Dr. Roxana Mittler-Matica is a neurosurgeon, engineer, and health innovation strategist, recognized as a prominent figure at the crossroads of medicine, longevity, prevention, digital health, and systemic transformation.
Combining her medical education, industrial engineering background, and extensive clinical experience, she offers surgical accuracy, systemic insight, and a visionary outlook in her presentations.
Her global education, experience in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, and digital healthcare, along with her current leadership as a consultant in preventive health, position her as a highly sought-after expert and speaker on healthcare’s future.
Roxana Mittler-Matica lecture topics
- Longevity by Design
Why we understand prevention but implement it too late structurally
Roxana Mittler-Matica explains that prevention often fails not because of lack of knowledge but due to short-term decision-making, misaligned incentives, and systemic resistance. Her keynote translates longevity into actionable decisions and system design, emphasizing how prevention can become standard practice.
- From Reactive Sick Care to Proactive Health Care
Why incentives and culture outweigh technology in healthcare transformation
She highlights that technology alone cannot drive care transformation. This keynote addresses how silos, liability issues, risk aversion, and cultural habits impede the move to proactive health, and outlines how a new operational model with defined responsibilities and outcomes can be created.
- Health as Infrastructure
Why health is becoming the most critical currency for competitiveness
Health is emerging as a key strategic factor for organizations. Roxana Mittler-Matica illustrates how absenteeism, chronic diseases, mental health challenges, and demographic shifts directly affect productivity, resilience, and innovation, advocating for health to be treated as essential infrastructure with governance, KPIs, and prevention.
Her past speaking engagements include the IEEE EMBS Winter Academy in Davos, the SIP Health & Wealth Summit in Monte Carlo, the 10xD AI Innovation Forum in Tegernsee, Longevity Connect in Frankfurt, the Big Bang AI Festival in Berlin, the Luscii Connected Care Summit in Amsterdam, and TEDxCluj in Romania.
Who is Roxana Mittler-Matica?
Roxana Mittler-Matica holds dual degrees in medicine and industrial engineering, having studied in Romania, Belgium, Germany, and France. She earned her PhD focusing on the psychiatric effects of traumatic brain injury, with clinical specializations in neurosurgery, minimally invasive spinal surgery, neuromodulation, and advanced MRI diagnostics, gaining significant experience in critical medical decision-making. Concurrently, she developed expertise in prevention, care pathways, digital transformation, longevity science, and health strategy.
Alongside her clinical duties, she has been active in education, prevention, and health innovation. She advises digital health companies and startups, is a member of the BSKI focusing on critical health infrastructure, and serves as an expert for the European Commission at the neuroscience-technology interface. In 2024, she led the digital transformation of the DRK Pain Centre in Mainz, creating a digital care pathway for spinal patients that improved processes and treatment outcomes measurably.
Currently, as Chief Medical Officer at FormMed HealthCare GmbH, Roxana Mittler-Matica oversees medical leadership, evidence-based product strategies, and the growth of preventive care. Her work centers on shifting from reactive medicine to proactive, integrated health promotion.
Her presentations are noted for their analytical rigor, strategic insight, and strong relevance to corporate decision-makers.
