Academic Course Director: Prof. Bernard Crump FRCP(UK) FFPHM MB ChB
Directors: Prof. María Adela Contreras / Enrique Mario Schiavon MD, MHA
The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world’s second oldest surviving university. While its exact founding date is unknown, there is evidence that teaching took place as far back as 1096.
Located in and around Oxford’s medieval city centre, the university comprises 44 colleges and halls, and over 100 libraries, making it the largest library system in the UK.
Students number around 22,000 in total, just over half of whom are undergraduates while over 40 per cent are international, representing 140 countries between them.
Called the "city of dreaming spires" by Victorian poet, Matthew Arnold, Oxford has the youngest population of any city in England and Wales: nearly a quarter of its residents are university students, which gives Oxford a noticeable buzz.
Oxford has an alumni network of over 250,000 individuals, including more than 120 Olympic medalists, 26 Nobel Prize winners, seven poets laureate, and over 30 modern world leaders (Bill Clinton, Aung San Suu Kyi, Indira Gandhi and 26 UK Prime Ministers, among them).
The university is associated with 11 winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, five in physics and 16 in medicine. Notable Oxford thinkers and scientists include Tim Berners-Lee, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins. The actor Hugh Grant also went to Oxford, as did the writers Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene, Vikram Seth and Philip Pullman.
Oxford’s first international student, named Emo of Friesland, was enrolled in 1190, while the modern day university prides itself on having an ‘international character’ with connections to almost every country in the world and 40% of its faculty drawn from overseas.
As a modern, research-driven university, Oxford has numerous strengths but cites prowess in the sciences, having recently ranked number one in the world for medicine (Click to see ranking) (if its medical sciences division was a university in its own right, it would be the fourth largest in the UK) and among the top ten universities globally for life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.
A programme for Latin American healthcare leaders has been held in the UK most years for the last decade, with only the Covid pandemic interrupting these. Most have been held at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford; the University of Warwick has hosted on two occasions. This year have been admitted leaders from Latin American and the Middle East.
The programme typically begins at around 1600 on the Wednesday (in this case 30th August) allowing those who have flown in overnight to arrive and settle into their accommodation. We have three full days of programme content on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, finishing with an end of course ceremony on Saturday evening, with participants leaving on Sunday morning. Provisionally, on this occasion, we have planned to pause academic content at 1500 on Thursday so that the participants can visit another of Oxford’s historic Colleges which accepts visitors at this time.
An important feature of the programmes to date has been the opportunity for participants to showcase some of their own projects in areas relevant to the programme. They submit an abstract of a poster they may wish to present, and the Course Director and organisers choose those which will be displayed and presented. We set aside a couple of hours for the presenters to speak to their poster as others, and the judging team, circulate. Three, typically are then chosen and the presenter makes a short plenary presentation on their work to the group as whole, typically in the last formal session from 1500-1630 on the Saturday; the judges choose a winner.
We have simultaneous translation of all plenary sessions; so far this has been into Spanish alone. Whilst most attendees are knowledgeable of English, the translation can help both attendees and presenters with more technical content, and during Q&As etc.
The College is an historic building and provides a marvellous atmosphere for learning and for networking between participants. The buildings do provide some constraints, which we have worked around successfully. The foremost of these is that there are limited spaces for small group working. We have agreed with the College authorities some opportunities, for some sessions, to use additional rooms at times, so some of the sessions can feature discussion in smaller groups.
Dr. Bernard Crump MD (Please watch his video)
Professor of Practice in Healthcare and Leadership, University of Warwick
Director Latin American Health Care Courses, Harris Manchester College, Oxford (2016...)
Prof Bernard Crump studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, qualifying in 1980. After seven years in clinical practice and clinical research, he returned to the West Midlands to postgraduate training in public health medicine.
He spent a decade as Director of Public Health in South Birmingham, and in Leicestershire, where he was also Deputy Chief Executive. In 2002 he became CEO of Shropshire and Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority, a post which he occupied until being appointed the first CEO of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement in July 2005. The NHS Institute has developed a wide range of programmes that are supporting the improvement of the NHS, the Productive Ward and the Productive Series, the No Delays Achiever and commissioners.
He has written and lectured on a wide range of topics in healthcare, including aspects of population health, the role of clinicians in management, health and healthcare improvement, the use of metrics in encouraging improvement and the use of health economics in decision-making.
Directors: Dr. Enrique Mario Schiavon, MD, MHA y Prof. María Adela Contreras
En 2012 Prof. Contreras organized the first Latin American Health Care Course at the School of Medicine, Warwick University. Later, she and Dr. Enrique Mario Schiavon decided to establish a Course at the University of Oxford and the I Latin American Workshop has been held in 2016. For more than 30 years, Prof. Contreras and Dr. Schiavon has been working with the mission of improving the quality of health services for the Latin American population.
In 1997 they created the I Workshop for Latin American Health Care Leaders at Harvard University, and they have been the leaders of this Program for 25 years. In 1993, they have also established the first Master on Health Care Management in Argentina (Favaloro University and National University of Salta). They have organized more than a hundred international courses in the United States, Spain, Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and the United Kingdom.
Contact has been made with a number of faculty contributors who would make a very valuable input on some of these topics. These include:
Prof. Michael Drummond
Mike is Professor of Health Economics. His particular field of interest is in the economic evaluation of health care treatments and programmes. He has undertaken evaluations in a wide range of medical fields including care of the elderly, neonatal intensive care, immunisation programmes, services for people with AIDS, eye health care and pharmaceuticals.
He is the author of two major textbooks and more than 700 scientific papers, has acted as a consultant to the World Health Organization and was Project Leader of a European Union Project on the Methodology of Economic Appraisal of Health Technology. He has also served on the Boards of Directors of the International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. He has been President of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Value in Health. In 2010 he was made a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in the USA.
Mike Drummond was the recipient of the Avedis Donabedian Award in recognition of lifetime achievement in the area of improving health outcomes (2004) and the John Eisenberg Award, in recognition of exemplary leadership in the practical application of medical decision-making research (2012). His recent projects relate to the conduct of economic evaluations and their use in health care decision making.
David Sissling
David was formerly CEO of the health services in Northern Ireland and Wales and has vast experience running hospitals and services. He has been Project Director at NICE and Senior Leadership Adviser for NHS England and NHS Improvement.
He is now Chair of one of England’s newly established Integrated Care Systems and can talk about the realities of creating integration between a complex web of organizations across health, social care, local government and the voluntary sector. He has spoken to the Course on several previous occasions and his input is always well received.
Prof. Agni Orfanoudaki
She is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Saïd Business School, Oxford and a Fellow in Management Studies at Exeter College. Alongside her role at Oxford, she holds a visiting scholar position at the Harvard Kennedy School as a Harvard Data Science Initiative fellow. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of Optimization and Machine Learning, with applications to healthcare insurance. My work explores practical solutions to address real-world industry needs drawn from conversations and requests from health and insurance organizations, but solved in new, creative ways that leverage state-of-the-art analytics techniques.
Prof. Pedro Delgado
He is Vice President of the Institute for Health Improvement Pedro is from Venezuela and he oversees IHI’s portfolio of work in three regions (Latin America, Europe, and Australasia) and the IHI Open School. Based in the United Kingdom, he has been a driving force in IHI’s global expansion. From work on reducing C-sections and healthcare-acquired infections in Brazil and several Latin American countries, to improving early years education in Chile, to improving patient safety in Portugal and mental health in London, Mr. Delgado has led the key senior relationships and design and implementation of large-scale health system improvement efforts and networks globally. He coaches senior leaders and teams, and lectures extensively worldwide on large-scale change, patient safety, and quality improvement. He is an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Associate Editor of BMJ Leader. Prior to joining IHI in 2010, he held roles in hospital management and large-scale improvement leadership in the UK, and accumulated experience working in mental health in Venezuela and the UK.
Prof. Bee Wee
Bee is a Professor at University of Oxford and is the National Clinical Director for England for the End of Life Care. She leads are national strategy work on improving the experience of those at the end of their lives which could be an excellent specific focus for some of our discussions, not least because in many countries a very high proportion of lifetime health expenditure takes place in the last weeks and months of a person’s life.
She is a Fellow and Tutor in Clinical Medicine at Harris Manchester College and Professor of Palliative Care at the University of Oxford. She was President of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland and Chair of the Advisory Committee for Quality Standards for NICE (National Institute for Health and Care of Excellence)
Dr. Bernard Crump MD
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Healthcare across the globe has to confront a number of common challenges; Which innovations should we support? Will digital innovation deliver the benefits expected? How will countries resource the growing costs and find the necessary workforce? In this programme we will learn about solutions that are being adopted and share experiences that can shape our response to these challenges.
Our plan to date for this year had been to spend time looking at some of the key Global Challenges facing health services. Loosely, we had seen this falling into four overall categories:
PROF. GABRIEL NOVICK M.D., PH.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Swiss Medical Group
Faculty, Tufts University; University of Pittsburgh, USA;
IAE Business School, Universidad Austral School of Business,
Argentina Coordinator
This program is an "all teach; all learn" experience, so we want to ensure there are opportunities for those participants who wish to do so to present work in which they have been involved, which is relevant to the areas of focus of the event.
These areas are principally:
• Sustainable finance of healthcare systems
• Assessing the value of innovative approaches to treatment, and
• The role of artificial intelligence in healthcare for the future.
If you would like to share the work with which you have been engaged in one of these areas, you can submit a "virtual poster" that will be displayed on a large flat-screen TV or a projection screen. A "virtual poster" is a .pdf version of a poster that follows an academic style and obviates the need for printing and transportation. It is important to ensure the content is legible for a group of people who will stand around the screen while the author presents the poster. The format of the virtual poster should be landscape orientation with an aspect ratio of 4:3. To make content legible for the audience, it would be acceptable to spread the poster's content across up to four pages and zoom during the presentation. If you wish to present your work in this way, you will need to submit a title and a short abstract in English.
Prof. Crump and Prof. Novick will review these abstracts and invite authors to present their work. There will be two "poster presentation" sections of the agenda, and invited authors will be given a ten-minute opportunity to present their poster to the "Jury", and to those of the general participants who wish to see this poster Presentations can be done in English or Spanish.
The "Jury" will choose the posters that they regard as most relevant to the key areas of the seminar. It must be a successful case of management with huge impact on Public Health and welfare of the population we serve.
On the final afternoon of the Roundtable, the chosen authors will be able to present their work, using PowerPoint slides if they wish, to the conference as a whole. These presentations will last 20 minutes, can be conducted in Spanish or English, and will be followed by ten minutes of questions. At the final dinner, the jury will award a prize to the presentation regarded as the overall winner.
Given the focus on finance, Prof. Bernard Crump will lead some sessions on alternative approaches to healthcare finance. He has developed case studies on two of the most interesting alternatives; the funding of healthcare in Singapore and in the Netherlands, and these would lend themselves to a case study approach with some small group learning on the lessons, and on the potential for these to inspire alternative innovations.
Given the interest in Digital Transformation Prof. Bernard Crump has materials which could be very valuable, both in exploring the potential for digital but also in exploring why it is proving so difficult to deliver digital transformation at scale. Prof. Crump leads an MBA module on Digital Innovation for the Healthcare Services.
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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30 | |
10:00 – 12:00 | Check in at Harris Manchester College |
11.30 – 13:00 |
Optative Cultural Activity Walking Tour of Oxford Meeting at Arlosh Quad Harris Manchester College * |
15:00 – 16:00 |
Welcome to Participants
Introduction to the Course and Group Exercise |
16:00 - 16:15 | Tea Break |
16:15 – 17:15 |
Sustainable Finance for Health Care Systems Prof. Bernard Crump |
17:15 – 18:00 | Preparation for Dinner (see dress code) |
18:00 – 19:00 | Welcome Drinks and Tour of the College |
19.00 - 21:00 | Opening Dinner - Arlosh Hall Harris Manchester College |
THURSDAY AUGUST 31 | |
08:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast at Arlosh Hall / Harris Manchester College |
09:00 – 10:15 |
End of Life Care: Perspective of the National Clinical Director Prof. Bee Wee |
10:15 – 11:15 |
Alternative Funding Models Case 1 & 2 in working groups |
11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee Break |
11:45 – 12:30 | Debrief on Case Studies in Plenary Session |
12:30 – 13:30 | Buffet Lunch at Arlosh Hall / Harris Manchester College |
13:30 – 15.00 |
Oxford Round Table Poster Session 1 Opportunities for Participants to show successful cases of their work on a virtual poster Coordinator Dr. Gabriel Novick MD Phd Jury: Prof. Bernard Crump, Dra. Gabriela Barros, Dr. Enrique Mario Schiavon. |
15:15 – 17:00 |
Tour of Oxford Colleges Group 1. English / Group 2 Spanish Coordinators* Maria Adela Contreras & Enrique Schiavon |
17:45 – 18:30 | Optative Activity Evening Songs at Christ Church College Oxford Cathedral |
Free Evening Dinner out of College with Participants making their own arrangements |
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1 | |
08:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast at Arlosh Hall |
09:00 – 10:30 |
Health Technology Assessment: What’s next?
Prof. Michael Drummond |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 12:30 |
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Approach to the assessment of Digital Technologies including AI NICE Technical Team |
12:30 – 13:30 | Buffet Lunch at Arlosh Hall |
13:30 – 14:30 |
Role Playing of a NICE Decision Committee Group Exercise. Prof. Bernard Crump Conclusions |
14:30 – 15:30 |
Improving Quality: A Global Perspective Prof. Pedro Delgado |
15:30 – 16:00 | Tea Break |
16:00 – 17:00 |
There is no Quality without Equity: Present and Future Imperatives Prof. Pedro Delgado |
17:00 – 18:00 |
Oxford Round Table Poster Session 2 Academic Coordinator Dr. Gabriel Novick MD Phd. |
19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner Arlosh Hall Harris Manchester College |
20:30 – 21:30 |
Optative Activity Oxford by Night: Guide Tour of Oxford from HMC to Eagle and Child the pub where Tolkien and Lewis talked about their work: The Lord of the Rings and Narnia |
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2 | |
08:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast at Arlosh Hall |
09:00 – 10:30 |
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Hope or Hype? Prof. Bernard Crump |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 12:30 |
Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Healthcare Prof. Agni Orfanoudaki |
12:30 – 13:30 | Buffet Lunch at Arlosh Hall |
13:30 – 15:00 |
Integrated Care in England: Progress and Challenges Dr. David Sissling (Chair Leicester, Leicester and Rutland Integrated Care Board) |
15:00 – 15:30 | Tea Break |
15:30 – 17:00 |
Oxford Round Table – Speakers to be chosen Academic Coordinator Dr. Gabriel Novick, MD,Phd Jury: Dr. Bernard Crump, Dra. Gabriela Barros, Prof. Pedro Delgado and Dr. Enrique Schiavon |
18:00 – 19:00 | Presentation of Certificates at The Chapel |
19:00 – 20:30 | High dinner Arlosh Hall |
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 3 | |
08:00 – 09:00 | Closing Breakfast Arlosh Hall |
09:00 – 10:00 | Course Closing Session and Group Final Photo at Arlosh Quad Bernard, Maride, Enrique, Gabriel and Patricia |
10.00 – 11.00 | Check out. Luggage storage available until 16:00 |