Management and prevention in clinical practice: Role for e-health?
Chairs: Roger van Boxtel LLM. and Prof. dr. Lee Newman.
Powering healthcare innovation
Mr. Roger van Boxtel LLM.
Menzis belongs to the top four health insurers in the Netherlands. Roger van Boxtel is former Minister in the Dutch Government 1998-2002. After his political career, Van Boxtel chose to take a leading role in healthcare. As managing director of Menzis Healthcare he was actively involved in finding innovative ways to buy care for the brands and (now former) subsidiary companies of Menzis. Since September 2004 he is Chief Executive Officer of Menzis. Roger van Boxtel is member of the Dutch Senate for Democrates 66 (D66).
Personalized prevention: Philosophy or reality?
Dr. Roderik Kraaijenhagen
Dr. Roderik A. Kraaijenhagen is cardiologist in practice with a PhD in vascular medicine (Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam). He is medical director and co-founder of the NDDO Institute for Prevention and Early Diagnostics (NIPED). He also is National Coordinator Prevention for the European Society of Cardiology; President of the Committee for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Dutch Cardiology Society; Executive board member of the Platform for Vital Vessels; Steering committee member of the Platform for Population Based Personalized Prevention. He is member of various multidisciplinary guideline committees (e.g. for cardiovascular risk management (CVRM), for tobacco addiction, for cardiac rehabilitation, for preventive medical examination (PMO)).
Interactive case presentation
Prof. dr. Lizy Fireman, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lizy Fireman is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in the Tel Aviv University. Currently she is the Head of the Laboratory of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases in the Tel-Aviv Sourasly Medical Center and Head of the National Laboratory Service for Interstitial Lung Diseases. She is is a member of various international organizations: WASOG, ERS, and ATS. Her expertise focuses on Sarcoidosis, Chronic Beryllium Disease and other Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases. She is the author of over 100 English peer-reviewed articles and received research grants from Israeli and international institutions. She focused her research on the field of biological monitoring of exposed workers by particle size distribution in the micro and nano range by induced sputum and exhaled breath condensate samples. During the last years she focused her interest on HO-1 (Heme-Oxygenase 1) pathway as a protective oxidative stress mechanism in dental technicians exposed to beryllium and in "Caesar Stone " (a synthetic israeli marble) exposed workers. She mentored many clinical and basic young students.
Lee S. Newman, M.D., M.A. is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, and Professor of Epidemiology in the Colorado School of Public Health. He is also Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA. He has served on the University of Colorado faculty since 1987, initially based at National Jewish Health, where he was Chair of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences from 1997-2005.
Dr. Benoit Wesly has over 35 years experience as an entrepreneur in the Hotel Restaurant and Travel Industry in Europe and in the US. He is the founder and owner of the Xelat Group with operations in Maastricht, the Netherlands and Emek Hefer, Israel. Dr. Wesly was a member of the supervisory board of the leading Dutch catering company Maison van den Boer B.V. and N.V. Mensec, theatre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Dr. Wesly is president of the Jewish community in the province of Limburg and president of the Foundation Collective Maror Funds. He has a diploma from the Hoge Hotelschool of Maastricht and a Doctor of Humane Letters at Central Missouri State University. In May 2004 he received an Honorary Doctorate in business and economics from Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo. He also received the Scopus Award from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since may 2009 he is appointed as honorary consul of the State of Israel. The first honorary consul ever appointed in The Netherlands.
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