Dr. Torsten Böhler studied Biology at the University Konstanz, Germany. From 1996 to 2008, he conducted investigator initiated studies at Charité Hospital Berlin and at the University Hospital in Toulouse and worked as a visiting scientist at Stanford University (USA) and as a postdoc researcher at INSERM (France). He was awarded for his clinical research by the American Transplant Society and by the European Society of Organ Transplantation.
From 2008 on, Torsten joined the medical device industry and organized at R&D Gambro clinical investigations with a new generation of dialyzers (Class IIb medical devices) in patients with chronic kidney disease. From 2013-2017 he successfully continued this work with Baxter as a global acting clinical project manager leading interdisciplinary study teams, facilitating CE registration/ launch of the new developed Theranova – dialyzer.
Since January 2017 Torsten is Head of Clinical Affairs at Straub Medical AG, a Swiss manufacturer of endovascular medical devices (Class III). In this position Torsten is responsible for all clinical data collections to support regulatory affairs, R&D and reimbursement activities.
Metissia has 9+ years of experience within the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry (including the following roles: Medical Information, Quality assurance and Regulatory affairs)
She worked for Philips Imaging guided therapy businesses in Netherlands/Belgium and Arkray Europe B.V (current position).
Dr. Miguel Hernandez is a general physician with postgraduate studies in the field of clinical and medical Bioethics. He has been involved in the area of clinical research mainly focused on Medical Devices over the past 12 years, where he has been responsible for pre-market safety reporting and post-market surveillance across Europe, U.S.A., Canada and Japan. His main area of therapeutical expertise include orthopedics, interventional cardiology, CNS, dermatology, rheumatology and women’s health.
He has worked in diverse roles across the industry, including medical device companies and CROs, in roles such as Safety Officer and Medical Management, Clinical Research Physician, Medical Device Safety Manager, Head of Materiovigilance, and is currently working as Medical Device and Safety Surveillance Lead for UCB, where is heavily involved in the transition from the Directive 2007/47/EC to the MDR (2017/745) in order to meet regulatory compliance.
Stephan Theinert holds a Ph.D. of the Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Germany in immunology since 2007. He studied biology at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany with an emphasis on microbiology, genetic and biochemistry. In 2006 he joined the PAREXEL GmbH in Berlin, Germany as a project manager clinical phase I. In 2008 he joined the Momentum Pharma Services GmbH in Hamburg, Germany as a manager business development. In 2009 he became director business development. Since end of 2009 he, as Head Clinical Affairs, was mainly responsible for the clinical studies incl. parts of regulatory and medical affairs. In 2018 he become Head of the newly established department Clinical Development.
Paul Swinckels is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at LifeSense Group who has more than 20 years of experience in Electronic devices and since 2017 in the wearable medical devices technology.
Paul knows how to bring added value to the customers and bring the needs into the right solution for the end user. Paul worked for 17 years in the high-end technology segment at GE in Western Europe which was acquired in by United Technologies later. With the experience of and partnering with private and government hospitals, clinics, Doctors and multi nationals, he provides the right solution for the real needs of the patients.
Russell is a passionate packaging professional with a well-developed expertise in polymers and sustainable packaging options. He strives to find the very best, holistic, packaging solutions which meet all of the key environmental criteria, guided by data and science rather than perception or misperception!
Russell is a chemist by education, completing a Degree and PhD in Polymer Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. During that period, he spent time developing the Polyurethane recycling process at Dow Chemicals in the Netherlands and progressing research in polymer characterisation at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has since completed a Masters in Advanced Food Manufacture at Nottingham.
After 20 years in the Chocolate & Biscuits business with United Biscuits and then pladis, Russell joined Britvic in November last year, where he has been leading the Packaging Technologies agenda and is now focusing on driving the Britvic Packaging Sustainability Strategy.
Born in Sweden 1962. Finished my studies with a Bachelor in Business and administration. I started to work for IKEA in 1992 in the local Italian purchasing organization. Moved to Sweden in 2000 to the product development and supply chain headquarter of IKEA situated in the small town of Älmhult. Working first with global strategic purchasing and later with product development projects. Since 2008 working with Sustainability, the first years with product related questions and communication and since September 2014 with Resource and Waste management and Circular IKEA for Ingka Group
Joachim Quoden has extensive experience in packaging waste management, dating from 1992 when he spent 4 months in the German Federal Ministry of Environment working on packaging issues including the Packaging Ordinance and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
From 1993 to 2006, Mr Quoden worked with Der Grüne Punkt as Syndicus, and head of International Affairs in 2001. Between 2001 and 2013, he also became Secretary General and later Managing Director of PRO EUROPE, an umbrella organisation of 35 PROs.
Since 2013, Mr Quoden has been the Managing Director of EXPRA, an alliance of 34 non-profit and industry owned PRO’s from 31 countries from all over the world.
Besides the above, Mr Quoden is working since 1995 as independent lawyer in Germany specializing in international EPR legislation, chairperson of ISWA’s EU group, and has served as an expert in ISO global standardisation project SIS/TK 165/AG 10 Packaging and Environment, chair/co-chair of ISWA’s Governance WG and EU Group, member of the OECD EPR expert group and several other value chain initiatives like CEFLEX, HolyGrail 2.0, Close the Glass Loop and 4EverGreen.
