Thomas Fischer Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH Healthcare Affairs & Patient Engagement Global Teamleader and Co-founder of the Angels Initiative Tel.: +49 (6132) 77-2251 mailto:thomas.fischer@boehringer-ingelheim.com Thomas was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1957. After finishing school, he studied Mathematics and Biology at University Karlsruhe. Upon completing his degree, he went on to teach for two years in several high schools in Germany. In 1985, Thomas joined the Boehringer Ingelheim team in different positions in Sales, Training and Marketing in Germany in the therapeutic areas Cardiovascular and HIV. In 2004, Thomas joined the Corporate Management team in a couple of diseases as HIV, Parkinson’s disease, myocardial infarction and stroke. Getting more and more involved in stroke care projects like QUICK, Arabic Health and ESO EAST, Thomas developed together with Jan the concept of the Angels Initiative. Because of the non-commercial character of the Angels Initiative it moved within the company first to the Medical division and this year to Health Care Affairs & Patient Engagement. Since the launch of the Angels Initiative 5 years ago it developed to a community of more than 61.000 healthcare professionals from 5.500 hospitals in 130 countries. Just recently the Angels Initiative has been showcased as “best practice” example for capacity building in Low and Middle Income Countries in the Report Access to Medicine Index Report.