RYS Andrzej

Andrzej Rys, medical doctor specialized in radiology and public health, graduate of Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland), is the current Director responsible for health systems, medical products and innovation at the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety in the European Commission. He is member of Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Governing Board and alternate member of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Board.
Until 2011, Andrzej was Director for health systems and products at the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety and until 2006 Director for public health and risk assessment at the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers in the European Commission.
Andrzej was founder and Director of the Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer and of the School of Public Health at Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). From 1999 to 2002 he was Deputy Minister of Health in Poland and member of the Polish accession negotiators team.