Ivett Jakab
President, EPF Youth Group
The congress' contributors
The congress'
Contributors
Dimitrios Athanasiou holds a BA in Business Administration and an MBA in Financial Management. He speaks three European languages and has more than 25 years’ experience with international business projects, working in various countries in consulting, developing and reorganizing companies.
Having a passionate personality and technocratic background, he educated himself with basic rare disease and advocacy knowledge via the EURORDIS Summer School and then with the 14 month Patient Expert Course of the European Patient Academy of Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) acquiring basic biotech and regulatory knowledge, where he served as a Member of EUPATI’s Course Committee for the next year, representing the patient voice. Being a EUPATI fellow, he established the Greek EUPATI National Liaison Team. Locally in Greece he is the patient representative of MDA HELLAS, created an active network of patient advocates, and became a board member of the World Duchenne Organization (WDO) promoting a vibrant network of patient organizations where children with DMD will have access to the best care irrelevant to where they live.
As a strong and committed patient advocate for DMD and rare diseases, he serves the patient community through various roles. He is a board member of EPF, a EURORDIS EPAC/TAG member, he served in the Board of the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP), Co-Chairing the Children Medicines Working Party (CMWP), Patient Advisor in TREAT-NMD Advisory Committee for Therapeutics (TACT), DIA’s Program Committee Member and many others.
In 2014 he was nominated patient expert by EMA for DMD and has participated in several of EMA's Scientific Advice, SAG, Protocol Assistance and CHMP pilot meetings for Duchenne, providing the essential patient representative perspective when companies request regulatory advice or approval. He currently serves as PDCO member in European Medicines Agency representing EURORDIS since 2017
President, EPF Youth Group
Podcaster, Faces of Digital Health & MedsClub Community Developer, Better
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Anna Ziekenhuis, Geldrop/Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Board Member, International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
Youth Strategy & Capacity Building Assistant, EPF
Scientific Director, European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS)
Head of Data Analytics and Methods Taskforce, European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Board Member, World Duchenne Organization
Digital Health Consultant, Manufaktur für Antworten
CEO, EIT Health
Special Advisor, EPF
Past Chair, HTAi Patient and Citizen Involvement Interest Group
Director General, Industrial Policies, MedTech Europe
Director-General, DIGITALEUROPE
CEO, Masaryk University Faculty of Medicine (Brno, Czech Republic) Center for Healthcare Quality
Project Officer, Alzheimer Europe
Global Head of Digital and Data, Healthcare Business of Merck
Freelance Health Policy Analyst and Researcher
Patient Editor, BMJ
Executive Director, Ketotic Hypoglycemia International
Deputy Head of Unit, DG SANTE, European Commission
Head of Unit, SANTE.B3, Digital Health and European Reference Networks
President, EPF
Professor of Integrated Care & Technology, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
Professor in health informatics, Uppsala MedTech Science & Innovation Centre
Regional Adviser, Digital Health Flagship, WHO Regional Office
Senior Policy Officer, International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies (AIM)
Strategic digital transformation of health and care entrepreneur, Leiden University Medical Center
Director of Policy, EPF
President, The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD)
Managing Director, European Multiple Sclerosis Platform (EMSP) Acting Executive Director, EPF
Chair, World Alliance of Pituitary Organizations (WAPO)
Regional Director, WHO Europe
Patient Advocate
Vice President of European Affairs, European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association
Founder, OpenAPS
Senior Director Digital Health & Taxation Advocacy EMEA, Johnson & Johnson
Vice President, European Junior Doctors Association
Technology and Innovation Lead, Trinity's Centre for Ageing & Intellectual Disability
Senior Programme Officer, EPF
CEO, 23 Consulting
Co-Founder and CEO, Biel Glasses
Vice Chair, WHO ITU focus group on AI
Young People's Representative, European Multiple Sclerosis Platform (EMSP)
Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Chair, The Digital Health Society
Senior Editor, The BMJ
Head of Division 511 – New technologies and data use, German Federal Ministry of Health
Communications Strategist, Cancer Research UK
Secretary General, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
President, International Health Literacy Foundation
Head of Programmes, EPF
Associate Dean, SDA Bocconi School of Management
Coordinator of the Patient Involvement Strategy, Spanish Network of Agencies for Assessing National Health System Technologies and Performance- RedETS
Founder, The Hyve
Global Medical Chapter Lead, Real World Evidence, Roche
President, World Duchenne Parent Project Netherlands
Managing Director, Health Connect Partners
Digi-ID Citizen Advisory Panelist
Head of Data Analytics and Methods Taskforce, European Medicines Agency (EMA)
CEO, EIT Health
President, EPF
Director of Policy, EPF
Strategic Lead - Healthcare Quality and Outcomes, OECD
International Projects Coordinator, SPMS Portugal
Director of Public Policy Europe, MSD
Board Member, North Estonia Medical Centre
Digital Transformation Policy Director, DIGITALEUROPE
Executive Committee member, European Alliance of Neuromuscular Disorders Associations (EAMDA)
President, International Health Literacy Association
Senior Adviser on Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity, European Policy Centre
Head of Governance, Membership and Capacity Building, EPF
Policy Advisor, EPF
Vice-Chair, Lupus Europe
Director, BIP consulting
Executive Director, Patient Innovation
President, EPF Youth Group
President, GAMIAN Europe
Founder, Estonian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Society
Acting Executive Director, EPF
Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Digital Health, Queen's University Belfast
Senior Editor, The BMJ
Head of Programmes, EPF
Head of eHealth Research & Policy, empirica Communication & Technology Research
Board Member, EPF
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