Tyson Welzel

Dr Tyson Welzel
Group Chief Innovation Officer,
Mediclinic Group Ltd

Dr Tyson Welzel graduated from the University of Cape Town (“UCT”) in 2001. He has fed his interest in all aspects of Emergency Medicine, completing courses in Hyperbaric, Diving, Aviation Medicine and Expedition Medicine, as well as in Forensic Medicine, Medicine and the Law, and Disaster Medicine. 

For many years, he served the dual function of clinician and Clinical Manager at a district hospital in Cape Town. Shifting to academia, he subsequently joined UCT’s Division of Emergency Medicine as Assistant Professor and co-ordinator of the MPhil and PG Dip programmes and served on the Human Research Ethics Committee of Stellenbosch University from 2011–2018. He is also a founder of the Centre of Excellence in Emergency Medicine in Bern. In 2016, he joined Mediclinic Group, a multinational healthcare services provider, taking responsibility for clinical governance and health technology assessments, before being appointed to spearhead innovation across the organisation in 2019. He founded the Mediclinic radical innovation hub in Zug, Switzerland in 2021.

At the rare occasion when there is spare time, Dr Welzel is an avid photographer, both SLR and drone-based and enjoys a good hike. 

Presentation Synopsis
HM 19 - Challenges in Driving Innovation in Healthcare Organizations
Every organisation strives to create some form of innovation programme. Yet to date, very few such programmes deliver lasting value and/ or are shut down or are reborn with much smaller ambitions a few years after starting them. This topic does not describe how to create a programme but how to sustain it and what to look out for. It is meant as a thought-provoking presentation, looking at how best to engage both one’s own staff and those holding the purse strings.

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