Day 1: 3rd December 2019
14:00 – 15:00
Registration
15:00 – 17:30
Opening Session: Facilitating an Environment for delivery of better healthcare for the EU and Member States
Chair: Gordon McVie, Co-chair, EAPM
Welcome: Denis Horgan, Executive Director, European Alliance for Personalised Medicine
15:00 – 15:45
Big Data and Healthcare
Marco Marsella, Head of Unit eHealth, Wellbeing & Ageing, European Commission
Antonius Manders, Member of the European Parliament (EPP)
Bruno Wohlschlegel, Head of Europe, Merck
Mario Romao, EMEA Global Public Policy team, Intel
15:45 – 16:30
Public Health
Martin Seychell, Deputy Director General (DDG1), DG SANTE, European Commission
Simone Boselli, Public Affair Director, EURORDIS
Barbara Moss, Patient Representative, Digestive Cancers Europe
16:30 – 17:15
Translational Research and bringing innovation into Healthcare Systems
Pilar Aguar Fernandez, Head Of Unit Innovative tools, technologies and concepts in health research , European Commission
Kaisa Immonen, Director of Policy, European Patients Forum (EPF)
Mark Lawler, Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen’s University Belfast
18:45 – 21:30
Welcome Dinner in the University Foundation (on invitation only)
Public Health Genomics in the Personalised Medicine Era
Public Health Genomics in the Personalised Medicine Era
18:45 – 19:30
Welcome Drink Reception EAPM Annual Congress Launch
Chair:Gordon McVie, Co-Chair, EAPM
Welcome Address: Denis Horgan, Executive Director, EAPM
19:30 – 21:30
Welcome Dinner for EAPM Congress “Personalised Healthcare”
Chair: Mary Baker, Board Member, European Alliance for Personalised Medicine
Co-chair: Gordon McVie, Co-Chair, European Alliance for Personalised Medicine
Denis Horgan, EAPM Executive Director
Key Drivers in the Healthcare Arena
Elizabeth Macintyre, President Elect, EHA
Torsten Hoof, Senior Vice President International, Exact Sciences
Monica Di Luca, President, European Brain Council
Eva M. Weinreich-Jensen, President, HOPE – European Hospital and Healthcare Federation
Day 2: 4th December 2019
08:30 – 09.00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00
Welcome
Denis Horgan, Executive Director, EAPM
09:15
Key Note Address
Gordon McVie, Co-Chair, European Alliance for Personalised Medicine
Peter Liese, MEP, European Parliament
Ortwin Schulte, Head of Health Policy Unit, German Permanent Representation
Pasi Mustonen, Health Attaché, Permanent Representation of Finland.
Stephen M Robbins, Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Cancer Research, Calgary (Alberta), Canada
10:00 – 11:15
Session I: Orphan Regulation
Chair: Alastair Kent, Formerly Director of Genetic Alliance, UK
Tilly Metz, Member of the European Parliament (GREENS)
Simone Boselli, Public Affairs Director, EURORDIS
Birute Tumiene, Vilnius University Hospital
Daria Julkowska, Assistant director Institute GGB; EJP RD Coordinator
Maciej Gajewski, Head Intl Government Affairs & Policy, Alexion
Q&A
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:45
Session II: Evidence Framework
Chair: Mark Lawler, Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen’s University Belfast
Christine Chomienne, Professor at the Université de Paris
Beata Jagielska, Polish Alliance for Personalised Medicine
Jan Korbel, Group Leader and Senior Scientist, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
Gabriele Grom, Associate Vice President for Central Eastern Europe, MSD
Q&A
12:45 – 13:45
Networking Lunch
13:45 – 15:00
Session III: Biomarkers, Molecular Diagnostics and the public health dimension
Chair: Etienne Richer, Associate Director, CIHR Institute of Genetics, Montreal, Canada
Bettina Borisch, MD, MPH, FRCPath Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva CEO, World Federation of Public Health Associations
Paul Naish, Director, Oncology Advocacy and Government Affairs AstraZeneca
Laetitia Gambotti, Director, Department Recherche Clinique, INCA
Benjamin Gannon, VP Intl Access, Policy & Advocacy, Myriad
Hans Peter Dauben, RFH, Germany
Q&A
15:00 – 16:15
Session IV: HTA & Access
Chair: Francesco Florindi, Strategy & Partnership Manager, BBMRI-ERIC
Tiemo Wölken, Member of the European Parliament
Flora Giorgio, Head of Sector HTA, DG SANTE, European Commission
Marcus Guardian, Chief Operating Officer, EUnetHTA
Philipp Tillich, Health Attaché, Austrian Permanent Representation
Tanja Valentin, Director External Affairs, MedTech Europe
Q&A
16:15 – 16:45
Closing Session: Agenda items for the new political Term – 2019-2024
Chair: Denis Horgan, Executive Director, European Alliance for Personalised Medicine
Jasmina Koeva, Chair of the Board, Bulgarian Alliance for Personalised and Precision Medicine (BAPPM)
Petra De Sutter, Chair, IMCO Committee, European Parliament.
Francesco De Lorenzo, Past President and Scientific Committee Chair, ECPC
Benjamin Horbach, Health Systems Strategy Leader — Personalised Healthcare (PHC), Roche
Q&A