About the Speaker:
Sophie Beaupère
CEO
Unicancer, France

Chief Executive Officer of Unicancer since 2020, Sophie Beaupère is a Hospital Director with a Master in public management and advanced studies in Public Health. She is also Deputy Director General of Center Léon Bérard since 2015.

Maintaining essential health services during COVID-19

About the Speaker:
Dr. Xènia Acebes
Medical Affairs Director
Servei Català de la Salut, Spain

Xènia Acebes is an Opthalmologist and Computer Engineer. She obtained her PhD in 2011 and graduated in ESADE Budó es school in 2015 when she took an MBA.

She has experience in hospital management (operations field) and now her responsibilities are focused in strategic, administrative and operational issues and actions aimed at designing cafè models, guaranteeing service providing, and prioritization of the purchase of health services.

Agility and innovation to drive response to COVID-19

About the Speaker:
Prof. Marc Noppen
CEO
University Hospital UZ Brussel, Belgium

MD Internist/Pulmonologist by training, holds PhD in Health Sciences (Vrije Univ Brussel, 1996), a degree in Pharmacoeconomics (Univ Antwerp, 2000), Health Management certificates Vlerick Business School and INSEAD, IDP-C14 graduate in governance @INSEAD 2016. Associate professor @ VUB and Vlerick Business School. Serves as CEO of the UZ Brussel University Hospital since 2006. Board member of several non-profit organisations.

Hospitals in the new normal: how will they look like?

Taking place on March 8th, 2021, International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, whilst marking a call to action for the acceleration of gender parity. With its established Women Executives’ Forum, celebrating IWD 2021 presents an important opportunity for the International Hospital Federation to engage with its global community on issues around gender equality in healthcare leadership.
 
This year’s theme of IWD is ‘choose to challenge’. In this podcast, Deborah Bowen and Samantha Allen share some of the challenges that they have faced in becoming senior leaders and discussed how they overcome them.

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