Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée holds the Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at McGill University, where she is Inaugural Chair and Professor in the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) and a Professor in the Department of Sociology (Faculty of Arts). She is the founding Director of the McGill Observatory on Health and Social Services Reforms and a founding member of the McGill Center on Population Dynamics. Finally, she also founded and is Executive Director of CAnD3 (https://mcgill.ca/cand3/), an international consortium of 38 academic, government, private and non-profit organizations delivering training in support of evidence-based decision making.
Quesnel-Vallée’s research examines the contribution of policies to social inequalities in health over the life course and has been recognized through awards from professional associations including the American Sociological Association, the Population Association of America, and the American Public Health Association. She is a two-time Fulbright Foundation awardee, most recently of a Distinguished Chair (2020). She is a Past-President of the Canadian Population Society and of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on the Sociology of Health. She has demonstrated experience in providing strategic advice to several complex organizations, notably the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, where she served as a board member for six years, and held leadership roles such as the inaugural Chair of the Standing Committee on Science (2022-2024) and as a Member of the Executive Committee (2021-2024). Committed to furthering public understanding of science, Quesnel-Vallée is frequently sought by media outlets such as National Public Radio, the New York Times and Business Week.
Gregory Katz
Gregory Katz is the Chaired Professor of Value in Health at Université Paris Cité School of Medicine. A member of the French Academy of Surgery, his publications focus on the real-life impact of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) implementation. Gregory Katz is the academic director of the VBHC postgraduate diploma dedicated to clinicians, payers, providers, medtech-biopharma, patient representatives, and health authorities. Gregory Katz is an expert board member of the Statista-Newsweek World's Best Hospital ranking. He is also a member of the advisory committee of the International Consortium for Outcome Measurements (ICHOM). Besides his academic life, Gregory Katz is President of PromTime, a health data science company commissioned by the French Ministry of Health and the national payer to implement outcome-driven communities of practice in ophthalmology, orthopaedics, etc. PromTime collaborates closely with medical colleges and patient associations to help medical teams compare and improve patient health gains in real life.
Paul van der Nat
Paul is professor of value-based healthcare at IQ healthcare (Radboudumc), manager value-based healthcare at St. Antonius Hospital, and research development manager at Santeon. Paul is working on VBHC implementation and research in local, national, and international initiatives since 2013. His current research focuses on condition-based organization of hospitals, change management requires in the implementation of value-based healthcare and patient participation within multidisciplinary value improvement teams. Paul was installed as professor in 2022 and gave his inaugural lecture ‘from amazement to improvement’ in 2023. Paul was strategy consultant at The Decision Group in 2008-2011 and he holds a PhD for his work at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF, Amsterdam).
