Dr. Claudia Mika is the Managing Director of Temos International GmbH, a spin-off of the German Aerospace Center, DLR, a German governmental research organization. Since 2004 she has been working on the Temos Certification Systems.

Due to the Temos Quality Certifications of internationally oriented medical institutions, and supported by Dr. Mika’s consultancy work for the implementation of International Patients’ Departments in medical facilities all over the world, she is very well grounded in medical tourism topics. She has been working with more than 100 hospitals and medical facilities worldwide from Brazil to the Philippines.

Dr. Mika is a certified auditor for ISO 9001. Her expertise in quality management and international health tourism is in great demand, not only among hospital managers and practitioners around the globe. Dr. Mika has been regularly invited to international Medical Tourism Conferences and advises different associations and governmental institutions regarding medical tourism issues. She recently finished the guideline “International Patients Department Processes” for the Turkish Ministry of Health.

In 2002, Dr. Mika received the “Young Researcher Award” of the European Space Agency. She held guest lectureships at PUCRS University in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and at the University Hospital in Aachen, Germany. Since 2007 she has also supervised several tele-education courses that brought doctors and medical students from various international universities together via videoconference. In 2011, Dr. Mika received the “High Potential Company Award 2011”, funded by the European Union.

In 2013 Dr. Mika was appointed to be one of the judges for the International Medical Travel Awards, an independent and objective set of awards for the medical travel and tourism industry. 

Since January 2014 she is the Vice Chairwoman of the Diplomatic Council Healthcare Forum.

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