Replay available - Symposium HAS "Health: innovation serving people"

 

Today, health innovation encompasses the technological aspects offered by new therapeutic approaches, the miniaturisation of medical devices, the use of digital solutions and artificial intelligence.

Innovation also incorporates the human dimension, particularly in terms of innovative organisational methods, the engagement of the people concerned in their own social and medico-social support, and the role of users in public policymaking.

All this brings hope of a better future for patients and supported persons. How can we harness the potential offered by the innovations of tomorrow while at the same time taking into account the environmental, ethical and economic sustainability imperatives of today? The purpose of this international scientific conference is to help clarify these challenges.

A “Patient Included” event.

Program

Opening speeches

• Lionel Collet, President of the French National Authority for Health (HAS)
• Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister of Health and Access to Care

 

Oral paper presentation - Horizon scanning of health technologies

• Olivier Amédée-Manesme, Emeritus Professor of Therapeutics - Institutional relations' general delegate to the Presidency of the University of Paris Cité

 

Round table - Financial and ecological sustainability of technological innovations

• Lise Alter, Director General of the French Health Innovation Agency (AIS)
• Fanny Burrows, Senior Lead, Net Zero research & innovation, Greener NHS programme, NHS, England
• Pascale Lehoux, Scientific Vice President, National Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS), Quebec
• Bertrand Pailhès, Director of operations and territories, The National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information

 

Oral paper presentation - Innovation and progress: an international vision

• Catherine Olivier, Scientific Coordinator, Methodologies and Ethics Office, INESSS, Quebec

 

Round table - Innovating with organizations, ethics, associations, and the social and social care services

• Yvanie Caillé, founder of Renaloo
• Eve Gardien, associate professor, Rennes 2 University
• Claude Kirchner, former research director at the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria), chairman of the National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) under the aegis of the French National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE)
• Etienne Minvielle, Director of the École Polytechnique management research centre, public health physician at Gustave-Roussy cancer centre, member of the French Academy of Medicine

 

Conclusion

• Lionel Collet, President of the French National Authority for Health (HAS)

 

Lise Alter
Director General of the Health Innovation Agency 

A medical doctor with a master’s degree in health services economics and management, Lise Alter served as the medical advisor for "blood, grafts, tissues, and cells" at the Health Directorate of the Ministry of Health from 2012 to 2013, and then as a medical advisor at the National Health Insurance Fund until 2014. After spending four years at Lilly France (2014-2018) in the "market access" department and then as manager of the Oncology Business Unit, she joined the Directorate General of Health Care Services at the Ministry of Health in 2018 as Deputy Director of Performance Management for Health Care Providers. In 2020, Lise Alter was appointed Director of Medical, Economic, and Public Health Assessment at the French National Authority for Health. She coordinated the work of the departments to address the evaluation challenges of tests, treatments, and vaccines against Covid-19 and implemented a new organization within the directorate to address innovation challenges. On October 31, 2022, Sylvie Retailleau, Minister of Higher Education and Research, François Braun, Minister of Health and Prevention, and Roland Lescure, Minister Delegate for Industry, along with Bruno Bonnell, Secretary General for Investment in charge of France 2030, announced her appointment as Director General of the Health Innovation Agency during the ministerial steering committee "Health" of France 2030.

Olivier Amédée-Manesme (MD, PhD, MBA)
Emeritus Professor of Therapeutics - Institutional relations' general delegate to the Presidency of the University of Paris Cité

Olivier Amédée-Manesme holds a Doctorate in Medicine from Université Paris Cité, a Doctorate in Science from Université Paris Saclay, and a diploma from the HEC Business School Advanced Management Program. He has successively been an intern and then an assistant chief of clinic in pediatrics at the Hospitals of Paris, a hospital practitioner, a research manager at Inserm, and for 10 years, the director of scientific, pharmaceutical, and medical affairs at LEEM.
From 2000, he joined Université Paris Cité as a Professor of Therapeutics and took the lead in developing the emerging structure Paris Biotech Santé, creating and developing a Master's program in vigilance and health safety.
Currently, Paris Biotech Santé consists of incubators, business nursery hotels, at the heart of their research ecosystem, close to patients and healthcare providers, occupying 6000 m² of useful space.
By early 2026, new spaces will be opened (Cochin, Saint Joseph, Saint-Pères, Vuillemin), allowing them to reach 13,000 m² of useful space.
Paris Biotech Santé helps create and develop innovative start-ups in the field of human health (medications, medical devices, patient services, artificial intelligence). The funds raised significantly exceed 2 billion euros, with several thousand jobs created. Several companies are publicly traded. Since September, Olivier Amédée-Manesme has been Professor Emeritus, Project Manager at the Presidency of Paris Cité University, Chairman of the evaluation and selection committees of Paris Biotech Santé.

Fanny Burrows
Senior Lead, Net Zero research & innovation, Greener NHS programme, NHS, England

Fanny holds the position of 'Senior Lead' in Research & Innovation within the Greener NHS program at NHS England. She is responsible for integrating environmental sustainability criteria into innovation efforts in public health. Additionally, she also manages the funding and acceleration of technological or human innovations aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of the National Health Service (NHS).
Fanny is also responsible for relationships within health research to increase funding opportunities and collaborations in research, supporting environmental challenges in public health.
Before joining the Greener NHS team, Fanny worked for several years in public funding for research and innovation at the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR). She also spent several years in research & development at a small medical device development company and in global technology transfer.

Yvanie Caillé
Founder of Renaloo

Yvanie Caillé has been living with a kidney disease since childhood. An applied mathematics engineer, she founded the Renaloo patients’ association dedicated to kidney diseases, dialysis and transplants in 2002. 
She also directed the Greffe de Vie kidney transplant foundation, the Pierre et Marie Curie University foundation, and the French National Health Data Institute. 
She is currently a member of the French National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE), the Committee for Health Risk Monitoring and Anticipation (COVARS), and the HAS Technical Committee for Vaccinations. 
She is co-author of “D’autres reins que les miens” [Somebody Else’s Kidneys] a book in which patients and physicians share their life stories and medical achievements in the field of kidney dialysis and transplants (Le Cherche Midi, 2015, with Frank Martinez).

Eve Gardien
Associate professor, Rennes 2 University

Eve Gardien, associate professor at Rennes 2 University, is one of France’s leading authorities in peer support. A specialist in the sociology of disability, health and the body, for the past ten years she has been focusing her research on peer support and assistance, as well as the resulting experiential knowledge. She has published a number of papers and books, including “Des innovations sociales par et pour les personnes en situation de handicap” [Social Innovations for and by People with Disabilities] (2012), and, more recently, her latest book as lead author: “L’accompagnement par les pairs : Enjeux de participation et de professionnalisation” [Peer Support: Challenges of Participation and Professionalisation] (2020). Eve Gardien is the scientific manager of the EXPAIRs research programme

Claude Kirchner
Former research director at the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria), chairman of the National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) under the aegis of the French National Ethics Advisory Committee

Claude Kirchner directs the National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN), created in December 2019 under the aegis of the French National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE). He is a former research director of Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, having been the Institute’s Scientific Director from 2010 to 2014. He is also a member of Viginum’s Ethics and Scientific Committee and the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) Foresight Committee.
He was a member of the CCNE (French National Ethics Advisory Committee for Health and Life Sciences) from 2018 to 2023, a member of the scientific board of the ANSSI (French National Cybersecurity Agency) until 2022 and the first chairman of COERLE, Inria’s operational committee for legal and ethical risk assessment, as well as its scientific integrity officer up until the end of 2018.
His research interests and scientific contributions focus on the logical and semantic foundations for the design and implementation of reliable and secure digital systems and their applications in the field of cybersecurity. The holder of a PhD from Nancy University awarded in 1985, from 1992 he created and led a project team focusing on these scientific themes in Nancy, and then directed Inria’s Bordeaux - South-West research centre from 2007 to 2010. As part of the Eureca team, he was awarded the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) silver medal in 1987 and won the Academy of Sciences grand prix in 2002 awarded by the Franco-Taiwanese cultural foundation. He was elected a member of the Bordeaux National Academy of Sciences, Literature and the Arts in 2019.

Pascale Lehoux
Scientific Vice President of the National Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS), Quebec

Holder of a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from the University of Montreal, Ms Pascale Lehoux completed a PhD in Public Health at the same university in 1996. After postdoctoral training in Science & Technology Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam and the Quebec Healthy Technology Assessment Council (CÉTS), she began an academic career in 1998 in the University of Montreal’s Department of Health Administration.
Since then, Ms Lehoux has published two books and more than 165 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has developed numerous knowledge mobilisation initiatives. She held the Canada Research Chair in Health Innovations from 2005 to 2015. Her seven-year research programme on responsible health innovation (entitled In Fieri) was ranked 22nd out of 150 programmes funded in the first competition of the highly competitive Foundation Scheme of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
In 2019, Ms Lehoux was awarded the 30th anniversary medal of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. This award is given to ten recipients every five years for their contributions to the field of health technology assessment. In 2021, she was awarded the Peggy Leatt Award by the University of Toronto in recognition of significant achievements in developing transformative evidence on how to improve health services and health systems.
Ms Lehoux was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) from 2018 to 2023 and co-chair of Research at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology (OBVIA) from 2018 to 2022. She has been Scientific Vice-Chair at INESSS since 1 August 2023.

Etienne Minvielle
Director of the École Polytechnique management research centre, public health physician at Gustave-Roussy cancer centre, member of the French Academy of Medicine

Etienne Minvielle is Director of the École Polytechnique management research centre (i3-CRG, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) where he serves as CNRS Research Director and Professor and Senior Lecturer. He is also a public health physician at Gustave Roussy. A qualified physician (former public health hospital resident), he is a graduate of the ESSEC business school, and has a PhD in Management (Ecole Polytechnique). His research focuses on the organisation of the healthcare system (patient pathways and their personalisation; the role of digital technology; management of the unknown; quality and performance management) and has been published in the most prestigious journals in the field (Nature Medicine, Social Science and Medicine, Public Administration Review, The BMJ). He recently published the “Patient et le Système” [The Patient and the System] (Ed. Seli Arslan, 2018) and “Voyage au Cœur du système de santé, 100 témoignages pour apprendre à gérer avec la crise” [Journey to the Heart of the Health System:100 Testimonies to Help Manage the Crisis] (Ed Eska, 2021). He is a corresponding member of the French National Academy of Medicine. Finally, he is a member of various scientific and steering committees and was awarded the special prize for public manager of the year in 2016 (Assemblée Nationale - French National Assembly).

Catherine Olivier
Scientific coordinator, Methodologies and Ethics Office, INESSS

Catherine Olivier has a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology (2001) and a PhD in Bioethics from the University of Montreal (2013). From 2013 to 2019, Ms Olivier worked as an ethical and business affairs professional at the Fonds de recherche du Québec [Quebec Research Fund]. She joined the Canadian National Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) in 2019 as a scientific methodology professional, specialising in ethics. She was appointed scientific coordinator within the Methodologies and Ethics Office in November 2022, in particular coordinating the production of strategic monitoring, and the ethics, publishing and scientific information sectors.

Bertrand Pailhès
Chief Technology Officer, Director of operations and territories, The National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information 

A graduate of Telecom ParisTech, Sciences Po Paris and the Ecole de Mines engineering school in Paris, Bertrand Pailhès worked at ARCEP (French regulatory authority for electronic communications, postal and print media distribution) and in the CNIL’s technological expertise department, before joining the office of the Minister for the Digital Economy, Fleur Pellerin, in 2013.
In 2015, he was appointed director of the office of Axelle Lemaire, Secretary of State for Digital Technology and in this capacity worked on the Law for a Digital Republic adopted in October 2016.
In July 2018, Bertrand Pailhès became national coordinator of the strategy for artificial intelligence in the Interministerial Department for Digital Technology.
He joined the CNIL in November 2019 as Chief Technology and Innovation Officer.