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Source: Qatar Daily Star

Doha, Qatar: THE World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a tellurian beginning by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), has announced that a second limit will take place on 17 – 18 Feb 2015 in Doha, Qatar.

WISH inspires and diffuses medical origination and best use by a tellurian network of high-level policymakers, academics and attention leaders. It stays closely aligned to a prophesy of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation.

In credentials for a 2015 Summit, WISH announced a origination of 6 new investigate forums that aim to residence some of a many severe tellurian health issues of a time. Chaired by internationally eminent experts, a forums will furnish interdisciplinary, evidence-based reports on topics including Communicating Complex Health Messages, Delivering Affordable Cancer Care, Dementia, Diabetes, Patient Safety, and Wellbeing in Children and Young People.

Engineer Saad Al Muhannadi, President of Qatar Foundation, said: “Qatar Foundation is unapproachable to have determined a World Innovation Summit for Health, that aims to safeguard impactful outcomes in medical origination in Qatar, regionally, and globally.

“The initial limit in 2013 determined a energetic horizon for formulating a tellurian village of medical leaders to find innovative solutions to a many critical tellurian health challenges. Building on this well-developed success, evidenced by a peculiarity and change of a published reports, a smoothness of extended medical around a universe is pushing a wheels of origination ever further. The general partnership of a WISH stakeholders will certainly grasp tolerable and discernible improvements to tellurian medical policies and systems.”

Professor The Lord Darzi of Denham, Executive Chair of WISH and Director of a Institute of Global Health Innovation during Imperial College of London, added: “Innovation is a answer to achieving improved health for all of us, and a fasten to creation this a existence during WISH 2013 was moving to witness. We need to know what drives a doing of origination via tellurian health systems, so WISH will continue to grow in ambition, impact and strech over a entrance years.”

The initial WISH summit, that took place in Dec 2013, brought together some-more than 1,000 representatives from 67 countries to plead and discuss practical, durability and innovative solutions to tellurian medical challenges.

Egbert Schillings, WISH’s recently-appointed Chief Executive Officer, said: “I am fasten WISH during an sparkling time, as it evolves into a heading change within a tellurian medical complement – not usually by a Summit, though with action-driven communities that guarantee to accelerate a origination cycle. In a entrance months, we will be operative tough to build on a success of final year’s Summit by building a tellurian village of innovators and ancillary investigate into a many obligatory medical challenges.”

Prior to fasten WISH, Mr Schillings was Senior Vice President of Client Service for McKinsey’s Leading Systems Network, convening general health systems for common opening improvement. Prior to this, he served as Managing Director during Kaiser Permanente, a United States’ largest medical upkeep organisation.

For serve information about WISH, greatfully revisit www.wish-qatar.org and Twitter @WISH_Qatar

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) is a tellurian beginning by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF). The initial WISH Summit took place in Doha in 2013 and hosted some-more than 1,000 tellurian medical leaders. Through annual Summits and an desirous operation of ongoing initiatives, WISH is formulating a tellurian village of heading innovators in medical policy, investigate and industry.

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