List of Activities

Launch Event

ESMT European School of Management and Technology was founded in 2002 to establish an international business school, based in Germany, with a distinct European focus. ESMT offers excellence and innovation through rigorous academic research, teaching and consulting—with a practice-oriented approach to business education.

Wednesday 11 May 2011
12:15 - 13:00 Buffet lunch
13:00 - 17:00 Meeting
17:00 - 18:00 Cocktail Reception

Speakers

Prof. Liselotte Højgaard
MED (formerly EMRC) Chair / Director, Professor, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen and Danish Technical University, DENMARK

Prof. Stig Slørdahl
MED (formerly EMRC) Core Group / Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY

Sir Iain Chalmers
Editor, The James Lind Library, UK

Dr Ruxandra Draghia-Akli
Director, Health Directorate, DG Research, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Dr Trish Groves
Deputy Editor, The British Medical Journal (BMJ), UK

Prof. Annette Grüters-Kieslich
Dean, Charité Berlin, GERMANY

Prof. Günter Ollenschläger
Head, The German Agency for Quality in Medicine, GERMANY



Consensus Conference

Thursday 14 October 2010

The consensus conference was held at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The Forward Look report was then drafted, circulated, revised and improved by all people involved. Following peer review it was electronically approved by the MED (formerly EMRC) Standing Committee and subsequently approved by the ESF Chief Executive, Professor Marja Makarow. A launch event to celebrate the publication of the report will take place in Berlin on 11 May 2011 at the ESMT European School of Management and Technology coinciding with the OECD Global Science Forum, 'Facilitate cooperation in International Non-Commercial Clinical Trials' also taking place in Berlin.

The Forward Look report makes recommendations on how to strengthen medical research and how to implement medical research in clinical practice on the basis of evidence-based medicine. It aims to support the move towards more widespread use of evidence-based medicine to obtain better patient diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.

For the programme and list of participants - click here.



Strategic Workshops

Three strategic workshops were held in parallel on Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 May 2010 at:

NH Frankfurt Rhein-Main
Kelsterbacher Strasse, 19-21
65479 Raunheim
Frankfurt
Germany

Workshop 1 - Production and Dissemination
'How is medical research data produced, published and further disseminated?'
Researchers, meta-analysts, cochrane and editors
Chair:  Sir Iain Chalmers, Editor, The James Lind Library

Workshop 2 - Analysis and Translation
'How is medical research data analysed and translated into guidelines?'
Health Technology Assessment (HTA), NICE, national boards of health, national medicines agencies, ministries, WHO
Chair: Professor Peter Littlejohns, Clinical and Public Health Director, NICE

Workshop 3 - Implementation
'How is medical research data implemented into clinical practice?'
Hospital owners, hospital managers and CEOs, care managers, clinical chairs
Chair: Prof. Dr. Annette Grüters-Kieslich, Dean, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin. 

Three workshops took place in Frankfurt as above but as the MED (formerly EMRC) plenary meeting in Berlin was perturbed by the volcanic ash cloud a few weeks earlier, this Forward Look workshop organisation was similarly affected. Workshops went ahead as planned in Frankfurt and, given the closing of many UK airports, one additional workshop attended by most of the UK participants took place in London at the generous invitation of NICE UK. In spite of this issue, the workshops were very successful and productive and they resulted in high-quality reports. Over the summer these reports were aligned and integrated into a single preliminary report highlighting the major issues in this area and proposing important recommendations for the implementation of medical research in clinical practice. These recommendations will be further debated during the consensus conference that will take place on 14 October 2010 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. More than 50 international experts accepted the invitation to attend and the programme and list of participants can be found here.