957), Austria. Dr. of medicine, general practitioner, head of the EBM and HTA unit of the Main Association of Austrian Security Institutions since 2004. Member of the society of medical doctors of Vienna, of the society of medical official experts, associated member of the STRING commission, designated member of the UHK and member of the executive board of the

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academy of labour medicine. Lynn Faulds Wood, UK TV Presenter, President of the European Cancer Patient Coalition, Founder of the UK charity Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign, Hon Doctorate for services to Colorectal Cancer, European Committee Member – Colorectal Cancer European Quality Screening Guidelines Project, DG SANCO Health Policy Forum, EMEA/CHMP Working Group with Patients, ESMO WGP, Secretariat for MEPs Against Cancer etc; UK Committee Member – Department of Health Colorectal Cancer Cost-Benefit Committee; National Cancer Director's Bowel Cancer Advisory Group, CAPP2 & SIGGAR1 & National Bowel Cancer Audit Project Trial Steering Committee. Armin Fidler, Dr. (1958); Austrian; Health Sector Manager for Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank; MD (University of Innsbruck, Austria), MPH & MSc (Harvard University’s School of Public Health); Certificate in Management (Harvard Business School); Certificate in Public Finance and Welfare Economics (London School of Economics and Political Science); Adjunct Faculty, The George Washington University School of Public Health; Board Member, Open Health Institute, Moscow. Josep Figueras, MD, PhD, MPH (1959); Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and head of the WHO European Centre on Health Policy in Brussels. He qualified in Medicine in Barcelona and subsequently trained in family medicine. He holds a Master in Public Health and a PhD (econ) in health planning and financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was senior lecturer and head of the MSc in Health Services Management at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and he is honorary fellow of the UK faculty of public health medicine. He is editor of the European Observatory series published by Open University Press and co-editor of four volumes Health for All in Europe: relevance, impact and determinants (2006), Purchasing to improve health systems performance (2005), Social health insurance in Western Europe (2004)and Funding health care: options for Europe (2002). He is also author of several articles and key volumes in the field of health systems research including Health Systems in Transition: learning from experience (2004), European Health Care Reform: An analysis of current strategies (1997), Critical challenges for health care reforms in Europe (1998) and Choices in health policy: An agenda for the European Union (1996). Klaus Firlei, Prof. Dr., Professor, University of Salzburg. Maria C Freire, Dr. (Peru, 1954), American, Biophysicist, Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance); PhD., University of Virginia (Biophysics); Member, NIH Advisory Board for Clinical Research; Member, New York Academy of Sciences Board of Governors; Chair, Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs; Commissioner, WHO Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH); Member, TIME Magazine Global Health Summit Advisory Board. Lara Garrido Herrero, Secretary General, European Public Health Alliance. Lara represents the organisation, supervises the Secretariat and serves as an intermediary between EPHA members, the Executive Board and the Secretariat. Lara has a degree in Spanish and European Law from the University of Salamanca (Spain). She did her Masters degree in European Public Policy at the Queen’s University of Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK). The topic of her dissertation was EU state aid and regional policy. Before joining EPHA in January 2003, she worked as Communication Assistant for a Brussels based lobby group. Starting as Policy and Information Assistant for EPHA, and then being seconded to Actis (an EPHA member) as Research Assistant over a period of three months, Lara finally became the Policy Officer of EPHA in January 2004 and the General Secretary in December 2005. Lara speaks Spanish, English, French and basic Portuguese. She has undertaken periods of extended, independent travel in Europe and beyond.

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Carlo Giaquinto, (1956), Italian, Paediatrician, full time medical house officer at Department of Paediatrics, Padova, since 1993; UNAIDS/WHO Geneva, consultant Management of Childhood Illness Program, 1996–97; Scientific coordinator of research programmes in AIDS project – National Institute of Health and social AIDS projects (ISS); Supporter (together with Prof. CS Peckham) of the European Collaborative Study on the natural history of HIV infections in childhood; Co-ordinator of social AIDS projects financed by the European Community, programme “Europe against AIDS” (UE); Holder and Project leader of the project PENTA financed by the European Community, programme BIOMED II and 5th programme Responsible for the scientific aspects of the Moschino Foundation, SMILE project; Member of the National Committee for the fight against AIDS and other infectious diseases, Ministry of Health (1998–2000); Member of Comité Restreint du Fonds de Solidaritè Thérapeutique International, financed by the French Ministry of Health and by the European Union (1997–2000); Responsible for the coordination of the project Pedianet: institution of a database for queries by Italian community pediatricians; Speaker invited to over 180 international congresses, workshops and seminars; Author of more than 140 scientific articles published in international journals. Steffen Grebner (1964), Germany, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), UKE Consult and Management GmbH (UCM), Chief Operating Officer of UKE as well as Chief Executive Officer of UCM; responsible, for example, the masterplan and the new hospital infrastructure, export and tertiary services of the hospital. László Gulácsi, Prof. Dr. MD, PhD (1957), Hungarian, Health Economics; Head of the Unit of Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (named HunHTA –INAHTA member agency), Corvinus University Budapest; responsible for graduate teaching and PhD programme of health economics; editorial board member of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care and European Journal of Health Economics. Patricia Hamilton, Dr. (1951), British, Consultant & Senior Lecturer in Neonatal Paediatrics St George’s Hospital Medical School London, President Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; member of committees on Prescribing for Children and the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC); former Medical Director at St George’s Hospital, former Vice President for Training and Assessment and Honorary Secretary of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Kari Harno, Dr. Univ.Doz. (1945), Finland. Chief Physician, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa. Responsible for the Regional Health Information Organization UUMA , which includes the Joint Authority of the Hospital District and 31 municipalities. Member of several Finnish or international working or legislative group activities in Health Information Exchange and Technology. Klaus-Dirk Henke, Prof. Dr. rer. pol. (1942), German; Professor of Economics (Public Finance and Health Economics) at the Technical University in Berlin; Member of the Advisory Board to the German Ministry of Finance; Speaker of the Centre for Innovative Health Care Technology (ZiG) at the TU Berlin; from 1987 to 1998 member of the Advisory Board for the Concerted Action in Health Care in Germany (Chairman from 1993 to 1998); from 1989 to 1991 president of the European Health Care Management Association. Willy Heuschen; following his University education in economic sciences and hospital sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Mr. Willy Heuschen worked during six years at the christian health insurance, the biggest health insurance in Belgium. In 1979 he was appointed as Director of the St. Nikolaus Hospital in Eupen, in the German speaking Community of Belgium. Willy Heuschen is a member of several consultancy groups in Belgium (the national committee for hospitals, the parity comission of doctors and hospitals.) On a European level he was elected Secretary General of the European Association of Hospitals in 1997. As representative of the Belgian delegation, he is also a

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member of the Executive Committee of HOPE, the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation. David L Heymann, Dr.; currently acting Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases and Representative of the Director-General for both Pandemic Influenza and for Polio Eradication at the World Health Organization (WHO). From July 1998 until July 2003, Dr Heymann was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster which includes WHO’s programmes on infectious and tropical diseases, and from which the public health response to SARS was mounted in 2003. From October 1995 to July 1998 Dr Heymann was Director of the WHO Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, and prior to that was the Chief of research activities in the WHO Global Programme on AIDS. Before joining WHO, Dr Heymann worked for thirteen years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Johan Hjertqvist (1947), Swedish, Master of Law. Health consumer information, Health systems organisation, Internal health markets. President of the Health Consumer Powerhouse in Stockholm/Brussels/Winnipeg. Ton Hoek, World Health Professionals Alliance. Michael Horah (1948) British, Civil Servant, Department of Health, Head of Health Literacy. Ágnes Horváth (1973), Hungarian, MD, Senior Secretary of State (Ministry of Health of the Republic of Hungary); Medical University of Semmelweis Ignác (Budapest), Budapest University of Economics; Member of EUMASS Committee (European Union of Medicine in Assurance and Social Security, 2000–02 ), Head of Department of National Health Insurance Fund (2003–004), General Director of „Misszió” Health Centre (2004-2006); finance and economics, health insurance. Delon Human, President, Health Diplomats. Zsuzsanna Jakab (1951), Hungarian, Director of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) since March 2005. Mrs. Jakab was Secretary of State at the Hungarian Ministry of Health (2002–05) and a Director in WHO Europe (1997–2002) prior to joining ECDC. Jorma Järvisalo, Research Professor, Office of Medical Affairs, Finland. Robert Andrew Johnstone, (1952), British, Patient Advocate, BA (Honours) International Relations, Chair of Access Matters; Trustee of the Long Term Medical Conditions Alliance; Vice Chair of ASSIST UK; Vice Chair of UK Public Health Association North West; Director of Midstream, a training and employment provider for disabled people ; President of Arthritis and Rheumatism International (ARi) ; Chair Elect People with Arthritis and Rheumatism in Europe (PARE ) Manifesto Steering Group. Yves Jorens, Prof. Dr. (1968), Belgian, Professor of Social Security Law and European Social Law at the Faculty of Law of the Ghent University, Belgium; Project Director of an European Observatory for the Social Security of Migrant Workers ("trESS": Training and Reporting on European Social Security), European Commission , DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities; partner in "Europe for Patients", responsible for the legal aspects, 6th framework, European Commission; Consultant for the European Union and Council of Europe, promotor of different projects on European health care law; lawyer, Brussels Bar. Panos Kanavos, Dr. (1964), Greek, Economist; is Lecturer in International Health Policy, London School of Economics and Head, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Group, LSE; research interests comprise the economics of medicines, quality in health care and health care reform; advisor to 18 developed and developing countries, the OECD, the WHO and the World bank; has published exten-

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sively in the peer review literature. Annette Kennedy, Irish, Nursing; President of the European Federation of Nurse Associations; Director of Professional Development, Irish Nurses Organisation; Master of Science Public Sector Analysis, Bachelor of Science Nursing, Registered Nurse Tutor, Registered Midwife, Registered General Nurse. Member of International Council of Nurses, member of ICN Credentialing Forum, member of the European Forum of Nursing Midwifery Associations and WHO, member of the Workgroup of European Nurse Researchers, member of International Centre of Nurse Migration Strategic Advisory Group; Responsible for the continuing professional development of INO members, developing policy at national and international level as well as developing one of the most comprehensive professional nursing and midwifery information portals in the world entitled “Nurse2Nurse” (www.nurse2nurse.com). Ilona Kickbusch, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.; Ilona Kickbusch is known throughout the world for her contributions to innovation in public health, health promotion and global health. She has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization and Yale University. She contributed significantly to shaping the new field global health with a focus on global health governance. She is a sought after speaker and advisor on policies and strategies to promote health at the national and international level. She has published widely and has received many prizes and honours. She is a member of a wide range of advisory boards in both the academic and the health policy arena. She now works as an independent global health consultant based in Switzerland. In particular she serves as senior health policy advisor to the Swiss Federal Office for Public Health. She is a political scientist with a PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Guri Galtung Kjaeserud, Policy Officer, DG SANCO, European Commission. Otmar Kloiber, Dr. Dr. h.c. (1957) German, Physician. Pathophysiology, biochemistry, medical ethics, health policy, sociomedical affairs. Secretary General of the World Medical Association. Chair of the Committee on European Affairs of the German Federal Association of Liberal Professions (Bundesverband der Freien Berufe, Europaausschuss). Associate Member WMA. Lucy Kok (1957), Dutch, economist; Head department Health Care and Social Insurance, SEO Economic Research, University of Amsterdam; specialist in research in industrial organisation and public finance in health care en social insurance. Heinz Krammer, Prof. Mag., self-employed auditor and accountant, adjuster, counsellor in the field of pharmaceutical pricing (Ministry of Health and Women, Member of HEK (Heilmittel-EvaluierungsKommission) etc.); alumnus reader for cost accounting, University of Ecnonomics, Vienna. Björn Kümmel, LL.M. (International Law) (1973), German, Federal Ministry of Health, Deputy Head of Division E 11; General European Health Policy Planning and EU Presidency Task Force. Ken Kuo, Prof., Director, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. Tore K Kvien, Prof. (1949), Norwegian, Rheumatologist. Head of the Dept. of Rheumatology at Diakonhjemmet Hospital since 1994 and professor of rheumatology at the University of Oslo since 1996. Doctoral thesis on Drug Management of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis in 1986. His current major research activities include epidemiological and health service research with focus on frequently occurring diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. For the period 2005–2007 he is president of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR). Markos Kyprianou, Zypern. Postgraduale Studien am Trinity College, Cambridge und an der Harvard Law School. 1991 wurde er im Wahlkreis Nikosia für die Demokratische Partei ins Parlament gewählt und 1996 sowie 2001 wiedergewählt. Er war Vorsitzender der parlamentarischen Fraktion dieser

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Partei sowie Vorsitzender der parlamentarischen Delegation an die Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (OSZE). Er war auch Vorsitzender des Ständigen Parlamentarischen Ausschusses für die „Gebiete nahe der Demarkationslinie“, stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für außenpolitische und europäische Angelegenheiten und Mitglied des Ausschusses für rechtliche Angelegenheiten. Vom 1. März 2003 bis 31. April 2004 war er Finanzminister. In dieser Kapazität war er auch für Forschung und Entwicklung, regionale Entwicklung, öffentliche Verwaltung und Informationstechnologie zuständig. Seit 1. Mai 2004 ist er Mitglied der Europäischen Kommission. Eero Lahtinen, Dr., MD, PhD, is a specialist in family medicine and psychotherapist. He has a PhD in Public Health, where his main interest area is health promotion and health policy. Dr Lahtinen is since 1998 a Ministerial Adviser in the Health Department of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland on, among other things, health promotion policy development and EU public health collaboration. Günther Leiner, MD (1939) Austrian, doctor of internal medicine, is the President of the International Forum Gastein, the founder of the European Health Forum Gastein, and the medical director of the “Badehospiz”, Bad Gastein. He was re-elected as member of the Austrian Parliament in 1999, where he is Deputy Chair of the Health Committee and fraction leader of his party. As MP he was the representative of the Austrian Parliament in the Roundtable on Human Genetics of the European Parliament. In the early 1990s he founded the International Forum Gastein. Günther Leiner is also the President of the “Salzburger Hilfswerk” which he established in the late 1980s. The not for profit organisation with some 800 employees delivers home health services, domestic aid, support to the elderly and related services. Roland Lemye (1946), Belgian, general practitioner graduated from the "Université Libre de Bruxelles", Secretary General of the Belgian Association of Medical Unions, Treasurer of the Standing Commitee of European Doctors, Adviser to the Committee of Ethics of the World Medical Association; Chairman of the subcommittee ethics and professionnal Codes of the CPME in 1998-1999 and 20002001. Past vice-president elect of the CPME. Leandris C Liburd, Dr. (1958), American (USA), Medical anthropology, Public health education; Chief of the Community Health and Program Services Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia (USA); provides national leadership in the identification of strategies for community health promotion and the elimination of health disparities through coordinated, scientifically sound public health programs; member of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Public Health Education. Karen Lock, Dr. (1966), UK, Cinical Lecturer in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Clinical medicine, Public Health MSc and PhD. Research includes the burden of disease of low intake of fruits and vegetables (WHO World Health Reprt 2002), health impact assessment of agriculture policy in Europe and evaluating societal and environmental interventions for obesity prevention. A fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, NHS Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Member of the Global Design Team for the current World Bank Global Assessment of Agriculture (IAASTD). Anna Lönnroth, Dr. (1957), Swedish, Head of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Sector of the Health Directorate in DG Research at the European Commission in Brussels with special emphasis on emerging epidemics and antimicrobial drug resistance, PhD in Molecular Genetics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, previously in charge of EU research projects on HIV/AIDS, member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Daniela Maag, lic. sc. com, (1979), Swiss, Health Communication, Health Literacy, scientific collaborator at the Health Care Communication Laboratory, University of Lugano, Switzerland, responsible

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for the development of a Competence Center for Health Literacy on the areas of nutrition, exercise and weight. Robert Madelin, (1957) became Director-General for Health and Consumer Protection in January 2004. He has overall responsibility for the day-to-day running of the work of the Directorate-General in its three main areas: public health, food safety and consumer protection. He previously served in a variety of postings (1997–2003) as a Director in the Directorate-General for Trade, where he had the chance to work on a range of issues, including: access to medicines, agriculture, biotechnology, corporate responsibility, food and product standards, global governance, intellectual property, investment, services, sustainable development, and relations with the Asia-Pacific. Prior to this, he was Deputy Head of Cabinet to Sir Leon (now Lord) Brittan, European Commission Vice-President. Robert Madelin was educated in England, at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He joined the British Civil Service in 1979, serving mainly in London and Brussels and joined the Commission in 1993. He studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Paris in 1983–84. Tanja Mate, Ministry of Health, Slovenia. David McDaid, Dr., Research Fellow, London School of Economics, LSE Health and Social Care. Martin McKee (British/Irish) is Professor of European Public Health at LSHTM, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, co-director of the European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), a WHO Collaborating Centre, and research director in the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He has written extensively on health and health policy in Europe. His work has been recognised by, among others, the 2003 Andrija Stampar medal, honorary doctorates from Hungary and The Netherlands, and Fellowship of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. Bernard Merkel, Dr., BA, MA(Econ) PhD, (1949) UK. Head of Health Strategy Unit at European Commission. Before joining the Commission he was a UK civil servant, working on health policy issues, such as AIDS, child health and reform of NHS, as well as social policy. He has been a Visiting Fellow at LSE Health and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene. Member of Editorial Board of Eurohealth and author of a number of articles on health policy. Owen Metcalfe (1952), Irish, Primary Degree in Business Studies, Masters Degree in Health Promotion, Higher Diploma in Education and Diploma in Guidance and Counselling. Worked as Chief Health Promotion Advisor for the Department of Health and Children until October 1999 when he took up his current position with the Institute of Public Health in Ireland. He has been involved in health education and health promotion for twenty years and is widely conversant with public health and health promotion policy, planning and implementation at regional, national and international levels. He has also worked as a teacher, trainer and counsellor. In his current position Owen has a commitment to national and international networking for public health with a particular emphasis on addressing health inequalities. Miroslav Mikolasik, Dr., (Slovenia), Member of the European Parliament. Marjatta Montonen, Ministry of Health, Finland. Sheng Mou Hou, Minister of Health, Taiwan. Svein-Erik Myrseth, President of the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA) since 2003, began his career as an officer in the Royal Norwegian Air Force before moving onto advertising, sales management, and consultancy in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. He studied at Oslo Bors, School of Sales and Marketing, and at the Faculties of

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Education at Øsfold University College in Halden, and Special Education at Lillehammer University College. Mr Myrseth, an asthma patient himself, is a member of many bodies and learned societies. He serves as President of the Executive Board at the Norwegian Heart and Lung Association (LHL), Board Member of LHL hospitals Glittrekliniken and Freiringklinikekken for lung treatment, rehabilitation and heart surgery, and Board Member of Rehabilitation International, Norway. He is also a member of the Norwegian Global Initiative for COPD (GOLD) Committee, the EU Health Policy Forum of DG SANCO, Ethics Committee of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), as well as the EFA representative of the International Coalition of COPD Patient Associations. Clive Needle, since 2000 Director of EuroHealthNet, the Brussels based EU network linking national and regional agencies responsible for health promotion, public health and disease prevention (www.eurohealthnet.org). He chairs the EU Mental Health consultative platform, is part of the EU Platform on Diet, Physical Activity & Health, the EU Health Policy Forum, and is rapporteur for the Finland presidency event on health in all policies 2006. He is also an independent policy advisor and has facilitated, organised or chaired numerous international events. Formerly an MEP specialising in health and development issues, Clive is also a writer of frequent media articles about the EU and has authored guides to EU activities for health professionals. Margarethe Nielsen, Danish Consumer Association. Frank Niggemeier, Dr. (1961), German, Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EU; Head of the Health Policy Division; since 1990 in the Federal Ministry of Health, since 2000 Health Attaché in Brussels. Ellen Nolte, Dr.; German, Senior Lecturer, European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Research Fellow, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies; work activities include international benchmarking in health, health system performance assessment, health implications of political and socioeconomic transition in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, member of International Scientific Committee of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA). August Österle, Dr., University of Economics, Vienna. John Wyn Owen, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff; non executive director UK Health Protection Agency; member of the Council of Madariaga European Foundation; Chair of the European Partnership for Global Health, European Foundation Centre; Adjunct Professor Public Health, University of Sydney. Seza Özen, Prof. Dr. (1959), Turkish, Medicine, Professor in the Department of Paediatrics of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey and Chair for the Standing Committee of Paediatric Rheumatology in EULAR, Member of the Executive Committee of European Paediatric Rheumatology Society (PRES) and chair of the working group for vasculitis in PReS, has many scientific awards from her home country. Zilvinas Padaiga is Professor of Public Health at Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania. He graduated as a medical doctor at the same university and trained in public health at Kuopio University, Finland. He has been doing research in epidemiology of childhood diabetes, newborn health, health inequalities, health human resources since 1990. During 2004–006 Dr Padaiga was appointed as a Minister of Health, Lithuania. Susanna Palkonen, (1968), Finnish, Executive Officer of the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients Associations (EFA) in Brussels; responsible for management, European proj-

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ects and surveys and advocacy; represents EFA at DG SANCO Health Policy Forum, member of the Board of the European Patients Forum (EPF), DG Environment Consultative Forum of Environment and Health and Advisory Committee of the International Guidelines on managing Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma. Ema Paulino, 2001 Graduated Pharmaceutical Sciences by the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, 2002–05 Enrolled in Masters in Community Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon (Thesis: Understanding Practice Change in Community Pharmacy); 2002-4 Pharmacist-in-charge and owner, Nuno Álvares Pharmacy; 2001–02 Pharmacist, Nuno Álvares Pharmacy; Member of the European Pharmacists Forum (EPF); Member of the Executive Committee of the International Pharmaceutical Federation Community Pharmacy Section (FIP CPS); Member of the Portuguese Delegation at the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU); Member of the Portuguese Delegation at the EuroPharm Forum; Board Member, Portuguese National Pharmacies Association (ANF); 2003-04 Chairperson, International Pharmaceutical Federation Young Pharmacists’ Group (YPG); 2001-03 Project Coordinator, FIP YPG; 2000–01 Secretary General and Permanent Officer in The Netherlands, European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (EPSA); 1999-2000 President, Portuguese Pharmacy Students’ Association (APEF); 1998–2000 Chairperson, Health Information, Promotion and Education Working Group of the local Students’ Association. Jürgen Pelikan, Prof. Dr. (1940), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Health and Medicine, Austria; Sociology, Psychology, (Psychoanalysis), Group Dynamics & Organisational Consulting; Professor, Institute of Sociology; Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Sociology of Health and Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care; Co-founder and Consultant, International WHO Network of Health Promoting Hospitals; Director, EU-Project Migrant Friendly Hospitals – A European Initiative to Promote Health and Health Literacy for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities; Former President, European Society of Health and Medical Sociology. Main areas of research & publications: organization and quality of health care; health promotion theory; development, implementation and evaluation of health promotion in settings (hospitals, schools, cities); organizational sociology, systems theory. Andreas Penk, Dr. (1965); 1986–92 Medical studies, University Leipzig; 1988 Clinical elective at the Albert Szent Gyoergyi University, Szeged, Hungary; 1989 Clinical elective at the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic; 1993–94 Project Manager in international pharmaceutical market research with Infratest & GfK, Nuremberg; 1994–97 Product Manager, Pfizer Germany; 1997–2000 Head Strategic Business Unit Hospital, Pfizer Germany; 2000–02 Director Strategic Business Unit CNS/Urology/Hospital, Pfizer Germany; since March 2002: Country Manager Pfizer Austria. Josep Picas Vidal, Dr., General Manager, Barcelona City Primary Care Services at the Catalan Institute of Health, Spain. Jesper Poulsen, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME). David Price, General Practice Airways Group Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, a Visiting Fellow at the University of East Anglia and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of General Practice at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He is extensively involved in primary care education and research. He also heads a research consortium of primary care centers in the east of England. He has authored more than 80 articles on original research, editorials, review articles, and book chapters. David Price’s special areas of interest in primary care respiratory management are screening, ‘real-life’ effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions, compliance, and patient attitudes to their disease. He heads the research committees for the UK General Practice Airways Group and International Primary Care Respiratory Group. He is a member of the executive committee for the ARIA guidelines group. He completed his medical degree at

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Cambridge University in 1984, and his General Practitioner training in Norwich in 1989 where he worked as a principal in practice until 2000 and now does sessional work. Bartosz Przywara, Economist, DG ECFIN, European Commission. Andrea Rappagliosi, (1957), law degree from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and completed a post-graduate Masters at the Istituto Superiore dei Studi Legislativi (ISLE) from which he obtained a “Legislative Consultant Diploma”. He began his career in the early eighties, first in the Italian Government as a member of staff for the State Undersecretary of the Treasury, then for the Italian Senate focused on drafting of legislative texts, comparative legal studies and public budget analysis. In 1992, he moved into healthcare and worked for The Ares-Serono Group as Head of the Institutional Affairs Department in charge of the Rome and Brussels offices. From 1995 to 1999, he was Public Affairs Director at Baxter Healthcare, part of the European Public Affairs team. In 1999, he returned to Serono International, as Vice President Corporate Health Policy & Government Relations. He is currently member of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products Working Group with Interested Parties (COMP/WGIP). He represents Serono in the following trade associations: EUROPABIO Vice Chairman, Board of Management, Chair of the Healthcare Council; HTAi Health Technology Assessment International Society Policy Forum; EFPIA Economic and Social Policy Committee; INTERPHARMA Economic and Policy Issues Committee. He sits on the Board of the Foundation of the European Platform for Patients Organizations, Science & Industry (EPPOSI) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology. Additional information: He is member of the Global Public Affairs Institute of New York (USA), and the British Institute of Institute of International and Comparative Law. He contributes regularly to European financial and legal publications. Scott C Ratzan, MD, M.P.A.; Vice President, Pharmaceuticals and Global Health, Government Affairs, Europe for Johnson & Johnson. He is responsible for government affairs support of our pharmaceutical companies in Europe. He is a member of the Janssen-Cilag European Management Board and Chairs the European Public Affairs Committee. He also leads Johnson & Johnson’s government affairs efforts in Global Health. His most recent position was Senior Technical Adviser in the Bureau of Global Health at United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He also has served on committees for the World Health Organization (WHO), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and a variety of other organizations. Scott founded the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives in 1994 and remains the Editor-in-Chief. His books include The Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good, Attaining Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities and AIDS: Effective Health Communication for the 90s. Scott maintains faculty appointments at Tufts University School of Medicine and George Washington University Medical Center as well as the University of Cambridge in the UK and the College of Europe in Belgium. He received his MD from the University of Southern California; MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and MA from Emerson College and an A.B. in political communication from Occidental College. Maria Rauch-Kallat (1949) Austrian; Politician; graduated of Pedagogical Institute as teacher English, Russian, Sports, Geography and Economics; Federal Minister of Health and Women; Secretary General of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) (1995–2003); Federal Minister (1992-1995); Managing director „Soziales Hilfswerk“(non-profit organisation); running projects for children, families, seniors, handicapped people Social networking in Vienna and international projects in Central America and Eastern Europa (1983–92); other functions and memberships: President of the ÖVP-Austria Women’s Association, President of Alpha (a political academy specialised on women), President of the AustroHungarian Association, Board member of the Dr. Maria Schaumayer-Foundation, Board member of the ÖVP Political Academy, Board member of „Lobby for children“, Member of the Austrian Management Association , Member of the Christian Teacher’s Association of Austria.

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David Reddy, PhD (1961); Molecular and Cellular Biologist; Influenza Pandemic Task Force Leader at F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel Switzerland; oversees Roche’s scientific, medical regulatory, commercial and technical manufacturing activities for the influenza antiviral Tamiflu® with a focus on supporting governments and other key groups in their pandemic planning efforts. Rainer Rienmüller, O. Univ.Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c.Dr.h.c. (1942), Austrian, Ordinarius für Radiologie; Head of the Department of General Diagnostic Radiology of the Medical University Graz; Study of Medicine and Training in Radiology (University of Munich); Member of German Radiological Society, Austrian Radiological Society, Bavarian Radiological Society, Styrian Medical Society, Society of Thoracic Radiology (USA), Society of German University Teachers, European Society of Thoracic Radiology, Radiological Society of North America (USA), Biomedical Technique Society (Germany), German Polish Radiological Society (Vice-President), European Society of Cardiology, North American Society of Cardiac Imaging, European Congress of Radiology, Association of University Radiologists in Europe, European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology European Society of Cardiac Radiology (Founder and 1st President); Organizer of tutorials for East European Radiologists on behalf of EAR, Honorary member of 17 radiological national societies, Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Adam Ringer, Co-founder and Chairman, Paragona. Sometime after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Adam left academia in Sweden and started a consulting firm in Poland, his native country which he had left 26 years earlier. To date, the consulting firm has assisted hundreds of organizations considering expansion in Poland or Eastern Europe – primarily from the Nordic region. He is the CEO of Ena Ltd and co-owner of the Ena Group and the Chairman of Green Coffee. Adam has been on the board of directors of several companies: Preem Polska Ltd, Stena Line Polska Ltd, Kapp Ahl Polska Ltd, Corporate Express Polska Ltd and The Polish Organization of Oil Industry and Trade. He was also a co-founder of and for many years board member of Kalmena and Medena Ltd. In his capacity as a senior consultant, Adam has also worked with, among others, the following organizations: Skanska, Volvo Truck, The ÅF - group and SAAB Aerospace. Adam has a BSc in Economics, Business Administration and Political Science from Stockholm University, Sweden. He completed PhD studies and was a lecturer in Political Science, Stockholm University and in studies for Graduate Seminars in Modern Polish History, Uppsala University. Lise Rochaix, Prof., French, was nominated last December to the Board of Directors of the French 'Haute Autorité de Santé'. She chairs the Committee: 'Evaluation des Stratégies de Santé' (CE2S) which defines practice guidelines and methods for quality improvement. Before joining HAS, Lise ROCHAIX was full professor since 1994, first at the economics department of the university of Western Brittany and subsequently at Aix-Marseille II where she was head of the public economics master’s degree, teaching public economics, labour economics and health economics. She obtained her French doctorate in 1986 at the university of Rennes and her Ph.D in economics at York University in 1991. She is a member of GREQAM (Groupe de Recherches en Economie Quantitative d’Aix-Marseille) and IDEP (Institut d’Economie Publique) in Marseille. She is member of the Board of Directors of AFSE (Association Française de Sciences Economiques) and of CES (Collège des Economistes de la santé) and was recently appointed member of the Arrow Award Committee of iHEA (International Health Economics Association). Her research is mainly in health economics and her areas of interest are related to regulatory issues, in particular the analysis of incentives and their impact on both providers and patients, from an efficiency and an equity point of view. She has published a large number of articles on these topics and also took part in various governmental task force reports on health care reforms. Magda Rosenmöller, Dr. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. Giampietro Rupolo, Dr., Head of Department, Veneto Region, Italy; Anesthesiology and Intensive

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Care, Psychiatry, Transplant Coordinator for Veneto Region, Head of the Social and Health Care Planning Department of Veneto Region, member of the Italian Health National Research Commission (Commissione Nazionale Ricerca Sanitaria), member of the Italian Drug Agency (AIFA), member of the Italian National Transplant Committee. Andrzej Ryś, MD (1960), Polish, Medical Doctor, radiology, public health; Director of Public Health, DG Sanco, European Commission in Luxemburg ; former Deputy Minister of Health in Poland; Director of the School of Public Health, Jagiellonian University, Krakow ; Chief Medical Officer City of Krakow. Constantino Sakellarides, Prof., National School Public Health, Lisbon, Portugal. Peter T Sawicki, MD, PhD. is professor at the University of Cologne and director of the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). The Institute, which was founded in June 2004, evaluates medical, surgical, and diagnostic procedures, as well as the use of prescription drugs, in an effort to promote evidence-based medical practice. It gives scientific advises to the German Ministry of Health and the German National Joint Committee, the roof organisation of the German Health Self Government. Peter Scherer, Head of the Health Division at the OECD, Paris. After studying at the Monash University, the Australian National University and Cornell University in the US, he lectured at Sydney University and was a research fellow at the Australian National University. He then worked in various Australian Government Departments, eventually becoming Acting Director of the Bureau of Labour Market Research. When that Bureau was abolished in 1986, he came to the OECD, initially heading the Division responsible for the annual OECD Employment Outlook. From 1991 to June 2002 he was Head of the Social Policy Division, and was counsellor to the Director of the Employment and Social Affairs Directorate until December 2004. He has published in the fields of labour economics, industrial relations, comparative social expenditures and social policy trends. Karl-Jürgen Schmitt, Dr. rer. nat.; Since 1998, Dr. Schmitt is appointed Director of Public Relations and Health Policy for Siemens AG, Medical Solutions. In his position, he internationally fosters the change process of healthcare systems towards increase of efficiency. The goal is to support countries and decision makers in healthcare in ensuring high quality and becoming more efficient - based on innovative technologies, more transparency and competition. Being recognized as an expert on a wide range of healthcare issues including eHealth, he is speaker at international conferences and Vice President of EHTEL, the European Health Telematics Association. Furthermore, he is a Member of the Board of the European Health Forum Gastein. Dr. Schmitt started his career in the Healthcare Industry, when in 1989 he joined the Diagnostic Ultrasound Division of Siemens AG, Medical Solutions, in Erlangen/Germany. He has held increasingly responsible positions from R&D to marketing and sales, spending two years as a Senior Product Manager at the Siemens Medical Solutions Ultrasound Division in Issaquah, WA, USA. A German citizen, he graduated from the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen (Germany) in 1988 earning his degree as Doctor of Physics (PhD). From 1988 to 1989 he worked as an academic counselor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen. Ortwin Schulte (1963), German, Federal Ministry of Health, Head of Division E 11 in Berlin; responsible for General European Health Policy Planning and EU Presidency Task Force; member of the High Level Committee of Public Health. Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz, MD, Dr. med., Dr. med. habil. (1943), Full Professor since 1985 at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Director of Department of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research. Studied art history, philosophy, human medicine and sociology in Munich, Marburg

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and Frankfurt. Doctoral degree in history of medicine (role of state in medicine of 16 –18th century German territories) 1973 at Senckenberg Institute, Frankfurt, 1972–84 Managing director in National Association of Sickness Funds Affiliated Physicians and in addition, 1974–84 Director of management and research of the “Central Institute for Ambulatory Care in the Federal Republic of Germany”, Cologne. 1982 habilitation in social medicine and epidemiology. 1985–88 and 1995–2003 member, and 1999–2002 chairman of the German Federal Advisory Council in Health Care. Tsveta Schyns, PhD; European Genetic Alliances Network, EGAN, Brussels; European Network for Research on Alternating Hemiplegia, ENRAH, Vienna; founded ENRAH in the spring of 2003 in Vienna, Austria. She is at present the Coordinator of the European Commission-funded project ‘ENRAH for SMEs’ and the Board Secretary of EGAN. Before that, she pursued an academic career at the Free university of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tsveta Schyns was trained in Molecular Biology at the University of Sofia , Bulgaria. She specialised and conducted her post-graduate studies at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. In 1998 she received her doctoral degree in Genetics. Hans Seiler (1943), Swiss, Chemist, founder of Astra Switzerland. Former CEO of AstraZeneca Switzerland. President of SPQA (Swiss Pharma Quality Association). Clare Siddall, Policy Officer, DG SANCO, European Commission. Peter C Smith, Prof. (1952), English, Professor of Economics and Director of Centre for Health Economics, University of York; board member, Audit Commission; chair, NHS Financial Management Advisory Group; chair, UK Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity; over 100 academic papers; consultant to WHO, OECD, IMF, World Bank and many national governments. Josef S Smolen (1950), Austria, Professor of Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Dept. of Rheumatology of Vienna General Hospital, University of Vienna, and the 2nd Dept. of Medicine of the Center of Rheumatic Diseases, Hietzing Hospital Vienna. Main scientific interests are basic research into the pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, disease activity and outcome assessment, and new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of rheumatic diseases. He has held leading positions in many national and international scientific societies. He has published over 300 publications in the field of rheumatology and immunology and been awarded several prizes and honors. He is currently Past-President of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR). Neil Squires, Dr. (1961), MBChB, MPH, MFPHM, DTM&H. British, Public Health Physician. Seconded National Expert to the European Commission, Directorate General of Development, Brussels; responsible for health issues for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific. Lead responsibility for coordination of a European Response to the health workforce shortage in developing countries. Peter Stephens, Public Affairs, IMS Health. Jeffrey L Sturchio, Dr.; Vice President, External Affairs, Human Health Intercontinental at Merck & Co., Inc., in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. He is responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of a range of health policy and communications initiatives for the region. He has been centrally involved in Merck’s participation in the UN/Industry Accelerating Access Initiative to help improve HIV/AIDS care and treatment in the developing world. He is also a member of the private sector delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Dr. Sturchio received an A.B. in history (1973) from Princeton University and a PhD in the history & sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania (1981). His previous positions include the AT&T Archives, the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has also been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior

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Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (NMAH). In 2004 he was appointed a Visiting Fellow of LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics and elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He joined Merck in June 1989 as the Company’s first Corporate Archivist. Publications: Successful public-private partnerships in global health: lessons from the MECTIZAN Donation Program, (with B Colatrella), in The Economics of Essential Medicines, edited by B Granville (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2002). Marc Suhrcke, Dr., German, is currently based at the WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development (Venice), where he is in charge of the ‘Health and Economic Development’area of work. His previous professional experience includes: the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (Florence), Hamburg University, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (London), the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), and the European Commission (Brussels). His background is in economics and his main current research interests are: health and economic development, economics of prevention, socioeconomic determinants and inequalities of health. Andrea Sutcliffe, Deputy Chief Executive, NICE, UK. Ladislav Švec, (1973), Czech; graduated lawyer (Charles University, Faculty of Law), 1999 – 2001 ministerial official, upper counsellor, Ministry of Health (Prag), responsible for dealing with coordination of social security schemes in health care sector; currently director of the CMU liaison office of the Czech Republic in health sector, responsible for steering of the CMUś activities and generally for interpretation of EU law as well as for coordination of institutions in the sphere of EU coordination lawś application. David Tovey, Dr., is the Editorial Director for BMJ Knowledge, which is the division of the BMJ Group that produces Clinical Evidence and its counterpart for the public BestTreatments. Clinical Evidence is the international source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. Published by the BMJ since 1999, it is available to more than one million clinicians worldwide and has been translated into seven different languages. Dr Tovey worked as a General Practitioner in an urban practice in South London for 15 years until 2003. During that time he also undertook roles in continuing professional development for primary care professionals, and was a clinical governance lead for a Primary Care Group. Since coming to the BMJ he was initially Deputy Editor of Clinical Evidence under Fiona Godlee, moving to the Editor role when she became Editor of the BMJ, and subsequently into his present role. Lyn Trytsman-Gray, CIAA/Kraft Foods Public Affairs. Valery Tzekov, Dr. (1960). He has graduated from the Medical Academy – Plovdiv in 1988. He has acquired three specialisations – internal diseases, nephrology and health care management. During the period between 2001 and 2005, Dr Valery Tzekov was a Member of Parliament in the 39th National Assembly. From 2001 until 2005, Dr Tzekov was leader of the Delegation at the Assembly of the Western European Union. He was appointed as Deputy Minister of Health on 9th September 2005. Peter H Ungar, Dr. rer. pol.; economist, studied at and graduated from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, concluding his studies in 1993 with a Dr. rer. pol. for his thesis on the spatial distribution of investments across the regions of the Community. He joined the European Commission the same year and since 1998 he has been working for the Directorate General for Regional Policy. Amongst others his tasks have included the impact assessment of other policies on regional policy, the evaluation of Structural Funds programmes and works related to the European Spatial Development Perspective. In his current position within the unit ‘Thematic development and impact’ of DG REGIO, he is responsible for energy, culture, health and trans-European networks (TEN) policies.

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Rima Vaitkiene, Dr (1955), Lithuanian, Medical doctor; biomedical sciences, public health; public administration; Secretary of the Ministry at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania in Vilnius; responsible for health care services, access and quality of services. Erkka Valovirta, Dr.; qualified as a medical doctor from the University of Turku, Finland, in 1980. After obtaining his PhD in 1987, he qualified as a paediatrician in 1988 and went on to specialise in paediatric allergology in 1991. Since 1980 Dr Valovirta has held a number of positions at the University of Turku including from 1980 to 1995 Specialist and Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics; Research Fellow, Allergy Consultant and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Allergology from 1988 to 1990 and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Paediatrics from 1995 to 2003. He currently holds the position of Senior Medical Officer at the Turku Allergy Center. He also serves as the Medical Advisor in EFA, European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients Associations. Dr Valovirta is a member of many bodies and learned societies, sits at the moment on the Executive Committee of the ARIA, Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma, Project and on the Steering Committee of WHO GARD, Global Alliance for Respiratory Diseases, Project, from the year 2003 to the year 2005 on the Executive Committee of European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), and he is a member of the World Allergy Organisation (WAO) Speciality Committee. He is Past President of the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients Associations (EFA), Brussels, Belgium. He is also the Chairman of EAACI Immunotherapy Interest Group Committee and a member of the EAACI Ethics Committee. He is the Chairman of the Section of Allergology of the Finnish Society of Pediatrics. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of several European Union funded projects such as Indoor Air in Schools in Europe, SAFE, InformAll, THADE and EuroPrevall. Dr Valovirta’s particular scientific interest is in allergen specific immunotherapy, as well as asthma and food allergy in children. He has written chapters in various international and national medical books and is a reviewer for Allergy, European Respiratory Journal, Clinical Experimental Allergy and Journal of Pediatric Allergy and Asthma. Stefaan Van der Spiegel, (1973), Belgian, Medicine (M.D.), Business Administration (M.B.A.); Policy Officer on Competitiveness in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotechnology for the European Commission in Brussels (DG Enterprise and Industry); Responsible for the Working Group on Pricing and Reimbursement of the Pharmaceutical Forum, involving EU Member State authorities, industry, patients and other stakeholders; Alumnus McKinsey & Co Healthcare Practice. Albert van der Zeijden; after obtaining a degree in pedagogy, Albert van der Zeijden was director of a teacher training college. Since the early 1980s he has been an active patient advocate on all national and international levels. At present he is President of the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO) and Vice-president of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). Jonathan Van-Tam, Head of the Pandemic Influenza Office at the Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections in London. He sits on a number of high level cross-government committees to represent the Health Protection Agency’s pandemic and avian influenza preparedness. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Nottingham. After house jobs he underwent five years of clinical training in Accident & Emergency, Anaesthesia, General and Geriatric Medicine, and Infectious Diseases. He subsequently trained as an academic Public Health Physician at the University of Nottingham Medical School, obtaining EU Specialist Registration. His past includes over 14 year’s public sector experience and four and a half years working in the pharmaceutical industry on influenza vaccines and neuraminidase inhibitors. He has published almost 100 scientific papers and written several chapters in textbooks. After his time in industry he rejoined the public sector in 2004 as a Consultant Epidemiologist at the Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections in London where he now leads on avian influenza and influenza pandemic preparedness and planning. Kurt Völkl, (1953), Austrian. Studied Technical Mathematics at the Technical University of Graz. Mr

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Völkl has held various leading positions in the Austrian Miners’ Insurance Institutions since 1979. He is also a lecturer at the universities of Graz and Linz and an expert for the management of organisations and human resources. Maurice Wagner, Director-General, Eucomed (since 2002). Eucomed is the Brussels based pan-European trade association that represents the medical technologies and devices industry. The mission of Eucomed is to contribute to improving patients and clinicians access to modern, innovative and reliable medical technology. Maurice Wagner joined Eucomed from the Worldwide and European Fragrance and Flavour Trade Associations for which he worked as Executive Director for 6 years. He started his business life with Hoffmann-La Roche, initially as a lawyer in Basel (Switzerland), where he was advising the group companies on all five continents, then in a marketing function in the UK, and finally as Manager EU-Affairs in Brussels, where he was in charge, in particular, of all contacts with the EU- Institutions and other stakeholders. Maurice Wagner studied law in Switzerland and completed his doctorate in the field of Intellectual Property. Jürgen Wallner, Dr. (1976), Austrian, Medical Ethicist, Legal Philosophy; assistant professor at the Department of Legal Philosophy, Law of Religion and Culture at University of Vienna's Law Faculty; studies in theology, philosophy, law and economics; lecturer for medical ethics at the Medical University of Vienna; fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Law of Medicine (Vienna); member of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.), the Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin, the Austrian Society for Public Health. Morton Warner, Prof., PhD, FFPH(RCP), FRSM, FHSM, FIM; Mr. Warner has been the Director and Professor of Health Strategy and Policy at the Welsh Institute for Health & Social Care, University of Glamorgan since 1995, and Director of a WHO Collaborating Centre for Regional Health Strategy and Management Development in Europe since 1992. Prior to this time he was Executive Director of an NHS think-tank, the Welsh Health Planning Forum; and held the position of Associate Professor in the Medical School at the University of British Columbia, where he was from 1970–81. In the 1980s he worked in the private sector and for WHO in the Caribbean. His particular interest lies in the development of virtual organisations and networks in health and social services as an aid to services integration. He is a Non-Executive Director for Pontypridd and Rhondda Acute and Community NHS Trust. Colin Webb, European Coalition of Positive People. Norbert Wilk, (1973), Polish, Medicine/Dentistry, Social Communication and Marketing, Management; Deputy Director for Health Technology Assessment and International Collaboration at the Agency for Health Technology Assessment in Poland (AHTAPol); member of Critical Appraisal Skills Programme International Network (CASPin) and Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi); former Director of the Office of Accreditation (Ministry of Health), responsible for preparing quality standards for medical laboratories. Matthias Wismar, Dr., European Observatory on Health Policies and Systems Michael Wolf, Dr. (1971), American, Health Services Research, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Learning Sciences, Public Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director, Health Literacy & Learning Program (HeLP), Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; advisor on health literacy issues to the American Medical Association (AMA), American College of Physicians (ACP), United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospital Organizations (JCAHO), and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); federal grant reviewer and lead investigator on health literacy grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Ian Wong, Prof.; British, Professor and Director of the Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research (School of Pharmacy and Institute of Child Health) in London; PhD in Clinical Pharmacology and BSc in Pharmacy; responsible for directing the children’s medicines research programme of the Centre; member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Alexandra Wyke, Dr., CEO, PatientView. Ana Xavier, received her first degree (1995) in Economics from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and her M.Sc. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000) in Health Economics from the University of York, UK, where she also worked as a researcher at the Centre for Health Economics. She then moved to Belgium where she worked as an economic researcher (2000-2004) at LICOS, Centre for Transition Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She has been working at the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal opportunities in the unit dealing with social protection (pensions and healthcare and long-term care) and social services issues. She analyses EU Member States strategies in the fields of health care and long-term care under the so-called EU Open Method of Coordination: a reporting, information exchange and peer review framework. Jean S Yan, Chief Scientist Nursing and Midwifery. Jean Yan received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Public Administration with specialization in the areas of Policy Analysis and Organizational Development from the University of Southern California. She has a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in Nursing from Silliman University in the Philippines. She has been a nurse for thirty-five years with extensive experience in nursing education, management, consultation and is a Nurse Fellow in Neonatology. As Associate Director of Joint Commission International, she managed the Partnerships in Health Project in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Total Quality Management project for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and worked with the ZDRAV Health Reform Project for the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. She served for seven years as the Health Systems and Human Resource Development Advisor at PAHO/WHO Caribbean Programme Coordination Office in Barbados, assisting Ministries of Health in ten Eastern Caribbean Countries to strengthen their capacity for human resource planning, management and training. Jean is now working as Chief Scientist Nursing and Midwifery for the World Health Organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Part of the Department of Human Resources for Health, the Office of Nursing and Midwifery, under the management of Jean, provides leadership and advice on the formulation of WHO policy on nursing and midwifery services. Pascal Zurn, (1964); Swiss; Health Economist; Health Division, OECD (secondment from WHO, Geneva).

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