Meet Conference Speakers

Penilla Gunther, President of the European Patient Safety Foundation, shares her insights with HealthManagement.org, explaining the importance of patient safety and its growing significance in healthcare. She also highlights the…

Prof. Reinhard Strametz holds the chair for patient safety at RheinMain University in Wiesbaden/Germany. Before that, he worked as an anesthesiologist at Frankfurt University Hospital and was Chief Quality Officer…

Andrea Rappagliosi is currently Senior Vice-President Public Affairs EMEA, Canada and LATAM at Edwards Lifesciences, after holding various international positions in the healthcare industry. In 2022, Andrea joined the European Patient Safety…

Introduction As representatives of the European Patient Safety Foundation, the authors wish to share with the wider patient safety community some current perspectives from across Europe. As the title suggests,…

Dr. Irene Grossmann works at the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), as assistant professor at the  Centre for Safety in Healthcare at the Delft University of Technology. She is co-founder and…

Dr. Nancy Redfern is a consultant Anaesthetist in the UK, with clinical interests in obstetric and neuroanaesthesia. She was appointed in 1987 and, as a training programme director for many years,…

Dr. Kristin Harris is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, and Associate Professor in the Department of Health and…

Fatigue is a risk for both healthcare professionals and patients. We need to act now and do what we can to protect healthcare workers -and beyond them, patients - from…

Committed to raising patient safety standards across healthcare, Dr Sven Staender discusses the complex challenges facing health systems when it comes to advocating a different approach to care. Patient safety is…

In light of the Patient Safety Conference taking place in Stockholm in October, Dr Michael Wagner, neonatologist, intensivist and researcher at the Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics of the Medical University of Vienna,…