Speakers
Guest of honour
Ewa Kopacz
Ewa Kopacz is Minister of Health in Poland and is a Polish politician, pediatrician and general practitioner. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical Academy in Lublin, Poland and obtained a first degree specialization in pediatrics and a second degree specialization in family health care.
Paweł Wojtunik
Pavel Wojtunik is Head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau in Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Białystok University in Poland. In 1992, he joined the police force where he worked for the department of Combating Organized Crime at the Police Headquarters in Warsaw. From 1996 he participated in the establishment of the Central Investigation Bureau. In 2007, he was seconded to the Polish Embassy in the United Kingdom and served in Scotland Yard. In 2009 he was appointed to his present position by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Mariusz Kujawski
Mariusz Kujawski is the Deputy Head of the Department of Analysis of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau. In his speech, he will present the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, the main areas of its activity as well as new tasks resulting from the alteration of the act on refunded drugs. He will also provide some information on the preventive and educational activity of the CBA.
Moderator
Karolina Zbytniewska
Karolina is Managing Director at EurActiv.pl, the leading EU affairs portal in Poland, which belongs to the pan-European network of 15 EurActiv websites published in 15 European languages. Before this Karolina worked as a journalist at different newspapers and internet portals specialising in EU affairs – in “European Union Observer” monthly, Visegrad.info, Cafebabel.com, “New Books” monthly, and on EurActiv.com and EurActiv.pl.
Speakers
Paul Vincke, President of EHFCN
Paul Vincke is a Director of Staff - General Management - Service of Medical Evaluation and Control (SECM) at the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (RIZIV/INAMI), Belgium
After spending 14 years as Financial and Personnel Director of the National Pension Fund for Miners, Paul joined the Service of Medical Evaluation and Control in the RIZIV/INAMI in 1999, where he became Director of Staff responsible for personnel, logistics and general policy. Paul Vincke has been involved with EHFCN since 2005 and held the posts of Treasurer and Deputy Director-General. He was appointed President at the EHFCN General Assembly in Warsaw in 2007.
Jozef Pacolet
Jozef Pacolet is associate professor at the University of Leuven (Belgium) where he leads the Research Group Welfare State and Housing at the Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA). His research interests lie in social security and the welfare state and its relationship to the economy, with emphasis on retirement issues, health and economic aspects of welfare.
Miroslava Boryczka
Miroslava is a member of the Management Board of the Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), responsible for managing the finances of ZUS, FUS and FR, including liquidity of funds and asset investment. She is also responsible for the collection and registration of contributions for social insurance.
Dave White
Dave White joined the then Department of Health and Social Security in his home town of Middlesbrough after leaving school and has gathered more than 40 years of management experience. He has had responsibility for a wide range of jobs including benefit processing, project management and customer service. He was appointed to the Senior Civil Service in 2005 and became Head of the Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) where he planned for its launch as a criminal investigation organisation in April 2006.
Miranda Vermeulen
Miranda is working as a Manager of International Affairs within the Fraud Department of the Institute of Employees Benefits (UWV) in the Netherlands. She has worked for ten years at the international affairs division at the Dutch Ministry of Transport. In 2000 she made a switch to the social security field. At UWV – the institute in the Netherlands responsible for all unemployment, sickness and disability benefits - she got acquainted with the legal aspects related to the free movement of persons.
Ulrich Laaser
Ulrich Laaser is Head of the Section of International Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is the principal investigator of the Stability Pact Project on Public Health Training and Research in South Eastern Europe (2000-2010). He is a visiting professor at the School of Public Health in Belgrade, and a honorary professor in Sofia and Tirana. In addition he is a member of the executive boards of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (of which he has been president since May 2010) and of the German Association for Health Sciences and Public Health. He has been involved in the Committee of Experts on good governance principles in health systems of the Council of Europe.
Stanislawa Golinowska
Stanisława Golinowska is a Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, where she is Director of the Institute of Public Health and teaches the economics of healthcare, general social policy and social insurance. Stanisława has been the initiator and the coordinator of reforming debates on fields such as healthcare, pension system, labour market, combating poverty, and the development of non-profit organisations and social dialog. She has developed large-scale comparative studies and has participated in several international research projects.
Thomas Bade
Thomas Bade is a Business Administration graduate from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has more than 25 years of professional expertise in the German and European healthcare and in the different competitive, socio-legal and scientific requirements of the healthcare industry. He designed an Internet-based Ambulatory Care Management Network for orthopaedic and rehabilitation equipment (Prosthetics, Orthotics, Technical Aids) and home healthcare services, the first service of this kind in Germany.
Didier Verbeke
Didier Verbeke is Counsellor General at the Federal Public Service (FPS) Social Security, General Direction Research, Strategy and International Relations. He is in charge of the coordination of the service “undeclared work” and offers policy advice as a senior expert. His main responsibilities lie in enhancing cooperation between EU Member States in the field of fraud and error, the management of academic research projects and field studies concerning undeclared work and underground economy, as well as acting as project manager for EU funded projects.
Paul Garassus
Paul GARASSUS, MD is President of the Scientific Council of BAQIMEHP (Bureau de l'Assurance Qualité et de l'Information Médico-Economique de l'Hospitalisation Privée – Bureau of Quality Assurance and Medico-Economic Information of Private Hospitals). BAQIMEHP is a structure of professional education and analysis for the private sector of French hospitalisation concerning more specifically Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), quality in healthcare and cost studies for inpatients.
Susanne Weinbrenner
Susanne Weinbrenner is Scientific Director and Deputy Executive at the Agency for Quality in Medicine (AQuMed) and a senior research scientist and anaesthesiologist. She is the Head of the department for guideline development and evidence based medicine. Before that she worked at the department of healthcare management of the Technische Universität Berlin (Prof. R. Busse) until October 2006.
Roy Poses
Roy Poses received undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University. He currently is a Clinical Associate Professor at Brown University. Dr. Poses became an enthusiastic proponent of evidence-based medicine. His research focused on how physicians make judgments and decisions, and why they often do not make them according to the precepts of evidence-based medicine. Dr Poses is now President of FIRM - the Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine, a NGO designed to raise awareness of these issues, and to promote accountability, integrity, and transparency in the leadership and governance of health care.
Margaret Worsfold
Maggie has been involved in NHS Scotland Counter Fraud Services (CFS) since its inception in June 2000, when she developed the systems and processes for the national patient exemption checking system which is delivered annually by the Patient Claims Team. In 2009, Maggie was elected to the Executive Committee of EHFCN where her enthusiasm and commitment have proved beneficial to the work of the Committee and the promotion of EHFCN.
Tony Ellis
Tony Ellis is an acknowledged champion of the need for councils to improve the quality of their customer information. During his public sector career, Tony has been responsible for the building and implementation of two council wide master customer databases. At the London Borough of Brent he implemented IBM's Initiate Master Data Service to build a master customer database (Client Index). The Client Index was used to improve customer service and to enable joined up service provision; it played a key role in the detection and prevention of fraud. In June 2011 Tony joined IBM's Information Agenda team which is dedicated to helping the public sector make greater use of its information assets.
Dariusz Śpiewak
Dariusz Śpiewak is a Member of the Management Board of the Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), supervising the Division of Systems Operations and Exploitation and Information Security. He graduated in Banking and Finance, Computer Science and Econometrics at the University of Economics in Krakow, Poland. He then completed his postgraduate studies in IT management at the Institute of Applied Computer Science and Control Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. Additionally he holds various certificates in project management methodologies and enterprise architecture building.
Marek Ujejski
Marek Ujejski is Deputy Director of the Information Technology (IT) Department at the National Health Fund (NFZ) in Poland where he is responsible for planning IT investments, project management and IT infrastructure. Throughout his career he has gained vast experience, having worked as manager for 12 years in the banking sector within which he worked on the largest IT project in Poland's first implementation of centralized banking solutions. He also led the implementation of the first VISA Electronic Card in Poland, a unique project of IT system outsourcing in Card and Cheque Centre.
Georg Florian Grabenweger
Graduated as Master of Law (Mag. iur.) at the University of Vienna in 2003.Commissioned officer in the Austrian Armed Forces with various assignments since 1995; i.a. staff officer with NATO/KFOR in Kosovo from 2004 to 2005. In 2005, he transferred to the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior; since 2006 Deputy and from 2008 to 2010 Head of the prevention and international relations branches of the Austrian anti-corruption authority (Federal Bureau of Internal Affairs (BIA)); from 2005 to 2010 in addition executive secretary of the European Partners Against Corruption (EPAC) network. In 2008 and 2009 project leader of the 2nd and 3rd International Anti-Corruption Summer Schools; in 2011 of the 1st International Anti-Corruption Summer Academy at IACA. Since August 2010 assigned to the International Transition Team of IACA, serving as Policy Advisor since August 2011.
Andrew Pease
Andrew is Global Practice Analytics Lead for SAS: the market leader for analytics solutions. He is passionate about getting the most out of data analysis for combating fraud. Organizations realize that fraudsters don't leave their tracks in silos. Data from both internal (eg: databases) and external (eg: websites and social media) sources need to be intelligently combined and filtered to find high-risk cases. Andrew helps these organizations to understand and use powerful analytic techniques such as predictive modelling, clustering, text mining, and network analysis to intelligently filter cases which have a higher chance to lead to fraud detection.
Kamil Kondracki
Kamil Kondracki is a graduate of Warsaw University and Warsaw School of Life Sciences, where he acquired Masters degree in Economics and Bachelors degree in Sociology. He attended courses in techniques and methodology of internal control, financial auditing and accountancy and took MBA courses in healthcare programme, organized by Lazarski University.
Ross Kaplan
Ross Kaplan serves as Solutions Architect for Health Care Fraud at SAS, in the Fraud and Financial Crimes global practice. He supports health care fraud initiatives across the Health & Life Sciences, State and Local Government, and Federal Government verticals. Ross has been at SAS for over four years
Gabriel Bacq
Gabriel Back graduated in Political Sciences at IEP Paris and holds a PhD in Business / International Law from La Sorbonne University, Paris, France. He is currently Deputy Director at CNAMTS (Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés), the French Health Insurance Fund for Salaried Employees. In this capacity he is also CNAMTS' International Relations Manager, and represents the counter fraud directorate abroad.
Hans Nagels
Hans Nagels graduated in economical sciences at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels and completed his studies in technical orthopaedics (mobility aids, bandager, orthesis and prosthesis) at Brucemo, Brussels. For 11 years he was an independent care provider and teacher at Brucemo. In 2006 he joined the Service of Medical Evaluation and Control (DGEC-SECM) of the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (RIZIV-INAMI), Belgium.