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The European Pathway Association has contact persons in different countries.
You will find three lists: The official E-P-A council members, our international contact persons in Europe and Outside Europe.
If you have specific questions, you can get in contact with these persons.
If you want to discuss specific topics with our international network, please become member of the "EPA on Pathways" discussion forum. This international network has more than 820 members and is the official communication channel of the E-P-A.
If you have questions on the E-P-A as an association, please contact office manager Mrs. Alexandra Pardon.
If we do not have a contact person on your country and you want to become a contact person, please e-mail Ruben Van Zelm.
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OUR E-P-A COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE NATIONAL OR REGIONAL SECTION CHAIRS / CO-CHAIRS:
You can contact the council members via our E-P-A office manager Mrs. Alexandra Pardon.
Contact details of our council members can be found here [90 KB]
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Ingrid Janssen – Chair, Dutch Section, The Netherlands
Teammanager flow, productivity and integrated care
Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement, CBO, Utrecht
Marijke Vlasblom – Co-chair, Dutch Section, The Netherlands
unitmanager Anesthesia
Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam
Herman van der Mussele – Chair, Belgian Section, Belgium
Director of Strategy and Care development
St. Augustinus hospital, Wilrijk / Antwerp
Eveline Depreter – Co-chair, Belgian Section, Belgium
Nursing Director
Damiaan Hospital, Ostend
Claire Whittle – Chair, England Section, England
Heart of England, NHS Trust
Birmingham University, Birmingham
Sarah Caldicot – Co-chair, England Section, England
Lorenzo Clinical Business Change Lead
Hereford County Hospital, Hereford
Angela Hughes – Chair, Welsh Section, Wales
Care Pathway Facilitator
NHS Wales, Cardiff
David Thomson - Co-chair, Scottish Section, Scotland
Co-Chair of Scottish Pathways Association
William Reddy – Chair, Irish Section, Ireland
Programme Manager, Transformation Programme 1
Health Service Executive, Dublin
Antoinette Doocey – Co-chair, Irish Section, Ireland
Advisor, Integrated Care, Transformation Programme 1
Health Service Executive, Dublin.
Eva Biringer - Chair, Norwegian Section, Norway
Director Research Network on Integrated Care of Western Norway
Helse Fonna, Haugesund
Annund Rannestad - Co-Chair, Norwegian Section, Norway
Advisor/ Project leader, Division of Patient Safety
Dept of Research & Development, Helse Bergen HF, Norway
Fali Camacho - Chair, Spanish Section, Spain
Research Fellow, Department of Nursing Research
Huelva University, Spain
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WE ALSO HAVE OUR TEAM OF INTERNATIONAL CONTACT PERSONS:
(in alphabetical order)
ALBANIA:
Contact person: Dr. Sonela XINXO MD, MPH
Organization: Institute of Public Health Tirana ,Albania
Function within this organization: Specialist on Controll and Prevention
Experience with care pathways: My background as a gastrohepatologist has helped me to be involved on development of protocolls of diagnosis treatment and follow up of some disease on the elderly. I am involved in making pathways familiar among the health proffesionals.
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AUSTRALIA:
EPA Contact Person: Julie Fisher
Organization: Healthscope 's - Geelong Private Hospital.
Experience : 35 years experience in clinical and administration nursing roles . Appointed 1999 to build, implement and monitor pathways in this hospital. Have worked extensively and broadly in the acute setting and have developed 25 generic pathways which we are currently using.Currently, I am endeavouring to build a pathways Network with interested parties.Currently, chairperson for the Victorian Pathways Special interest Group .I have also had experience in Orthopaedic - Clinical Research.
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AUSTRIA:
EPA Contact Person: Sylvia Kühne-Ponesch
Organisation: University of Applied Sciences, Steyr
Function: Director of studies in Health & Care & Process Management
Experience in pathways: involved in pilot studies on care pathways in Austria, leads courses on care pathway methodology
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BELGIUM:
Information on Pathways in Belgium: here [1.195 KB]
EPA Contact Person: Kris Vanhaecht
Organisation: Belgian Dutch Clinical Pathway Network / Center for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University Leuven.
Function: Research Fellow / PhD Student
Experience: Involved in pathway development and research since 1997. Co-manager of the Smartgroup on clinical pathways, chairman of the scientific committee of the ICP Conference and Joint Chairman of the EPA.
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BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA:
Contact Person: Leonardo Miljko
Organization: Fund Health Insurance HNC
Zavod zdravstvenog osiguranja HNŽ/K
Dubrovačka bb
BA-88000 Mostar
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Function within this organization: Coordinator of the Regional Office Mostar
Experience with care pathways: Member of the State Committee for Care pathways - DRG, starting from 2007 years.
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BULGARIA:
Contact Person: Assoc. prof. George Christoff, MD, PhD
Organization: Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria, Faculty of Public Health, Department of health economics.
Function: research and teaching
As a practicing doctor I have a practical experience implementing clinical pathways in a hospital setting. Since 2005 hospital care in our country is financed through that tool. As a scientist and a researcher I explore that topic, write papers on it and carry out bachelor and master course on development, problems and implementation of clinical pathways in Bulgaria.
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CANADA:
EPA Contact Person: Jessica Meleskie
Organisation: Grey Bruce Health Network
Function: Coordinator, Evidence-Based Care Program
Experience: 4 years experience working with pathways, we make pathways for 11 hospitals and the community home care agency for the region. We currently have pathways for community acquired pneumonia, myocardial infarction, angina, total hip replacement, fractured hip, vaginal birth, febrile neutropenia, stroke, and congestive heart failure.
EPA Contact Person: Lori Hughes
Organisation: Fraser Health Authority
Function: Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Consultant
Experience with pathways: six years experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of various pathways within a regional cross-sectored public health care delivery environment. Currently work is focused on collaborative based initiatives, involving multi-sites, spanning the acute to community sectors and involving interdisciplinary team work.
EPA Contact Person: Louise Martin
Organisation: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Function: Coordinator, Critical Pathways
Experience: 7 years experience working with pathways, our main focus is pediatrics. We currently have pathways for asthma, bronchiolitis, gastroenteritis, croup, rule-out sepsis, tonsillectomy and or adenoidectomy, DMD, LP for oncology, Gastrostomy with or without Fundoplication, NICU discharge planning, ketogenic diet, diabetes, NICU follow-up.
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CHINA:
EPA Contact Person:
Jing-Xia Qian
Organisation:
Shanghai Mental Health Center
Function: Medical Affair Department
Experience in pathways: to facilitate the pathways development for mental health diseases
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CZECK REPUBLIC
EPA Contact Person: Lydie Zbuzkova
Organisation: Na Homolce Hospital
Fuction: Head of project department.
Experience in pathways: Involved in pilot projects on development and implementation of pathways in Czech Republic. Interested in the relation between Accreditation and pathways.
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CYPRUS:
Information on pathways in Cyprus: here
Contact person: Dr med Mary Avraamidou
Organization: Nicosia General Hospital Cyprus
Function within this organization: Head of Occupational health Department
Experience with care pathways: The Nicosia General Hospital started developing and implementing clinical pathways since December 2009. It is the first hospital in Cyprus to implement Clinical Pathways. A team consisting of two doctors and five nurses was established and trained in Berlin Germany, by the Mc Kinsey Consultants. So far 6 clinical Pathways have been implemented and two are under development. The feedback from all the departments where Clinical Pathways have been implemented was positive despite the initial negative reaction and concerns stated by a number of the staff. Confidence of the staff and consistency in health care delivery together with a decrease in errors or omissions has been observed. The number of unnecessary blood tests and other investigations has decreased. Team work and communication among healthcare professionals improved. However their implementation was a complex procedure. The main challenge was change management and motivation of personnel rather than technical knowledge and competence in developing the pathways.
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DENMARK
Information on Pathways in Denmark: here [732 KB]
EPA Contact Person: Uwe Jansen
Organisation: General Practitioner
Experience: Uwe has experience in linking care pathways with accreditation projects. He was involved in the Danish KISS project.
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ENGLAND:
Information on Pathways in England: here [804 KB]
EPA Contact Person: Claire Whittle
Organisation: School for Health Sciences, Birmingham University
Function: Lecturer and Research Fellow
Experience: Developed the Integrated Care Pathway Appriasal Tool and has lots of experience in leading pathway projects.
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ESTONIA:
EPA Contact Person: Virge Pall
Organisation:Tartu University Hospital
Function: Marketing Manager
Experience: Experience in facilitating clinical pathways since 1994.
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FRANCE:
EPA Contact Person: Philippe Cabarrot
Organisation: Haute Autorité de Santé
Function: Evaluation of professional practices
Experience: involved in evaluation of professional practices and the start up of care pathways in France. Part-time gastro enterologist.
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GERMANY:
Information on Pathways in Germany: here [7.389 KB]
EPA Contact Person: Marcus Bollmann
Organisation: Deutscher Verein für klinische Pfade / Casemap System / SANA Hospital Trust.
Function: CEO Sana Hospital Trust Munich
Experience: He is lecturing process-management in healthcare (Six Sigma) and clinical pathways (CaseMap-System). Besides of that Marcus is organizing the “Deutscher Verein für klinische Pfade“, Starnberg, Germany (German Society for Clinical Pathways).
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GUERNSEY
EPA Contact Person: Jen Guezo
Organisation: Health and Social Services Department, Board of Health
Function: quality lialson
Experience: Manager of the SmartGroup on Clinical Pathways. Has years of exerpience in writing pathways and facilitating multidisciplinary teams.
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INDIA
EPA Contact Person: Sheenu Jhawar
Organisation: ACE Vision Health
Function: Director
Experience with pathways: Since 2002 experience with pathway in different clinical areas, nowadays advising Indian healthcare organisations on pathways and information technology.
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INDONESIA:
EPA Contac Person: Dody Firmanda
Organisation: Fatmawati Hospital, South Jakarta
Function: Chairman of Medical Committee, Head Department of Paediatrics
Experience in Pathways: developed and implemented the clinical pathways to all 20 specialty departments in our hospital as a key important in our Case Mix System, and it also as an entry point in improving our professional quality in activities as medical audit, clinical risks management & patient safety, and health impact intervention.
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IRAN:
Contact person: Dr Abdollah Mosafer YadegariOrganization: Health management of social security organization at west Azarbaijan province"
Role within this organization: health expert
Experience: I am PhD student of health management in the AZAD University of Iran, now. I was familiar with clinical pathways since tree years a go when I was student. So I am interested it and get my thesis with topic of "the Development and Implementation of a Clinical Pathway for Normal Vaginal Delivery at EMAM REZA Hospital ,Urmia ".As I know, It is the first study in Iran about clinical pathways. We finished the first phase (development phase) of this thesis and go to second phase (implementing phase).
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IRELAND
EPA Contact Person: Marie Kehoe
Organisation: Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Function: President
Experience: Has experience in pathway development, implementation and evaluation. Worked for years in the USA, where she worked with care pathways. Nowadays she is advising organisations on pathway development.
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ITALY
Information on Pathways in Italy: here [1.790 KB]
EPA Contact Person: Massimiliano Panella
Organisation: Faculty of Medicine, University Amadeo Avogadro, Piedmont
Function: Professor
Experience: Several years of experience in pathway research. He conducted randomised controlled trials on the effect of clinical pathways. Also leading PhD project on relation between pathways and risk management.
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JAPAN:
EPA Contact Person: Hidehisa Soejima
Organisation: Japanese Society for Clinical Pathways & Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital
Function: Board member JSCP & Vice President, Director of Total Quality Management
Experience in pathways: involved in the Japanese Society on Clinical Pathways, chairman of the 6th conference on care pathways in Japan. More than 50% of patients in his hospital are on pathways. More than 100 pathways have been developed in his hospital.
EPA Contact Person: Yuka Kanoya
Organisation: School of Nursing, Yamagata University
Function: Professor of Course of Community Health Nursing
Experience in pathways: development, implementation and research of pathway in neurological care unit, acute psychiatry unit, pressure ulcer care and visiting nursing
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LUXEMBURG:
Contact Person: Serge Pechon
Organization: CHL = Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (Luxemburg Hospital Center)
Function within this organization: quality coordinator
Experience with care pathways: coordination of 4 care pathways since 2008, projects on stroke, hip fracture, obesity, diabetic foot
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MONGOLIA
More information on pathway in Mongolia: here [35 KB]
EPA Contact Person: Bujin Tserensodnom
Organisation: Second Health sector Development Programme
Function: Consultant
Experience in pathways: Bujin takes the lead in the pilot projects on pathways in Mongolia. As consultant to the minister she advices the governement on patient focussed care problems.
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NORWAY
EPA contact person: Eva Biringer
Organisation: Helse Fonna
Function: Director Research Network on Integrated Care of Western Norway
Experience in pathways: Launching care pathway studies in Western Norway after attending the EPA summer school 2010. Supervisor of Phd student on integrated care in Mental Health.
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PORTUGAL:
EPA Contact Person: Antonio Marques
Organization: Instituto de Qualidade em Saúde
Function: Anaesthesiologist, Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care (clinical and managerial roles)
Experience: protocol and pathway development in Emergency Medicine (pre hospital EMS and Emergency Department)
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ROMANIA
Care Pathways in Romania: more info here [37 KB]
EPA contact person: Simona Haraga
Organization: National School for Public Health and Health services Management
Function: Researcher in health economics, PhD student
Experience in pathways: local expert for PHARE project in training on CPs
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SAUDI ARABIA:
Contact Person: Dr Saeed ALQahtani
Organization: Mazaya Consultancy Group for education ,training and health consultaion,Riyadh,Saudi arabia.
Function within this organization: Director of group and quality management consultant
Experience with care pathways:Iiam working as quality management consultant since 10 years and the major responsibilities are : 1- developing documentation systemin hospitals like job descriptions, policies& procedures,...........etc., 2-developing clinical practice guidelines, 3- developing policies and procedures., 4- creating key performance indicators., 5-preparing health institutions to comply with JCI standards.
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SCOTLAND:
Information on Pathways in Scotland: here [675 KB]
EPA Contact Person:Karen Jenkins
Organisation: Integrated Care Pathway User Group Scotland (ICPUS)
Function: ICPUS board member
Experience: Karen works as a Clinical Effectiveness Integrated Care Pathways Co-ordinator for Greater Glasgow Primary Care Division, Scotland, UK. Karen has been involved in pathways since 1998. She has a lead role in the core group of Integrated Care Pathways Users in Scotland.
EPA Contact Person: Patricia Kent
Organisation: NHS Lanarkshire, Change and Innovation Department
Function: Integrated Care Pathway Manager
Experience: I am the Integrated Care Pathway Manager for NHS Lanarkshire. I have been involved in the development of ICPs on and off since 1995 and have been in this post since 2002. I am a member of the Change and Innovation Department which is a part of the Modernisation Directorate at NHS Lanarkshire. We currently have approximately 156 ICPs in use or being developed in Lanarkshire. These ICPs cover mostly acute care but we also have some in Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care and Paediatrics.
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SINGAPORE
EPA Contact Person: Janet Choo
Organisation: Changi General Hospital
Function: Assistant Director, Quality Management, Nursing Administration
Experience with pathways: Since 1996 development and implementation of pathways in several clinical areas. International speaker on care pathway conferernces.
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SLOVENIA
EPA Contact Person: Anne-Marie Yazbeck
Organization: Department of Health
Function: Senior Researcher
Experience: Assisted in the EU Health Property Network study on the relation between clinical pathway and asset planning; assisted in the development and implementation of care pathways on secondary levels in the Slovenian and Romania health care systems through the Ministry of Health and PHARE EU Projects and on the primary level through the WHO/CIDA project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Presently working for the Swedish-Belgian-based organization Health Consumer Powerhouse.
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SPAIN
EPA Contact Person: Fali Camacho
Organization: Huelva University
Fuction: Research Fellow
Experience: Fali has a nursing background and performed a MSc in Nursing. During her master studies she performed a research project on breast cancer pathways and analysed differences between the Spanish and Belgian way of organizing care. She performed the validation study of the Spanish version of the Care Proces Self Evaluation Tool.
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SWEDEN:
EPA Contact Person: Bengt Ahgren
Organisation: Nordic School of Public Health
Fuction: Senior Lecturer.
Experience in pathways: Assignments about chain of care development in Sweden during the 1990s. Author of the resource book “The chain of care” (Vårdkedjan) [in Swedish]. Research about chains of care and other kinds of integrated care arrangements. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Creating Integrated Health Care”.
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THE NETHERLANDS
Information on Pathways in Belgium & The Netherlands: here [1.195 KB]
EPA Contact Person: Ruben Van Zelm
Organisation: Duthc Institute for Healthcare Improvement, CBO
Function: Senior Advisor
Experience: Leads the Dutch part of the Belgian Dutch Clinical Pathway Network and advises over 20 organisations on their pathway development and research.
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USA
EPA Contact Person: Kathleen Bower
Organisation: Center for Case Management
Function: Principal
Experience: Experience since 1985 when pathways were introduced in healthcare. Since more than 20 years worldwide experience in pathways and case management.
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YEMEN
EPA Contact Person: Mohammed Albaadani
Organisation: Ministry of Health and Population
Function: Clinical Reviewer
Experience: Mohammed is working for the Ministry of health and population and involved in the administration of Quality & patient safety as quality leader and is linking pathways with patient safety initiatives.
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