Access to Real-World Data: Unique Opportunities

Lisbeth Nielsen

Lisbeth Nielsen’s background is grounded in both the public and the private sector. In her current role as Director General at the Danish Health Data Authority, she works to create coherent and systematic health data solutions to benefit patients and practitioners as well as supporting general research and administrative tasks in the Danish health care sector. Before that, Lisbeth Nielsen worked as a Chief Quality Officer at North Zealand Hospital, as Assistant Director at Danish regions and as head of Health Care Sales at IBM. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Roskilde. 

Jens Winther Jensen

Jens Winther Jensen is CEO and Medical Director of RKKP - Danish Clinical Quality Program and National Clinical Registries. He works to ensure a continued improvement in the utilization of the Danish clinical registries in a clinical as well as managerial-, and research oriented sense. He holds a MSc degree in medicine, Medical Specialist degree in Anesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care Medicine and Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness from Harvard University. Jens Winther has had several top management positions in Danish hospitals sector.   

Vera Ehrenstein

Vera Ehrenstein is a professor at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Denmark. She has 20 years’ experience conducting epidemiologic studies using Danish registries and other sources of routinely collected data.
Vera is the scientific coordinator on several completed and ongoing multinational regulator-imposed or regulator-commissioned post-authorization safety studies in areas of oncology; cardiovascular disease; skeletal diseases; and safety of medication during pregnancy. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and a past member of the Steering Group of the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP). As a member of several ENCePP working groups, she contributes to development of standards and guidances for design and conduct of post-authorization safety studies. Vera has co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications and supervises several PhD and research year students. She is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of an online peer-reviewed periodical Clinical Epidemiology. 

Arun Micheelsen

Arun Micheelsen holds a PhD in sociology from Copenhagen University and is employed at the DLI MI in Denmark as Chief Researcher and Advisor.
Beside publishing white papers about Real World Evidence (RWE) and Patient Preference Evidence, Arun supports pharma companies and public researchers with designing RWE studies, applying for health data, accessing and analyzing data, and reporting RWE studies conducted in the Nordic region. These studies often focus on mapping patient populations, treatment pathways, outcome studies, and studies relevant for Market Access – most often employing public health, (pharma-)epidemiological, health economic, and lately also Data Science methods. 
Moderator: Allan Skaarup Kristensen

Moderator: Allan Skaarup Kristensen