PREMIERE OF MEDICA SPORTS HUB: COMLIMEMTARY COACHING BY SUCCESSFUL OLYMPIC ATHLETES

  A special feature at MEDICA, the world’s leading medical trade fair will be the premiere of the MEDICA SPORT HUB. Located in the center of the physiotherapy and orthopedic technology theme segment in Hall 4, the MEDICA SPORTS HUB will invite visitors to an action area on all days of the trade fair for training and dialogue with Olympic athletes who are among the most successful in Germany's history: Heike Henkel (Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder in the high jump) and Lars Riedel (Olympic champion and multiple world champion in the discus discipline). MEDICA will be held from November 14 – 17, 2022 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.

   Keynote speeches, talk sessions and sports exercises to take part in are planned every half hour between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm on each day of the trade fair. The thematic spectrum will range from mental health, nutrition, team success to professional endurance training to aspects of workplace health promotion. 

   “With the MEDICA SPORTS HUB we will demonstrate what characterizes trade fairs held in an in-person format. Only those who come to Düsseldorf have the opportunity to experience and interview top stars from the sports scene face-to-face”, said Christian Grosser, Director Health & Medical Technologies at Messe Düsseldorf.  

   For more information about the MEDICA SPORTS HUB program:

 https://www.medica-tradefair.com/msh2.

Top-class speakers at conferences and forums

   Not only sports celebrities will participate in MEDICA 2022 - the program of the forums integrated into the trade fair and the parallel conferences will also feature top-class speakers. Federal Minister of Health Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach will take part in the kick-off event of the 45th German Hospital Day (DKT), the annual leading event for the top management of German hospitals (November 14). Two days later, the debate on the increasing "outpatientisation" of previously primarily inpatient care services at the 45th DKT will also feature several renowned speakers. Among others, Dr. Gerald Gaß, Chairman of the Board of the German Hospital Association, Dr. Andreas Gassen, Chairman of the Board of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and Prof. Dr. Christoph Straub, Chairman of the Board of BARMER Krankenkasse, will be present.

   Dr Gassen will also take part in the discussion on stabilizing the finances of the statutory health insurance at the MEDICA ECON FORUM (November 17 in Hall 12). The first day of MEDICA will offer exciting sessions, such as Dr. Gottfried Ludewig, Senior Vice President T-Systems Health Industry, addressing the so-called "Amazonisation" of the healthcare market by tech giants. On the third day of the forum (November 16) organized by Techniker Krankenkasse, the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Karl-Josef Laumann, is expected to attend. He will address questions of future health policy in the Forum Dialogue.

Increased and very international exhibitor  registrations

  Exhibitor registration to date shows that exhibitor participation at MEDICA 2022 and the concurrently held  COMPAMED 2022, the leading international trade fair for suppliers to the medical technology industry, will be significantly higher compared to last year. More than 4,400 companies will take part in MEDICA 2022 and around 700 in COMPAMED 2022 (MEDICA 2021: 3033, COMPAMED 2021: 490) – from a total of 70 nations.

   The focus segments of MEDICA are: Laboratory Technology and Diagnostics, Medical Technology and Electromedicine (Imaging and Diagnostics/Medical Equipment and Devices), Commodities and Consumables, Physiotherapy and Orthopedic Technology as well as IT Systems and IT Solutions.

   MEDICA 2022 and COMPAMED 2022 are geared exclusively at trade visitors and only one ticket is needed to visit both events. Tickets can ordered online art the websites of both events.

   For further information  about  MEDICA 2022 or COMPAMED 2022, contact Messe Düsseldorf North America; Telephone: (312) 781-5180; E-mail: info@mdna.com; Visit www.medica-tradefair.com, www.compamed-tradefair.com and www.mdna.com; Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/mdnachicago

   For hotel and travel information, contact TTI Travel, Inc. at (866) 674-3476; Fax: (212) 674-3477; E-mail: info@ttitravel.net; www.ttitravel.net