Plenary: “It's Not About the Money, Money, Money”: Or is it? The future of value-based healthcare and...

Paula Williamson is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Liverpool, and was Head of the Department of Biostatistics from 2002 until 2018. Her research has focussed on clinical trials, meta-analysis, and health outcome selection. Paula leads the MRC/NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and gave the Bradford Hill Lecture in 2017. Paula co-founded the (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials) Initiative in 2010, to improve the quality and relevance of health research to decision makers including patients, health professionals, regulators and policymakers.

Stefan Larsson joined the Boston Consulting Group in 1996 and is a Senior Partner and a BHI Fellow. Stefan has lead strategy assignments and major transformational programs across all sectors of the healthcare industry: Academic medical centers; leading international providers; Biopharma; Biotech and MedTech – from R&D through commercial. He is a cofounder and board member of ICHOM. Stefan has been BCG‘s global sector leader for Healthcare Payers and Providers and later the Healthcare Systems sector. Stefan is an MD, PhD and Associate professor at the Karolinska Institute (KI). Stefan trained at Harvard MS, MRC-HGU, Edinburgh and EMBL Heidelberg.

Lotte Steuten, PhD, is Vice-President and Head of Consulting at the Office of Health Economics and Honorary Visiting Professor at City, University of London, UK. Lotte specialises in providing research-based and client-focused analysis and expertise to informing decisions regarding healthcare policy, pricing and regulation of pharmaceuticals, and health technology assessment (HTA). She effectively collaborates with technology assessors, payers and policy makers, (academic) researchers, clinical and patient representatives, pharmaceutical industry and capital investors. Lotte has contributed to the health economics and outcomes research for >15 years in various academic roles and executive functions in the UK, US and the Netherlands.