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Ignacio RIESGO
Health Advisor
Madrid
Spain
Ignacio Riesgo graduated in Medicine in 1971 (Madrid) and became a Doctor of Medicine in 1981 (Oviedo). He specialized in Pathological Anatomy at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz (Madrid), and worked as a hospital doctor for 11 years.
Since 1983 he has been working in the area of hospital management, and was Managing Director of Hospital Covadonga in Oviedo (1983-1989), Instituto Nacional de Silicosis (1987-1989) and Hospital Central de Asturias (1990-1992). The latter is a university hospital, resulting from the merger of Hospital Covadonga, Instituto Nacional de Silicosis and Hospital General de Asturias. He was also Managing Director of Hospital Ramón y Cajal in Madrid (1992- 1994).
From July 1994 to May 1995, he was Head of the Health Administration Department of the Escuela Nacional de Sanidad (National School of Health). Since 1986 he has been a member of the Spanish Delegation of the European Union Hospital and Healthcare Federation of which he was elected Deputy Chairman in 1992 (Rotterdam) and Chairman in May 1995 (Stockholm).
From 1995, he worked as a healthcare consultant, leading teams of healthcare consulting in Arthur Andersen, BearingPoint and, lately, PwC. He left PwC in November 1st 2013.
Now he works as an independent consultant and as a member of Boards at several healthcare companies. He has been a member of the Board of Ribera Salud (a concessional healthcare company based in Valencia) and Vithas (a private hospital network). Now he is a member of the Board of Dentix (a dental company)
He published a book (Doctors or robots?. The upcoming medicine, Rasche, 2016) about the new phenomenon of the late industrial revolution in medicine and recently a new book tittled What’s happening with your healthcare (Editorial Profit, 2018)
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