Elsner re-elected as CEO

18.07.2017 18:59

Ulrike Elsner is and remains chairwoman of the Association of Replacement Funds. V. (vdek). On July 18, she was unanimously re-elected in this role by the general meeting. Elsner has held the office since she was first elected in July 2012.

Regarding her election, Elsner said: “I would like to thank you for your trust and look forward to further work. My most important goal is to achieve fair competitive conditions for the replacement funds by further developing the financial architecture. They are the basis for a modern supply offer for the insured. Another focus will be digitalization: I will work to ensure that digital change takes place in the interests of the insured - this particularly includes high data protection requirements. We want to achieve even greater quality of care, service and efficiency through modernized processes.”

Elsner emphasized the good cooperation between volunteer representatives of the self-government and full-time employees. “This is the recipe for success for insured and efficient health care,” she emphasized. The full-time board of the vdek is determined by the voluntary representatives of insured persons and employers in the general meeting.

Ulrike Elsner, born in 1965, studied law at the universities of Augsburg and Freiburg. From 1994 she worked in the Berlin state representation of the vdek and then in the Saxony state representation. In 2008, she took over the management of the outpatient care department at the vdek headquarters in Berlin. In 2012, Elsner was elected vdek board chairwoman. Elsner is an honorary judge at the Federal Social Court.

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