CEO of M-Change s.r.o. and as a senior project manager at HealthHub - Centre for Innovative Healthcare. She specializes in the preparation and coordination of national and international projects funded from various sources and the comprehensive implementation of these projects. Her focus is primarily on the areas of digitalization, applied research, clinical trials, and investment projects. Currently, she leads a dynamically developing company with an international reach. She participates in the preparation of strategic documents for VAIA in the working group of the Healthy Society domain. She is involved in the transformation of healthcare, processes for improving the quality and economy of healthcare, and activities in patient safety.…

Mirka Cikkelova is the General Secretary of the European Patient Safety Foundation (EUPSF), an independent public interest foundation, based in Brussels (Belgium). She graduated in economics and, as an experienced project manager, she coordinates the EUPSF's efforts in uniting experts and leading organisations to drive patient safety forward across Europe. By involving stakeholders such as patient organisations and advocates, healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, academia and life science companies, she ensures that the EUPSF’s work is comprehensive and inclusive. Her large network and ability to bring together complementary points of view facilitates the development of the solutions tailored to the complexity of patient safety…

Zuzana Katreniaková, M.D., PhD has more than 20 years of research experience in the field of mental health, options for promoting the health of older people and strengthening the public health system. As a member of the Board of Directors of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Slovak Association of Public Health (SAVEZ), she also focuses on the transfer of research outputs into public health policy and practice. In the framework of cooperation with the Slovak Ministry of Health and WHO Europe, she was the coordinator of the national working group for the first comprehensive assessment of the public health system in Slovakia (WHO-BCA 2012-2013). She was a member of the national expert …

She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University in Olomouc in general medicine. After graduation, she specialized in emergency medicine and anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine, successfully completing her specialisation studies in these areas.She completed her doctoral studies at the Jessenius Medical Faculty in Martin, where she obtained her PhD. She has also completed extensive training in medical education and simulation teaching, including a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, USA. Currently, she is a researcher, university assistant professor, and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. She is the manager, sponsor of specia…