Partnering Strategies for University Hospitals and Academic Health Science Centres
Foundation Partners


Monday June 20, 2022
Monday June 20, 2022
Partnering Strategies for University Hospitals and Academic Health Science Centres
This half-day event is part of our new Strategies for University Hospitals content platform. This looks at the considerable management challenges that the university hospital/academic medical centers and allied research institutes face and how they can best be overcome.
Partnering is a key challenge for university hospitals and research clusters. This takes many forms starting with the core partnership between the twinned university hospital and research institute or university. Other partnerships include that between university hospitals and the wider hospital and outpatient ecosystem, between research institutes and MedTech/pharma/external funders and between university hospitals and their key service providers and MedTech platforms.
This session explores these relationships and looks at what good looks like in health care partnering and at the largest pitfalls.
14:00 – 14:05 Opening Remarks: Setting the Scene
Max Hotopf, Chairman & Founder of Healthcare Business International
14.05 – 14:30 Keynote: The Boston Model
Chris Coburn, Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham, USA








Whittle - 3rd Floor
Foundation Partners







Monday June 20, 2022
Keynote: Partnering with research institutes and university hospitals
The all-important relationship for all academic health clusters. How do you set long-term research objectives/ How do you best ensure that bench researchers work closely with physicians to build innovative solutions?
Björn Zoega, CEO, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden


Whittle - 3rd Floor
Monday June 20, 2022
Partnering with investors and start-ups
What are the barriers to partnering between university research hubs and innovative companies? How do you best handle ownership of intellectual property generated from research and patient data? How can you set out framework agreements that are flexible and yet can express business potential?
Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram, Founder, Proximie; Head of Clinical Innovation at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Chris Coburn, Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham, USA
Moderated by Max Hotopf, Chairman & Founder, Healthcare Business International










Whittle - 3rd Floor
Monday June 20, 2022
Panel Discussion: Partnering: What works and what doesn’t?
This interactive, audience participation session, investigates the important questions surrounding what works and what doesn’t when considering partnering. What is the recipe for successful partnerships? What are the barriers to partnering between university research hubs and innovative companies? How do you expedite the pathway to success? How to build trust and relationships when partnering? How to set shared objectives and principles: looking at conflicting requirements, risks and mitigation? Long-term strategy and looking beyond the person and key learnings and what does the future look like.
Michelle Martin, Director of Partnerships, Kings Health Partners, UK
Dr Federico Esposti, Chief Transformation Officer and Head of Strategy, IRCCS Opedale San Raffaele, Italy
Laia Arnal Arasa, Business Development Director, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca
Neil Wright, Commercial Director, Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Moderator: Max Hotopf, Founder and Chairman, Healthcare Business International














Whittle - 3rd Floor
Monday June 20, 2022
Keynote: Partnering with other hospital groups internationally
Academic medical centers thrive on collaboration, both internal and external, and require many types of partnerships to succeed. Tertiary hospitals cannot assume that they will be sent the complex patients they need to achieve patient care, training, and research goals; external collaborations are fundamental. How do university hospitals proactively build relationships to maximise patient and training flows, and what elements are critical to success?
Misty Hathaway, Vice President, International and Specialized Healthcare Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA


Whittle - 3rd Floor
Monday June 20, 2022
Do you or don’t you want to partner? Your takeaways
Neil Wright, Commercial Director, Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Max Hotopf, Chairman and Founder, Healthcare Business International








Whittle - 3rd Floor
Monday June 20, 2022
Welcome Networking Drinks Reception hosted by Siemens Healthineers
The HBI Official Welcome Reception hosted by Siemens Healthineers is a must-attend networking event for all delegates and speakers attending HBI 2022.
This is where our delegates meet as they fly in from around the world! Join us for several hours of intensive networking with old friends and new acquaintances in advance of the main conference.
All HBI 2022 and Partnering Strategies for University Hospitals registered delegates are invited to attend this event.


