Geneva Sustainability Centre

Andrew Garman

Senior Leadership Development Advisor

Andrew believes our healthcare institutions will play a pivotal role in the future healing of our planet. An industrial psychologist by training and a professor of health systems management at Rush University in Chicago, USA, Andrew is an award-winning author and educator. He has decades of experience facilitating learning programmes for a wide range of leadership and clinical audiences, including the American College of Healthcare Executives, GE Healthcare, Healthcare Financial Management Association, International Hospital Federation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Practice Greenhealth, Ontario Hospital Association, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Andrew has contributed to over one hundred research articles, book chapters, major reports, and books on a breadth of leadership development and foresight topics. His most recent book, Healing our future: Leadership for a changing health system, emphasizes the catalytic role of healthcare institutions in addressing complex social challenges such as climate change.

Andrew received his bachelor degree in psychology/mathematics emphasis from Penn State, his masters in personnel and human resource development from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and hisdDoctorate in clinical psychology from the College of William & Mary / Virginia Consortium.

Deloitte Consulting Switzerland

Carlo Giardinetti

Sustainability Senior Advisor, Deloitte

Carlo splits his time between academia and consulting. His 25 years’ multidisciplinary experience ranges from professional footballer, hotel and resort manager, Harvard instructor, learning designer, leadership coach and sustainability advisor.

University of Queensland / Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association

Dr Christian Gericke

Professor of Medicine, Queensland

Professor Christian Gericke, MD PhD MPH (Cantab) MSc MBA FRACP FAFPHM, is a Consultant Neurologist, Epileptologist and Public Health Physician. He is Director of Neurology at the Prince Charles Hospital, Medical Director of the Communicable Diseases Branch in the Queensland Department of Health in Brisbane, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland.

Munich Municipal Hospital Group & University of Cape Town / German Hospital Federation

Prof. Dr Edda Weimann

Medical Director, Munich, and Honorary Associate Professor, Cape Town

Edda Weimann is an internationally renowned professor of child health and a public health specialist in the field of health systems. She obtained her medical degree at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, her formation in paediatrics at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and her masters degree in public health (international health systems) at the University of Cape Town.

Deloitte

Dr Elizabeth Baca

Managing Director, Deloitte

Dr Elizabeth is a clinician and strategic leader providing systems thinking and insights to healthcare and life science clients to support care delivery innovation to foster total health and wellbeing recognizing health equity and sustainability are central to this work. She served in both administrations of Governor Brown and Governor Newsom, first as Senior Health Advisor and then Deputy Director. She has worked on a variety of projects to foster health through land use planning, systems change, food systems, precision health, precision medicine and big data. Much of her work is about connecting the dots; she loves working across sectors to foster participant-centred design and collaboration.

Aga Khan Development Network

Dr Fawzia Rasheed

Senior Adviser to Director of Health, Aga Khan

Fawzia leads the work on decarbonizing health operations for Aga Khan Health Services, across 8 countries and involving over 500 health facilities. Innovations developed through this experience are being shared with governments across the world in collaboration with the World Health Organization. Tackling the climate and environmental crises are her priorities.

Catalan Hospital, Health and Social Services Association

Dr Jaume Duran

Chief Executive Officer

Dr Jaume Duran has been the CEO of a non-for profit institution, Fundació Sanitaria Mollet (FSM), for more than 13 years. Thanks to its 1500 professionals, FSM delivers social and health public services to a more than 165.000 citizens of reference in Barcelona metropolitan area, by managing 85 annual million € on average per budget.

Trained as general practitioner and holder of a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Dr Duran has occupied various executive positions in Catalan hospitals. He is also involved in governance and lobbying activities for the Catalan health sector, as the Secretary of the Director Committee at the Catalan Union of Hospitals.

Focused on increasing services to their customers by adding value thanks to quality improvement processes, Dr Duran has a solid interpersonal, collaborative and teaching skills.

Dr Duran became a member of the IHF Governing Council in February 2021.

American Hospital Association

Michelle Hood

Executive Vice President & COO, AHA

In love with the sciences since youth, Michelle Hood earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Purdue and began graduate school in neurophysiology. That’s when she realized her work life needed more human interaction. At a faculty advisor’s suggestion she pivoted and earned a master’s in healthcare administration. Today she is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Hospital Association.

NHS England and NHS Improvement / NHS Confederation

Dr Nick Watts

Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS England

Dr Nick Watts is the Chief Sustainability Officer of the NHS, responsible for its commitment to deliver a world-class net zero emission health service. Based in London, he leads the Greener NHS team across the country, which focuses on improving the health of patients and the public through a robust and accelerated response to climate change and the broader sustainability agenda.

International Hospital Federation

Ronald Lavater

Chief Executive Officer

Ronald Lavater, MPA, FACHE is a healthcare executive with 25 years of leadership experience in public and investor-owned healthcare companies in the United States and international markets. With extensive knowledge in hospital operations and ambulatory services including retail urgent care, Ronald has a deep and broad-based understanding of the healthcare services sector with a global perspective.

Before joining the IHF, he has served as CEO of WellStreet Urgent Care headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. From 2014 to 2016, he was the CEO for Al Noor Hospitals Group, Plc. He also worked for six years for Johns Hopkins Medicine International, serving first as CEO of Corniche Hospital in Abu Dhabi for five years and later as a senior executive representing many of the company’s interests in the Middle East.

Ronald began his healthcare career in 1993 as an analyst for senior management of insurance company Blue Cross and Blue Shield. After a few years, he was recruited by Hospital Corporation of America where he held several leadership roles in U.S. hospitals, including CEO and COO. He has also served as a Non-Executive Director for Optegra Eye Health Care.

Ronald holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in public administration from Florida State University. He is a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and previously completed a two-year term as president of the Middle East & North Africa ACHE group.

Mazzetti

Walt Vernon

CEO, Mazzetti

Walt is CEO of Mazzetti, a global planning, design and engineering firm and an IHF Premier Associate Member. Walt has over 30 years of experience in the research, planning, and design of healthcare facilities. He is also the founder of the non-profit organization, the Sextant Foundation. Alongside these roles, Walt’s industry contributions include serving on the board of both Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm. He was also was principal author for the World Health Organization’s Health in the Green Economy, as well as AHA’s Sustainability Roadmap for Hospitals – A Guide to Achieving Your Sustainability Goals.