Tagged with hospital

Spain Dr Manel Juan is part of the team behind the development of the first European CAR-T-cell therapy to treat multiple myeloma, the second most common type of blood cancer. As head of immunology at the Hospital Clinic Barcelona, he walks us through his personal journey with the project, the challenges…

Denmark Lars Georg Rust outlines Olympus’ transition into fully-fledged MedTech company, the relevance of the Nordics and Netherlands to the global group, and some areas for improvement within the Danish hospital procurement process.   This region, and especially Denmark, is a beacon to the rest of the group for upcoming trends…

Global Walt Vernon is CEO of US-based healthcare facilities consulting firm, Mazzetti, and non-profit, Sextant. He is on the Board of the FGI and served on NFPA 99 ELS, NFPA 70 CMP15, and ASHRAE 189.3. He chairs the ASHRAE Infectious Aerosols Position Document Committee and represents the US in the International…

Denmark Erik Jylling of the Danish Regions, the organisation charged with healthcare management for each of Denmark’s five regions, outlines the advantages and challenges which persist within Danish healthcare and sounds a clarion call for faster adaptation and greater collaboration with private industry.   The innovation power that private enterprises have…

Turkey Over a decade ago, GE Healthcare selected Turkey as an international operational base for its Eastern and Africa Growth Markets (EAGM) and 84 countries are managed from Turkey today. Nael Dabbagh, general manager for the Middle East, Northeast Africa, Turkey, and Central Asia (MENEAT) region, comments on the global firm’s…

Denmark Per Jørgensen, deputy director of Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet), discusses pandemic management, clinical trial collaborations with private industry, translational research, and the demands that the hospitals of the future will need to adapt to.   Big and specialized hospitals in Denmark such as ours are in a unique position to…

Norway Filip Standaert outlines the significance of the Nordic cluster to J&J’s medical device operations in Europe, how the affiliate responded to the COVID-19 crisis, and the ways in which J&J is aiming to contribute to driving efficiencies within the Norwegian healthcare system.   There is still change management to be…

Switzerland Genomic medicine expert Professor Thomas D. Szucs explains what ignited his interest in the field and how payers and authorities are adapting to the strain on resources that genomic medicine can contribute to. Professor Szucs also evaluates the sustainability of personalized medicine and China’s rapid progress in the field.  …

Norway Photo: Sofia Linden / Oslo Cancer Cluster Oncologist Jon Amund Kyte shares some of the groundbreaking immunotherapy research that he and his team is conducting at Oslo University Hospital. Kyte also explores how Norway can better develop its clinical footprint and what his hopes for the future of experimental cancer…

Belgium Belgian doctor, researcher and professor, Stéphane De Wit has been with the St Pierre University Hospital in Brussels since 1983. Initially planning to specialize in intensive care, his first internship took him by chance to the infectious diseases department where he encountered his first patients with AIDS, met his mentor,…

Belgium Belgium’s healthcare system was ranked fourth in Europe in 2019, outperforming its peers across a number of metrics including a relatively high number of hospital beds per capita (six per thousand citizens, compared to the EU average of five per thousand citizens) and the second-highest number of doctor consultations per…

Belgium Professor Stéphane De Wit, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at St Pierre University Hospital outlines Belgium’s approach to tackling HIV treatment, how academia-industry collaboration is progressing in the country, and the potential of innovative new treatment nodes such as CAR-T.   In the past, we used to collaborate…