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Social Event
Opening Ceremony
The Opening Ceremony marks the official beginning of the World Health Summit 2009.
To demonstrate the globalized future in medicine a live connection to the International Space Station will present biomedical research in space by the ISS crew.
After the ceremony, the Welcome Reception provides ample opportunity to meet with top opinion leaders, CEOs as well as board-level executives from science, politics and the health care sector.
Welcome Messages
Karl Max Einhäupl | CEO | Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Klaus Wowereit | Governing Mayor of Berlin
Axel Kahn | President | World Health Summit
Angela Merkel | Chancellor | Federal Republic of Germany (attendance pending)
Nicolas Sarkozy | President | Republic of France (attendance pending)
Space Talk With Astronauts: Medical Research In Space, Live Inflight Call To The International Space Station ISS
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Federal Minister | Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany
Jean-Jacques Dordain | Director General | European Space Agency
Thomas Reiter | Astronaut | Member Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center
Simonetta di Pippo | Director of HSF | European Space Research & Technology Centre
Peter Hintze | Parliamentary State Secretary | Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Minister of Health of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia | Board Chair of the Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Marc Danzon | Regional Director | WHO Regional Office for Europe
Christopher A. Viehbacher | CEO | sanofi-aventis
How Evolutionary Medicine Can Guide The Evolution Of Medicine
Randolph Nesse | Director, Evolution and Human Adaptation Program | The University of Michigan
Detlev Ganten | President | World Health Summit