Katrin Hoffmann

Prof. Dr. med. Katrin Hoffmann, MBA, former Chief Medical Officer and Executive Board Member of the Luzerner Kantonsspital Group, one of Switzerland’s largest multi-site university teaching and research hospital networks, where she led the group-wide medical strategy and drove digital, structural and virtual care innovation across the continuum of care.

A board-certified visceral and transplant surgeon with more than 20 years’ experience at leading European university hospitals, she combines deep clinical expertise with C‑suite responsibility for healthcare strategy, M&A integration, quality, patient safety and value-based performance in complex health systems.

Her work focuses on building data- and AI-enabled health ecosystems that connect hospital, outpatient and home-based care, leveraging smart hospital concepts, virtual care models and precision medicine to create scalable, patient-centric solutions.

As an advisor to digital health and medtech companies in Europe and the US, and through her academic roles and international research profile with over 100 peer-reviewed publications, she bridges providers, industry and academia to translate innovation into measurable impact on outcomes, experience and efficiency.

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See Katrin’s presentation “Virtual Care - once sci-fi, now reality in Europe” in the program