Confirmed Speakers
We are excited to welcome the following visionaries, experts and leaders to the GetReal Conference 2026. Speakers are added on a rolling basis following their official announcement on our LinkedIn page.
Carole Longson
Senior Adviser, Life Science Policy, HTA and Market Access
Independent Adviser
Páll Jónsson
Deputy Chief Scientific Office
NICE – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence & GetReal Board Member
Peter Mol
Professor & Committee member
UMCG & CHMP, CBG-MEB
Sascha van Boemmel-Wegmann
Senior Manager Scientific Engagement RWE
Flatiron Health
Anne Willemsen
Chair HTA subgroup on JCA & Senior advisor
Dmitry Etin
Health Data Governance & Interoperability Advisor
Shaun Rowark
Associate Director – Healthcare Data Analytics
NICE – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Christine Leopold
Assistant Professor of Drug Regulatory Science
Utrecht University & GetReal Board Member
Manuel Gomes
Professor of Health Economics
University College London (UCL)
Alexandra Pacurariu
Senior Epidemiologist
European Medicines Agency
Seamus Kent
Assistant Professor
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ramiro Gilardino
Co-Chair
HTAi Dynamic HTA Working Group
Iain Armstrong
Chair of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association & Consultant Nurse
PHA UK
Andreas Schuil
Vice President & General Manager
Orchard Therapeutics
Radek Wasiak
Co-Founder, Director
Adigens Health
Daniala Weir
Assistant Professor of Real-World Evidence
Utrecht University
Mira Zuidgeest
Associate Professor of Clinical Trial Innovation and RWE
Finlay MacDougal
Head, Real World Networks and Partnerships, EMEA
Sahar Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn-Khosrovani
Associate Professor & National Payer´s Evaluation Committee
LUMC , CieBAG
Lourens Bloem
Assistant Professor
Kathi Seidl-Rathkopf
Director, Data Insights Engineering
Marieke Heisen
Director of Research & Patient Evidence
Patvocates
Niklas Hedberg
Chief Pharmacist
Christine van Hattem
PhD candidate
Martin Russek
Doctoral researcher Pharmacoepidemiology
BfArM
Charlie Nicholls
Head of HEVA – General Medicines
Tarang Sharma
Director & Founder
Michel Dumontier
Distinguished Professor of Data Science
Maastricht University
Martin Parkinson
Executive Director, EU HTA Regulation Lead
Iyar Mazar
Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Assessment
James Gwinnutt
Associate Director AI Solutions Delivery
Francesco Pignatti
Scientific Adviser for Oncology
Caspar Safarlou
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ethics
Susan Oliveria
Vice President, Head of Scientific Affairs, RWE
James Turnbull
Senior Principal, Patient Centered Solutions
Mariam Bibi
Managing Director
Xabier Garcia de Albeniz
Vice President, Science
Antonia Panayi
Head Global Medical Evidence
Leo Russo
Independent
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