LONDON’S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY
THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE IN EUROPE
13 May 2011
Mary Ward House
5-7 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SN
In cooperation with the Finnish Institute in London
Supported by the Embassy of Finland and the Embassy of Denmark.
THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE IN EUROPE
Programme
12 MAY
7pm
Evening Reception for Speakers and Organisers
Hosted by the Finnish Ambassador to the UK, Pekka Huhtaniemi
by invitation only
13 MAY
8.15-9.00
Registration
9:00-9.10
Opening
Professor Sir John Tooke
UCL Vice-Provost (Health), Head of the UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences
9:10-10.50
Session 1: The Health Challenge –An Overview
Presentation by Professor Anne Johnson
Professor of Primary Care and Population Sciences, UCL Division of Population Health
Presentation by Professor Peter Littlejohns
Clinical and Public Health Director, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Panel discussion
Professor Rosalind Raine, Professor of Health Services Research, UCL Epidemiology
and Public Health
Stanley Okolo, Medical Director, North Middlesex Hospital
Professor Harry Hemingway, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, UCL Epidemiology
and Public Health
Professor Marina Erhola, Assistant Director General, Health and Social Services,
Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare
Chaired by Dr James Mountford, Director of Clinical Quality, UCL Partners
10.50-11.20
Keynote
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL, Chair of WHO Commission on
Social Determinants of Health
11.20-11.50
Coffee break
11.50-13.10
Session 2: Technology Drivers: Problems and Solutions
Presentation by Professor Sir John Tooke
Panel discussion
Professor Pete Coffey, Professor of Cellular Therapy and Visual Sciences, UCL
Institute of Ophthalmology
Tom Kibasi, Associate Partner and Co-Leader, Health Systems Group, McKinsey and
Company
Dr Elizabeth Murray, Director of the e-Health Unit, UCL Primary Care and Population
Health
Dr Madis Tiik, CEO, Estonian E-Health Foundation
Chaired by Dr James Wilson, Lecturer in Philosophy and Health, UCL Philosophy
THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE IN EUROPE
Programme
13 MAY
continued
13.10-14.10
Lunch
14.10-14.15
Opening
Raija Koli
Director, The Finnish Institute in London
14.15-14.45
Keynote
Michael Hübel
Head of Health Determinants Unit, DG Health & Consumers, European Commission
14.45-16.05
Session 3: Economic Models
Presentation by Professor Steve Morris
Professor of Health Economics, UCL Epidemiology and Public Health
Panel discussion
Dr Chris Gerry, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, UCL School of Slavonic and East
European Studies
Iñaki Ereño, CEO, Sanitas
Professor Andrzej Rynkiewicz, Head of the Clinical Centre of Cardiology,
University of Gdansk
Chaired by Professor John Appleby
Chief Economist on Health Policy, The King’s Fund
16.05-16.35
Coffee break
16.35-17.55
Session 4: Responding to the challenge: determining health policy
Presentation by Dr Jennifer Dixon
Director, The Nuffield Trust
Panel discussion
Professor John Martin, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, UCL Division of
Medicine
Professor Steen Stender, Professor at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry,
Copenhagen County Hospital in Gentofte, University of Copenhagen
Professor Lars Ryden, Professor Emeritus of Cardiology at the Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm
John Bowis, Honorary President, Health First Europe
Chaired by Professor Jo Wolff, Professor of Philosophy and Director, UCL Centre for
Philosophy, Justice and Health
17.55-18.15
Summing up by Professor Albert Weale
Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL Political Science