Prof. Dr. Christoph Zenger, President

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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).

Prof. Jeffrey Hamdorf

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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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Prof. Dr. Axel Hofmann

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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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Dr. Matti Aapro

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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. Jochen Erhard

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Professor of Surgery, MD (Dr. med.) Head of Department of Surgery/Visceral and Vascular Surgery Klinikum-Niederrhein, Dinslaken and Duisburg,Germany.

Prof. Erhard obtained his medical degree at the University of Cologne, Hamburg and Essen,Germany in 1979. He was an intern at the Department of Surgery and Transplantation Medical Highschool, Hanover, Germany, the Department of Hepato-Biliary-Surgery and Transplantation, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK and the Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Clinic, Madison, WI, USA.
He obtained a Doctor of Medicine in pediatric surgery in 1983.He served as Assistant in the University Clinic of Surgery, Consultant in Surgical ICU, Pediatric Surgery until 1986 and was next appointed as Senior Registrar and Deputy Director of the Clinic of General Surgery and Transplantation in Essen, Germany. In 1998 he was appointed as a Professor at theUniversity of Essen and received the Koehler Award of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. The same year he accepted a position as the Head of Department for General and Vascular Surgery, County Hospital Gladbeck, Germany before taking up his current position at Dinslaken in 2000.
Since 2001, Prof. Erhard has been a Guest lecturer at the Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche (Alicante), Spain and by appointment of the German Secretary of Health, a Member of the taskforce “Blood” since 2004.

Other professional activities he has been involved with since 2000 include:

Member of Board of Directors of the Teaching Academy of the German Surgical Society
Elected Speaker of the official course: “teach the teachers” of the German Surgical Society
Founding Member and Member of the Board of Directors of Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM)
President of the Medical Society for Blood Management (MSBM), Vienna, Austria
Board Member Surgical Society of North-West-German Surgeons (Treasurer)
Board Member IAKH

Fields of clinical work and specialities:

Visceral surgery: hepato-bilio-pancreatic , esophagus, colo-rectal, liver and biliary tract, pancreas, transplantation, MIC
Vascular Surgery: venous and arterial reconstruction, aortic aneurysm, hybrid technique
Patient Blood Management
Surgical ICU: multi organ failure, hepatic failure, trauma-management
Experimental: EPO and liver preservation (project granted by OB), improving liver conservation for hepatectomy, artificial oxygen carriers, ischemia and reperfusion
Teaching: improvement of education in surgery, POL seminaries for students, surgical lab, course teach the teachers

Prof. Erhard is a prolific author with over 80 original articles published, 30 reviews, 70 book chapters and monographs and 120 published abstracts.