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About the Company

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems. Our "healthymagination" vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality around the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.

About the Person

Jorg F. Debatin, MBA, has been the Chief Technology Officer for GE Healthcare and Vice President for GE Healthcare at General Electric Company since September 2014. Dr. Debatin serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of amedes Holding AG. He joined the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf as Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer in November 2003. In April 2006, he was elected as the federal leadership of the Economic Advisory Council, Germany. He was elected as Deputy Presiding Officer of the state's party in January 2007 by The Economic Advisory Council of the National Association Hamburg. Since 1993 he served as Senior Physician of the University Hospital Zürich, where he lead the MR area. He served as a Professor in August 1999 and was appointed hospital Director for diagnostic and interventional radiology at University Hospital Essen. He serves as a Member of Supervisory Board at VANGUARD AG. He received his Postgraduate Degree in Corporate Governance (‘Executive MBA’) at the University of St. Gallen. He studied Medicine at the University of Heidelberg. After his licensure as a Doctor in 1987, residency training took place in diagnostic radiology at the Duke University Medical Center. He received the American specialist degree, a Fellowship in 'abdominal imaging' followed in 1992 at Stanford University.