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Transformation of healthcare delivery...challenges and opportunities for medical technologies

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  • Wednesday, 29 April 2015
  • 10:29 - 10:29
  • Duration: 30 mins
  • Publication date: 22 Nov 2018
  • Location: NA, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2015

About the session

John Jeans CBE Advisor to the Prime Minister at Office of Life Sciences (OLS)

10.10am - Wednesday 29th April 2015

The MTI Expo has established itself as the leading platform for raising the profile of companies in the MedTech sector- from service providers, component manufacturers, through all the links of the supply chain to OEM suppliers and distributors

Integral to the Expo, Medilink UK in partnership with MTI, will be delivering and hosting the leading 2-day national MedTech conference, 'The UK MedTech Innovation Conference 2015'

Aimed at key company leaders and decision makers, the conference will cover the critical issues relating to both strategic direction of the MedTech sector as well as important topics affecting the operational activities of companies.

Keywords:
  • John Jeans
  • Medilink UK
  • NHS
  • Office of Life Sciences
  • Ricoh Arena
  • SBRI Healthcare
  • healthcare delivery

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  • John Jeans

    John Jeans

    KTN Health Technology and Innovation Board, Advisor to the Prime Minister at Office of Life Sciences

    John is Chairman of the Council of Cardiff University and Imanova (an imaging research partnership between three London Universities and the MRC). In addition he chairs the Board of UK Biocentre Ltd, is a non-executive Director of Renishaw plc and a Board member of the University and College Employers Association. An advisor to public sector organizations, he was appointed by the Prime Minister in 2014 as a Life Science Champion for the medical technology sector. John leads Innovate UK’s Stratified Medicine advisory Board and the KTN’s Health Board. He is also Chair of the Strategic Advisory Panel for the Singapore Government’s Diagnostics Hub. He has served on many Government bodies including Co-Chairmanship of a Ministerial Committee on Medical Technologies, was an inaugural member of the Science Advisory Council for Wales and a founder Trustee of the Francis Crick Institute. John was previously the Deputy Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, a member of its Audit and Risk Committee and Chaired the Trustee Board of MRC Technology. In an industrial career spanning 35 years he held senior international leadership positions in global companies including Smith & Nephew, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and Amersham plc (now GE Healthcare). John headed the commercial function of GE’s Life Science business and was the Chairman of its UK Healthcare Company. His domain experience ranges from medical devices and therapeutic pharmaceuticals to in-vivo and in-vitro diagnostics; encompassing research, product development, manufacturing and commercialization. John is engaged with local and national charities including the Abbeyfield Beaconsfield Society, Thames Valley Enterprise, Young Enterprise, and the Clare Foundation. He was awarded the CBE for services to Life Sciences, Healthcare and Science in 2012.
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