Jeanette Andersen
Lupus Europe, Denmark
Jeanette Andersen is 43 years old, lives in Denmark and has a Master’s degree in German and Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen. In 2011 she was diagnosed with SLE, which (in combination with a lot of comorbidities) forced her to go into early retirement. Since then, she has immersed herself in the role of a volunteer in the area of rheumatology with a special focus on patient engagement in clinical research. She is the Chair of Lupus Europe (https://www.lupus-europe.org), a EUPATI trained patient expert on medicines Research & Development (https://eupati.eu) and the leader of the Lupus Europe Patient Advisory Network (https://www.lupus-europe.org/pan/). She is also a patient representative (or e-PAG) and a Steering Committee Member in ERN ReCONNET (https://reconnet.ern-net.eu) as well as leader in the Danish Lupus group (www.sle.dk) underneath Gigtforeningen (the Danish Rheumatism Association). She is a EULAR PARE Committee Member (https://www.eular.org/eular_pare_community.cfm) and Leader of the Editorial Board and Edgar Stene Prize working groups (https://www.eular.org/pare_stene_prize.cfm). She also sits on the ACTion Council on patient engagement in rheumatology research (https://rheumactioncouncil.org). She has developed an exercise programme for lupus patients, that has been endorsed by both ERN and EULAR (https://www.lupus-europe.org/me-lupus/) and at present she has a focus on better communication between doctors and patients.
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Dr Eduarda Alves
Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain
Eduarda Alves is an Internal Medicine Specialist working in the autoimmune service at the Hospital Clinic Barcelona and is currently studying for her Masters in autoimmune diseases. She is author and co-author of publications in high impact factor scientific journals and has presented at hospital meetings and national and international scientific congresses.
She studied medicine at the University of Medicine of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and served her rotations in emergency medicine, neurology and stroke and intensive care in Braga and Algarve, Portugal, before settling in the department of autoimmune diseases at the Hospital Clinic Barcelona.
Eduarda is a member of the Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine, of the Study Group on Autoimmune Diseases as well as the Study Group on Cerebrovascular Diseases.
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Fabíola de Andrade
Independent CME Consultant, The Netherlands
Fabíola de Andrade managed the work of the European Board for Accreditation in Hematology (EBAH) for over a decade. During her career in CME-CPD, she served on the CME Experts Permanent Committee of the Biomedical Alliance in Europe, and was one of the founding members of CME-European Accreditors (CME-EA), a non-profit association of independent European accreditors.
Nowadays she contributes to the CME-CPD community by being an independent consultant and contractor working alongside accreditors, providers and companies. She is an active member of the Good CME Practice Group and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of European CME (JECME).
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Miguel Ángel-Robles
Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Spain
Miguel Ángel Robles Sánchez is a multiple sclerosis clinical and research registered nurse at the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalonia (Cemcat), Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona Hospital Campus and member of the Multidisciplinary and Nursing Research Group, Vall d’hebron Research Institute (VHIR). In his doctoral project, his line of research is focused on the implementation of educational health interventions that respond to the needs and demands of people with multiple sclerosis.
In 2015, he received the European Nursing Fellowship from the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) and carried out an international stage at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK. It was linked to his doctoral thesis "Comprehensive approach to needs and demands of people with multiple sclerosis”, where he became familiar with shared decision-making. Subsequently, in collaboration with the Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries (AQUAS), the University of Girona and the Fundació Esclerosi Múltiple (FEM), he led the development of contents and decision aid tools for the Shared-Decisions Project in multiple sclerosis, available in the Health Channel of the Department of Health of Catalonia.
Currently, he is performing a nursing research fellowship in the frameworks of the Strategic Plan for Research and Innovation in Health 2016-2020 (PERIS – Health Department, Government of Catalonia). Thanks to that, he is now developing a multi-center study entitled "Territorial Implementation of the Expert Patient Program of Catalonia in Multiple Sclerosis" established in 7 territorial multiple sclerosis centres. This project has also received a grant from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Barcelona (COIB).
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Linda Battiato
Eli Lilly, US
Linda Battiato joined Eli Lilly in 2016 and has been a Medical Education Grant Officer (“MEGO”) with the Lilly Grant Office since 2018. As a MEGO, Linda oversees Independent Medical Education for Breast Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease including strategy development, grant management, programme monitoring and evaluation of impact and outcomes. Linda is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s Degree in Nursing and has many years of oncology experience in various clinical, research and leadership roles. Linda resides in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband Joe and enjoys ballroom dancing, reading, hiking and spending time with family including 3 adorable grandchildren.
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Dean Beals
DKBmed, US
Dean Beals has been working in CME/CPD for over 25 years. Dean founded DKBmed in 2002, a CME/CPD company which specializes in bringing new adult learning methodologies to the healthcare landscape. Dean was an early adopter of incorporating the patient voice into medical education, developing Quality Improvement programs, podcasts, e-mail, curriculum-based activities and tablet/smartphone applications for clinicians and patients. These forward-thinking approaches enable clinicians to learn using the latest state-of-the-art techniques and to access educational programs that make a difference in practice and their patients' lives. Under Dean’s leadership, DKBmed has created multiple Quality Improvement programs in chronic pain, diabetic eye disease, depression, influenza, and HIV, working with health systems around the United States. Dean also created the Get SMART (Safe Means of Administering the Right Therapy) series of educational programs supported by multiple grants from the FDA and REMS Program Committee to combat the growing epidemic of opioid addiction; he has testified twice before of the FDA to address the need for continued provider education in this area. DKBmed is also developing education in China and other Asian countries on HIV and HBV. Dean serves on the board of the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME) and is a member of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions and received the Brian P. Russell Exemplary CME Professional Award from the National Association of Medical Education Companies (NAMEC).
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Amy Bernard
Medscape, US
Amy B Bernard MS BSN NPD-BC CHCP is Senior Director of Accreditation and Compliance at Medscape Education. Medscape Education developed internal DEI training initiatives for its staff and leadership as well as collaborative initiatives to teach strategies to the healthcare team to address factors beyond clinical care that impact population health. Amy has extensive expertise collaborating with diverse teams to develop accredited CME/CPD activities for healthcare professionals globally. She is board certified in Nursing Professional Development (NPD-BC) and as a Certified Healthcare CPD Professional (CHCP).
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Pam Beaton
Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany
Pam Beaton is the Global Process/Capabilities Owner, Medical Education and Sponsorships at Boehringer Ingelheim in Germany. Most recently, Pam was Associate Director, Medical Education at Boehringer Ingelheim in the U.S.
Pam has over 15 years in continuing medical education (CME) with the last 5 years focusing on grants and giving in the pharmaceutical industry. Pam has an extensive background in evaluating adult learning theory and instructional design within medical education grants, as well as implementing funding strategy and analyzing educational outcomes. Pam holds a B.S in Health Sciences from the University of Nevada, Reno and is a Fellow of and on the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions. During her leisure time, Pam enjoys improving her flying trapeze skills, reading historical fiction, and teaching her niece and nephew about Star Wars.
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Diana van Brakel
Kenes Education, The Netherlands
Diana van Brakel is Senior Manager Continuing Education of Kenes Group, leading the Kenes Education/Digital Team at Kenes Group. Diana has a true passion for medical education and she is at her best when managing complex projects combining face-2-face learning experiences with online opportunities. At Kenes Group Diana is responsible for digital medical education, CME/CPD accreditation and industry compliance, project managing the implementation of an online digital academy linked to medical events and the department’s vision, mission and strategy. Throughout her time with Kenes, Diana has built a reputation for her outstanding expertise in medical education, industry regulations and educational design.
Before joining Kenes Group, Diana worked with various organizations and stakeholders as a Learning Consultant, developing learning strategies to support their unique needs and establishing training courses and professional development programmes. Diana completed a Bachelor of Education and a Master in Educational Design & Consultancy at the University of Utrecht, specialising in educational and professional change interventions, adult education and workplace learning. Diana is currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is a member of the Good CME Practice Group (gCMEp).
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Ann Carothers
Medscape, US
Ann M. Carothers is an Executive Director at Medscape Education. Ann first joined Medscape in 2007. She has over 25 years of professional health-focused experience across a broad spectrum of public and private health sectors. Her current focus is collaborating on the development and execution of strategic curriculums across multiple therapeutic areas to educate healthcare professionals and their patients to help close practice gaps.
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Marga Capell
Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Spain
Marga Capell is Teaching Department Manager at the Centro de Esclerosis Múltiple de Cataluña (CEMCAT). The department is responsible for virtual and face-to-face education of national and international learners in the area of clinical neuroimmunology. Marga has previously worked in medical publishing and has a Master’s degree in eHealth from La Salle Campus, Barcelona.
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Professor Ricard Cervera
Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain
Ricard Cervera MD PhD FRCP is Senior Consultant and Head at the Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Director of the Research Team on Systemic Autoimmune Diseases at the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) of Barcelona, Professor and Director of the Chair UB-GSK on Autoimmune Diseases, Coordinator of the Masters’ on Autoimmune Diseases and Academic Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona (UB).
Dr Cervera qualified in Medicine in 1983 from the University of Barcelona and in 1988 obtained his PhD degree. His post-doctoral experience included two years at the Lupus Research Unit, St. Thomas' Hospital, London. In 1995, together with Miguel Ingelmo and Josep Font created the Department of Autoimmune Diseases of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, a pioneering centre in Europe devoted to develop high quality clinical, academic and research work on these conditions.
Dr Cervera is founder member and Executive Board member of the European Lupus Society (2016-2021) and the Spanish Society of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (current Vice President) as well as member of the Catalan, Spanish and International Societies of Internal Medicine, the Spanish Society of Rheumatology and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of London, and Honorary Member of the Argentinian, Mexican, Peruvian, Equatorian, Colombian, Slovak and Hungarian Societies of Rheumatology, and the Society of Clinical Immunology of the Community of Madrid. He is past-coordinator of the European Working Party on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Euro-Lupus Group) (1990-2008) and the European Forum on Antiphospholipid Antibodies (2009-2017) and founder member of the Lupus Academy. Dr Cervera is also the chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Catalan Association of Lupus Patients and Medical Advisor to Lupus Europe (European Federation of Lupus Patient Associations). Among other awards, he has received the Prizes of the "5th European Conference on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus", EULAR 2003 and EULAR 2005 and the Award to the Professional Excellence of the College of Physicians of Barcelona - 2014.
Dr Cervera has presented over 600 invited lectures and has published more than 1,000 scientific papers (h index: 93) and his academic activities include invited Professorships in several European and Latin-American Universities. He is co-editor of 30 books, and he is also member of the Editorial Board of 20 medical journals and Associate Editor of the journals “Lupus Science & Medicine” and “European Journal of Internal Medicine”.
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Dr Kathy Chappell
American Nurses Credentialing Center, US
Kathy Chappell is the Senior Vice President of Accreditation, Certification, Measurement, the Institute for Credentialing Research and Quality Management, and Advanced Practice Initiatives at the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She is responsible for certification of individual registered nurses (RNs) and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs); and development of board certification examinations. She is responsible for the accreditation of organizations that provide continuing nursing education and interprofessional continuing education; and for accreditation of residency and fellowship programs for RNs and APRNs. She directs the Institute for Credentialing Research, analyzing outcomes related to credentialing, and the quality management department. She also leads the Advanced Practice Initiatives department. She holds a baccalaureate in nursing with distinction from the University of Virginia, a master of science in advanced clinical nursing, and a doctorate in nursing from George Mason University. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Distinguished Scholar & Fellow in the National Academies of Practice.
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Dr Monica Ghidinelli
AO Foundation, Switzerland
Monica Ghidinelli manages CME accreditation and educational research at the AO Foundation. Before joining the AO Foundation in 2019, Monica completed her PhD in neuroscience and worked as a researcher at ETH Zurich for four years.
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Professor Lino Gonçalves
Biomedical Alliance in Europe; European Society of Cardiology, Portugal
Lino Manuel Martins Gonçalves is Head of the Cardiology Department at CHUC, Full Professor of Cardiology at the University of Coimbra, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), President of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, BioMed Alliance Board Member.
Lino obtained his MD degree at the University of Coimbra, in 1984. In 1994, he received a Master’s degree in Cellular Biology from the University of Coimbra and in 2000 he obtained his PhD in Cardiology from the same university. He did his Cardiology Fellowship at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre (1987-1991). The Portuguese Medical Association certified him as Cardiologist, in 1992, and as an interventional cardiologist, in 2009. He worked as Visiting Associate at the National Institutes of Health’s Cardiology Branch (Bethesda, USA), from 1997 to 1998.
He was co-Director of the Portugal Clinical Scholars Research Training (PTCSRT) program, and he has a long experience in the field of cardiology education and training at the European level. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Portuguese Journal of Cardiology from 2016 to 2019. He has authored, or co-authored more than 1,000 communications, and published 340 manuscripts in peer review journals. He has received 38 scientific awards and is reviewer for 14 scientific journals.
Lino has extensive experience in CME, he served on and led the UEMS-Cardiology Section (2001-2008), was Chair of the European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) (2004-2008), and since 2006 has held several positions on the Board and education committees at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). More recently he was Chair of the European Council for the Standards of Education and Accreditation and Co-Chair of the Specialty Accreditation Committee in Cardiology (2016-2019) and has been serving on the ESC Education Committee since 2006. Lino also joined the Board of the BioMed Alliance in 2021 and has started to serve on the CME Committee this year.
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Dr João Grenho
UEMS-EACCME, Belgium
João Miguel Grenho is a 46-year-old Portuguese General Surgeon based in Lisbon. He is currently the Head of the General Surgery Unit at Hospital da Luz Oeiras. He was elected Secretary General of UEMS in October 2019 and is currently the Head of the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME).
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Professor Reinhard Griebenow
European Cardiology Section Foundation, Germany
Reinhard Griebenow is Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical Faculty at the University of Cologne. From 1988-2017 Reinhard was Assistant Medical Director and Head of Training at the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Diabetology at the Municipal Hospital Cologne-Merheim, University of Cologne, Cologne. Since 2010 he has been Chair of the European Cardiology Section Foundation (ECSF) Board. Reinhard is also a member of the German Cardiac Society Education Committee and a member of the Working Group on Training and CME Politics, Marburger Bund, Berlin.
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Professor Arcadi Gual
Spanish Medical Professional Accreditation Council for CPD/CME - SEAFORMEC - SMPAC, Spain
Arcadi Gual MD PhD is Director of the Spanish Medical Professional Accreditation Council for CPD/CME – SEAFORMEC-SMPAC and Professor Emeritus of University of Barcelona.
He has only recently retired from clinical practice having held positions until 2020 as Full Professor and Director of the Department of Biomedicine at the Medical School, University of Barcelona. He is also Assessor of the Spanish Medical Council (OMC), an elected member of the Real Academy of Medicine of Cataluña, and serves on the Board of the Journal of European CME (JECME).
Arcadi has been active in medical education in a variety of positions over the years, he founded the “Catalan Medical Education Association” ACEM (1991) was President of “Catalan Medical Education Association” (1994-1996), Journal Editor “Educación Médica” (1998-2012), President of Medical Education Foundation, Spain, (2013-2015), Secretary of the Spanish Medical Education Society, SEDEM (2005-2017) and Director of 19 Annual Seminars on Medical Education at the Public Health School, Menorca, Spain (2003-2019).
His long career in medical education was recently recognised with the Antonio Gallego Award-2022, for a professional career in "Medical Education".
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Elizabeth Kelly
Eli Lilly, UK
Elizabeth Kelly started her career as a registered nurse (RN) in Oxford, UK, before moving back to the North West of England where she specialised in community nursing. Elizabeth joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1992, initially as a nurse adviser supporting the education of GP practices in heart disease prevention management. This was followed by many successful years in various commercial roles driven by a desire to add value through education, including helping to establish acute schizophrenia and early memory clinics to better diagnose and manage patients. Since being at Lilly, Elizabeth has continued to develop her passion for medical education at national, regional and global levels. After many years in Oncology, she is now responsible for developing the Global Lilly Diabetes Medical Education Strategy, through a diverse range of programmes, IME and partnerships. In 2019, she spent 7 months in China supporting the establishment of the Lilly China Med Ed function. She is also part of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) Medical Education Working Group and iPACME.
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Dr Álvaro Margolis
EviMed, Uruguay
Alvaro Margolis is an internist from Uruguay with a Master's degree in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah. He has held academic positions at The Schools of Medicine and Engineering, University of the Republic, Uruguay. He was Vice President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), Associate Editor of Applied Clinical Informatics, and President of the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME). He is a Founding member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, Vice Chair of the CPD Committee of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), and President & CEO of EviMed, a CME company working across the Americas.
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Rostyslav Marushko
Group of Companies MedExpert, Ukraine
Rostyslav Marushko is a medical doctor, doctor of philosophy in medicine, doctor of medical sciences, professor, senior researcher, and head of department of the Institute of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the OM Lukyanova National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, and consultant paediatrician and lecturer at the main teaching hospital in Kyiv, the Bogomolets National Medical University.
In his CME-CPD activities he is Vice President of the Ukrainian Forum of Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Professional Development, a consultant to MedExpert Group of Companies, an ACCME-accredited and nationally-accredited education provider in Kyiv, and is an active member of the Good CME Practice group (gCMEp).
Rostyslav is author of 256 scientific papers, 11 patents, 7 scientific and practical manuals, and also has an interest in the diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases. He has worked abroad, in the People's Republic of Angola as a consultant-pediatrician at the National Hospital Josina Machel (1989-1992); lecturer at National Medical University of Angola (1997-1999); UN advisor in Belgian project of reconstruction and reconciliation in Angola, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania (2002-2010), and as a medical advisor in various United Nations projects (WHO, UNICEF, UNDP).
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Dr Jean-Phillipe Natali
Agence Nationale du DPC, France
Jean-Philippe Natali is a geriatrician working in an intra-hospital geriatric mobile team once a week and also a public health physician.
After three years at the French Ministry of Solidarities and Health as a medical expert advisor on autonomy policies for people with disabilities and the elderly, he has joined the French National Agency for CPD in November 2019 as Director of development and quality of CPD.
The French National Agency for CPD is the public body in charge of the overall governance of CPD in France. The Agency processes the registration of all CPD providers and assessment of all CPD activities for all health professions. Additionally, the Agency finances some categories of self-employed health professionals.
As Director of development and quality of CPD, Dr Natali defines and implements the quality assurance policy of CPD offer and the CPD evaluation and impact measurement policy. He also ensures that the CPD meets the needs of healthcare professionals by helping to define CPD priority goals.
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Dr Julie-Lynn Noël
EUROSPINE, Switzerland
Julie-Lyn Noel MD MBA is the Director of Education and Research of the EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe leading the education and research programmes. Along with committees and task forces from all over Europe, she works towards the EUROSPINE education programme’s aim of enabling spine care providers to provide high quality spine care that can be achieved in Europe and internationally by transcending borders and languages. She ensures that this aim can be achieved through the delivery of courses in various formats (including e-learning, case-based discussions, cadaver lab workshops, simulators and dry lab workshops), collaborations with national societies to harmonise education standards, develop interprofessional collaboration with spine care teams, collaboration with numerous industry partners to educate on their latest technologies, and allowing young spine specialists to have a short-term observership with other spine experts. Julie-Lyn drives EUROSPINE research fostering a community where spine researchers are supported with the availability of a grant system, highly interactive and intensive research courses and networking activities and opportunities. She is also currently involved with EUROSPINE’s international spine registry, Spine Tango, that documents the effectiveness and safety of spine care, treatment techniques and technologies through EUROSPINE’s unified registry approach to generate a (collective) evidence base for prevention, treatment effectiveness, patient safety, and best practice.
Julie-Lyn has spent more than 15 years in medical education and has an extensive experience working in a non-profit environment. She has successfully developed, coordinated and monitored educational projects in the European Respiratory Society (ERS). Her work has been international in scope-specifically the HERMES (Harmonised Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists) initiative. She drove the direction towards professionalised medical education within the ERS to incorporate educational offerings, assessment programmes, learning technologies, CPD programmes and medical education research into the overall strategy of the ERS Education Council. She has worked closely with universities, institutions and service providers in the development of educational programmes and managed negotiations with European bodies, professional organisations and societies to develop common training frameworks and compliance for national CME requirements. She also advises various committees delivering European and national assessments by supporting them with assessment strategies towards reliable, valid and reproducible assessments.
Julie-Lyn is a licensed physician graduating from the University of the Philippines and is a holder of an Executive MBA in Management of Technology of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) of the University of Lausanne.
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Jonas Nordquist
Karolinska Insitutet, Sweden
Jonas Nordquist PhD is the associate director of residency programs at the Karolinska University Hospital, leading strategic educational initiatives and all leadership development for residency directors and residents. He is also the director for Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Educastion (KIPRIME)’s Fellows Program. Dr Nordquist is a co-chair for the International Conference on Residency Education and a board member of the International Medical Educational Leadership Forum, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a regional hub leader for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, USA. He is an Invited Member of the Wilson Centre, University of Toronto, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of European CME (JECME).
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Adrian Ott
AC Forum; EFORT, Switzerland
Adrian is Chief Executive Officer of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT). He has more than 15 years of experience in the not-for-profit sector. In his current position his focus is the strategic alignment of EFORT activities towards its mission & vision for the identified areas of Education, European Affairs, Safe Clinical Practice, Research & Innovation. Operationally his priorities are change management, financial stability, developing non-traditional relationships and stimulating effective governance aimed at committee work and profiling HCO stakeholders. Recently he joined a multi stakeholder project with the aim to assess and understand the transformation & evolution of Continuing Health Education. How do learners learn and what does it take to develop “on-purpose” training & education for NPO’s to encourage new perspectives in people’s career paths.
Prior to EFORT he worked in the convention business and later at the World Heart Federation, a non- governmental healthcare association fostering the control and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and stroke worldwide. In his capacity of Director of the Congress Division he led the operations of the biennial World Congress of Cardiology. Re-assessments of congress strategy and new business ventures were part of his mandate.
Adrian is a former President of The Association & Conference Forum (AC Forum). AC Forum is led by Association staff for Associations and is comprised of more than 30 member organisations with a focus primarily, but not exclusively, in healthcare.
He is a member of the PCMA EMEA Advisory Board and the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME). Adrian holds a Bachelor of Science HES-SO of the School of Management of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland.
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Stan Pogroszewski
DKBmed, US
Stan has been involved in Continuing Medical Education for over 20 years. Stan is the COO and a founder of DKBmed. He is in charge supervising all current programs, IT, outcomes and serves as In-House Legal Counsel.
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Eugene Pozniak
European CME Forum, UK
Eugene is Programme Director of European CME Forum, a longstanding not-for-profit organisation that brings together key stakeholders in European and global Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development (CME-CPD). Eugene is also the founder and Managing Director of Siyemi Learning, an independent medical education provider established in 2006. Siyemi Learning has had activities accredited by over 25 different accreditation bodies across Europe and the globe. In 2015, Siyemi Learning became the first organisation outside of the US to be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
Eugene spent his early career working in the pharmaceutical industry, advertising and medical communications agencies, specialising in digital services when it was in its infancy. He left the promotional sector in 2000 and has since worked exclusively in CME-CPD, initially devising and delivering e-learning for the European Society of Cardiology ("ESCed" being the first CME accredited e-learning platform in Europe, and a top-16 award winning project of the Leonardo da Vinci fund of the European Commission) and the Federation of European Cancer Societies (FECS – now the European CanCer Organisations, ECCO). He was Director of Global CME (ex-US) at Wolters Kluwer Health, before setting up Siyemi Learning and European CME Forum. Eugene also manages and serves on the Editorial Board of the open access, PubMed-indexed, Journal of European CME (JECME) and is a founding member of the Good CME Practice group.
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Kate Regnier
ACCME, US
Kate Regnier is Executive Vice President of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Kate oversees the processes of Accreditation and Reaccreditation for national and international providers of CME, the Recognition of the US-based State/Territory Medical Societies as accreditors within their states according to the Markers of Equivalency, and the Joint Accreditation of providers of Interprofessional Continuing Medical Education with colleague accreditors, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Accreditation and the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Kate is responsible for the review of non-US accreditors for their Substantial Equivalency with the ACCME’s system. She also oversees the education, communications, monitoring and business functions of the ACCME. Kate received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross (1986), a Master’s Degree in English from Northwestern University (1990), and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Loyola University of Chicago (1995).
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Jaume Sastre-Garriga
Val d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Spain
Jaume Sastre-Garriga is a staff neurologist at the Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona. He received his MD at the University of Barcelona, his PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and trained as a neurologist at the Neurology Department, Hospital Vall d’Hebron. From June 2002 to December 2004 he was a awarded a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Health and held a post as a clinical research fellow at the MRI and Neurorehabilitation units, Institute of Neurology, London. In 2004 and 2005 he was awarded the prize for the best Spanish paper in an international neurological journal by the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN). From January 2005 to February 2007 Dr Sastre-Garriga was Medical Director of the neurorehabilitation centres of the MS Foundation in Catalonia. Since March 2007 he has been serving as a staff neurologist at the Department of Neurology/Neuroimmunology & MS Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat – www.cem-cat.org), Hospital Vall d’Hebron (Barcelona). He now serves as co-chair of the steering committee of MAGNIMS, is a member of the International Progressive MS Alliance (Enhancing Wellbeing Implementation Planning Team) and of the Medical Advisory Committee of MS Spain (EME), and served as treasurer in the executive board of RIMS (2014-2020). Since February 2016 he has been Director of Revista de Neurología (Impact Factor 2021: 1.235), since 2015 he has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the Multiple Sclerosis Journal (Impact Factor 2021: 5.855), where he now serves as Co-Editor for Europe. Dr Sastre-Garriga is co-author of 211 Medline-indexed papers (7,801 citations - h-index: 50 - SCOPUS). Research interests include functional and structural MRI and neurorehabilitation, with a particular focus on progressive MS.
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Lawrence Sherman
AMEE; Meducate Global, US
Lawrence Sherman is President of Meducate Global, LLC, a US-based organisation involved in the assessment of global healthcare education systems worldwide, faculty development for educators of healthcare professionals, and support of continuing professional development in healthcare worldwide. Lawrence also holds an International Development position with the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).
Lawrence has been involved in medical and interprofessional education, with a concentration on continuing education, for over 25 years. He has authored numerous scholarly publications and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on topics related to medical education. Lawrence is active in the continuing education profession worldwide, with key involvement and participation in organisations, societies and academic institutions globally, such as the Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference and Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions. Lawrence is the Social Media Editor for the Journal for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, and is a reviewer for the journals Medical Teacher, Journal of European CME and the Asia Pacific Scholar.
Lawrence is a frequent speaker at global healthcare conferences and lectures of topics such as faculty training, optimising presentation and communications skills, interprofessional continuing education, globalising medical education, humour in medical education, needs assessments and outcomes in healthcare education, customer service in medicine, understanding learners in medical education, healthcare communications and the future of healthcare education. He often moderates consensus panels and curriculum development meetings and also leads the podium skills training sessions and faculty development workshops. He has also hosted an internet radio show on the ReachMD platform that focuses on key topics in medical education.
Lawrence has been an educator in Emergency Medicine for the Emergency Medical Institute and Center for Learning and Innovation of the Northwell Health System in Long Island, New York, and has lectured in the Healthcare Communications programme at the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, New York.
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Michel Smith
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Canada
Michel Smith is CPD Accreditation Manager (Gérant de l’agrément du DPC) at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Michel leads a team of CPD experts supporting the evolution and application of the Royal College’s provider and activity accreditation standards. Building on his training in Business Process Improvement and his experience with international standardization systems like ISO and HACCP, Michel works to foster an environment of teamwork by engaging external partners to help promote the College’s vision of a True North through accreditation. As a member of the International Academy of CPD/CME Accreditation, Michel looks to support the implementation Substantive Equivalency between international accreditation systems. Michel’s motto is: ‘improve accreditation and reduce the burden’
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Dr Froukje Sosef
COR2ED, The Netherlands
Froukje Sosef is co-founder and Medical Director of COR2ED, a provider of Independent Medical Education. Since 2012, COR2ED has been developing high-quality Independent Medical Education to further improve the health of patients globally. COR2ED is also a member of the Good CME Practice group.
Prior to COR2ED, Froukje completed her medical training in The Netherlands and was a practising physician in obstetrics and gynaecology. She later built extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry with positions mainly in Medical Affairs.
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Vaibhav Srivastava
Insignia Learning, India
Vaibhav Srivastava MPharm PGDBA is the Founder & Managing Director of Insignia Learning based at Mumbai, India and having operations in India, Middle East and Southeast Asia. He has played a transformative role and is instrumental in providing high end Medical Education (CME-CPD) in the regions he represents through collaboration with the world’s leading Global Medical Societies & Academia.
Vaibhav has more than 25 years of healthcare servicing experience, of which 14 years encompass his work in the CME-CPD domain for-profit business. He has served on the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME) as Executive Council Member and Board of Directors from 2015-2021, during which he organized many regional CME forum meetings in India to achieve a mandatory and uniform CME ecosystem. He has represented his region and participated in many CME conferences like European CME Forum, the Alliance (ACEhp), GAME, AMEE as speaker and panellist. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of European CME (JECME).
At present, his company provides need-based medical education solutions to HCPs of more than 20 countries using diverse communication channels including digital and live learning mostly via pharma sponsor model (accredited as well as non-accredited offerings). He has developed and led a strong team of more than 75 professional colleagues to build Insignia Learning as the most credible medical education provider in India and the Middle East and is currently venturing into the Asia Pacific region.
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Professor Robin Stevenson
Journal of European CME (JECME), UK
Robin Stevenson is a retired consultant respiratory physician and honorary professor of medicine in Glasgow University. He is a Past President of the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology. He served on the UEMS Task Force for improving the European Accreditation Council for CME (EACCME) and on the HERMES project for developing training and examination in respiratory medicine in Europe. Robin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of European CME (JECME) and the author of a recently published book entitled “Learning and Behaviour in Medicine – a Voyage around CME and CPD”.
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Lisa Sullivan
In Vivo Academy, Australia
Lisa Sullivan is a veteran of the global pharmaceutical and medical communications industry, Lisa Sullivan is the founder and Group Managing Director of In Vivo Communications, an Australasian medical communications agency established in Sydney in 1996 and Singapore in 1999. In 2013, Lisa established In Vivo Academy Limited, an Australian registered not-for-profit education charity dedicated to the development and deployment of independent, accredited education across the Australasia and the world. With more than 35 years of direct industry experience, Lisa has fostered and galvanized her reputation as a senior executive with proven leadership credentials and strategic insight. She is accredited by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners as a provider of Quality Improvement and Continuing Professional Development (QI&CPD), where she has been instrumental in the development and delivery of numerous accredited programmes to Australian GPs and specialists, nurses and pharmacists both face-to-face and online. Lisa’s Masters of Philosophy from the University of Queensland, Australia, was a systematic review evaluating the effectiveness of online, face-to-face and blended learning in the delivery of CME/CPD to health care professionals and she is now preparing to commence her PhD to evaluate the translation of learning into practice in CME/CPD.
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Diana Torres
Liberum IME, UK
Diana is Associate Director Medical Education Development at Liberum IME. She has more than 12 years’ experience in science communication, planning, and strategy across many therapeutic areas including haematology, oncology, and respiratory illness.
Diana holds a BSc in Biomedical Science and First-Class honours in Physiology. With her creative and agile approach, Diana develops and delivers innovative multichannel educational content and scientific engagement opportunities for healthcare professionals at both global and local level.
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Annette Triebel
Gilead, UK
Annette Triebel MA CHCP is Associate Director in the Global Medical Affairs Department at Gilead Sciences. Her current role is focused on scientific liaison, medical education, medical/scientific grant funding as well as standardizing the outcomes reporting for company-led educational programs across all therapy areas.
Annette is passionate about the role of CME in reducing healthcare disparities and fostering health literacy. She is involved in several initiatives focusing on Inclusion & Diversity within her company and the wider pharmaceutical industry.
Before joining Gilead in 2015, Annette has worked for 10 years in several agencies specialized in healthcare and pharmaceutical communication and event management in Spain, Germany and the UK. Her academic background lies in business administration, marketing and communication management.
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Miriam Uhlmann
CK-CARE, Switzerland
Miriam Uhlmann PhD is Education Manager at CK-CARE and Managing Partner and Founder of MEDUCO. Miriam is proficient in developing comprehensive, global competency-based faculty- and leadership development programmes, with innovative, blended teaching methods and at different levels. For example, basic adult learning principles and teaching skills for faculty, curriculum design, backwards planning, faculty management, teaching methods for course directors, and leadership styles, teambuilding, communication, project management for leaders.
Miriam is a skilled, successful facilitator and educator (online and face-to-face) at all levels, in different languages and for learners with a variety of cultural backgrounds. She facilitates implementation of a sound evaluation process for these programmes and related resources.
Miriam has a proven ability to work with healthcare professionals and collaborates with a broad diversity of committees, commissions and working groups. She has expertise in developing faculty management processes and building up faculty and customer relationship databases.
She has expertise in the areas of research in healthcare education, leadership and administration, marketing communication, marketing information strategies, database/data warehouse management, educational technology, curriculum and instructional design, measurement and evaluation, mobile/social learning, online learning and business operations.
Miriam has 20 years of experience in the healthcare environment, in both industry and not-for-profit.
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Margarita Velcheva
Kenes Education, The Netherlands
Margarita Velcheva is the CME/CPD Accreditation and Compliance Specialist at Kenes Group.
During the last eight years, she has been involved in medical education with an emphasis on Continuing Medical Education, Continuing Professional Development, and industry compliance. She is a member of the Good CME Practise Group (gCMEp) and is currently serving as a member of the Steering Committee.
Before joining Kenes Group, Margarita worked in a Marketing Communication’s Department at a provider of enterprise engineering software, Intergraph. Since 2007 Margarita has been living in The Netherlands where she initially moved to for her studies at The Hague University in International Communication Management.
In her current role Margarita is responsible for CME/CPD accreditation and industry compliance for the medical educational activities managed by Kenes Group. She collaborates closely with the operational teams and clients to ensure that Kenes-organised educational events and initiatives follow CME/CPD best practices as well as pharmaceutical and device industry code compliance.
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Professor David Vodušek
Biomedical Alliance in Europe; European Academy of Neurology, Slovenia
David B Vodušek is Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Faculty of Medicine. He held the position of Medical Director, Division of Neurology, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 1996 and 2018, and continues as consultant neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist.
Professor Vodušek was born and raised in Slovenia. He received his medical degree (1976), and his PhD (1989) from the University of Ljubljana. He trained also in the Department for Clinical Neurophysiology, Uppsala, Sweden, and at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK. He became Board certified in Neurology in 1982. Professor Vodušek was a visiting assistant professor at Baylor College, Houston, Texas, USA (1982-83), in the New York University Medical center, NY, USA (1991; 1993), and a Consultant in Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait (1986-1987). From 1991 to 1996 he was Head of the Institute of Clinical Neurophysiology in Ljubljana. He was appointed full Professor of Neurology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1997, and was Chair of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana (2004-2007).
Professor Vodušek is a member of the Slovene Medical Academy, the Slovene and German Neurological Associations, the British Association of Clinical Neurophysiology, the European Academy of Neurology (FEAN) and the European Federation of Autonomic Societies. Professor Vodušek serves as Chair of the EAN International Liaison Group and Chair of the BioMed Alliance Permanent Experts Committee on CME. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Neurourology and Urodynamics and the Journal of European CME.
Professor Vodušek's research interests include uro-neurology, clinical neurophysiology, and peripheral neurology; he has authored more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, many chapters in international editions, and co-edited the 130th volume of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series (Neurology of Sexual and Bladder Disorders).
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Dr Sophie Wilson
International Medical Press, UK
Sophie Wilson joined International Medical Press (IMP) in 2005 and is now Business Lead and Director of CME Services. Prior to joining IMP, Sophie obtained her PhD in Biochemistry and undertook research at the University of Bristol (UK). She went on to work with Meditech Media for over 13 years, first as a medical writer and then as a project manager. Since joining IMP, Sophie has directed a broad range of projects involving a variety of communication formats. She is a driving force for CME/IME programmes and is responsible for accreditation and compliance. She strives to integrate adult learning principles in all activities and ensure learning outcomes.
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