Galien week of innovation
Prix Galien UK Forum - Speaker Bios
OPENING REMARKS / 9:30 AM - 9:40 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
PANEL 1 / 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
International HTA collaboration
Dr Mel Walker
Life Sciences Strategic Advisor and Managing Director, BioPharma Futures
Steffen Thirstrup
Chief Medical Officer, European Medicines Agency
Steffen Thirstrup
Chief Medical Officer, European Medicines Agency
Sam Roberts
CEO, NICE
Sam Roberts
CEO, NICE
Sam Roberts is the Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
She has worked in healthcare for 20 years in a combination of clinical, operational, private sector and academic roles. She originally trained as a doctor before undertaking an MBA and joining McKinsey and Company.
Her focus for the last 15 years has been on improving quality of clinical care and supporting uptake of innovation - as Head of Operations at a large teaching hospital in London (UCLH), Director of Innovation, Research and Life Sciences at NHS England and Improvement and Chief Executive of the Accelerated Access Collaborative.
Prior to joining NICE she invested in early stage digital health and diagnostics companies. She has an academic interest in the influence of health economic analysis on policy and clinical practice, having worked at the London School of Economics followed by doctoral studies at the University of Oxford.
PANEL 2 / 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Individualised Medicine
Dame June Raine
Chief Executive Officer, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
KEYNOTE / 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Pr Ara Darzi,
Baron Darzi of Denham
Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery and Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London
Pr Ara Darzi,
Baron Darzi of Denham
Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery and Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London
PANEL 3 / 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Treatment for Obesity and its Co-Morbidities
Naveed Sattar
Obesity Mission Chair; Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine/Honorary Consultant, has sat on several international guideline committees including ESC
Simon Griffin
Professor of General Practice, Group Leader in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
Professor of General Practice, Group Leader in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge