Exclusive Roundtable Discussion: “Public-Private Innovation Partnerships in Denmark”
For companies such as Medtronic, Varian, Roche and GE Healthcare, the answer is Denmark. Let us provide you with a virtual introduction to the reasons why Denmark is such a great location for private-public innovation partnerships in this exclusive webinar.
Denmark is the ideal sandbox for testing new technology and business models to the healthcare sector and later scaling them globally. Your company gets access to excellent research and clinics that are outstanding in implementing new technology in high volume departments.
Furthermore, Denmark has a long tradition for interdisciplinary, cross-sector collaboration and systematic public-private innovation e.g. when running clinical trials, developing and validating new data driven technologies or testing new value-based healthcare models. Denmark’s university hospitals are frontrunners when it comes to public-private innovation partnerships.
The roundtable will be held Wednesday 27 October 2021, at 10.00 - 11.00 AM EST as a virtual event at the Consulate General of Denmark in New York as well as on-line.
Please note: If you are able to attend the event in person, the roundtable will be followed by a lunch hosted by the Consul General of Denmark in New York.
Program
• Welcome remarks by Ambassador, Consul General of Denmark in New York, Berit Basse• Poul Blaabjerg, CEO, Aarhus University Hospital - looking for partners for its new brain centre.
• Naomi Pagh, Commercial Partnerships & Governmental Affairs Director, Medtronic Denmark - case study of Medtronic’s partnership with Aarhus University Hospital.
• Brian Holch Kristensen, Head of Innovation, Bispebjerg & Frederiksberg Hospital - looking for partners within general hospital management, including logistics, automated monitoring of patients and workflows, wayfinding, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and telehealth.
• Mikael Boesen, Co-founder of Radiological AI Test Center – a collaboration between Bispebjerg and Herlev Hospital - looking for partners within the area of AI solutions in radiology e.g. triage, detection, validation, screening, monitoring and predictions within: Longitudinal control and segmentation of pulmonary nodules from CT scans and pulmonary disease changes on conventional radiographs; Triage of chest X-ray in normal and abnormal examinations + Expedited reporting of chest CT chest X-Ray; Detection and triage of (acute) cerebral symptoms / trauma; Detection and triage of bone fractures; Detection, Alzheimer’s and acute cerebral diseases and Cancer screening.
• Questions and answers session
get to know the speakers
Poul Blaabjerg, CEO, Aarhus University Hospital
Poul Blaabjerg has years of experience within leadership and strategy and is currently the CEO of Aarhus University Hospital, which has been named the best Danish hospital for 13 years in a row.
Prior to joining Aarhus University Hospital, Poul Blaabjerg was the CEO of CfL and chairman of the board of Designit.
Poul holds a master degree in political science from Aarhus University.
Naomi Pagh Abudi, Commercial Partnerships & Governmental Affairs Director, Medtronic Denmark
Naomi is the Commercial Partnerships & Governmental Affairs Director at Medtronic in Denmark. Before joining Medtronic in 2014, Naomi worked with the Danish Chamber of Commerce, the Nordic Council of Ministers, and with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, she has years of experience working with both private and public players in Denmark, also within Medtronic who have had a longstanding partnership with Aarhus University Hospital.
Medtronic is a global leader within medical technology, and their products treat 70 health conditions which among many other innovative devices includes cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems.
Naomi earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from University of Roskilde in Denmark in 2001 and a Master’s Degree in Communication from University of Roskilde in 2007. Moreover, she is also a board member of the Danish Medtech Association & Danish Life Science Cluster.
Mikael Ploug Boesen, Cheif physician and professor, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital
Mikael is Professor, MD, Ph.D, Consultant Radiologist at Copenhagen University Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg and Head of Musculoskeletal imaging, Department of Radiology.
Moreover, he is co-founder of Radiological AI Test Center (RAIT.dk), Capital Region of Denmark and a part of the Innovation department at Herlev Radiological Department.
RAIT draws on interdisciplinary clinical medical imaging, innovation, computer science, psychology, and engineering expertise. Together with partners RAIT develops, validates, implements, and disseminates AI methods applied in radiology. Mikael is also co-founder and co-chairman of the Radiological AI network under Danish Society of Radiology (DRS).
Brian Holch Kristensen, Head of Innovation, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg hospital
Brian Holch Kristensen has recently joined Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) with a strong emphasis on creating and exploring innovative and novel solutions to clinical needs – especially in the digitization of New Bispebjerg Hospital. He comes from a position as Chief Physicist at the Radiotherapy Department at Herlev Hospital where he specialized in development and implementation of the most radical and novel radiation treatment techniques in cancer, in collaborations with nurses, radiographers, physicists and oncologists.
Most recently, he governed the implementation of the very first AI driven curative radiotherapy treatments in the world with the introduction of the Varian Ethos platform. This was achieved in a public-private partnership exploiting the very best of the two worlds. The successful implementation of e.g. AI is more dependent on the mindset of everybody involved than the technology itself. This was Brian’s focus in the project.
Rasmus Beedholm-Ebsen, Special Life Science Advisor, Invest in Denmark, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark (Moderator)
Rasmus Beedholm-Ebsen is Special Advisor within Life Science at Invest in Denmark. Rasmus received his PhD in Medicine at University of Utah, US, and worked afterward as a post-doc, at the Department of Medical Biochemistry at Aarhus University, Denmark, before joining Invest in Denmark.
Most recently, Rasmus received a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and he holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He has also been an expert reviewer and coach for the European Tech Tour organisation for more than a decade, and he is Scientific Expert Reviewer for the European Commission.