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Canada Heather Chalmers, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare Canada, shares the company’s increasing focus on incorporating applied intelligence and digital analytics in its portfolio of innovative solutions, and how these can have significant effects on patient outcomes as well as the whole healthcare system. She further highlights the…

Poland Krzysztof Popławski, general manager of Baxter Poland, discusses the Baxter Education Center, the largest educational program for a European affiliate, and its role in raising the awareness within the Polish medical community. Furthermore, he highlights the key growth drivers for the company, the overriding need to better treat and diagnose…

Poland Olympus is internationally well-regarded as being a quality camera provider and continues to provide developed countries across the globe with high-tech medical devices from endoscopes to imagery solutions. Tomasz Mrzygłód, managing director of Olympus Poland, sheds light on the company’s long-term vision and how it manifests in Polish work practices,…

Baltics Piret Hirv, Health Technology Division manager at Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol, discusses the match-making role that the Estonian Connected Health Cluster provides between companies and investors and sees as a priority a less Tallinn-centered approach as a way to attract an even more diverse range of organizations. Can you give…

India A successful commercial leader, Annaswamy Vaidheesh, president of OPPI, VP South Asia and managing director at GSK India, talks about the tremendous work that the local affiliate is doing in the country in making innovative products available to patients and their recent GBP 100 million investment in manufacturing. Can you…

India A strong supporter of public-private partnerships, MSD’s managing director in India, Vivek Kamath, explains how the company’s collaborative approach is the key to enhancing their reputation, improving patient outcomes and tackling unmet medical needs in India.   Mr. Kamath, you have worked for MSD for over four years and you…

India Ashok Battacharya, executive director of the Indian affiliate of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, with 38 years experience in global Ppharmaceutical MNCs, discusses the top-notch reputation that Takeda has among physicians and patients and how the company is working towards making Takeda’s innovative medications available to Indian Patients. Can you give our international…

Estonia Kadri Maegi-Lehtsi, general manager of Roche Pharmaceuticals Estonia, discusses the company’s established footprint in the Estonian market and their mission to give back to the Estonian society not only by providing innovative and highly needed medicines, but also through awareness and lifestyle campaigns. In Estonia, Roche focuses on marketing and…

Baltics Kuuno Vaher, market access director Baltics and country lead of AstraZeneca Estonia, discusses the liberal attitude towards innovative and highly needed medicines of Estonian regulators and the crucial importance of closer collaboration with payers, which has led the thriving affiliate to have its portfolio reimbursed in the country. Can you…

Canada At the 350th anniversary of the company, Gaby Murphy, EMD Serono’s managing director, gives an insight into the turning point for the affiliate in 2017 with three new Health Canada approvals. Over the last few months, we have witnessed significant changes within the Canadian pharmaceutical landscape, especially in terms of…

Lithuania Lithuania’s biotech sector has grown by between 20 and 25 percent over the last five years and accounts for over one percent of the entire country’s GDP. Key industry stakeholders are, however, split on whether Lithuania truly holds the potential to become a biotech hub that can stand alongside nations…

Canada Investissement Québec (IQ) contributed to the completion of 65 international projects in 2017 and hosts Pfizer, Sanofi, and Merck amongst over 160 IT companies, employing over 5,400 workers. Pierre Gabriel Côté, CEO of IQ, took the reins in January 2015 and intends to digitize the investment space using Artificial Intelligence…