Thomas Dentzer

Chief Strategy Officer

Luxembourg | Luxembourg

Biography

Thomas holds a PhD in virology from The Rockefeller University in New York (USA) and received his Master's degree in biology from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany) prior to his work in the United States. After postdoc research activities at The Rockefeller University, he returned to his native Luxembourg in 2011 to take up a post as a post doc researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) where he established a research team working on hepatitis C virus with a focus on antiviral drug targeting and testing. He then moved on to work as a consultant for Deloitte, developing the Healthcare & Life Sciences activities while working in various countries across Europe. Then, Thomas spent 5 years as head of Life Sciences Sector at the national innovation agency (Luxinnovation) in Luxembourg, where he worked on the research and economic development of the life sciences sector in close collaboration with the government, research institutions and industry. During that time, he also assumed the role of manager of the Luxembourg BioHealth Cluster, reuniting the Luxembourg life sciences actors. Thomas is now, since September 2017 working at the Directorate of Health (Ministry of Health) where he is in charge of coordination, strategic development, digital health and international relations and acts as a lecturer at the University of Luxembourg. As a member of the Luxembourg COVID-19 crisis cell, Thomas has been in charge of the national testing strategies (diagnostic and large scale testing). Thomas assumes the co-lead of the national digital health taskforce for the transformation of the healthcare sector. On an international level, Thomas assumes the roles of a board member of the ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control), the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) and the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee (SCRC) of WHO Europe.

Organisation

MInistry of health Luxembourg (Europe)

Member State authority

Speaker session

22 November

10:00 - 11:30

The new European Health Security Framework

Closed

Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

New regulation on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU - John F. Ryan, DG SANTE
New regulation on a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency at Union level - Wolfgang Philipp, DG HERA
New regulation on European Medicines Agency - Emer Cooke, EMA
New regulation on European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Andrea Ammon, ECDC

Panel 1:

Rui Portugal, Ministry of Health of Portugal
Vesna Kerstin Petrič, Ministry of Health, Slovenia
Jérôme Salomon, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, France
Sara Byfors, Public Health Agency of Sweden

Q&A

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

John F. Ryan

Deputy General Director, DG Health and Food Security

Wolfgang Philipp

Acting Deputy Head in DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority

Emer Cooke

Executive Director

Andrea Ammon

Director

Rui Portugal

Deputy Director General

Vesna Kerstin Petrič

Director general

Jérôme Salomon

General Director for Health

Sara Byfors

Head of Department

16:30 - 17:00

Wrapping up & closing by Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

Closed

Wrapping up & closing by Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

Brussels | Belgium

Biography

Ms. Sandra Gallina is Director-General - Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE). Sandra Gallina joined the European Commission in 1988. She is today Deputy-Director General for HEALTH. Before joining DG SANTE, between 2018 and 2020 she was Deputy Director General for TRADE. Between 2014 and 2018 she was Director for DG TRADE Directorate D "Sustainable Development; Economic Partnership Agreements - African, Caribbean and Pacific; Agri-food and Fisheries". Sandra Gallina was also the EU chief negotiator for the EU-MERCOSUR Free Trade Agreement. Between 2001 and 2009 she was the EU Lead Negotiator for Non-Agricultural Market Access in the WTO Doha Round and in that capacity, she defined and presented EU policy for the Doha Development Agenda on non-agricultural market access negotiations.Before joining DG TRADE, she worked in the Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) at the end of the 1990s.

Organisation

European Comission

EU Institutions

Speaker session

22 November

10:00 - 11:30

The new European Health Security Framework

Closed

Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

New regulation on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU - John F. Ryan, DG SANTE
New regulation on a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency at Union level - Wolfgang Philipp, DG HERA
New regulation on European Medicines Agency - Emer Cooke, EMA
New regulation on European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Andrea Ammon, ECDC

Panel 1:

Rui Portugal, Ministry of Health of Portugal
Vesna Kerstin Petrič, Ministry of Health, Slovenia
Jérôme Salomon, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, France
Sara Byfors, Public Health Agency of Sweden

Q&A

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

John F. Ryan

Deputy General Director, DG Health and Food Security

Wolfgang Philipp

Acting Deputy Head in DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority

Emer Cooke

Executive Director

Andrea Ammon

Director

Rui Portugal

Deputy Director General

Vesna Kerstin Petrič

Director general

Jérôme Salomon

General Director for Health

Sara Byfors

Head of Department

16:30 - 17:00

Wrapping up & closing by Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

Closed

Wrapping up & closing by Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

Marco Greco

President

Brussels | Belgium

Biography

Dr Marco Greco is the President of the European Patients' Forum (EPF). He currently sits on the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and acts as an observer on the Patients and Consumers Working Party, on behalf of the Board.

He works as an attorney at his law firm, focusing on litigation, commerce and consumers' protection legislation. He has been chairman of the European Federation of Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Association (EFCCA) and the founder of the EFCCA Youth Group.

After an LL.MM in Law, he earned a PhD in Law and Religion, religious freedom and discrimination and canon law at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

Organisation

European Patients' Forum (EPF)

NGO

Speaker session

22 November

10:00 - 11:30

The new European Health Security Framework

Closed

Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

New regulation on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU - John F. Ryan, DG SANTE
New regulation on a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency at Union level - Wolfgang Philipp, DG HERA
New regulation on European Medicines Agency - Emer Cooke, EMA
New regulation on European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Andrea Ammon, ECDC

Panel 1:

Rui Portugal, Ministry of Health of Portugal
Vesna Kerstin Petrič, Ministry of Health, Slovenia
Jérôme Salomon, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, France
Sara Byfors, Public Health Agency of Sweden

Q&A

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

John F. Ryan

Deputy General Director, DG Health and Food Security

Wolfgang Philipp

Acting Deputy Head in DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority

Emer Cooke

Executive Director

Andrea Ammon

Director

Rui Portugal

Deputy Director General

Vesna Kerstin Petrič

Director general

Jérôme Salomon

General Director for Health

Sara Byfors

Head of Department

16:30 - 17:00

Wrapping up & closing by Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

Closed

Wrapping up & closing by Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety