Sjaak Vink is a social innovator and he has always aimed to create a more equal and fair healthcare system that gives everyone, everywhere the access they need. After a successful career as an entrepreneur, he set out to dedicate his time towards social good. He founded TheSocialMedwork in 2014 with the sole mission to help patients all over the world to get access to the newest treatments not approved in their home countries.

 

Aysen Simsek is a medical doctor whose calling is to safeguard vulnerable groups of people. Prior to joining TheSocialMedwork, she made great strides in facilitating the global resettlement of Syrian refugees, acting as a custodian for refugee health and wellbeing for the United Nations Refugee Agency in Istanbul. She now devotes her knowledge and experience to ensuring that patients have ease of access to critical medicines. She believes the challenges of availability and open access to medical innovations is a pressing issue worldwide and hopes to help solve this challenge with her team.

Healthcare access is a worldwide challenge. Every day, patients from all over the world are denied access to elsewhere approved health innovations for arbitrary reasons. TheSocialMedwork aims to provide patients with access to quality of life improving medicines. To date, TheSocialMedwork has helped patients with life debilitating illnesses gain access to 5,500 elsewhere approved medicines in over 75 countries. Under the Named Patient import basis, and with the help of healthcare professionals all over the world, TheSocialMedwork is safely and legally delivering medicines to patients everywhere. The partnership between TheSocialMedwork and nurses is a very important one. Together we have a responsibility to educate and guide doctors about all the available options for every patient without providing false hope. During this presentation, Founder & CEO Sjaak Vink and Medical Doctor Aysen Simsek, MD, MSc will share valuable insight regarding: TheSocialMedwork overview, The named patient regulation, The process of helping patients access elsewhere approved medicines and The intricate role that nurses play in guiding doctors.