KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
DR PAULO BOREM trained as a doctor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte. He leads the care delivery reform programme of UniMed, a network of 372 independent non-profit medical cooperatives, including 100 clinics and hospitals, covering 80% of Brazilian territory and serving 17 million members. He has worked as a consultant for the InterAmerican Development Bank in Washington, for the World Bank and other international institutions. Dr Borem has worked as a resident in general surgery at the Felicio Rocho Hospital and has a diploma from the Brazilian Association of Vascular Surgery.
DR MARK BRITNELL joined KPMG in 2009 as Head of Health for the UK and Europe. He has since been appointed Global Head of Health. He began his career in 1989 as a civil service “fast streamer” in the English Department of Health, worked in senior management at various London hospitals before becoming Chief Executive of University Hospital Birmingham. In 2007 he was appointed Director General for Commissioning and System Management for the NHS.
EDSON BUENO is President of publicly quoted Amil Participacoes SA, the largest managed care organization in Brazil, providing health insurance and medical care to more than 5 million members. Edson studied for a medical degree at the Federal Universtiy of Rio de Janeiro while working at a struggling clinic, which he bought before graduating in 1971. Having acquired other clinics, he co-founded Amil Assistencia Medica 1978. In August 2010 he negotiated the merger of diagnostic company MD1 with Dasa, the largest chain of laboratories in Latin America.
DR JOHN BUTLER has had a career spanning over 30 years in the field of application and research of psychological theories to motivational and behavioural problems. His clinical practice covers work on motivation, self-programming and and in-depth resolution of conflicts which obstruct the achievement of personal, health and lifestyle-related goals such as smoking cessation, weight control and addictions. He teaches medical psychology and neuroscience at Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’s Medical School, London. Dr Butler was born and educated in Ireland.
DR EZEQUIEL GARCIA ELORRIO is co-founder and board member of the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) in Buenos Aires where he also leads the Department of Health Care Quality and Patient Safety. He obtained his medical degree and PhD from the University of Buenos Aires and he then specialised in Internal Medicine at CEMIC. He holds a masters degree in Epidemiology from Harvard University supported by the Kellogg Foundation, and a degree in Business Administration from IAE-Austral University. He belonged to the Medical Division of leading Argentine health insurer OMINT for several years, developing programs to assure and improve health care quality.
DR CONRADO ESTOL is President of the Argentine Neuroscience Association. He was previously Director of the stroke unit of the Cardiovascular Institute of Buenos Aires and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine, Tufts University, USA. He is a former President of the Harvard University Club of Argentina.
PAM GARSIDE works extensively with a wide range of healthcare organisations on leadership, governance and strategy issues. She is a member of the visiting faculty at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, where she is Co-Director of the Cambridge International Health Leadership Programme, a network of senior players in the UK private and public health sectors. Pam is Senior Associate of the Nuffield Trust, a member of the Advisory Board of Doctors.net.uk, an Adjunct Professor at Imperial College Business School, and President of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation in Washington DC. She holds a BSc from the University of Durham and a Masters Degree in Hospital and Health Care Administration from the University of Minnesota.
DR JOHN HUGHES was British Ambassador in Argentina from 2004–2008 and in Venezuela from 2000–2003. He has previously been posted to Washington, Santiago and Madrid as well as being seconded to BAe Systems and to the UK Cabinet Office. He is Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, a Trustee of the Atlantic College, Wales and of Canning House. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow of the London School of Economics and formerly the Robin Humphreys Fellow of The Institute for the Study of the Americas, London University.
DR FEDERICO LEIGHTON is Professor and Director of the Centre for Molecular Nutrition and Chronic Diseases at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. He has been visiting professor at the University of Louvain and the University of Oslo. In recent years his work has focused on oxidative stress, mediterranean diets, antioxidants from fruits and vegetables, wine, and their role on health. This work has led to approximately one hundred publications, six books, twenty-four book chapters and hundreds of communications.
PATRICK LUCIANI has served as Executive Director of Donner Canadian Foundation, Toronto. He is the author of best selling books on economic policy and recently published XXL: Obesity and Limits of Shame. He holds a Master’s degree from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
FREDRIK RAGMARK is CEO of Medicover Holding S.A., Belgium which has healthcare operations in Poland and several other East European countries. He has a BA in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Law degree from the University of Stockholm. Fredrik has been working for Medicover as Managing Director and later Chief Executive Officer since it was established in 1996.
SONIA RUSELER was born in Argentina, and gained an MA in Social and Policial Sciences at Cambridge University. She worked in news management at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN in London, then as Anchor at CNN International in Washington between 1993 and 2001. She now practices as a crisis communications strategist advising Fortune 500 and other international clients. Sonia owns a vineyard in Mendoza, Argentina, and has earned an MBA specialising in the international wine industry at the Bordeaux Ecole de Management.
MATT RIDLEY is a former Science Editor, Washington Correspondent and American Editor of the The Economist. He is the author of several works of popular science including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature and Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. His latest best-selling work is The Rational Optimist, a refutation of fashionable doomsday predictions about the future of our planet.
JAMES ROOSEVELT JR joined Tufts Health Plan in 1999 as senior vice president and general counsel. In June 2005 he became President & CEO. He was previously the Associate Commissioner for Retirement Policy for the Social Security Administration in Washington. He has also served as chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and is co-chair of the Rules and By-laws Committee of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Roosevelt was a partner at the leading Boston law firm Choate, Hall and Stewart. He is past chairman of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, past president of the American Health Lawyers Association, and current chairman of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans. In 2008, President-elect Barack Obama appointed Mr. Roosevelt to co-chair a review of the Social Security Administration.
DANIEL SCHMUTZ holds an MA in International Affairs and Governance from the University of St. Gallen and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1997 to 2002 he worked for The Boston Consulting Group in Zurich and in 2002 became head of the Group Strategy & Controlling at Swiss Life in Zurich. He joined Helsana as CFO in 2006 and in 2010 he became Group CEO. Helsana is the leading health and accident insurance company in Switzerland. With annual premium receipts of 5.6 billion Swiss Francs, the company occupies the top position in the Swiss insurance market.
JED WEISSBERG, MD, is the Senior Vice President of Quality and Care Delivery Excellence for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA. Dr. Weissberg joined the Permanente Medical Group in Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region in 1984. He became the physician in chief of the Fremont Medical Center in 1994, where he led a staff of 450 full-time employees who cared for a population of 85,000 members. After college at the University of Pennsylvania, Medical School at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, Dr. Weissberg pursued a gastroenterology fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Buenos Aires 2012
iFHP ConferenceAlvear Palace Hotel
