Prof. Dr. Christoph Zenger, President
Member of the Faculty of Law and the Director of the Center for Health Law and Management at the University of Bern (CH).

Professor Christoph Andreas Zenger studied at the University of Bern (PhD), the University of Aix-Marseille (F), and at the Harvard Law School (Cambridge, USA; LL.M.). He completed his professional education as an Attorney at Law and Notary Public.

Other actual and former functions:

• Partner in a law firm
• Co-editor of the Swiss Journal of Health Law
• Member of the board of the Institut de droit de la santé BENEFRI (Bern / Neuchâtel / Fribourg)
• Member of the board of the Spitalzentrum Biel AG; Member of the Cantonal Ethics Committee for Clinical Research in Human Subjects
• Member of the Federal Commission for Prevention and Health Promotion
• Member of the Federal AIDS-Commission
• Member of the board of the Swiss Federal Association for Biomedical Ethics
• Member of the Board of European Health Management Association (EHMA)
• Member of the Board of the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA)
• Member of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME).

Dr. Matti Aapro
Dean of the Multidisciplinary Oncology Institute, Genolier, Switzerland. 

Dr. Matti Aapro received his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He was a fellow at the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson and was the founding chair of the Medical and Radiation Therapy Department at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan.

Other professional activities he has been involved with include:

• Executive Board Member, International Society for Geriatric Oncology (SIOG)
• Member of the Board of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
• Past-President of the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC), and was on its Board of Directors for 2012-2014.
• Chair of the scientific and organizing committees of UICC’s (International Union against Cancer) World Cancer Congress of 2008 in Geneva, and 2010 in Shenzhen, China.
• Member of ESMO 2012 and EMCC 2013 (European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress) Scientific Committees
• Coordinator of the SPCC programme of the European School of Oncology
• Editor-in-Chief of Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology
• Associate Editor of Annals of Oncology, and Associate Editor for the geriatric section of the Oncologist.
• Founding editor of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology

He has authored more than 250 publications and his major interests are new drug development, breast cancer, cancer in the elderly, and supportive care.

Dr. Aapro has received the 2010 Acta Oncologica Award and the 2012 ASCO B.J. Kennedy prize.

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Prof. Dr. Axel Hofmann

Dr. Hofmann is a Doctor of Medical Science and holds a Master’s Degree in Economics. His main activities are related to PBM research and the implementation of PBM programs in the public health sector and large hospital systems. With his background in health economics and outcomes research, he has specialized in the field of Patient Blood Management. 

He currently has academic affiliations in Europe and Australia:

• Visiting Professor, Institute of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich
• Professor, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Division of Surgery, University of Western Australia

Dr. Hofmann is well published in international peer-reviewed journals and is an invited speaker on Patient Blood Management at numerous universities, medical schools, government agencies and international symposia.

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Prof. Jeffrey Hamdorf AM, MB BS, FRACS, PhD

Medical School, the University of Western Australia Perth, Australia.

Positions Prof. Hamdorf holds:

• Director of the Clinical Training & Evaluation Centre (CTEC), The University of Western Australia
• UWA Professor of Surgical Education
• Consultant General, Upper GI and Bariatric Surgeon
• President, Australian & New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS)
• Board Member, International Foundation for Patient Blood Management
• Chair, WA Patient Blood Management Group
• National Blood Authority Australia, Patient Blood Management Advisory Committee
• Member, Australian Medical Council, Medical School Accreditation Committee 
• Member, Postgraduate Medical Council of Western Australia
• Member, Clinical Simulation and Training Advisory Network, Dept of Health, Western Australia
• Executive Committee and Former Chair, WA Simulation in Healthcare Alliance (WASHA), Executive Committee

Academic areas of interest:

• Patient Blood Management, clinical implementation, education and training
• Role of medical and surgical simulation in education and training
• Curriculum development
• Surgical skills assessment
• Human factors in surgery
• Proficiency based assessment in skills acquisition
• Morbid obesity – management, lifestyle factors

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