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Programme

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND | 19-21 MAY 2023

The Summit will convene world leaders in cardiovascular health in the heart of global health diplomacy, just ahead of the 76th World Health Assembly.

Summit venue: Biotech Campus, Geneva

Saturday, 20 May
Sunday, 21 May

Speakers:

Daniel Piñeiro

President

World Heart Federation

Jean-Luc Eiselé

Chief Executive Officer

World Heart Federation

With a special intervention by:

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General

World Health Organization

Speakers:

Ivor Benjamin

Past President

American Heart Association

Junbo Ge

President

Chinese Cardiovascular Association

Dipti Itchhaporia

Past-President

American College of Cardiology

Monika Arora

President-Elect

NCD Alliance

Moderator:

Arianne Alcorta

Journalist

Speakers:

Speakers:

Khaled Abdel Ghaffar

Minister of Health and Population

Egypt

Marcos Espinal

Assistant Director

Pan American Health Organization

Ratu Atonio Rabici Lalabalavu

Minister of Health

Fiji

Maria Rosario Vergeire

Minister of Health

Philippines

Kwaku Agyemang-Manu

Minister of Health

Ghana

Jerome Walcott

Minister of Health and Wellness

Barbados

Christopher Tufton

Minister of Health and Wellness

Jamaica

Moderator:

Shiulie Ghosh

Health Journalist

Speakers:

Catherine Kanari

Universal Health Coverage Lead

Amref Health Africa

Shinsuke Muto

Chairman

Integrity Healthcare Co., Ltd.

Sheila Martins

President

World Stroke Organization

Daphne McCarthy

Country Medical Director

Moderna

Adriana Blanco Marquizo

Head of the Secretariat

WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Moderator:

Jacqui Thornton

Journalist

Speakers

Mathias Egermark

Senior Vice-President, Cardiometabolic Disease Area Network

Roche Diagnostics

Aistė Štaraitė

Heart Failure Development Executive

Global Heart Hub

Damien Gruson

Head of department of laboratory medicine

Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Belgium and IFCC division on emerging technologies

Moderator:

Arianne Alcorta

Journalist

Speakers

Fausto Pinto

Past President

World Heart Federation

Mariachiara Di Cesare

Director, Institute Of Public Health And Wellbeing

University of Essex

Kiril Karamfiloff

President-Elect

Bulgarian Society of Cardiology

Moderator

Jackie Thornton

Journalist

Speakers:

Njide Ndili

Country Director

PharmAccess Foundation

Dennis Ostwald

Chief Executive Officer

WifOr Institute

Axel Hofmann

Co-Founder and Board Member

International Foundation for Patient Blood Management 

Karl Arnberg

Director of Global Strategy & Access Policy

Novartis

Taskeen Khan

Medical Officer, NCD Management Unit

World Health Organization

Moderator:

Jacqui Thornton

Journalist

Speakers:

Gene Bukhman

Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Ana Mocumbi

Head, NCD Research Division

National Health Institute, Mozambique

Gabriela Ghisi

Scientist

KITE Research Institute, University Health Network

Al Voss

Director & Treasurer

The Mended Hearts, Inc.

Moderator:

Arianne Alcorta

Journalist

Speakers:

Melvine Anyango Otieno

Founder

Planetary Health Eastern Africa

Helena Legido-Quigley

Associate Professor

NUS Saw See Hock School of Public Health

Robert Hatala

Chief Consultant for Cardiology

Ministry of Health of Slovakia

Slim Slama

Unit Head of NCD Managemen

World Health Organization

Nina Renshaw

Head of Health

Clean Air Fund

Moderator:

Shiulie Ghosh

Journalist

Speakers:

Bill Weeks

Director, AI Health

Microsoft

Rifat Atun

Professor Of Global Health Systems And Director

Harvard University

Moderator:

Ann Aerts

Head

Novartis Foundation

Speaker:

Carla Vizzotti

Minister of Health

Argentina

Speakers:

Danielle Belardo

Cardiologist & Health Advocate

American Society for Preventive Cardiology

Teresa Carey

Science Journalist and Podcaster

Fierce Life Sciences

Myriam Vidal Valero

Science, Health and Environmental Journalist

Nature

Moderator:

Borjana Pervan

Director of Strategy and Communications

World Heart Federation

Speakers:

Kenneth Fleming

Chair

Lancet Commission on Diagnostics

Bill Rodriguez

Chief Executive Officer

FIND

Joanna Sickler

Vice-President, Health Policy & External Affairs

Roche

Juuso Blomster

CEO & Founder

CardioSignal

Moderator:

Jacqui Thornton

Journalist

Speakers:

Jennifer Goldsack

Chief Executive Officer

Digital Medicine Society

Waqaas Al-Siddiq

Chairman, CEO & Founder

Biotricity

Alison Johnson

Senior Vice-President, Customer Success and Projects

ORCHA

David Luu

Cardiac Surgeon & Founder, CEO

The Heart Fund

Rangarajan Ranga Sampath

Senior Vice President and Head

Siemens Healthineers

Moderator:

Shiulie Ghosh

Journalist

Join us during the lunch break for a 20-minute, heart-shaped walk through some key Geneva landmarks, including Lake Geneva, the Botanical Garden, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other UN buildings. Meet us at the main entrance of the Biotech Campus at 13:30.

Speakers:

Eileen Handberg

Professor of Medicine

Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association

Charles Kamotho

Founder & CEO

Daktari Africa, Kenya

Mohamed Eissa

Liaison Officer for Public Health Issues

International Federation of Medical Students' Associations

Christophe Huber

Head, Division of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery

Geneva University Hospitals

Moderator:

Jacqui Thornton

Journalist

Speakers:

Agamroop Kaur

Youth Health Advocate

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Jodi Smith

Director of Programs

The Mended Hearts, Inc.

Ashley Lashley

Executive Director

The Ashley Lashley Foundation

Aiste Staraite

President

Lithuanian Heart Failure Association

Moderator:

Arianne Alcorta

Journalist