Oscar Franco | Professor of Public Health and Chair of Department, UMC Utrecht
Prof. Franco obtained his MD at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia in 1998. In 2001 he moved to the Netherlands to complete MSc and DSc degrees in clinical epidemiology and a PhD in public health and cardiovascular disease prevention (2005) at the Erasmus University Medical Center. Following a postdoc at Erasmus MC, he moved to the UK where he was a senior public health epidemiologist at Unilever England, assistant professor of public health at the University of Warwick, and then director of the MPhil program and clinical lecturer in public health at the University of Cambridge. In 2012 Prof. Franco returned to ErasmusMC to the department of epidemiology where he worked as professor of preventive medicine and the principal investigator of the cardiovascular epidemiology group. He also founded and directed the Rotterdam Intergenerational Ageing Research Center, ErasmusAGE, and he was cofounder and CEO of Erasmus Epidemiology Resources. From 2018 until 2022, Oscar moved to the University of Bern as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Title presentation:
The Future of Medicine, Innovation and Health
The emergence of CVD and NCDs in general has resulted from improvements in living conditions, hygiene, sanitation, and healthcare, among others, that have contributed to substantial decreases in child and maternal mortality and have resulted in people living ever longer.
This has led to widespread interest in ageing and healthy ageing; however, questions remain regarding how can we shape our own trajectories of life? These questions have sparked, motivated, and challenged my career and life. Although I might not have answers to these questions, I will share my personal and quixotic attempts to find the answers, together with personal reflections about the future of medicine, innovation and health
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