Since March 2019 Claudia Dirks has been Head of Communications of the Health Innovation Hub of the Federal Ministry of Health responsible for the various media channels, the newsletter Gesundheit_digital and the event content of the hih. Before that, the eHealth journalist held managerial positions in various specialist magazines such as “kma” and “42”.

Ulrich Rüdiger has been Rector of RWTH Aachen University since 2018. 1997-1998 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University in the group of Prof. Dr. A.D. Kent with stays at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose and at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility at Cornell University in the USA. He received his doctorate in 1997 and completed his habilitation in 2002 in the group of Prof. Dr. G. Güntherodt at the RWTH Aachen before he switched to the University of Konstanz as professor for experimental physics. From 2009 to 2018 he headed the university as rector.

Prof. Dr. med. Gernot Marx is Director of the Clinic for Operative Intensive Care and Intermediate Care at the University Hospital Aachen.

In recent years he has been strongly committed to the topic of telemedicine in intensive care medicine. Since 2016 the medical doctor has been chairman of the German Society for Telemedicine (DGTelemed).

Jon Txarramendieta holds an Engineering in Industrial Organization at the University of Deusto (2010) and a Master degree in Health Management at Deusto Business School (2015). In 2017, he obtained the Expert Course in Health Services and Chronic Diseases Research at the University of Alcalá. He has experience in the implementation of health services in national and European project context. Since 2016 he works as Project Manager at Kronikgune, where he has been involved in several EU funded projects including MASTERMIND, ACT@Scale, SCIROCCO, SCIROCCO Exchange and the JAs CHRODIS Plus and JADECARE.

Prof. Dr. Carina Benstöm, M.Sc. (Medical Faculty RWTH Aachen University) has many years of experience in research methods for evidence-based medicine and clinical research. She has extensive knowledge as a project manager, including in the area of ​​EU funding. She is the academic director of the Digital Medicine Innovation Center (IZDM) at the University Hospital. Her research focuses on new forms of care through digitization, patient-centered research, adherence to guidelines in intensive care medicine, systematic Cochrane reviews and meta-analysis.

Mathis Palm has been part of the Business Creation Team at EIT Health Germany since August 2020 and supports start-ups from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is enthusiastic about the possibilities that digital technologies offer in healthcare and is particularly interested in telemedicine solutions and applications that motivate people to lead an active lifestyle. Before that, he worked on bio-based value chains and the circular economy.

Alexander Krawinkel has been co-founder and managing director of Fimo Health since 2019. The digital health startup develops various solutions for symptom management in chronic diseases. Before that, he held various corporate strategy positions at Audi and Telekom.

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