PROF. OKAN EKINCI, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer, Roche DIS

Okan is the Chief Medical Officer in Roche DIS, an organization focused on decision support solutions, powered by aggregated data and advanced analytics, in support of Roche’s personalized healthcare (PHC) strategy. He brings along 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector, among which eight years of clinical practice in cardiology. With his global team, he designs and implements novel value-centric approaches in medical and scientific affairs to support the whole lifecycle of digital health products & services – from early ideation and development through implementation and evidence generation.
Okan worked previously at Siemens Healthineers, where he was most recently Global Head of the Healthcare Consulting business, a unit developing and offering digitally-enabled transformation and clinical consulting services. Prior to that he established the Global Medical Office of Healthineers and served as its first CMO.
He is an adjunct professor of medicine at University College Dublin Medical School, Ireland. Okan holds an MBA from the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, Germany, and an MD from the University of Mainz, Germany.