Speakers

Keynote Speakers

A. John Iafrate Dr. Iafrate is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and is Director of the Center for Integrated Diagnostics (CID), a clinical laboratory for molecular diagnostics and newly appointed Vice Chair of Academic Affairs at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Stephen Palmer Stephen Palmer is a Professor and Deputy Director of TEEHTA. He has worked in economic evaluation for over 15 years in areas including pharmaceuticals, cardiology, cancer, mental health, diagnostic and screening programmes and policy. He has extensive experience of health economic evaluation, regulatory and reimbursement processes.

Luca Sangiorgi He is Head of Department of Medical Genetics and Coordinator of Rare Disease Centre at Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, and Contract professor of Clinical Genetics of Bologna University.

Christos Antonopoulos Christos Antonopoulos is a board-certified Infectious Diseases physician. He holds an Executive MBA from the IMD Business School in Switzerland, a MSc in Clinical Infectious Diseases from Imperial College School of Medicine and a PhD in Medicine from Royal Free and University College London Medical School.

Kathi Apostolidis Kathi is the Vice President of ECPC-European Cancer Patient Coalition/Belgium and the President of the Hellenic Cancer Federation-ELLOK/Greece.

Ioannis Boukovinas Dr. Ioannis Boukovinas is Medical Oncologist, Head of Oncology Unit, “Bioclinic”, Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a Pharmaceutical degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He also holds a Ph.D. on “Pharmacogenomics of lung cancer”.

George Galanopoulos George Galanopoulos is the Head of the Medical Affairs Department of Gilead Sciences since 2008 , for Greece and Eastern Europe. He has been working in the pharmaceutical industry for almost 15 years , in Medical Affairs positions of increasing responsibility.

Maria Gazouli Maria Gazouli, PhD, is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Medical School National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens Greece. She was admitted as a PhD student at the Biology Department and Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and granted by honored Hellenic Pasteur Institute scholarship. She continued her postdoc training in Cell Biology Department, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC USA.

Tomasz Kluszczynski Tomasz is a Senior Principal at IQVIA Consulting responsible for strategic projects such as Launch Excellence, Market Access & Pricing and Portfolio and Geo Expansion.

Ioanna Michalopoulou A graduate of Law School of the University of Athens (LL.B.), the Universite Catholique de Louvain (LL.M. in Economic Law) and Solvay Business School of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Executive Master in Marketing & Advertising).

George Pentheroudakis George Pentheroudakis holds an MD degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD degree from the University of Ioannina, Greece. He specialised in Internal Medicine in Thessaloniki, Greece (1993-1999), subsequently held a National Training Number in Medical Oncology at the Beatson Oncology Centre, Glasgow, United Kingdom (1999-2002).

Zenia Saridaki-Zoras Zenia Saridaki – Zoras is a Medical Oncologist and the Scientific Director of the Oncology Department “Asklepios”, situated in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Konstantinos Syrigos Professor Kostas Syrigos graduated from Athens School of Medicine in 1988. He was trained in Internal Medicine at the Laikon University Hospital (Athens University) and in Medical Oncology at the Hammersmith Hospital (Imperial College of Medicine, Sciences & Art, London University).