Thomas Kaiser becomes the new head of IQWiG
16.02.2023 15:17
The current head of the IQWiG drug evaluation department succeeds Jürgenwickeler, who is retiring after more than 12 years at the helm of the institute.
His new position as head of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare (IQWiG) will be Dr. med. Thomas Kaiser will start at the beginning of April. He succeeds Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen diaperer, who has been leading the independent institute since September 2010.
“I would like to thank Jürgenwickeler for his very successful work over the past few years. The IQWiG “Today enjoys an excellent reputation nationally and internationally,” emphasizes Dr. med. Stephan Hofmeister, currently spokesman for the board of the Foundation for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, where he represents the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians. “Thomas Kaiser is his successor, a highly qualified and widely respected expert in evidence-based medicine who will continue to write the institute’s success story in the European context.”
Dr. med. Thomas Kaiser (53 years old), who worked as a system developer before studying medicine, has headed the IQWiG drug evaluation department since the institute was founded in 2004 (together with Dr. rer. nat. Beate Wieseler). Your team is therefore also responsible for more than 660 early benefit assessments of new drugs as part of the AMNOG process that started in 2011. Kaiser is, among other things, a winner of the David Sackett Prize of the German Evidence-Based Medicine Network 2011 (award for the drug evaluation department for work on unpublished data).
The management of the IQWiG is appointed by the board of directors at the suggestion of the board of trustees. In both bodies of the foundation are the members of the joint self-administration in the healthcare system, i.e. the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists, the German Hospital Association and
National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds represented on the board, including the Federal Ministry of Health. The decision, Dr. med. Thomas Kaiser as head of the institute IQWiG The appointment was unanimous.