Head of Department, Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Denmark

Maria Gaden is head of department at Center for Sustainable Hospitals (CfSH) in Central Denmark Region. CfSH is adressing sustainability in healthcare in a broad sense, focusing on the transition towards Circular Economy, through a number of leading clinical projects, where the challenges and potentials linked to both clinical behaviour, products, guidelines, legal framework and organisational culture is analysed, tested and implemented. We want to know, and then we want to know how to do it. Maria’s experience and expertise comes from years of clinical experience as a midwife, a diploma in clinical supervision, an international masters degree in Leadership & Innovation in Complex Systems (LAICS), and from leading projects and processes, mobilizing the transition towards sustainable hospitals in CDR.