A sixth cohort of health leaders selected for the Sciana Network

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network announces the 18 new Fellows selected to join its sixth cohort.

The Fellows actively contribute to at least one of the health and care systems in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK and are dedicated to the joint exploration and collective problem-solving of future challenges for health and wellbeing. 

This cohort’s theme is systems leadership for new forms of health, care and wellbeing. Cohort 6 will have its first residential meeting at Schloss Leopoldskron in May 2024.  

In addition to getting to know one another at this meeting, Fellows will focus on systems leadership and learning about the health systems across each country. During four residential meetings over two years, they will continue to explore personal leadership goals as a cohort and learn from one another on how to shape new forms of health, care, and wellbeing. 

Fellows will also be introduced to an applied leadership project, the Sciana Challenge, and Cohort 5 Fellows. They will work alongside Cohort 6 programme co-leads Sir David Behan and Mary Helen Pombo. 

Established in April 2017, the Sciana Network is supported by an international partnership between the Health Foundation (UK), Careum (Switzerland) and the Robert Bosch Campus (Germany) in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar.  

Sciana Network cohort 6 Fellows:  

• Dominique Allwood, Chief Medical Officer, UCL Partners Chief, and Director of Population Health, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, United Kingdom 
• Stefanie Becker, Director, Alzheimer Switzerland, Switzerland 
• Urs Brügger, Independent Consultant in Health and Education, Methodix AG, Switzerland 
• Lars Clarfeld, Secretary General, Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine, Switzerland 
• Freia De Bock, Professor, Department Head, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany 
• Sarah Holloway, Programme Director, King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, United Kingdom 
• Sang-Il Kim, Professor of Medical Informatics, Bern University of Applied Science, Switzerland 
• Sonja Kahlmeier, Head of the Department of Health and Head of Health Research, Swiss Distance-Learning University of Applied Science, Switzerland 
• Nick Kirby, Managing Director, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, United Kingdom 
• Katharina Kappelhoff, CEO, Gesundheitsnetzwerk PORT Willingen-Diemelsee, Germany 
• Valerie Kirchberger, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Heartbeat Medical, Germany 
• Maxine Mackintosh, Lead, Genomics England, United Kingdom 
• Dimitra Panteli, Programme Manager, Lead on Innovation - European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Belgium 
• Marek Rydzewski, Chief Digital Officer, Barmer, Germany 
• Karin Strube, Managing Director, Strube Stiftung GmbH, Germany 
• John Thomson, National Associate Clinical Director, NHS Scotland Centre for Sustainable Delivery, United Kingdom 
• Mark Tuckett, Executive Director, Strategy & Planning, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom 
• Mirjam Weber, Member of the Executive Board, Swiss Cancer League, Switzerland 

Read Sciana Network cohort 6 Fellow biographies: 
https://www.sciananetwork.org/fellows#Cohort+6 

Read Sciana Network cohort 5 Fellow biographies: 
https://www.sciananetwork.org/about/sciana-cohort-5  

Read Sciana Network cohort 4 Fellow biographies:  
https://www.sciananetwork.org/about/sciana-cohort-4  

Read Sciana Network cohort 3 Fellow biographies:  
https://www.sciananetwork.org/about/sciana-cohort-3  

Read Sciana network cohort 2 Fellow biographies:  
https://www.sciananetwork.org/about/sciana-cohort-2  

Read Sciana network cohort 1 Fellow biographies:  
https://www.sciananetwork.org/about/sciana-cohort-1  

For more information, visit Sciana: The Health Leaders Network