The Innovation Committee's expert advisory board meets for the first time

19.01.2016 11:16

The Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) can begin discussing the funding announcements on January 18th after the expert advisory board has been constituted. The task of the expert advisory board is to advise the innovation committee on scientific and practical healthcare issues. The committee's further working principles in the form of the rules of procedure and procedures are already available and can be viewed on the Innovation Fund website.

“With the support of the experts appointed today, we are now in a position to begin deliberations on the funding announcements immediately and to reach results quickly,” said Professor Josef Hecken, impartial chairman of the G-BA and chairman of the innovation committee, on January 18th Berlin.

The tasks of the expert advisory board are described in the rules of procedure of the Innovation Committee. The expert advisory board supports the Innovation Committee by making recommendations on the draft funding announcements, assessing the funding applications received and making recommendations on funding decisions.

The following were appointed by the Federal Ministry of Health as members of the expert advisory board:

• Woman Prof. Dr. Maria Blettner: Director of the Institute for Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Informatics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• Ms. Prof. Dr. Marie Luise Dierks: Head of the Patient University and Apl.
• Prof. Dr. Norbert Donner-Banzhoff: Department of General Medicine, Preventive and Rehabilitative Medicine in the Medical Center for Methodological Sciences and Health Research at the Philipps University of Marburg
• Ms. Prof. Dr. Katrin Hertrampf, MPH: Prof. for Prevention and Care in Dentistry at the Medical Faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
• Prof. Dr. Norbert Klusen: Former. Chairman of the Techniker Krankenkasse
• Mister Prof. Dr. Sascha Köpke: Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Research and Teaching in Nursing Section, University of Lübeck
• Dr. Michael Masanneck: Marienhaus Clinics GmbH Waldbreitbach, managing director of various other clinics
• Prof. Dr. Holger Pfaff: Director of the Institute for Medical Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science at the Faculty of Human Sciences and Medicine at the University of Cologne
• Prof. Dr. Rainer Richter: Polyclinic for psychosomatics and psychotherapy at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
• Ms. Prof. Dr. Leonie Sundmacher: Head of department Health Services management at the Faculty of Business Administration at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

The recommendations of the expert advisory board must be taken into account by the innovation committee in its decisions. Deviations from the expert advisory board's vote must be justified in writing by the Innovation Committee.

The Innovation Committee set up an office to handle its ongoing business on January 1, 2016. Project sponsors who will support the office and the expert advisory board in their tasks will be appointed shortly.

After the consultations have been completed, the funding announcements will be published on the Innovation Fund website (innovationsfonds.g-ba.de) and published in the Federal Gazette.