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19th International EBHC Symposium Shaping the future of sustainable healthcare
October 10-11, 2024 | Krakow, Poland

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Live video from the 19th EBHC 2024 Symposium

PDF file  Dzień 1 | czwartek, 10 października 2024 (język polski)  |  PDF file  Day 1 | Thursday, October 10, 2024 (English) | 

PDF file  Dzień 2 | piątek, 11 października 2024 (język polski)  |  PDF file  Day 2 | Friday, October 11, 2024 (English)

Artur Białoszewski
Artur Białoszewski
Małgorzata Czajkowska-Malinowska
Małgorzata Czajkowska-Malinowska
Marcin Czech
Marcin Czech
Anaïs González Iglesias
Anaïs González Iglesias
Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea
Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea
Jerzy Jaroszewicz
Jerzy Jaroszewicz
Katarzyna Anna Kacperczyk
Katarzyna Anna Kacperczyk
Martin Kolek
Martin Kolek
Roman Kolek
Roman Kolek
Konrad Korbiński
Konrad Korbiński
Brygida Kwiatkowska
Brygida Kwiatkowska
Maria Libura
Maria Libura
Edyta Masłowska-Parafian
Edyta Masłowska-Parafian
Joanna Parkitna
Joanna Parkitna
Janina Petelczyc
Janina Petelczyc
Marta Pawłowska
Marta Pawłowska
Elena Petelos
Elena Petelos
Maria Piętak-Frączek
Maria
Piętak-Frączek
Robert Plisko
Robert Plisko
Marta Podhorecka
Marta Podhorecka
Tomasz Jan Prycel
Tomasz Jan Prycel
Tomasz Rowiński
Tomasz Rowiński
Jacek Siwiec
Jacek Siwiec
Aleksandra Sztuder
Aleksandra Sztuder
Tomasz Tatara
Tomasz Tatara
Joanna Turkiewicz
Joanna Turkiewicz
Ewa Warmińska-Friberg
Ewa Warmińska-Friberg
Magdalena Władysiuk
Magdalena Władysiuk
Marek Wójcik
Marek Wójcik
Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz
Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz

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Speakers & SPC Members

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Artur Białoszewski
Artur Białoszewski  |  Poland
Preventionist, epidemiologist, economist, public and environmental health specialist. Supreme Medical Council expert in research and analysis. Director of the Strategy and Analysis Centre of the Regional Chamber of Physicians in Warsaw and of the SGH-WUM EMBA programme in health care. Masovian voivodeship consultant in the field of Environmental Health. Academic teacher at the Department of Environmental Hazard Prevention, Allergology and Immunology of the Medical University of Warsaw and the Department of Managerial Accounting at the Warsaw School of Economics. Member of the State Examination Committee of the Medical Examination Centre. Coordinator for the development of forms of postgraduate education at the Centre for Postgraduate Education of the Medical University of Warsaw. top
Session 2: Healthcare systems private or public?
Małgorzata Czajkowska-Malinowska
Małgorzata Czajkowska-Malinowska  |  Poland
National consultant in the field of lung diseases. Head of the Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Respiratory Failure with NIV Unit and Sleep Disorders Unit, Head of the COPD and Respiratory Failure Centre at the Kuyavian and Pomeranian Pulmonology Centre in Bydgoszcz, Doctor of Medical Sciences, specialist in internal diseases and pulmonary diseases, expert in sleep medicine (certified by the Polish Sleep Research Society). President-Elect of the Polish Respiratory Society, Board Member of the Polish Sleep Research Society, Deputy Head of the Intensive Care and Rehabilitation Chapter of the Polish Respiratory Society, Member of the Non-Invasive Ventilation Group (ERS), Spokesperson for the Polish Respiratory Society since 2012. Co-author of the Polish Respiratory Society Guidelines. Member of the Pulmonary Team appointed by the Ministry of Health (2011). Medical expert in working groups of the Ministry of Health, the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System (AOTMiT), the National Health Fund and the WHO. Author of over 100 publications in the field of pneumonology and health promotion, participant in many international multicentre works. Lecturer at pre-graduate and post-graduate training courses for doctors doing their specialisation in pulmonary diseases, balneology and family medicine. Founder and President of the Board of the “ODDECH NADZIEI dla Cierpiących na Schorzenia Płuc i Oskrzeli” foundation focusing on patients with lung and bronchial diseases, between the years 2003 and 2010 Vice-Chair of the Social Council for Persons with Disabilities to the President of Bydgoszcz. Author and coordinator of more than 20 health promotion programmes, particularly in the field of lung disease prevention and anti-smoking activities. Member of the team developing and implementing the "Interactive Programme for the Control of Nicotinism in Patients Treated in Spa Conditions". Organiser of the first COPD and Respiratory Failure Centre in Poland, the first Pulmonary Home Respiratory Treatment Centre in Poland, initiator of Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (NIV) units in Poland, coordinator of the Ministry of Health policy programme entitled "National Programme for Reducing Mortality Due to Chronic Lung Diseases through the Establishment of Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (NIV) Rooms for 2016-2019". She works on improving patient outcomes by developing standards of practice and applying new diagnostic and treatment techniques to lung diseases. top
Marcin Czech
Marcin Czech  |  Poland
Marcin Czech is a professor of medical and health sciences, lecturer, President of the Polish Pharmacoeconomics Society, expert in epidemiology, public health, and psychiatry.  Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology and the Institute of Mother and Child, dr. hab. n. ekon. (habilitated at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw). Graduate of the MBA programme at the Warsaw University of Technology, the Study of Health Economics at the University of Warsaw, the Academy of Leadership Psychology.   He is the head of the Interdisciplinary Studies in Pharmaceutical Management, guest lecturer at the MBA SGH-WUM at the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM), where for almost 10 years he co-created the WUM Department of Pharmacoeconomics, Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw and Lazarski University. Moreover, he is the head of the Department of Pharmacoeconomics and the head of the Hospital Infection Control Committee at the Institute of Mother and Child. Member of the Council of Experts of the Commissioner for Patients' Rights, member of the College of Public Health of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the years 2017-2019, he was Deputy Minister of Health overseeing and co-managing the Department of Drug Policy and Pharmacy and responsible for Poland's international health cooperation. What is more, he is the author of over 300 papers and reports and 10 books on management, health economics, pharmacoeconomics, and quality of life, published in both foreign and Polish journals. His interests include travel, geopolitics, film, diving, sailing, and skiing. top
Session 3: Efficency of healthcare systems – preventative care and medicines
Anaïs González Iglesias
Anaïs González Iglesias   |  Spain

Anaïs González Iglesias is a Business development consultant with extensive experience in Healthcare, particularly in Precision Medicine & Genomics. She holds a PhD in Computational Physics and is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics. Additionally, she holds a Master's degree in Health Economics and Pharma Economy, as well as a specialization in Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Molecular Biology.. Beyond her academic achievements, Anaïs actively contributes to the community as a mentor in several Acceleration Program and serves as an external evaluator for various EU-funded programs. top

Session 6: The future of HTA – latest trends
Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea
Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea   |  Spain (Basque Region)
Iñaki Gutierrez-Ibarluzea has a degree in Fundamental Biology and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of the Basque Country. University Specialist in Clinical Epidemiology from the Andalusian School of Public Health and the University of Granada and Master in Bioethics from the Ramon Llul University and the Borja Institute of Bioethics and a Master on Health Innovation Management from the University of Nebrija (Madrid) and Idival. He is the Head of Knowledge Management and Evaluation of BIOEF, the Basque Foundation for Healthcare Innovation and Research, past-President of the international society HTAi (2019-2021) and the President of EuroScan/iHTS, the international network for the identification and early assessment of technologies in their life cycle since 2020. Guest Director of HTA and Market Access at Healthclusternet. Iñaki has collaborated in the implementation of HTA initiatives in different countries including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, Costa Rica, Ghana, Vietnam, Mexico, South Africa, Tunisia, Norway, Israel, USA, Malaysia and Italy (Early Warning System). He has also collaborated with the regional offices of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Middle East (EMRO), Asia Pacific (WPRO) and Latin America (PAHO). WHO Consultant Expert for the Assessment of Emerging Health Technologies and Medical Devices. top
Session 6: The future of HTA – latest trends
Katarzyna Anna Kacperczyk
Katarzyna Anna Kacperczyk   |  Poland
Long-time government official. She has experience in international cooperation and support for economic and investment cooperation. Graduate of the University of Warsaw, Institute of International Relations and the prestigious Columbia University in New York (economics and management). She also studied at the European Institute (Legal Affairs Section) at the Saarland University in Germany and as part of the European Studies Programme – at the Warsaw School of Economics. For many years, Katarzyna Kacperczyk held prominent official and diplomatic positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as the director of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Undersecretary of State (2013-2016) responsible for supporting the interests of the Polish economy and Polish businesses. In the years 2005-2008, she was a diplomat at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations in New York, where she was responsible, among others, for issues regarding reforming of the Organisation. She served as advisor in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. In 2018 she started working at the Warsaw School of Economics, where she was responsible for the development of international cooperation and supervised and led projects funded by national and EU funds. She was a lecturer at the Warsaw School of Economics, the National School of Public Administration and at the Lazarski University. In the years 2013-2015, she was a member of numerous government committees, including the Council of Ministers Committee for Digital Affairs, the Committee on Export Insurance Policy and the Investment Committee of strategic importance to the economy. She is a Centre for International Relations expert. Katarzyna Kacperczyk holds numerous awards and distinctions, including: Gold Cross of Merit (2012), Order of the Crown (Belgium) and class IV Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk of the President of the Czech Republic. top
Jerzy Jaroszewicz
Jerzy Jaroszewicz   |  Poland
Professor Jerzy Jaroszewicz, specialist in infectious diseases and hepatologist, is Head of the Clinical Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice. Moreover, he acts as President of the Polish Association for the Study of the Liver, is a member of the Polish Groups of Experts for HBV, HCV, COVID-19 and for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and is a member of the HBV expert panel of the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL).  He specialises in diagnosis and treatment of HAV, HBV, HCV, HEV, autoimmune, steatotic, genetic and other liver diseases (research on infectious diseases). He is also involved in the treatment of tick-borne diseases (including Lyme borreliosis), other viral, bacterial, and fungal infectious diseases and immunoprophylaxis. He graduated from the Medical University of Bialystok in 1999. He acquired his scientific skills during numerous internships abroad (Aachen, Germany and Florence, Italy) in the field of pathophysiology and liver cell culture techniques, among others. In the years 2008-2010, he carried out research under grants (DAAD, Erasmus, Deutsche Leberstiftung) at the Clinic of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology of the Hannover Medical School. He is the author and co-author of more than 150 publications in journals on the Philadelphia List, numerous chapters in textbooks and conference reports on primarily clinical and molecular aspects of viral hepatitis. top
Martin Kolek
Martin Kolek   |  Czech Republic
Medical Devices Market Access & HTA Lead Europe East and Israel at Organon. Experienced Market Access Executive with a passion for driving innovation and delivering results. Over 1000 projects completed, including designing and bringing new innovative products to market. He believes it is vital to add value, improve and find efficiencies in all you do. top
Session 3: Efficency of healthcare systems – preventative care and medicines
Roman Kolek
Roman Kolek   |  Poland

Polish local government official, physician and activist of the German minority in Poland since 2010 to 2020, Deputy Marshal of the Opolskie Voivodeship. In the years 1999-2002, he was the director of the Department of Health and Social Policy of the Marshal’s Office of the Opolskie Voivodeship. In 2002, he was transferred to the position of Deputy Director for Medical Matters of the Regional Health Fund in Opole, and then took up a similar position in the Opole branch of the National Health Fund. He was also active in his community, participating in consultations regarding changes in the state health policy and the antibiotic therapy rationalisation programme. He was politically involved in the activity of the German minority in Poland within the Social and Cultural Association of Germans of Opole Silesia. In 2017, together with other German Minority members, he co-founded the “Regionalna. Mniejszość z Większością” (Regional. Minority with the Majority) party; in 2018 he became its deputy chairman. He taught classes at physician courses, as well as classes at the Pharmacoeconomics, Marketing and Pharmaceutical Law College at the Warsaw University of Technology. Roman Jacek Kolek has published scientific papers in the field of public health and health care finance, cost analyses of expenditure on health services provided to the insured, as well as lectures for physicians as part of training sessions and courses in public health and health insurance. He co-organised numerous conferences in the field of health policy and financing of health services, including the British-Polish Healthcare Forum, Polish-Ukrainian Healthcare Forum and the Polish-German Health Forum. He authored and co-authored numerous publications in the field of public health and financing of health services. In 2020, during the pandemic, he resigned from the position of Deputy Marshal of the Opolskie Voivodeship, returned to the profession of an anesthesiologist, currently he is the Deputy Director of the Provincial Hospital for healthcare, he is the Quality Representative. top

Session 4: Local Government Academy. Prevention and health promotion
Konrad Korbiński
Konrad Korbiński   |  Poland
Konrad Korbiński is an advocate with many years of experience in the field of health care. He specialises in legal aspects of the organisation of the healthcare system, medical devices and processes of implementing innovative technologies to the healthcare system. For years, he has been providing legal, advisory, and expert services related to, among others, the pharmaceutical industry, medical devices, and healthcare entities. He was the head of the Political Cabinet of Minister Bartosz Arłukowicz and, in the years 2009-2011, he worked as an advisor to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and later, as the head of the Political Cabinet of the Minister of Health participating in the legal amendments to the Act of Medical Activity and the Act on Reimbursement. top

Session 5: Efficiency of healthcare systems – medical devices and services

Brygida Kwiatkowska
Brygida Kwiatkowska  |  Poland
Professor Brygida Kwiatkowska is a rheumatologist; she was acting Clinical Affairs Director of the National Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Institute (NIGRiR) in Warsaw since February 2013 and Deputy Clinical Affairs Director since 2018. In 2009, Prof. Kwiatkowska became acting Head of the Department of Early Arthritis Diagnosis of the Rheumatology Institute. She has been the Head of the Clinic of Early Arthritis as an Associate Professor in 2012. Moreover, she has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Rheumatology Institute for 14 years. In the years 2015-2017, she was the President of the NIGRiR Scientific Council. President of the National Rheumatology Council, she worked as the President of the Warsaw Division of the Polish Society for Rheumatology for 7 years; currently she is the Deputy President. Professor Brygida Kwiatkowska has been the National Consultant in the field of rheumatology since May 2021. She is also the President of the Polish Society of Autoimmune Diseases. Her research interests include diagnostics and treatment of rheumatic diseases. She conducts her work multidirectionally, by expanding the knowledge from other fields of medicine related to rheumatic diseases. Prof. Kwiatkowska promotes the use of new diagnostic techniques for diagnosing rheumatic diseases; she introduces state-of-the-art therapeutic methods. Her scientific contribution includes 52 publications. She is the lead author of most of them, meaning she is the key person responsible for the subject concept, processing of the results and preparation for print. top
Maria Libura
Maria Libura  |  Poland
Head of Medical Training and Simulation Centre, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, vice-President of The Polish Society for Medical Communication, healthcare expert of the Jagiellonian Club Analytical Centre, President of Polish Prader–Willi Syndrome Association. Member of the Expert Board to the Patients Ombudsman.  top
Session 2: Healthcare systems private or public?
Edyta Masłowska-Parafian
Edyta Masłowska-Parafian  |  Poland

Deputy CFO and COO at Łukasiewicz Research Network – ITECH Institute of Innovation and Technology. MSc in management with 20 years of experience in financial management and in shaping and implementing entities' financial strategies. As an expert on European Funds, Edyta Masłowska-Parafian has been involved in public administration, as well as acquisition, disbursement, and settlement of EU projects since 2004. She played a key role in setting up the management and financing system for projects implemented under European Funds in the Ministry of Regional Development. She was also involved in the control of projects co-financed by the European Social Fund implemented by non-governmental institutions, entrepreneurs, as well as local government units or Offices. Moreover, she worked at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, where she carried out over 200 on-site project inspections. Former Head of Selection and Monitoring Department of systemic projects implemented under the Human Capital Operational Programme, where she supervised the work related to acquisition, monitoring and settlement of projects implemented under the HCOP. She held the position of the Head of the Forecasting, Analysis and Monitoring Department at the Educational Research Institute which is tasked with the acquisition and implementation of projects co-financed by the EU Funds. What is more, she conducts specialised training courses on the acquisition of EU Funds as well as the management and control system for EU-funded projects, the use and settlement of EU Funds, including the system of financial flows and certification, the monitoring and reporting system, eligibility of expenditure, settlement of EU Funds. Author or co-author of a number of publications on the management and financing of EU Fund initiatives, as well as a number of procedures, management and control systems for those involved in the EU Funds implementation system. top

Session 4: Local Government Academy. Prevention and health promotion
Joanna Parkitna
Joanna Parkitna   |  Poland

Joanna Parkitna - Director of the Health Technology Assessment Department, Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System. top

Session 1: Priorities of EU Health Policy
Marta Pawłowska
Marta Pawłowska  |  Poland
Expert in health promotion and disease prevention, in particular overweight prevention and systemic solutions to reduce obesity in children and families. She has a knowledge in this area and is gaining unique experience on the international market. Marta Pawłowska is also a strategy and health education projects specialist, consultant to businesses, NGOs, and local government administration. Moreover, she is the Co-founder and President of the Presidium of the Partnership for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, initiator and co-author of the strategic assumptions of the national plan for reducing obesity in Poland. She has 25 years of experience in managing health, social, and educational campaigns, implemented in Poland and abroad, as well as in crisis communication. In years 2019-2021, she acted as the Director of the Health Prevention Bureau (Biuro Profilaktyki Zdrowotnej) of the Central Office of National Health Fund. Graduate of the MBA Oxford Brooks University and MBA in Health Care at the Lazarski University. Author of health publications, family health specialist with 10 years of expertise in eating disorders and compulsive behaviours, narrative therapist in the certification process at the Dulwich Centre in Australia. top
Session 3: Efficency of healthcare systems – preventative care and medicines
Janina Petelczyc
Janina Petelczyc  |  Poland
Social security expert specialising in particular in pension systems, ESG funds, and international comparative social policy. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority. Her scientific interests primarily include social security. top
Session 2: Healthcare systems private or public?
Elena Petelos
Elena Petelos   |  Netherlands

Elena Petelos is a Senior Research Fellow in Public Health and a Lecturer in Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Informed Policy at the University of Crete (Greece) and at Maastricht University (The Netherlands). She also teaches at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany) and is Adjunct Faculty at the newly founded University of West Attica (Greece). She has a background in medicine and biology, specialising in molecular oncology, and re-training mid-career in health economics and policy, continuing with a Fellowship in Governance and Economics of Development Technology and Innovation at the United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology. She currently also serves as the Vice President of the Health Technology Assessment section, a Member of the Steering Committee of the Law and Public Health Section, a Member of the Infectious Disease Control section, and the Chair of the Gender Equality Working Group (SDG5 WG) at the European Public Health Association. She is the Co-Chair for Real-World Evidence and Artificial Intelligence at HTAi, a Member of the Healthcare Professional’s Working Party of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and a Member of the Advisory Forum of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (HERA) of the European Commission. She is a Member of the Advisory Board of the European Forum for Primary Care leading the Vaccines WG and representing it in the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP). She also serves in ENCEPP’s WG2 on Transparency and Independent Research. Her research, policy and advocacy work focuses on international collaboration, including regulatory frameworks and legislative frameworks, to improve global health and towards achieving digital equity and reaching UHC, with special emphasis on real-world evidence, benefit/risk communication, new technologies, and artificial intelligence. She is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law (KNVIR) and of the International Law Association (ILA). top

Session 1: Priorities of EU Health Policy
Maria Piętak-Frączek
Maria Piętak-Frączek  |  Poland
She has been working at the Cracow City Hall for 20 years, since 1999. She graduated from the Nursing Institute at the Faculty of Healthcare of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. In 1997, she completed post-graduate studies in Health Promotion at the Institute of Public Health of the Jagiellonian University. In 2012, she completed post-graduate studies in Economy and Public Administration at the Małopolska School of Public Administration of the Cracow University of Economics. In 2019, she completed post-graduate studies in HTA and EBM in Healthcare Management as part of the “Development of administrative and management competences for quality improvement in healthcare” project organised by the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Jagiellonian University. From the beginning of her work, she has been developing the principles of the “Healthy Cracow” Municipal Healthcare Programme, organising conferences, trainings and outdoor health-related events, including the “Cracow Health Days”. She cooperates with numerous regional and national healthcare-related institutions. She is also a representative of the City of Cracow in the Association of Healthy Polish Cities and the President of the Management Board of the Association. As part of this activity, among others, she organises meetings for member cities which address significant issues regarding healthcare and prevention. Healthcare manager - completed postgraduate studies in 2022: Healthcare management.  top
Session 4: Local Government Academy. Prevention and health promotion
Robert Plisko
Robert Plisko  |  Poland

Robert Plisko is CEO at HTA Consulting since 2006 and one of the company’s founders. He obtained his Master of Economics title at the Cracow University of Economics. His professional career started at the National Centre for Quality Assessment in Healthcare. Robert Plisko is the author of numerous publications on HTA and health care. He is head of the Economic Analyses Department at HTA Consulting. top

Session 6: The future of HTA – latest trends
Marta Podhorecka
Marta Podhorecka  |  Poland
Prof. Marta Podhorecka is a physiotherapist, specialist in health promotion and health education, creator and implementer of projects dedicated to senior citizens, professor at the Department of Geriatrics of Collegium Medicum Nicolaus Copernicus University, President of the Senior Citizen Policy Council at the Ministry for Senior Policy. She is a member of the Bydgoszcz Equal Treatment Council, International Association of Gerontology, vice-president of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie branch of the Polish Society of Gerontology and a member of the Polish Physiotherapy Association Management Board. In recognition of her popularisation activities and research for the benefit of senior citizens, and in particular her initiatives to counteract discrimination against senior citizens and promote intergenerational integration, she was awarded the first title of Senior Citizen Supporter” (“Przyjaciel Seniora”) in 2019 by the Jolanta Kwasniewska Foundation “Communication without Barriers”. top
Session 4: Local Government Academy. Prevention and health promotion
Tomasz Jan Prycel
Tomasz Jan Prycel  |  Poland
Managing Director of CEESTAHC. Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University in Łódź and Postgraduate  Health Care Management Studies in the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine. Expert in ​​cooperation and creation of health projects with local government units, with many years of experience in creating an educational platform for developing high-quality health programmes in important areas of public health. President of the European Foundation for Solving Health Problems (Europejska Fundacja Rozwiązywania Problemów Zdrowotnych). Co-creator of the “Zdrowie/Człowiek/Profilaktyka” educational programme, aimed at local governments and employers. Initiator of www.dobreprogramyzdrowotne.pl, a website containing a Health Programme Creator and educational materials for creators of health policy programmes. top
Session 4: Local Government Academy. Prevention and health promotion
Tomasz Rowiński
Tomasz Rowiński  |  Poland
Doctor of Psychology, assistant professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics – ThinkTank SGH for health care, member of the Council for Mental Health at the Minister of Health, member of the Social Welfare Reform Team at the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy, member of the Child Death Review Team at the Minister of Justice. He is the author or co-author of more than forty publications and presented sessions or lectures at more than 100 scientific and professional conferences in the field of mental health. He created the first community mental health centre for children and youth. He based the centre on a scientifically validated model of mental health, which was the basis for organising public services for families, children and youth. He was awarded the “Golden Synapse” distinction by the psychiatric community for his idea and its implementation. What is more, he was involved in the implementation of the model of deinstitutionalisation of public mental health services for children and youth in many parts of Poland. He is the initiator of databases for public policy, which are essential for decision-making in public services at government and local government levels. Tomasz Rowiński is committed to establishing the legal basis and mechanisms for multisectoral cooperation in the area of mental health from the public value perspective. top
Session 2: Healthcare systems private or public?
Jacek Siwiec
Jacek Siwiec  |  Poland

Sociologist – HTA expert – with more than 20 years of professional experience in public and private institutions related to health technology assessment (HTA/EBM), total quality management (TQM), clinical indicators, quality of life assessment, health insurance, and clinical research. He has held management positions in the CEESTAHC Association, WHC and Medicea Foundations, clinical research centres and numerous companies involved in broadly defined quality, ancillary insurance, and HTA. He currently holds the position of Director at the AOTMiT’s Branch Office in Cracow. He was the initiator and organiser of the International EBHC Symposium (2004-11) of the CEESTAHC Association, and of the conference series entitled “Innovations in Medicine” of the WHC Foundation. Jacek Siwiec is a manager, organiser, coach in trainings and several hundred training programmes in the field of EBM/EBHC/HTA/GCP, and an academic lecturer – at i.a. postgraduate studies in HTA at Institute of Public Health at Jagiellonian University Medical College (PRO-QUO HEALTH, HB-HTA). He has held advisory roles as, i.a., a member of the Ministry of Health’s Team for the Translation of Maps of Healthcare Needs, expert of the AOTMiT’s Tariffs Council, HTA coordinator of the Pointer project. Additionally, he is a member of teams and co-author of the Minister of Health’s “IOWISZ” tool. Jacek Siwiec is the co-author of HTA studies and expert consultations for Ministries of Health of the following Serbia (on behalf of the World Bank) and Ukraine. He has cooperated with various international institutions such as WHO (HEN), EUnetHTA, HTAi, World Bank and DG SANCO – member of the Expert Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment (HSPA), as well as Polish and foreign universities. Currently, he participates in several task forces and consulting teams, such as Voivodship Health Needs Mapping Teams, or in the work of the President of the Republic of Poland’s Working Group on 75 + Centres, as well as in the work of the Steering Committee for the Coordination of EFSI Interventions in the Health Sector. He has been an expert member, Polish representative for HTA methodology to the EU team – Coordination Group on Health Technology Assessment (CG-HTA), dealing with the commonality of HTA activities in the EU, since 2023. top

Session 4: Local Government Academy. Prevention and health promotion
Aleksandra Sztuder
Aleksandra Sztuder   |  Poland
Representative of the Director of the Lower-Silesian Centre of Oncology, Pulmonary and Haematology (DCOPiH) in Wroclaw in matters related to the comprehensive cancer care network. top
Session 6: The future of HTA – latest trends
Tomasz Tatara
Tomasz Tatara   |  Poland
Doctor of Health Sciences, public health specialist, graduate of the Medical University of Warsaw. Tomasz Tatara has several years of professional experience as an academic worker and as a pharmacoeconomics and HTA analyst. He acts as Head of the Health Policy Programme Division of the Technology Assessment Department at the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System, . Former member of the Prevention Measures Coordination Team of the Minister of Health, the Team for the development of a recovery plan for cancer prevention strategies in relation to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and the Team for systemic changes in public health. Currently, he is a member of the Provincial Council for health needs for the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. He is the author of numerous scientific publications, scripts, monograph chapters in the field of public health, healthcare, and pharmacoeconomics. Additionally, Tomasz Tatara has carried out numerous pharmacoeconomic analyses on the assessment of drug technologies available under drug programmes and health policy programmes. He gives lectures on public health and pharmacoeconomics at the Medical University of Warsaw. top
Joanna Turkiewicz
Joanna Turkiewicz  |  Poland
Author of scientific publications, academic lecturer, and trainer with many years of experience. She is a practitioner in the field of using modern technology in education and academic writing. Joanna Turkiewicz has conducted trainings and workshops for physicians on image development on the Internet in cooperation with the Supreme Medical Chamber and on publishing scientific articles at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, where she is currently working. Her scientific interests revolve around patient experience and broadly understood healthcare. top
Session 6: The future of HTA – latest trends
Ewa Warmińska-Friberg
Ewa Warmińska-Friberg   |  Poland
Attorney-at-law and manager with many years of experience in public administration and advisory for the benefit of healthcare actors. She specialises in financing of healthcare services, including reimbursement of medicines and medical devices. Currently, she is a member of the management board of Technomed. Ewa co-authored the commentary on the Act on the Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs Intended for Particular Nutritional Uses and Medical Devices, as well as numerous practical commentaries on health care. She gained experience while working at the National Health Fund, the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System (AOTMiT) and the Ministry of Health, where she held the position of Deputy Director at the Department of Drug Policy and Pharmacy and was responsible in particular for creating the drug policy in Poland, legislation, and reimbursement. Additionally, she was a member of the Tariff Council and represented Poland in various committees and working groups at the EU level. top

Session 5: Efficiency of healthcare systems – medical devices and services

Magdalena Władysiuk
Magdalena Władysiuk  |  Poland

President of CEESTAHC Society. Vice President of HTA Consulting.In HTA Consulting, she is responsible for the strategic development of the company through research and services development, new product launch and marketing. Ms. Wladysiuk main and primary aim is to provide high quality information or data based on evidence based medicine or health technology assessment methodology not only in Poland but in Europe and Asia. Key role of her work is to improve patient outcomes through better healthcare decisions.
In CEESTAHC she was responsible for the establishing and providing wide connection platform for discussion for all stakeholders in health care system. CEESTAHC mission is to improve the quality of health care systems value with the use of evidence.
She graduatd Medical Academy in Lublin and MBA, economy in Kozminski Academy in Warsaw.
She was Member of HTAi Annual Meeting in 2006-2008. top

Session 3: Efficency of healthcare systems – preventative care and medicines

Session 5: Efficiency of healthcare systems – medical devices and services

Marek Wójcik
Marek Wójcik |  Poland
Marek Wójcik, healthcare expert at the Association of Polish Cities, Deputy Minister of Administration and Digitisation in the years 2014-2015, long-term participant of legislative works in the Polish Sejm and Senate; member of the health and social policy team of the Joint Commission of the Government and Local Governments and participant in the work of the Council for Social Dialogue. Since 2004, he has served three terms as chairman of the Council of the Małopolskie Regional Branch of the National Health Fund, an expert to the Minister of Health for restructuring healthcare facilities and ownership transformations (2009-2011), member of the Council for Public Health and of the Scientific Council of the National Influenza Control Programme. He supervises the activities of medical entities subordinate to the Sądecka Municipal Public Services Zone (pilot project), and the Nowy Sącz poviat. Author of publications on public health and health programmes created by local governments. In his didactic activity, he collaborates i.a. with the Cracow University of Economics, Lazarski University in Warsaw, Warsaw School of Economics, Medical University of Łódź, WSB – National Louis University in Nowy Sącz, and University of Business and Entrepreneurship in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. top
Session 4: Local Government Academy. Prevention and health promotion
Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz
Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz  |  Poland
Political scientist, assistant professor at the Institute of Public Health of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. Collaborator of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (Brussels) and the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience. Guest lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. Conducted research at, among others: Maastricht and Harvard universities. Presented his research at numerous conferences, including at: Sciences Po in Paris, as well as Universities of Manchester and Canberra. Areas of specialization and interest: health policy analysis; organization of health systems; deliberative democracy and deliberative governance; health equity and theories of justice; health in all policies (HiAP) and health impact assessment (HIA); challenges of evidence-based policy-making; and analysis of public debates on health and the above-mentioned issues. In his approach he utilises deliberative democratic theory, in particular the theory of deliberative systems, and the three inputs of governance framework – analysing intersection of emotions, self-interests and expertise in policy-making. He is also involved in the popularization of research as the founder of the Blog of the Institute of Public Health and the author of numerous popular science press publications. top
Session 2: Healthcare systems private or public?
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