Summit for the Future on Risk — Healthcare

Club of Amsterdam, May 3-5, 2006
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The Club of Amsterdam presents its global "Summit for the Future on Risk", which will take place in Amsterdam on May 3-5, 2006. This second Summit will bring together international Thought Leaders to discuss significant, global challenges and opportunities. This time the speakers will focus on the subject of risk and the role of risk in innovation and global growth.

The most important thing for the future of healthcare is health and how medical practice fulfill the need of the core resource for the future: the self-perceived increasing quality of life. Health has gone from ‘not being ill’ to a quality, a potential. People will invest in this asset, not only in financial terms.

The extent to which healthcare transformation is taking place varies from countries to countries and regions in parallel with their economic status. Integration of evidence-based preventional and complimentary strategies into mainstream practice will be required to save the healthcare system in an aging society. As countries strengthen their economies they will also have the possibility to adapt their healthcare systems to meet the needs of the people. More and more people will be looking for services that will help understanding one’s individual health profile and how this impacts personalised anti-aging and wellness strategies.

There will be an increasing demand for affordable approaches for high-risk identification, early detection and effective risk factor allocation. Healthcare is becoming detached from the purely physical, from purely functional disorders. It will be focusing more and more on the whole person, on putting physical, mental and spiritual fragments back together. Healthcare policy makers need to be aware of these new developments and decisions need to made what healthcare research and what policies need to be.

The Keynote Speakers are:

Chris De Bruijn, Chairman, Foundation, International Molecular Medicine Forum – IMMF: "My Genes, My Health";
Coenraad K. van Kalken, General Director, NDDO, Director, National Institute for Prevention and Early Diagnostics (NIPED): NIPED Prevention Passport;
Gustav Dobos, Chair for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany: Integrating evidence-based complimentary medicine into mainstream medicine;
Mercedes Lassus, Founder, Director, M Lassus Consulting Srl: Oncology prevention and early detection strategies.

The Catalysts are:
Roman Retzbach, Director, responsible in Europe, Future-Institute International [Trend Watcher], Huib Schwab, Philosopher, EuroLAB [Philosopher] and Carine Andrey, Unternehmensberaterin, Schönermark.Kielhorn + Collegen [Psychologist]

Knowledge Partner: Medical Knowledge Institute

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Summit website: www.clubofamsterdam.com/summit2006.htm

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