Pharma in Healthcare

Martin leads the team responsible for supporting Janssen operating companies in achieving and maintaining patient access to the company‘s portfolio of innovative products across Europe, Middle East and Africa, a role which he has held for the past six years. Prior to this, he was Director of External Affairs at Janssen UK, where we led a number of functions, including Health Technology Assessment, Market Access, Health Policy, Government Affairs and Communications. During this time, Martin also spent six years as an industry representative of NICE’s Apprasial Committee, which makes recommendations on the availability of medicines in England and Wales. Martin joined Janssen from GlaxoSmithKline, where he worked in the Global Health Outcomes team on products in respiratory and infectious diseases. During his twenty four years in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Martin has gained extensive experience of working with Healthcare Decision-Makers and HTA agencies and was responsible for introducing the first NICE approved patient access scheme into the UK. This innovative risk-sharing arrangement secured a positive NICE decision and national funding for a new oncology medicine. Martin originally qualified as a Clinical Pharmacist working in a busy general hospital, before returning to Academia where he completed a PhD in Health Outcomes Research, whilst continuing to work as a Community Pharmacist.

Clinical Pharmacist graduated from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. Worked at IABH Dammam National Guard 2010-2012. Experienced Performance Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital and healthcare industry. Skilled in Management and Public Speaking. Strong Human Resources professional with advanced skills in conflict resolution. Peace studies and Conflict resolution from George Mason University.

Vignesh is the India Lead for Drones and Tomorrow’s Airspace at the World Economic Forum’s Future of Mobility Platform and has actively been involved in implementing drones in healthcare logistics through the ‘Medicine from the Sky’ initiative. He was the President (2017-2019) and Founding Member of the Drone Federation of India – the voice of India’s UAV industry that focuses on industry advocacy, governance, and policy. In 2018, as part of the DFI, he commissioned the ‘Drone Festival of India’, the biggest commercial UAV conference in the region. Alongside this, he headed Marketing and Digital Initiatives for Quidich Innovation Labs, one of India’s leading UAV companies, based in Mumbai. Prior to UAS, Vignesh was an Information Security Business Analyst with Wipro Technologies where he spent close to three years in Warsaw and Singapore working on BFSI projects prior to pursuing his Management Studies. Post-MBA, he worked with AP Moller-Maersk where he managed B2B initiatives in North Africa, Middle East, and the United States.

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Amal Masalmeh, MSc in Health Care Management from Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Is currently working as a Clinical Operations Lead and Vendor Center of Excellence Manager for Gulf at Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Amal joined Novartis Pharma in Dubai, UAE in 2011 where her experiences established in building investigator networks and managing interventional and non-interventional clinical trials. Amal successfully achieving the improvement of the clinical research portfolio in terms of site diversity, clinical study management and audit outcomes. On top improving outcomes and oversight on clinical operation processes and vendors selection/approval across the Gulf.

Dr. Lina Reaide, is a PharmD currently practicing as a licensed Clinical Pharmacist in Clemenceau Medical Center, DHCC. Prior to joining CMC Dubai, she spent over 2 years at Clemenceau Medical Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins in Beirut before transferring to their new Dubai Branch last year. She obtained her B.S. in Pharmacy from the Lebanese American University in Lebanon and acquired her PharmD at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas.

In his current role Bart leads the Janssen Campus in The Netherlands. As Campus Lead he ensures internal strategic alignment on shared opportunities and interests. As the external face of the Janssen The Netherlands Campus, he represents the Janssen Campus towards internal and external stakeholders to strengthen the position and contribution of the Janssen companies in The Netherlands and establish Janssen as trusted partner and as the preferred Company in Dutch Life Sciences & Health. In addition, Bart is Chairman of the Leiden Bio Science Park Foundation, Member of the Executive Board of the Economic Board Zuid Holland and member of the Advisory Board of HealthHolland. Bart joined Janssen-Cilag The Netherlands in 1988 as a sales representative. Bart became Director Sales and Marketing for Janssen-Cilag The Netherlands in 2000 and Vice-President Sales & Marketing for Janssen-Cilag EMEA in 2003. From 2005 till 2018, Bart has been in Managing Director roles with responsibility for Janssen Switzerland (2005-2009), Janssen Benelux (2009-2012), Crucell (2012-2014) and Janssen Mid-sized markets (2014-2018). In that role Bart was responsible for the commercial activities of Janssen in the Benelux, Nordics, Baltics, Central- & Eastern Europe, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Israel. From end-2018 till end-2020, Bart was VP Strategic Alliances EMEA & Janssen The Netherlands Campus Lead establishing a strong Janssen Campus in the Netherlands and successful exporting the Benelux Strategic Alliances concept to other countries in EMEA. Bart holds a PhD in genetics from the State University of Leiden.