Andrzej Jan RYS
Director for health systems, medical products and innovation - European Commission
The Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - How the AI Act Could Become the Deciding Factor for Transforming Healthcare
Thursday 1 June 09:50 - 10:40
Breaking Down Barriers: Towards Global Convergence of Medical Device Regulations
Thursday 1 June 11:10 - 12:00
One year in: The Innovative Health Initiative Leads to its First Successful and Collaborative European Projects
Thursday 1 June 14:00 - 14:50
Andrzej Rys is Principal Scientific Adviser in Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety at the European Commission. He is a medical doctor specialised in radiology and public health, graduated from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, where he founded the School of Public Health (1991). After being Director of Krakow’s City Health Department (1997), he served as Deputy Minister of Health in Poland (1999). In 2003, he founded and became Director of the Center of Technology Transfer and Jagiellonian University (CITTTU) before joining the European Commission in 2006 where he first took the role of Director for Public Health and Risk Assessment.