About

From daily practice to management and advisory

I started in an ophthalmology practice and operating-room setting, studied health economics, gained industry and founder perspectives and today carry responsibility for five practice sites.

Portrait of Aljoscha Nickel in a suit and glasses
Aljoscha Nickel Health economist · Managing Director · Healthcare Advisory
Care-delivery foundation Medical assistant and operating-room routine
Academic foundation Health economics
Today Managing director, five practice sites
Additional perspective Pharma, MedTech and advisory
Short profile

Understanding care delivery from several roles

I know healthcare from daily work in practices and operating rooms, from entrepreneurial responsibility and from strategic assessment. The decisive questions often emerge at the interfaces between these levels.

I work calmly, in a structured way and close to implementation. What matters is not the most elegant theory, but an assessment that takes responsibilities, resources and care reality into account. I translate complexity into clear questions, robust decisions and realistic next steps.

Personal working approach
01

Practice and operating room

Starting as a medical assistant shaped how I view workflows, quality, timing and collaboration. Solutions have to work in everyday care delivery.

02

Economics and leadership

Health economics and executive responsibility connect quality of care with capacity, accountability, metrics and economic sustainability.

03

Industry and founding

Experience in pharma, business development, advisory and founding adds product logic, scaling and decision-making under uncertainty.

From approach to collaboration

How complex questions become decision-ready.

The full working method explains the decision framework, evidence logic, potential work products and clear accountability boundaries.

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Milestones

Professional path

Not a linear industry career, but a sequence of complementary perspectives on one question: how can good care be organized reliably and developed further?

2015

Training as a medical assistant at Savignyplatz

Joining Stefan Heinrich's ophthalmology practice was the beginning of my path into outpatient care.

Practice

Medical assistant, operating room routine and outpatient care

In the practice and operating room setting, I experienced how closely quality, timing, teamwork and responsibilities are connected.

Studies

Health economics and health management

The part-time degree gave me language and structure for many questions I had already seen in daily work.

Clinic

A change of perspective into inpatient care

Time in an orthopedic specialist clinic showed how differently outpatient and inpatient systems operate.

Startup

Advisory, founding and entrepreneurial practice

Startup and founding contexts made clear priorities, speed and robust decisions under uncertainty essential.

Pharma

Business development and industry perspective

The pharma environment added care chains, product logic, regulation and the question of responsible scaling.

Today

Executive leadership in an MVZ context

Today I combine operational care experience with management, MVZ leadership and entrepreneurial responsibility.

Current roles

Operational responsibility

Today my focus is on leading and developing outpatient care structures and on connecting care delivery, technology and entrepreneurial implementation.

Heinrich MVZ Trägergesellschaft mbH

Managing director of MVZ Ihre Augenärzte, responsible for five practice sites, their organization, development and sustainable outpatient care structures.

Ihre Augenärzte MedTech GmbH

Managing director at the intersection of care delivery, technology and operational implementation in ophthalmology.

ALN Consulting UG

Managing shareholder focused on entrepreneurial development, structural questions and practical perspectives in healthcare.

Ways to work together

How I apply this perspective

Depending on the question, this becomes a confidential assessment, a contribution to an event or a practical public resource.

Advisory

Structure strategic and operational questions around outpatient care, growth, integration and product adoption.

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Speaking and moderation

Make complex care-delivery topics clear and relevant to decisions for congresses, panels and internal management formats.

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Insights and tools

Make professional perspectives and practical tools accessible to decision-makers in outpatient care and healthcare business.

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Perspectives

Three perspectives, three concrete assessments

These contributions show how experience from practices and operating rooms, responsibility for multiple sites and an industry perspective come together in concrete questions.

Leadership
Published

Medical assistants carry the operating system of a practice

Many workflows depend on the practical process knowledge of medical assistants. Why practice leadership must involve them systematically in improvement, accountability and escalation rather than merely informing them.

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MVZ management
Published

Five sites are not one large practice. They are a small care-delivery system

Multiple practice sites need shared standards, reliable metrics and clear ownership. Why centralization alone does not create a functioning organization.

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Pharma and MedTech
Published

Good healthcare strategies rarely fail because of the idea — they fail in implementation

A convincing strategy only becomes robust when roles, workflows, incentives and feedback from care delivery are considered. Why the real work begins after the decision.

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Professional evidence

Published work. Traceable practice.

Professional perspectives become robust when role, source and published work are transparent.

Externally published OPHTHALMO-CHIRURGIE

Why glaucoma screening should be publicly reimbursed

The commentary connects medical, health-policy and health-economic perspectives on glaucoma screening and its financing.

Format
Commentary
Issue
Volume 38 · Issue 2
Published
March 2026 · Pages 73–74
Operational foundation

Five practice sites

Executive responsibility for an ophthalmology MVZ with five sites and the continued development of outpatient care structures.

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Public professional work

17 published perspectives

Original contributions on outpatient care, MVZ management, pharma, MedTech, leadership and ophthalmology, each with a publication date and sources.

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Public working resources

Tools for decisions

Digital quick checks, templates and management tools translate complex questions into concrete next steps.

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Discuss a question together

Briefly describe the starting point, objective and intended next step. This makes it possible to clarify quickly whether and in which form I can provide useful support.

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