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Susanne Baars
Founder iGEN | GLOBAL IMPACT | Advisor Dutch Ministry of Health, Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving (RVS)
Founder iGEN | GLOBAL IMPACT | Advisor Dutch Ministry of Health, Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving (RVS)
Digitalisering
Medisch technologische innovaties
A woman on a mission - to improve healthcare for every person on earth. Susanne Baars is a healthcare pioneer and genetic expert.
I have been a neuroscientist at Harvard (USA), I have worked at the ethics department of the WHO headquarters (Swiss) and I have been exploring the multidrug phenomena at Peking University (China). In the past five years I became to realize that the common dominator of all systems I have explored are broken, deeply dissociated and fragmented. I am astonished by the fact that people often do not receive the care they need, even if the experts and the knowledge are available.
I am born and raised in a medical family and have been confronted with pressing healthcare issues ever since I was young. I have observed the commitment and dedication that my father devotes to his role as a cardiologist specialized into genetics, to protect the lives of his patients and their family at the one hand, but also what needs to be changed within the system.
Having witnessed the despair, the fear and the inability of patients to act on their own and make informed choices, have deeply touched me. Realizing the impact of knowing this has on my own life makes that I want to change this.
Because of this I started iGEN, a genetic healthcare innovation to reduce the total amount of young people that die because of preventable and treatable diseases.
Further I am advisor of the advisory board of the Dutch Ministry. Providing advices to the minister and the first and second chambers of parliament.
I have been a neuroscientist at Harvard (USA), I have worked at the ethics department of the WHO headquarters (Swiss) and I have been exploring the multidrug phenomena at Peking University (China). In the past five years I became to realize that the common dominator of all systems I have explored are broken, deeply dissociated and fragmented. I am astonished by the fact that people often do not receive the care they need, even if the experts and the knowledge are available.
I am born and raised in a medical family and have been confronted with pressing healthcare issues ever since I was young. I have observed the commitment and dedication that my father devotes to his role as a cardiologist specialized into genetics, to protect the lives of his patients and their family at the one hand, but also what needs to be changed within the system.
Having witnessed the despair, the fear and the inability of patients to act on their own and make informed choices, have deeply touched me. Realizing the impact of knowing this has on my own life makes that I want to change this.
Because of this I started iGEN, a genetic healthcare innovation to reduce the total amount of young people that die because of preventable and treatable diseases.
Further I am advisor of the advisory board of the Dutch Ministry. Providing advices to the minister and the first and second chambers of parliament.
