LORD ARA DARZI TO SPEAK ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORMS IN YEREVAN
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The National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia in cooperation
with the American University of Armenia is organizing on October 30
a public health seminar, which will be attended by Lord Ara Darzi.
In his speech, Mr Ara Darzi will reflect on health care reforms.
Professor Darzi holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial
College London. He is an Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Imperial
College Hospital NHS Trust Hospital and Royal Marsden Hospital and
holds the Chair of Surgery at the Institute of Cancer Research. In
October 2010 he was appointed as Chairman for the Institute of Global
Health Innovation at Imperial College. In 2012 Lord Darzi took up
the role of Chair, Imperial College Health Partners.
He was knighted for his services in medicine and surgery in 2002;
in 2007 he was introduced to the United Kingdom’s House of Lords
as Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham and appointed Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health. As a minister
he successfully set the strategy for the NHS for the decade ahead –
one of the largest pieces of policy work undertaken in the UK. He
relinquished this role in July 2009 when he was appointed the United
Kingdom’s Global Ambassador for Health and Life Sciences, a role
reconfirmed in 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron. Lord Darzi was
appointed as a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council
in June 2009.
Lord Darzi is in Armenia at the invitation of the National
Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia.