10:00 Session A: SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE MODELS

Welcome Adress:
HE Ion Jinga, The Ambassador of Romania to the UK

Chairman: Tudor Toma, Consultant Respiratory Physician University Hospital Lewisham, London, UK
Co-Chairman: Traian Mihaescu, Editor BMJ- Romanian Edition, Director of Iasi Pneumophtisiology Clinical Hospital

Key Note Speakers:
David M. Chaput de Saintonge, Director of education. Partnerships In International Medical Education (PRIME)
Irinel Popescu, President National Health Insurance House, Romania

Speakers:
Dr Mihaela Carmaciu, President of Practice Base Commissioning Group, Chelmsford
Dr Victor Turcanu, Lecturer in Pediatric Allergy, King's College London, Vice-President Romanian Medical Society, UK
Dr. Cornelia Scarlatescu, Manager Life Insurance Division – Astra Asigurari

Key Issues: "Returning to values-based medical education"
"National Health Programs"
"Practice Based Commissioning, a policy designed to improve the health care and its cost effectiveness"
"The increase of the medicine school attendees: consequences, challenges, perspectives"
"Challenges of the Romanian Private Health Insurance Market, during financial crises time"

11:15 Session B: INSTRUMENTS FOR A BETTER HEALTH

Chairman: Tudor Toma, Consultant Respiratory Physician University Hospital Lewisham, London, UK
Co-Chairman: Traian Mihaescu, Editor BMJ- Romanian Edition, Director of Iasi Pneumophtisiology Clinical Hospital

Key Note Speakers:
Thomas Müller-Uri, Officer for International Affairs, Austrian Pharmacists` Association
Nick Bosanquet, Professor of Health Policy, Imperial College, London and Special Advisor on Public Expenditure to the Commons Health Committee

Speakers:
Valentin Tarus, President Farmaceutica Remedia
Daniel Popescu, Corporate Affairs Manager for Romania and South-Eastern Europe, Eli Lilly
Dorel Filip, Government Affairs Director GlaxoSmithKline Romania
Dan Ionescu, MD, Corporate Affairs Manager Boehringer Ingelheim RCV GmbH & Co KG  VIENA
Claudiu Tronciu, Country Manager Asi Pharma

Key Issues:
"The Austrian pharmacy. The partnership between the Austrian pharmacies and the social insurance system, in times of crisis"
"Health Programmes  for Middle Income Countries-the new Opportunities"
"Romanian pharmaceutical market and drug pricing 2009" "Brands &Generics"