The Vlerick Healthcare
Conference
Finance & innovation in the healthcare system
6 November 2014
vlerick Campus Brussels
www.vlerick.com/HCC
WHY this conference?
Who Will you meet?
The Vlerick Healthcare Management Centre,
is pleased to present the first edition of the
Vlerick Healthcare Conference
Expand your network and connect with the major
decision-makers in healthcare:
Building and expanding upon its many years of
expertise in hospital management Vlerick Business
School has recently set up the Vlerick Healthcare
Management Centre (HMC), a European base
for innovative thinking and executive education
related to the management and public policy of
life sciences, health care services, -technology, and
-financing. The HMC will be officially opened at the
annual Vlerick Healthcare Conference,
The first Vlerick Healthcare Conference , entitled
‘Finance & innovation in the healthcare system’ is
targeted towards professionals from healthcare
and life sciences, and features distinguished
speakers, a dynamic panel discussion and various
networking opportunities. In alignment with the
Centre’s research and executive education agenda,
this will be offered via three consecutive tracks:
‘Healthcare Provider Management and Finance’,
‘Translational Medicine and Clinical Trials’ and
‘Innovation and Business Models in Healthcare’.
How is this conference
organised?
All participants start and end the day together.
After the official opening of the Vlerick Healthcare
Management Research Centre, the conference will
offer you three consecutive tracks, in line with the
centre’s research agenda.
• Top & middle management in hospitals, elderly
homes, pharmacies, etc.,
• Medical doctors and healthcare professionals,
• Professionals, managers and staff members in care
organizations,
• Professionals and managers in (bio)pharmaceutical
and life sciences companies,
• R&D experts and managers in the (bio)pharma and
life sciences industry,
• Professionals and consultants working in a
specific part of the healthcare value chain, such
as information and technology systems, medical
devices, logistics providers etc.
Programme
8.30AM Registration & welcome coffee
9.00AM General Welcome
Prof Dr Leo Neels
Chairman of the Advisory Board
Vlerick Healthcare Management Centre
9.05AM Official opening Vlerick Healthcare Management Research Centre
Prof Dr Philippe Haspeslagh
Dean
Vlerick Business School
9.20AM
11.15AM
Prof Dr Walter Van Dyck
Director
Vlerick Healthcare
Management Centre
Track 1: ‘Healthcare Provider Management and Finance’
Chaired by:
Prof Dr Marc Decramer
Managing Director
UZ Leuven
Chaired by:
Prof Dr Eric Mortier
Managing Director
UZ Gent
Geert Gielens
PhD, Chief Economist
Belfius Bank
Prof Katrien Kesteloot
PhD, Financial Director
UZ Leuven
Track 2: ‘Translational medicine and clinical trials’
Chaired by:
Dr Denis Lacombe
Director Headquarters, European
Organization of Research and
Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
Prof Dr Michel Goldman
Executive Director,
Innovative Medicines
Initiative (IMI)
Prof Dr Lieven Annemans
Senior Full Professor Health
Economics, Ghent University
12.40PMLunch
2.00Pm
Track 3: ‘Innovation and business models in healthcare’
Chaired by:
Prof Dr Koen Kas
CEO
InBioVeritas
Jan De Kerpel
PhD MBA, Senior Equity Analyst,
Pharma & Biotech
KBC Securities
Johan Van Helleputte
Senior Vice-President
Strategic Development
Imec, a micro- and nanoelectronics research centre
Kurt Hertogs
PhD, Head Platform Innovation
& Incubator Strategy, Johnson &
Johnson Innovation Centre, London
3.20PMHealthcare insurance in Europe in times of austerity
Jo De Cock
CEO Rijksinstituut voor
ziekte-en invaliditeitsverzekering
(RIZIV-INAMI)
3.50PMA Research Agenda
Prof Dr Walter Van Dyck
Director Vlerick Healthcare
Management Centre
Prof Dr Brecht Cardoen
Head of MINOZ research centre
4.05PMGrand Closing
Prof Dr Leo Neels, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Vlerick Healthcare Management Centre
4.10PMNetworking
Practical details
Date & location
6 November 2014
From 8.30AM until 4.10PM, with closing drinks afterwards.
Vlerick Campus Brussels
Pay Parking available under the Manhattan Tower
Language
All sessions will be held in English.
Price
€495 (excl. 21% VAT), including lunch, coffee breaks & reception and all conference documentation.
€415 (excl. 21% VAT) as from 3 or more registrants per company.
Financial benefits for you?
• SME portfolio: subsidies for Flemish SMEs
• Vlerick Social Profit Grants for organisations active
in the social profit sector.
For more details, check: www.vlerick.com/benefits
This programme is acknowledged by the Riziv for
accreditation in the section ethics and economy.
Registration & information
You can register online: www.vlerick.com/HCC
More information
Astrid De Wael
Vlerick Business School
Reep 1,
9000 Gent
09 210 97 66
[email protected]
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