The Rede Optimus hospitals are committed to achieve an unequaled level of integrity, compassion, quality and
efficacy in the delivery of health services to our patients, their family and our community.
Overview
A European-Brazilian cooperation to integrate European expertise and quality into
Brazilian healthcare system in the following areas:
Research, training and education.
Medical, staff: funcioning as a team per speciality and adhering to defined clinical pathways as base
for DRG based reimbursement.
Hospital: architecture, patient flows and management.
Rede Optimus Research
Gives you the advantage
European Background
Quality assurance
Highly qualified team with more than 20 years of experience in Clinical Research
Key opinion Leaders / Network
Strong network of investigator sites: potential target population and research structure
Sites training, support and updates on GCP
Clinical Research Staff Qualification
We have a highly qualified multidisciplinary team that holds ample and documented
training on Good Clinical Practices, on National and International Guidelines and Regulations.
Dr. Marc Bosiers is CEO of Rede Optimus Hospitalar and Chairman of its Board of Directors. Dr. Bosiers has
been Director of the Operating Theaters and Head of the Surgical department at the St. Blasius Hospital in
Dendermonde, Belgium since 1997, one of Belgium’s most performing centers with an annual turnover of EUR 130M
in 2014. As such, he holds close to 20 years of experience and active involvement in hospital management.
He is a sr. scientific and strategic adviser to various international, leading healthcare companies. Dr.
Bosiers has founded in Belgium the surgeons' training program FMRP which trained over 200 international
surgeons over the past ten years, including over 40 Brazilians. He has authored over 150 publications in
peer-reviewed journals, wrote two books and has a track record of more than 600 presentations.
Dr. Bosiers graduated “Magna cum Laude” from the Catholic University of Leuven, School of Medicine, Belgium
and spends the majority of his time both in Brazil and Belgium.
Dr. Jorge Amorim is Chief Medical Officer of Rede Optimus Hospitalar, responsible for leading its medical
team, both physicians and nursing staff. Dr. Amorim is a renown vascular surgeon at the Hospital Israelita
Albert Einstein in São Paulo, and is Professor at UNIFESP (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, School of
Medicine) in vascular and endovascular surgery. He is widely regarded and respected as an excellent people
manager. Dr. Amorim holds his Phd from UNIFESP and lives in São Paulo, Brazil.
Currently, William Wijns is SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) Professor in interventional Cardiology at the Lambe
Institute for Translational Medicine, Curam, and Saolta University Healthcare Group, National University of
Ireland Galway. He has served the ESC in various positions, including Vice-President, scientific Programme
Chair, and was also a President of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiac Intervention (EAPCI).
Presently, William Wijns is Co-Director of EuroPCR and Chairman of PCR.
Christophe Bosiers leads the Corporate Development and Structuring activities of Rede Optimus Hospitalar, in
parallel to his role as Managing Director of Argonauts Partners, a Swiss Venture Capital investor with a focus
on the MedTech industry. Prior to that Christophe held the position of Director Corporate Development with
Genae, a global Medical Device CRO. Christophe started his career with GE Capital’s European operations, based
in Paris, where held numerous positions in Leveraged Finance, Treasury, Alternative funding & Securitization
between 2006 and 2013. Christophe obtained his Master’s degree from the University of Antwerp, School of
Economics, Belgium, and lives currently between Zürich, Switzerland and São Paulo, Brazil.
Elisa Kretzer holds more than 16 years of experience in the field of Clinical Research with a focus on Medical
devices.
› 9 years as Clinical Research Consulting
› 3 years as IRB/EC Member
› 2 years Professor of Project Management
She specializated in Clinical Trials at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo and she
obtained a Master Degree in Business Administration at Universidade Estadual de Santa Catarina. Originally from
Florianopolis, she currently lives in São Paulo.