DISCUSSION "Data as a Compass: The Path to Higher Quality and Sustainability in Palliative Care"
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Michal Mego
Oncology Clinic of the Medical Faculty of Comenius University and the National Cancer Institute
In 2001, he graduated in medicine from the Faculty of Medicine at Comenius University in Bratislava while also working as a student researcher at the Institute of Experimental Oncology (ÚEO) of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV). He specialized in clinical oncology. From 2001 to 2007, he worked as a physician at the Internal Medicine Clinic of…
Dajana Petríková
Association of Health Insurance Companies of Slovakia
She has completed both high school and college at the Department of Health. She received further training in health care organisation, mainly abroad. Her work experience is in healthcare delivery, commercial supplementary health, and public health insurance. She has specialised in health care purchasing for more than 20 years, most of which were…
Andrea Škripeková
Hospital AGEL in Bratislava, Slovak Medical University
She was a long-time head physician at the National Cancer Institute on Klenová Street in Bratislava, where she started working in 1996 after graduating from the Faculty of Medicine. Since July 2025, she has been working at AGEL Hospital in Bratislava, where she is establishing a Palliative Care Center with a mobile hospice and an outpatient cl…
Ondřej Kopecký
Czech Society of Palliative Medicine
Ondřej Kopecký is the Chair of the Czech Society of Palliative Medicine of the Czech Medical Association J. E. Purkyně (ČLS JEP). He previously worked as a physician in intensive and resuscitation care, and since 2014 he has focused his professional activities on the development of palliative care, particularly in hospital settings. From 2021 …
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