Ebba Holme Hansen: Chairperson
Ebba Holme Hansen is professor of social pharmacy at Copenhagen University and director of FKL - Research Centre for Quality in Medicine Use. She has completed many studies on the role of medicines in society, medicine utilisation at the population level, and the users' perspectives on medicines. Among her present research interests are studies on children's medicine use and non-adherence with therapeutic regimens.
You can read more about Professor Hansen here.
Jakob Axel Nielsen
Jakob Axel Nielsen has a law degree from Århus University in Denmark. He has extensive experience from a variety of law firms and positions in the IT- and telecommunication industry. Mr. Nielsen has benn member of parliament in regional parliaments and in the natinal parliament of Denmark (Folketinget). He has held the position of Minister for Transport and Energy and is now Danish Minister for Health and Prevention.
You can read more about Jakob Axel Nielsen here.
Brian Haynes
Brian Haynes is Michael Gent Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Professor Haynes has extensive experience in a variety of clinical fields. He is the author of many books including a standard textbook about clinical practice research. Furthermore he has published a series of Cochrane reviews on patient compliance/ adherence, giving the probably most comprehensive and up to date overview in the field.
You can read more about Professor Haynes here.
Sabina DeGeest
Sabina DeGeest is a nurse and is Professor of Nursing at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland and holds a part time faculty position at the Center for Health Services and Nursing Research at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). She is focusing on behavioral and psychosocial issues (including compliance) with the ultimate goal to improve clinical outcomes in chronically ill patient populations and has special experience with electronic measurement of compliance.
You can read more about Professor DeGeest here.
Alejandra Mørk
Alejandra Mørk has a Master of Pharmacy degree and a Ph.D. from the Danish Pharmaceutical University. She has more than 18 years of experience with drug development in the areas of clinical development, regulatory affairs, project management as well as strategy and business development in the pharmaceutical industry.
Jim Kierans
Jim Kierans was born in Ireland and is currently living in Denmark. He has an education and extensive global working experience in IT, ranging from design of IT Processes at concern level in Europe to worldwide implementation.
Jim is diabetic since 1992. Especially since his retirement in 2002, he dedicates his energies to voluntary work, primarily in the Danish Diabetic Association. He is participating actively in projects and steering committees directed at giving diabetics a better life. He is a member of the Diabetes Advisory Committee for Southern Denmark.
Rob Horne
Rob Horne is Professor of Behavioural Medicine at The School of Pharmacy, University of London, United Kingdom. Professor Horne’s research interests include behavioural medicine, patient beliefs about illness and treatment, adherence to medication, self-management of illness, health psychology, communication in healthcare, development of theory-based interventions to effect behaviour change in chronic illness.
You can read more about professor Horne here.
Hanne Herborg
MSc. Hanne Herborg is Director of R&D at the Danish College of Pharmacy Practice, Pharmakon. Ms Herborgs current research focuses on patient safety, social pharmacy, patient information, pharmaceutical care and patient adherence in primary care. She is heading a programme to implement concordance in clinical practice in the Danish health care system.
