Topic:
There has been much demand for innovation within the healthcare and life sciences sector, particularly over the past few months of uncertainty and rapid change.
This session will explore some of those innovations and how we might sustain these for a ‘new normal’ in the future. Our friends at GE Healthcare, IQVIA, Roche, and the NHS will share some real life scenarios and will examine this topic collectively through a practitioner panel and audience Q&A.
Programme:
18.00 Welcome
Professor Eivor Oborn, Professor of Entrepreneurship &
Innovation in Healthcare, WBS
18.05 International challenges and innovations across the sector
Sarah Rickwood, Vice President, Thought Leadership and
Marketing, IQVIA
18.15 Challenges in NHS services and the innovations which
have arisen to overcome these
Masood Nazir, Director Director of Digital Primary Care, NHSX.
Chief Clinical Information Officer, NHS Birmingham and Solihull
Clinical Commissioning Groups.
GP and Managing Partner at Hall Green Health
18.25 Innovation at GE Healthcare – short-term versus long-term
Jan Wolber, Product Leader – Digital, GE Healthcare
Pharmaceutical Diagnostics
18.35 Turning the Ship Around - Adapting to Change
Sean Forde, Head of Commercial, Roche
18.45 Panel Q & A
19.00 Close
Audience:
This event will be open to all Warwick students, alumni, staff & guests interested in healthcare and life sciences. You do need to sign up for this event.
Joining Instructions:
The link to join us via wbsLive will be sent to the email you have provided us with 24 hours prior to the event and again in a reminder email 1 hour before.
Speaker Profiles:
Sarah Rickwood, Vice President, Thought Leadership and Marketing, IQVIA
Sarah has 28 years’ experience as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry, having worked in Accenture’s pharmaceutical strategy practice prior to joining IQVIA. She has an extremely wide experience of international pharmaceutical industry issues, having worked most of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies on issues in the US, Europe, Japan, and leading emerging markets, and is now Vice President, European Marketing and Thought Leadership in IQVIA, a team she has run for 10 years.
Sarah presents to hundreds of pharmaceutical industry clients every year on a wide range of global pharmaceutical industry issues, and has published white papers on many topics, including:
- uptake and impact of innovative medicines, and challenges for Launch Excellence
- the relative strength and prognosis for the developed and the emerging pharmaceutical markets
- the global uptake and impact of multichannel marketing
- Biosimilars market opportunity and the drivers of market establishment
- Orphan drugs launch challenges
- Cell and Gene therapies commercialization challenges and opportunity
- The evolution of the global Biologics market
- Africa pharmaceutical market opportunity and challenges
Sarah holds a degree in biochemistry from Oxford University
Dr Masood Nazir
MB ChB MRCGP MSc (Medical Leadership) DCH
Founding Fellow of Faculty of Clinical Informatics
Masood is passionate about creating a joined up health system for patients, which will lead to better, safer, more effective care. He firmly believes that this can be achieved through effective sharing of health information and use of available innovative technology. During his career so far, he has delivered large scale transformational projects such as the Patient on-line programme across the whole of England.
Masood is the Executive Managing Partner for largest single site practice in Birmingham, looking after 26,000 registered patients. Masood is motivated and highly successful in influencing policy and holds a highly influential role within NHSx as the Associate CCIO and SRO for Primary Care Digital Transformation programmes.
At a local level in Birmingham and Solihull, Masood is the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for the largest Clinical Commissioning Group in England and for the Your Care Connected (shared record) programme, improving care for 1.9million patients.
Jan Wolber, Product Leader – Digital, GE Healthcare Pharmaceutical Diagnostics
Jan Wolber is Digital Product Leader at GE Healthcare Life Sciences. He is based in Amersham in the UK. He is working on Artificial Intelligence solutions for clinical decision support across multiple disease areas. The development of digital biomarkers is an integral part of the Precision Health strategy of GE Healthcare. Jan has nearly 20 years of experience in medical imaging R&D as a scientist, project leader and departmental manager. After studying physics at the Universities of Bayreuth in Germany and St Andrews in Scotland, Jan received his PhD from the University of London in 2000 on work in the field of hyperpolarized 129Xe Magnetic Resonance (MR). He also has a MBA from Warwick Business School (graduation in 2014). In 2012, Jan was appointed Honorary Professor of MR Physics at the University of Sheffield where he has been co-supervising PhD students, mentoring Research Fellows and acting as an examiner for PhD dissertations. Jan also chairs the External Advisory Board of the EPSRC-MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Imaging (ONBI) which is jointly led by the Universities of Oxford and Nottingham. In addition, he is an active member of the EPSRC Peer Review College as a reviewer and as a panel member. He is also a member of the National Physics Laboratory Program Expert Group in Life Sciences & Health.
Sean Forde, Head of Commercial, Roche
Sean Forde is the Head of Commercial at Roche Products Ireland Ltd. He has worked in the healthcare industry since 2002 and after a brief period in pharmaceutical manufacturing has predominantly operated in a commercial capacity. He has a Ph.D.in Chemistry from the National University of Ireland, Galway and an MBA from Warwick Business School qualifying with overall distinction. His interests lie in network evolution and influence mapping as well as developing and coaching individuals to succeed within an ecosystem.
This event is organised by the Warwick Life Sciences and Healthcare Professional Network and WBS CareersPlus.