Speakers 2024

Hatim is the Chief Executive Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex, part of the NHS Health Innovation Network and a GP in North West London.
Currently an Honorary Professor of Innovation and AI in the School of Medicine at the University of Surrey, Hatim sits on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisals Committee, the Responsible AI UK Health and Care Group and the Responsible AI Institute Sustainable AI Consortium. Hatim holds Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and Fellowship of Advance Higher Education and the British Computer Society.
As an international speaker, he has contributed to the publication of academic papers and white papers spanning workforce, education reform, innovation, primary care, digital health, and AI. Hatim is an advocate for safe, ethical, and responsible digital and AI transformation and ensuring workforce preparedness for new innovations and technologies in health and care.

The focus of Clinitouch, and parent group Spirit Health, is on making healthcare more accessible, easy, and affordable for everyone, regardless of geography or circumstance.

She has led significant projects involving the development and deployment of large-scale innovations. Most notably, she was involved in a large-scale Electronic Patient Record (EPR) deployment, recognised as one of the largest digital transformations programmes undertaken within the NHS. Cara has also served as Divisional Director for Medicine, Outpatients, and Complex Health in the acute sector, which has expanded her understanding of the challenges faced by frontline staff.

Ollie is the National Manager of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Wales, and the Chair of the Royal College Mental Health Expert Advisory Group, which brings together Royal Colleges working across primary, community and secondary care mental health services.

Ollie is the co-lead on the ‘Dyfodol’ partnership with the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee; and additionally, led the review into the NHS Wales implementation of ‘111 press 2 for mental health’ service.

Previous experience includes being instrumental in implementing and optimising digital health solutions to improve patient outcomes as a Senior Digital Nurse Specialist. Tosin is a Shuri Network Digital Fellowship graduate, FNF Aspiring Leadership Programme Alumni and has completed the Digital Health CNIO Mentoring Programme. She is a member of the CSO Council on the Digital Health Network, Shuri Network, BCS, Midland HPCA and Midland Digital Shared Decision Making Council.

Dr Alhaq is has been a peer reviewer for the United Kingdom & Belgium Accreditation Services for medical laboratory services and a past reviewer of the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales. As an academic researcher, he was a principal investigator and senior lecturer at KCL, London from 2002-2012 and a visiting senior lecturer at Kingston University, helping to set up and teach on the MSc programme on Cancer Studies.

Dr Alhaq is a Clinical Medical Advisor to the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), leading the Bank’s strategy of developing a chain of African Medical Centres of Excellence (AMCE) focusing on delivering tertiary referral centres. He is a non-executive director of the first AMCE in Abuja, Nigeria, focusing on cancer, cardiovascular disease, and haematological medicine.

Dr Alhaq served as Chief Clinical Scientist at King’s College Hospital from 2016-2022 and was a non-executive director of Viapath Pathology from 2012-2018. At an operational role, he has held several divisional roles within KingsPath and Viapath pathology services and was an operational lead and board member of the South-East pathology Transformation Programme from 2018-2021. He was operational lead for the 100,000 Genomes project at King’s College Hospital from 2014-2018. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was seconded to the NHS Test & Trace programme to help expand the SARS-CoV2 PCR testing capacity both locally and nationally, and to establish a robust framework for validating new SARS-CoV2 testing.

Dr Lia Ali is a doctor and digital health strategist with extensive experience across the spectrum of digital healthcare. She is passionate about ethics and safety by design, patient centred care and long term conditions including mental health and have particular interests in integrated care and medical education. She believes that delivery of exemplary healthcare requires a holistic, biopsychosocial, service design approach. Lia has done this via transformation roles in the NHS, charities & for-profit sector.

Usman is the NPIC Programme Head for Digital Deployment, Data, and IT (Information Technology) Services and is responsible in providing strategic leadership and delivery of the NPIC Digital Pathology solution and services, including the technology products and systems, business as usual IT Services, client service functions and IT contract and supplier management. 

 Spanning a 17+ year career across the Health Care Sector and Local Government sector in Digital and IT, he’s passionate about the implementation of products and services that are built to improve services to patients. 

At NPIC Usman directed and led multi-disciplinary teams of technical professionals and expert industry Partners, to design, develop, implement a Single National centrally hosted Digital Pathology Platform, enabling the onboarding of 20 + NHS Trusts nationally, allowing Pathologists to engage, evaluate, and collaborate rapidly and remotely, with transparency and consistency, improving efficiency, productivity and improving direct care to patients. 

Usman is now looking to continue to lead and drive the deployment of the NPIC Digital Pathology Solution bringing together innovative technology with sector specific experience to help NPIC deliver against its objectives in forming a true national network for pathology. 

Andrea Astbury has been employed in the NHS for over 20 years and currently divides her time between two roles – Deputy Director of Strategy at NHS Liverpool Place, and Programme Director for Data Into Action across Cheshire & Merseyside. Throughout her time in the NHS she has worked across nearly all settings of care and enjoys working on system redesign and improvement challenges. She is a passionate advocate for the power of linked data in making a real difference to people’s lives.

Andrea has worked with a number of Graphnet products within the Data Into Action programme which has resulted in a broad range of transformational programmes and the creation of a Population Health Management Academy. She has also been part of the team developing a Complex Households methodology and approach within Cheshire & Merseyside, which is designed to improve outcomes and streamline interventions for vulnerable families.

He is passionate about ensuring the safe, effective and appropriate use of medicines and has worked in partnership with healthcare professionals and patients over 30 years to drive forward research and policy development in prescribing and patient safety.

He has led a number of major studies investigating the frequency, nature and causes of prescribing safety problems in the NHS. He has also developed effective methods for tackling hazardous prescribing, most notably the pharmacist-led, IT-based intervention called PINCER, which has now been rolled out nationally to general practices in England.

Tony’s work recognises the vital role that medicines have in treating illness and helping people live with long-term conditions, while acknowledging that prescribing of a medicine is not always the best solution. He is committed to ensuring health care professionals and patients have the information and support they need for shared decision making about whether a prescription is needed and, if so, how to balance the effectiveness and safety of medicines alongside the costs to the patient, the NHS and the environment.

Lynne is an experienced digital nurse leader and is Dorset County Hospital’s first Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO). She has worked within digital services for eight years in a variety of settings and is proficient in leading digital transformation and change management, including system implementation and optimisation to support clinical workflows and improve patient care. Lynne is an advocate for clinical expertise within digital services and the ongoing need to strengthen digital clinical risk management capabilities to support safe care. She is also the lead Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) for her organisation and the co-chair of the South West CSO special interest group.

Lynne is a registered nurse with over 30 years NHS experience covering acute, community and mental health settings, with specialist nursing qualifications in orthopaedics and Infection Prevention and Control and is an Imperial College digital health leadership alumnus currently completing her MSc dissertation.

Dr. Patrik Bächtiger is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Acute Internal Medicine with a research focus on Digital Health at Imperial’s Health Impact Lab. His work explores implementation science for technology-enabled healthcare, optimising contextual factors that allow digital innovations to scale effectively. His research, published in leading journals such as Nature Digital Medicine and The Lancet Digital Health, has also been featured in major media outlets.
As a lead or co-investigator, Patrik’s work is supported by grants from NIHR, Imperial BRC, the British Heart Foundation, and Imperial Health Charity. His portfolio includes the TRICORDER cluster-RCT, a pioneering AI-powered cardiovascular diagnostic study, and projects on virtual wards, sleep apnoea diagnostics, large language models for patient empowerment, and wearable technology for cardiac rehabilitation. His implementation studies leverage sector-wide NHS data assets to assess clinical, economic, and workforce impacts.
Patrik completed his PhD at Imperial College and earned a Harvard MPH as a Knox Fellow, cross-registering at MIT and Harvard’s Medical, Business, and Kennedy Schools. He also brings his UK/US experience in medicine and health tech innovation to his role as a venture partner with KHP Ventures, the only NHS-anchored venture capital fund.

NHS whole working life, cardiology day job, R&D director local and national UKRD group, first CRIO at Royal Free passionate about research and all therapeutic innovations – drugs, devices (pacing and stents), diagnostics (biomarkers and wearables) and digital (AI predictive algorithms and data insights and clinical pathways).

Have 1st ever Cerner heart failure pathway to nudge diagnoses (3-8x increased) and guidance prescribing (now top 10% adherence) and reduced mortality in hospital with 41,000 patient journeys data. Published >120 papers and used to observation to interventional research studies. recently on predicting arrhythmias and heart failure and now CVD from retinal imaging.

Helen is Chief Nursing information Officer at NHS England.

Helen’s work seeks to ensure that nursing and midwifery practice is supported by digital technology and data science and that nurses and midwifes are equipped to work and lead in an digitally enabled environment.  

Helen is passionate about using technology to support the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care and empowering patients in managing their own health record.”  

Alongside nursing and midwifery, Helen’s leadership portfolio includes frontline digitisation, digital citizen and maternity and child health. 

Colin is the architect of some of the largest customer network transformations in the world, including BT’s own enterprise network. In addition, he’s BT Business’ technology lead for partners including hyperscalers, networking equipment vendors and carrier neutral facility (CNF) providers.

Her previous roles included Head of Delivery for National Digital, Data and Transformation Programmes (Digital Homecare, Connected Care Records and Digital Maturity Assessment) within the Transformation Directorate, NHS England.

Zharain is a Ph.D, scientist and data analyst by background with significant experience working in life sciences, genomics and public and population health. She has a deep interest and passion in using healthcare data safely and securely to enable research, benefitting patients and the population.

Currently CNIO at Digital Health and Care Wales where Fran has been instrumental in the introduction and development of nursing and midwifery, national data/information standards, clinical informatics roles in Welsh health boards and trusts in Wales. Throughout her tenure in Wales, Fran has advised and led in the development of nursing documentation standards, policies and guidelines at local and national levels.

Fran’s unique mix of nursing knowledge and technical ability have translated into transformative improvements for patients and clinicians; resulting in Innovation and improvement awards in both the user and patient categories. Fran holds an MSc in Health Informatics alongside her Registered Nurse qualification and has presented at international and local conferences on the subject of clinical informatics.

Currently Chair of the British Computer Society (BCS) nursing committee, Member of the WNMC and Executive Nurse Directors forums and Welsh representative on the 5 Nations Nursing Informatics Group.

If my early career was predictable, my latter career has been far from.

I took the popular route of staff nurse, to sister, to health visitor, then to nurse specialist and fell
apart a bit.

Health care careers can be tough and being a Children’s Macmillan Nurse for 8
years definitely broke me. I walked away from nursing for 12 months.

The 20 years that followed have rebuilt me as a nurse, leader and mentor in ways I never
thought possible.

I moved down south, took up lecturing, got interested in research and data, went back to the
NHS as a senior nurse manager and then got into digital.

In digital I’ve found my natural home. It’s a place where you can innovate, initiate, do the detail
but also the big picture stuff. You can make a big difference.

I took one such innovation into the NHS Clinical entrepreneurship programme which exposed
my frustration at not fully understanding how information technology systems actually work.

So, I completed a degree level programme on software design. Doing a course so completely
out of my comfort zone was such a revelation because it exposed how I’d been conditioned to
think.

I now enjoy a portfolio career inside and outside the NHS.

Ahmed’s major research projects focus on technology, data, and AI, with specific interest in innovation, adoption, and attitudes toward the use of technology and data in health care. Prior to joining the Health Foundation, Ahmed was an Economic Analyst and Senior Policy Adviser at the British Medical Association. There, he developed costed policy proposals aimed at influencing government policies and lobbying for recognition of the affordability of doctor-led health policy initiatives, such as through modelling the cost of full pay restoration for doctors. Ahmed’s research and analysis also contributed to other policy areas, including in digital infrastructure, pensions, public health, general practice, and long-COVID. 

Director of Graphnet Health, Markus Bolton has 44 years of experience in the software industry with a specialist focus on healthcare informatics since 1993. Markus was founder and CEO of System C Healthcare from 1983 to early 2022 and has been a director and major shareholder of Graphnet since 2012. During that time Markus has been involved with many aspects of the business including strategy, growth and mergers and acquisitions.  

Markus is an enthusiastic supporter of improving health and social care through data and process transformation and as part of that focus is heavily involved in Graphnet’s population health work.

Madhukar is responsible for growing exports and investment for the UK in digital health, worldwide. He has led ground-breaking initiatives such as the Digital Health demonstrator in China, the Healthcare AI Catalyst in India and trade missions to Brazil, the USA, UAE, China and India. His management consulting experience includes working with clients such as the DHSC, the NHS, Roche, Novartis and Pfizer. He has set up a Telehealth venture in India and is an MBA alumnus of the Cranfield School of Management.

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Dr. Frederik Brabant is an executive leader with a robust background in healthcare and technology. He earned his medical degree and further specialised in sports medicine. Complementing his medical expertise, Dr. Brabant holds a postgraduate degree in Software Engineering at KUL in Leuven.In 2006.

Dr. Brabant joined Nuance Communications, where he played a pivotal role in introducing innovative AI-driven speech recognition solutions to the healthcare sector. His tenure at Nuance, and then Microsoft following their acquisition of Nuance in 2022, saw him in various leadership positions, including Chief Medical Information Officer, where he was responsible for shaping Nuance’s European healthcare strategy.

In 2024, Dr. Brabant transitioned to Corti, a leading healthcare AI company, where he currently serves as the Chief Medical Strategy Officer. In this role, he leverages his extensive experience to drive strategic initiatives that integrate artificial intelligence into healthcare practices, aiming to enhance patient outcomes and operational efficiency. Dr. Brabant’s unique blend of medical knowledge and business acumen positions him at the forefront of healthcare innovation, where he continues to influence the intersection of medicine and technology.

Mike Bracken CBE is a global digital leader who has led wholesale transformations of large institutions in the private and public sector. He helps organisations change their way of working and solve systemic market, societal and macroeconomic challenges. He is best known for leading the global revolution in digital government, taking the UK to #1 in the UN rankings in 2016.

Mike Bracken is a founding partner at Public Digital, a digital change consultancy for institutions with a public mission. He was the founder and executive director of the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) and the UK’s first Government Chief Data Officer.

Mike has led digital operations and transformations in large-scale organisations in the UK and Europe, such as Guardian News & Media and the Co-operative Group. A civic technologist who helped establish MySociety, Mike uses the power of the open Internet to drive systemic change.

He currently advises more than 30 governments and global financial institutions on digital transformation, from Canada and Australia to Argentina, and is currently one of President Macron’s Global Tech Thinkers. He is an honorary professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. Mike is a partner at the Lisbon Council in Brussels and a Non-Executive Director at Chetwood Bank, a fully licensed UK fintech.

Chris Buckels is the Deputy Head Of Business Intelligence for Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board and leads the Population Health Into Action Team.

His previous roles included Head Of Business Intelligence for Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group and Deputy Head Of Business Intelligence for Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group.

Chris has more that 23 years’ experience in data analysis, including 20 years’ NHS experience. In his current role, Chris is the ICB’s liaison with Graphnet, as well as leading a team of analysts which supports the ICB’s Data Into Action programme, focussing on using population health analysis to make a measurable difference to the lives of people in Cheshire & Merseyside.

Helen Burrough is the Senior Content Designer at SH:24 CIC, leading content delivery, strategy and operations. She excels at using language and design-thinking to solve problems and reshaping complex health information to meet patient needs, delivering the right information at the right time. Writing for the web since 2006, her skills have grown from copywriter to content design leader, crafting exceptional patient-focused digital experiences grounded in research, inclusion and empathy.

Laura is the Clinical Development Lead for the Digital Health Transformation Service at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.  In this role, she guides like-minded digital nurses to successfully adopt innovative ways to reach out and engage with service users. Laura qualified as a paediatric nurse in 2007, working in an acute paediatric setting before commencing her career in school nursing in 2018, and completing the PGDip in specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) in 2020. In her previous role, Laura led on ChatHealth for the School Nursing Team in Manchester, igniting her passion for digital nursing.

I am a consultant gynaecology cancer surgeon, working in NHS Greater Glasgow since 2007. I have a long held interest in quality outcomes in cancer care. This has involved work with the Scottish National Colposcopy audit system, Scottish Quality Performance Indicators for gynaecology cancers and Patient reported outcomes projects. As lead for Gynaecological cancers in the West of Scotland I was the involved with an innovative project using M365 and Power Platform technologies to provide a solution for Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) working. I am now the Clinical Lead for MDT Improvement in the West of Scotland, alongside my surgical workload, and our system is being rolled out across all West of Scotland MDT’s.

Dr Nicola Byrne has served as the National Data Guardian for health and adult social care in England since March 2021. With over 20 years of experience in mental health, she continues her clinical role as a consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Previously, she held the positions of Deputy Medical Director, Caldicott Guardian, and Chief Clinical Information Officer at the trust.

The National Data Guardian offers independent advice, guidance, and challenge to the government and others on the safe, ethical, and appropriate use of people’s confidential information in health and adult social care. The role’s mission is to uphold trust in a confidential health and care system.

She also leads the Quality Team who complete Medical Device Regulation Clinics and lead on Compliance of Medical Devices, specifically focusing on Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and ISO 13485. She is a nurse by background, formerly working as an Emergency Nurse in the United States. She has masters degrees in Nursing and Business Administration.

Chris is Clinical Lead and Honorary Professor of Respiratory Innovation in the West of Scotland Innovation Hub, and Clinical Lead for Respiratory Medicine, South Sector NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. His subspecialty, research and innovation work is focused on implementation and evaluation of assistive digital technologies to establish end-end pathway transformation and new service models for patients with COPD, severe respiratory failure and sleep disorders. The West of Scotland Innovation hub provides comprehensive test-bed infrastructure to host collaborations between NHS, academic and commercial partners to co-design, co-develop and co-deliver clinical innovations through from concept to procurement. The hub’s respiratory portfolio DYNAMIC, POLARIS and DYNAMIC-AI projects are Glasgow-developed exemplars which are scaling-up nationally, transforming long-term condition management.
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Since 1999, his Clinical Informatics work has included the design, development, implementation and assurance of electronic patient records (EPRs) and health IT systems; initially in the EPR team in Salford; from 2006 on the national Summary Care Record (SCR); and from 2016 as a national Clinical Safety Officer.​

Andy previously was Deputy National Clinical Lead for Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), chaired the national SCR design steering group and was a member of the NHS Care Record Service National Clinical Reference Panel.​

He is passionate about the safe and successful implementation and use of health IT systems to improve patient care, and the patient experience of care.

Richard Cassidy, Field CISO at Rubrik: Richard is CISO EMEA at Rubrik, focused on driving strategy and execution in the maturity of the business’s capability across the pre-sales and post-sales organizations, ensuring the delivery of world-class customer value from the outset. With over two decades of experience and a proven success track record in taking technology start-ups to international markets, either as part of an IPO or A&M strategy, Richard has forged a position in the industry as a respected thought leader, cybersecurity enthusiast, SecOPs transformation expert, media contributor and keynote speaker, having presented at major conferences, appeared in world-leading publications and industry favourite podcasts.

Robyn sustained a spinal cord injury in 2006 and has needed 24 hour care ever since. Initially provided through traditional care agency services, Robyn moved to a personal health budget in 2015 which enabled her to employ her own PAs, and transformed both her health, and quality of life.

Robyn has used her lived experience to co-produce policy, strategy and service development with health systems and organisations for many years. She worked alongside National Voices as a Lived Experience Partner for 2 years before joining the team as Lived Experience Advisor.

As well as her work with National Voices, Robyn is a co-director of a Community Interest Company which provides information and peer support on personal health budgets, and consultancy on co-production. She is passionate about the value of lived experience and co-production in the development of health and care policy and services.

Hassan is an entrepreneur and advisor in global digital health and innovation. He is interim Commercial Director for the UK’s Health Data Research hub for cancer (DATA-CAN) and was, until recently, the Global Digital Health Specialist for the Department for International Trade (DIT).

He is a founder at Opto Health, Vita and Inovia.Bio, Visiting Lecturer at UCL Global Business School for Health, Editorial Board Member of The International Journal of Digital Health, Mentor for the NHS Innovation Accelerator, Edison Accelerator and also at KQ Labs at The Francis Crick Institute, Commercial Consultant for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Co-Chair of the HIMSS Innovation Committee for 2022 and a member of the HETT Steering Committee.

In her role, Lucy leads a team of clinically trained professionals dedicated to enhancing the EHR system for better usability and patient safety. She works closely with stakeholders to ensure that changes are operationally effective and aligned with the digital health roadmap supported by the wider Digital Health Team.

From 2019 to 2023, Lucy was instrumental in the roll out of PICS to Heartlands, Good Hope, and Solihull Hospitals, marking one of the largest secondary care EHR deployments in NHS history. This significant achievement led to nominations for two HSJ awards in 2024: Digital Team of the Year and Digital Organisation of the Year.

He is proud to have led the award-winning Interweave team since 2021. Providing strategic direction in consultation with partners in the health and care sector, the team has delivered many innovative solutions working with private sector suppliers to deliver value to public sector organisations and patients.

Ian likes to run and especially cycle – healthy body healthy mind!

I am a registered nurse with a clinical background in neonatal nursing, previously working in Neonatal units across Cheshire and Mersey and for the Neonatal Regional Transport team.  Throughout my career I have held many posts ranging from staff nurse, ward manager and matron through to the role of Chief Nursing Informatics Officer.  I have been a CNIO in 4 organisations and have supported and led the process of digitising Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health professionals in pre and post Electronic Patient Record go lives and beyond, enabling nurses to have an equal voice in the digital arena to ensure that information systems support nursing and allow more time for patient care, thereby reducing risk and improving quality and safety.

In my role as Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, I have participated and supported digital programmes for nurses locally, regionally and at national level.  I have been responsible for strategic and operational nursing leadership in the development, deployment, re-engineering, optimisation and integration of clinical information systems to support nursing and patient care.

Michelle Corrigan is the Programme Director at Digital Care Hub with responsibility for Better Security, Better Care – the multi award winning, national programme funded by DHSC, supporting all CQC registered adult social care providers in England to improve their data and cyber security. Michelle has spent 15 years in and alongside the social care sector and has an MSc in International Public Health. With a dynamic career blending digital transformation, service improvement and innovation in health and social care. Prior to joining the Digital Care Hub she was the Deputy Director of Service and Innovation at Family Action.

Dr David Cox is a Consultant Neonatologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Clinical Lead for Digital Child Health for the Transformation Directorate at NHS England. He is also an advisor to the Digital Board of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

In his role at NHS England, David aims to strategise and support child health digital solutions that both aid children and their parents/carers to understand and interact with their healthcare in a more user-friendly and intuitive way, and facilitate data flow between healthcare organisations so directly helping clinicians deliver better clinical care and system improvement.

David has been a Clinical Fellow for two large Department of Health and Social Care-commissioned reviews, including the Topol Review during a National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellowship, and has subsequently been a HEE Topol Digital Health Fellow. David is interested in both the evolution in models of care, and how the clinical workforce can be better supported to deliver optimal patient care as these models are implemented.

David also works with Imperial College London, leading an Imperial College Business School on ‘Managing Healthcare Organisations’, and working with their Faculty of Medicine to curate a new undergraduate programme in Medical Science and Health Innovation.

For much of her career she has been a GP trainer and a course organiser and professional GP appraiser. Her leadership and board level experience includes Calderdale CCG, (Calderdale Cares Partnership ICB), where she is the clinical lead for Community Integration and Population Health Management and Digital and is passionate about addressing inequalities.

She has strong interest in leading multi-disciplinary teams and the development of neighbourhood working. She was a PHM facilitator on the NHS England Place Based Development Programme. She also works as a consultant to a number of different digital companies. She is a keen fell runner and horse rider.

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“I became involved in the digitalisation of healthcare due to increasing frustration at the obvious gap between the needs of healthcare and the provision of tech solutions, when these seem to be available and improving so many seemingly less important areas of our lives.”

Mark led an initiative with the US government on common data and health technology standards which led to a landmark agreement between the UK and US governments. He led the health transparency initiatives from cabinet office which led to some of the largest open data initiatives in the world. He was European Medical Director of the global health informatics specialist MedeAnalytics between 2014 and 2017 specialising in population health. He chaired the health analytics committee within the industry group TechUK.

Chris Day, currently serves as Clinical Lead within Cyber Operations at NHS England. He has worked in the role since August 2022 when it was highlighted that clinical input was an essential requirement within Cyber Operations. He straddles between Cyber and Digital Clinical Informatics to ensure that each area is considered within the opposite function.  

Having worked as a Physiotherapist across a range of Trusts for more than a decade, a huge amount of knowledge was gained about how digital ways of working can be done successfully, but also when things go wrong. A significant amount of project management and change management activity has been undertaken within both clinical and digital roles.  

Although still practicing as a Physiotherapist, Chris initially became involved in Clinical Informatics when taking up a role as a Clinical Change Manager in 2018, within Digital Services of an Acute Trust. This then progressed to the role of Lead Allied Health Professional for Digital Transformation, which included clinically leading the implementation of an Electronic Health Record.  

Within Cyber Operations Chris works on everything from strategy development and ongoing business development to incident management when cyber-attacks emerge within the NHS.  

Chris has keen interests in change management within health and social care. How we protect individuals through improvement of support functions that enable: and optimising services to maximise our ability to provide gold standard outputs.

She holds a PhD in Health Informatics and is part of the current cohort of the Imperial College Digital Health Leadership Programme.

Her unique perspective as both neurodivergent and a wheelchair user informs her approach to creating human-centred, accessible services that deliver significant ROI. Claire’s expertise in co-design, trauma-informed research, and benefits realisation has been instrumental in revolutionising accessibility in digital healthcare products and engaging senior leaders when promoting collaborative accessibility initiatives.

Dr Vin Diwakar is the National Director of Transformation, leading the NHS’s work nationally in transforming the way that care is delivered, enabling the access to best care and outcomes for people that the NHS serves and the people who work in it.

Prior to this role Vin was the Medical Director for Transformation in NHS England, providing clinical leadership to improvement and transformation. Additionally while in this role Vin led teams supporting improvement and transformation of a number of different clinical areas including diagnostics, urgent, emergency, acute and planned care, and was responsible for improving clinical effectiveness.

Formerly Vin provided clinical leadership to London’s health and care system, and was a key member of the multi-professional regional team which led the capital through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vin has been in the NHS for 33 years, working as a consultant paediatrician in Birmingham.

I started my nursing career in Sheffield and specialised in Neonates for 23 years and then became Ward Manager of a Paediatric Surgical Ward. I was seconded to the role of Matron for Digital Technology in December 2021 to support digitisation on the acute site and have recently been appointed as the first CNIO at Sheffield Children’s Hospital which involves responsibility for the development, optimisation, implementation, and clinical safety of the digital systems used across the trust including Community and Mental health.

I have always had an interest in patient information and data, and although I am not an expert in technology, I embrace digital change and the benefits it brings and believe that clinical leadership is paramount for successful transformation.

Mark recently joined DHCW from the private sector, and has over 30 years experience in the IT and security industry. He founded network and cyber security specialists Capital Network Solutions (CNS) in 1996 and managed and developed it through to acquisition in 2021, providing complex security services to major customers in a wide variety of organisations, including NHS trusts and health boards across England and Wales.

In 2024 Hilary took on the role of Senior Responsible Owner for NHS England’s Data for Research and Development Programme.

Hilary has worked in both the public and private health sectors in the UK and Ireland. During her career in the NHS, she has undertaken a broad range of roles, including in education, clinical operational management, clinical service design, capital programme management, electronic healthcare application design and deployment.

She qualified as a registered nurse in 1985 and specialised in renal nursing. She worked at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, London, where she held a joint senior lecturer practitioner post with Thames Valley University, provided senior nurse management for St Mary’s renal services and led post-graduate specialist renal nurse education for North West Thames.

In 2002 she joined University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust and led the Research Development and Innovation Department, delivering a range of regional and national programmes such as the West Midlands Genomics Medicine Centre. She also managed flagship NIHR research infrastructure (including the Biomedical Research Centre, Clinical Research Facility, HealthTech Research Centre and Applied Research Collaboration) as well as the West Midlands Secure Data Environment, part of NHS England’s Data for Research and Development Programme.

In October 2023 Hilary was awarded an Honorary MBE for her services to genomic delivery in the NHS.

She joined Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2024 as Director of Discovery.

Mike has spent 15 years in range of security roles for the UK Government, and is currently Executive Director of National Cyber Operations for NHS Digital, with accountability for the security of NHS Digital’s data and systems, as well as supporting the resilience of the wider Health System in defending and respond to cyber attacks.

Prior to this, Mike spent six years as the Head of Cyber Security Operations and Deputy Chief Security Officer for HMRC. Previous roles have included leading HMRC’s anti-phishing efforts, work with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Afghanistan, helping to secure the 2012 Olympic & Paralympics and voluntary work to help others protect themselves from cyber threats.

As the Assistant Chief Nurse at St George’s Hospital, Mitchell managed the infection control team and oversaw the nursing, midwifery, and AHP workforce skill mix review and staff deployment during the expansion of the hospital’s intensive care units in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mitchell has served as Deputy Chief Nurse and Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) at Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, where, together with the CIO and CCIO, he led the implementation of electronic patient records in both acute hospital and community services.

Currently, Mitchell is the Deputy Chief Nurse at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, leading on Quality, Patient Safety, and Clinical Governance. He is the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for PSIRF implementation and is developing a bespoke AI-enabled patient experience tool (QUAIL) in collaboration with AI specialists to drive quality improvement for better staff and patient experiences.

Mitchell is a founding member of the Jabali Men’s Network, a group of senior BAME male nurses in England advising the Chief Nursing Officer for England on equality, diversity, and inclusion. He is also a founding member of the Filipino Senior Nurses Alliance, which united various Filipino associations in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic and was instrumental in developing the alliance’s vision.

Before moving to the UK, Mitchell earned the rank of Fire Inspector and was appointed as regional chief for emergency and rescue services after completing the Public Safety Officer training course for commissioned officers at the Philippines Fire National Training Institute.

Beginning her career as a Nurse and Midwife, Beatrix has since delved into business management, marketing, and operational roles, steadily expanding her skill set. In 2019, she made a shift into Digital and AI Project Management.

She has contributed to the development of AI deployment platforms and facilitated AI integration into the NHS. In her current role for the NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI she delivers an initiative to empower healthcare leaders with the expertise to leverage AI into their clinical workflows.

Outside of the Fellowship, she actively contributes to team project management of AI products and is particularly interested in developing future AI deployment strategies via multidisciplinary teams to scale digital solutions effectively.

In addition, Beatrix is engaged in promoting AI fairness as a member of an AI Fairness working group and is passionate about mentoring and education, guiding the next generation of healthcare professionals and AI enthusiasts. She also maintains a keen interest in FemTech, recognising its potential to empower women’s health through innovative digital solutions.

Her multifaceted expertise in AI and digital management, coupled with her clinical background and business experience, uniquely positions her to navigate the complexities of healthcare AI implementations and foster a culture of innovation and equity.

Monica is involved in influencing national and international policies through her activities including membership of the WHO’s Global Alliance Against Respiratory Disease (GARD), the European Respiratory Society, the American Thoracic Society, the European COPD Coalition, and the International Primary Care Respiratory Group. She is an Associate of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan.

She is also Chair of the UK Inhaler Group, Knowledge Exchange Lead for the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, and Chair of the European Respiratory Nurses Association (ERNA).

Monica is honoured with an OBE for services to nursing.

In 2017 James was voted by peers as one of the top 100 influencers globally in Health IT as part of the #HIT100 twitter campaign. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a FedIP accredited Leading Practitioner and a Chartered Health CIO accredited through CHIME.

Amy Freeman is the Chief Digital Information Officer at University Hospitals of North Midlands. Amy has worked in the field of information technology (IT) support and digital since 1998, she joined the NHS in 2002. She has held senior IT and digital leadership roles at NHS Connecting for Health (now NHS Digital), NHS Commissioning Board (now NHS England), Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust (now Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Amy moved to work for NHS provider organisations to be closer to frontline care (Community and Acute) to help make a difference to the safety and quality of care provided to patients. This has included the delivery of a range of clinical systems most notably electronic patient record systems, patient portals and a virtual clinic solutions.

Amy’s ambition is for “geeks to save lives”. Using technology to support the clinical decisions clinicians make with their patients about their care and treatment.

Reducing the risk of error. More recently Amy has been interested in how digital can help (or in some cases hinder) the equality and diversity agenda. Using data to drive a better understanding of our citizens. Amy is the co-chair of the Midlands Skills Development Network, which has a remit is to provide the infrastructure for improving leadership and professional development skills, raising standards, and sharing best practice through economy-wide learning.

Cheryl Gowar is a researcher in the policy team at The King’s Fund. She works across a range of issues related to health and care and is particularly interested in public health and the structural response to health inequalities. Before joining The King’s Fund, Cheryl was involved in policy and campaigns work for the National AIDS Trust and Disability Rights UK. She was also a member of INVOLVE and has considerable experience in patient and public involvement, and building participation of people with lived experience into the research process. She has a PhD from Rutgers University in the USA.

With almost 20 years’ experience in Family Medicine, as UK-trained physician, Dr Goyal worked as a partner in various UK practices before joining Mediclinic. Before completing his training in Family Medicine, he trained as specialist ophthalmologist.

Ruth was awarded Fellowship through Distinction by the Faculty of Public Health and sits on the exec committee of the National Association of Prison Dentistry and on the European Federation of Prison Health and has been a member of the WHO Health in Prisons Programme steering committee.

Skilled in Stakeholder management, Benefits Realisation, Programme Delivery, Procurement, Supplier Negotiations and Healthcare Management. Exceptional leadership skills, including mentoring future leaders to thrive. Educated with a Masters in Health informatics from the University of Leeds, along with MSP and PRINCE2 Practitioner. BCS Professional member. Featured in Computing Magazine’s IT Leaders Top 100 and Top 50 Tech Women Celebration lists in 2023.

Aled is a healthcare focussed architect with experience across primary and secondary care at local, regional and national levels. He has expertise in architecting and designing complex solutions that bridge technological innovation with healthcare delivery.

Aled has delivered seamless standards based integration of digital pathways across multiple clinical specialties, and spearheaded the architecture and design assurance for substantial capital programs and electronic health record implementations, navigating intricate stakeholder and technical landscapes.

Dr. Keith has a global people-centred approach, focusing on using technology to remove geographical, social and economic barriers to accessing care. With a medical and commercial mindset, his experience of over 25 years as a doctor coupled with his leadership roles at the forefront of the UK’s health tech industry give him a unique perspective. He is passionate about the power of technology-driven healthcare solutions, with a particular focus on digital health, AI, wearables and the Metaverse.

With over 30 years of midwifery experience, Jules Gudgeon is a key player in advancing digital technology in maternity care, post the 2015 National Maternity Review by Baroness Cumberlege. Leading roles in the NHS Digital Maternity Programme and the creation of the award-winning Digital Midwives Expert Reference Group, now the Digital Maternity Leaders community, showcases her commitment to collaborative efforts in the digital maternity landscape.

As the National Chief Midwifery Information Officer at NHS England, she was a 2023 HSJ Clinical Leader of the Year Award finalist. In 2024, Jules persists in advocating for digital leadership and addressing the maternity digital divide with #FixTheDigitalDivide #DigitalMaternity.

Jacob is Co-founder and CEO of Accurx, a communication platform used in 68% of NHS Trusts and by 98% of GP practices. Accurx is on a mission to join up communication across healthcare, to make patients healthier, staff happier, and the system more efficient.

Tom leads research on innovation, with a particular focus on technology, data, and AI. He also leads the Foundation’s work on environmental sustainability, including improving the organisation’s footprint and supporting the shift to NHS net zero. He joined the Foundation from NHS England where he was Clinical Policy and Strategy Team Manager, covering maternity and women’s health, and before that Communications and Engagement Lead for the National Maternity Review. He has held a range of other roles at NHS England, the Department of Health and Social care, and several national and international charities.

I am the Chief Digital and Infrastructure Officer at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this, I held the role of Deputy Director for Quality, Innovation and Improvement and CIO for the North West Ambulance Service. I am passionate about transforming health and care for all people by harnessing technology, data and estates, using a methodologically driven approach to improve the way we deliver services. I am a big advocate for clinical leadership and co-design with patients, providing the space for staff, patients and technical teams to work together to generate and test ideas.

I have a unique understanding and combined experience of digital, estates, mental health, improvement and NHS regulatory requirements over my 20 years in the NHS. I have worked nationally, regionally and for providers. I have worked alongside some of the world’s leading healthcare improvers and thought leaders and developed partnerships with industry, academia and health and social care to deliver change. I am passionate about leading teams to deliver standards and governance ensuring safety and security whilst enabling change and doing this thorough collaboration and partnerships where we bring people together to deliver on shared goals.

Ele has deep expertise in digital health with a focus on AI and regulation. She previously worked at the NHS AI Lab where she led on two key reports looking at the evaluation of AI-enabled medical devices, and ways to develop and deploy AI-enabled medical devices across jurisdictions. She is also a member of the BSI.

Jo Hillier is an ambitious and purpose-driven Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) fuelled by innovation and a passion for mental health and learning disabilities services. With twenty-five years of clinical experience in physical and mental health in the UK and New Zealand, Jo is both an Occupational Therapist and a Psychological Therapist.

Jo’s career is marked by a relentless drive to push boundaries and create new opportunities for patient benefit. Always enthusiastic about challenging the norm, Jo has dynamically evolved from leading new models of care and mobilising new mental health services to taking on digital clinical leadership roles. Jo’s unique blend of operational and clinical leadership skills ensures a user-centred and solution-focused approach to transformation.

A graduate of cohort 4 of the NHS Digital Academy, Jo focused MSc research on Best Practices for Waiting Times in Mental Health Care. Guided by this and numerous other learnings, Jo is committed to making the benefits of digital innovation a reality within mental health and learning disability services.

Passionate about inclusive digital leadership, Jo actively pursues opportunities to bring people with lived experience alongside clinical and operational colleagues into the leadership of digital transformation.

Jon is the founder and CEO of Digital Health, the health IT B2B news, research and events publisher and professional networks specialist. He previously co-founded and edited eHealth Insider, and is a leading journalist, commentator and thought leader on UK health IT. In 2014 he led the trade sale of eHealth insider to Informa Plc.

Achievements of note include: founding the UK CCIO movement, from launch of CCIO campaign in 2011 to development and growth of CCIO Networks and community; the development of Digital Health Networks – centred on CCIO and CIO Networks – as the leading independent online best practice community of NHS IT professionals – 5,000+ members as of November 2020; plus growing Digital Health Summer Schools into the premier health IT leadership event in UK; and launching Digital Health Rewired in March 2019 as the most dynamic and compelling Expo in digital health space.

Jane Hogg is the Executive lead and Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for one of the most successful large scale shared care record partnerships nationally.

This is a collaborative partnership is across three Integrated Care Systems, over 4 million residents and a multitude of contributing trusts, local authorities and other partners. It takes a population and person-centred approach, uses the latest thinking on population health, evidence-based change and driving improved outcomes, underpinned by the digital systems needed to support them.

Prior to that Jane supported the Frimley system to become one of the leading ICSs nationally, working to help strengthen relationships across health and care and into local communities, to build a shared strategy to take collective responsibility for the health and wellbeing of the local population, and to make best use of how the system spends its money and directs its energy.

Jan is Head of Health and Care at BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. She joined BCS from the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, where she was instrumental in the set up and early development of the organisation.  Prior to that she managed the Health Informatics Unit at the Royal College of Physicians and has worked in health and social care informatics roles for most of her career, both at a local and a national level across all health and care settings.

BCS drives professional standards in informatics and supports the development of digital skills at all career stages, with the aim of achieving an effective and ethical digital workforce.  Jan’s priorities in her BCS role are to create opportunities to develop the skills and experience needed by those working in health and social care informatics and to support professionalisation through promoting professional standards and registration.

Digital Health Check. Until very recently, Rachel had been leading the teams responsible for the NHS App and NHS website, as well as enabling and underpinning capabilities such as NHS login.  The NHS App has now recorded more than 34 million sign-ups and the NHS website is the largest source of health information in Europe, with an average of 100 million visits a month. Together these services support people to stay well, get well, and manage their health and care.

Throughout Rachel’s career, she has worked across a range a digital and policy roles in the public sector, including at the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, Department for Education, and HMRC. She champions truly multidisciplinary teams, which bring digital, policy and clinical expertise into single teams.

Experienced GP, business leader, and entrepreneur dedicated to delivering high-quality patient care within NHS constraints. Passionate about innovating healthcare solutions, including achieving a Net Zero NHS with green IT, to enhance outcomes.

At ReWired2025, Christian will present the success story of Energy Coop—a project driving financial sustainability in healthcare while advancing Net Zero goals. From identifying needs to leveraging data-driven solutions, Energy Coop exemplifies actionable, free-to-access innovation in healthcare.

A serial entrepreneur, Christian brings both energy (pun intended) and visionary leadership to initiatives that drive meaningful transformation in healthcare.

Acting as an independent champion for patients Henrietta leads a drive to improve the safety of medicines and medical devices by ensuring that patient voices are at the heart of the design and delivery of healthcare in England.

A practising GP and a member of the Health Honours Committee and the guiding group of the Women’s Health and Care Leaders Network, Henrietta was previously the National Guardian for the NHS and a Medical Director at NHS England. Henrietta has held executive and non-executive roles in the NHS and is Chair of Childhood First, a children’s charity.

Catherine is a children’s nurse by background. She has worked in a variety of settings since qualifying in 2007 including Neonatal care and Children’s Palliative Care in a Children’s Hospice.

She has always been technology minded but it was in 2017 that her love for technology and safe clinical care began to come together. She assisted the hospice in the procurement of their EPR and clinically lead the implementation of the software.

I am currently an Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer (ACCIO), Combined with CSO duties, and additionally hold the roles of; Allied Health Professional (AHP) professional Lead, and remain clinically active as an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist in an integrated MSK service at Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation trust.

As Strategic Partnerships Team Manager at Direct Business Group, he fosters high-impact collaborations, leveraging real-time analytics and data intelligence to optimise procurement, reduce carbon footprints, and enhance operational resilience. He works closely with Dr Christian Hornung and The Energy Coop to develop sustainable energy solutions that support organisational climate goals

Ollie is the National Manager of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Wales, and the Chair of the Royal College Mental Health Expert Advisory Group, which brings together Royal Colleges working across primary, community and secondary care mental health services.

Ollie is the co-lead on the ‘Dyfodol’ partnership with the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee; and additionally, led the review into the NHS Wales implementation of ‘111 press 2 for mental health’ service.

In his current role, at Rackspace Technology, Jason focuses on building and maintaining relationships with key clients, understanding their unique needs, and providing tailored solutions to enhance operational efficiency and reduce risk and increase financial sustainability. His deep understanding of healthcare technology trends and challenges enables him to offer strategic insights that align with clients’ goals.

Julian is a native Welsh speaker, based in North Wales and has over 30 years experience in delivering national Cyber Security and ICT services for the NHS in Wales.

He leads the Cyber Security Operations for Digital Health & Care Wales

Paul is the Chief Digital Information Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, where he leads a team of 450 digital and information staff. He has held senior, digital roles in the public and private sector over the last twenty-years including CTO for the NHS in England and Group CIO at Serco.

He has previously worked for Beamtree, the Healthcare Commission, Dr Foster and ZPB Associates. He was also an advisor to the Cabinet Office on open data policy and a member of the NHS National Information Board and a non-executive member of NHS Waltham Forest CCG. In 2009 he led the first publication of patient safety indicators across the NHS.

In 2018 Alex was appointed as an advisor to the Independent Inquiry into the issues raised by breast surgeon Ian Paterson. He is a campaigner for better transparency of outcomes of care to improve services and ensure citizens have the same information as clinicians and managers.

I am an enthusiastic individual, who is passionate about digital innovation and transformation, clinical informatics and raising the profile of Pharmacy and AHPs in the digital world. I am currently the Chief Clinical Information Officer at University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. I have completed the Digital Health.London Pioneer Fellowship and Digital Health Leadership Academy programme. I am proud to be co-vice chair of the CCIO advisory panel, Faculty of Clinical Informatics and Shuri Network member.

Matt is a senior advisor at UCLPartners Health Innovation Network and chief executive officer of Into-Action.Health – the home of CVDACTION. From 2016-2019, Matt was National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in England and led development of the 2019 NHS Long Term Plan CVD Prevention Programme. He is the founder of several major innovations including CVDACTION (a smart data tool to enable a step change in CVD prevention in real world primary care), CVDprevent (the national primary care audit), Size of the Prize, and the award-winning Proactive Care Frameworks. Matt also practices as a GP. He has a master’s degree in public health and is a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Dr Kechagioglou is the Chief Clinical Information Officer, deputy Chief Medical Officer and Consultant Clinical Oncologist at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. She is Vice-Chair of the Digital Health Networks CCIO Advisory Panel, with research and professional interest in healthcare innovation, digital health and leadership.

His portfolio includes the TRICORDER programme and cluster-RCT, a pioneering AI-powered cardiovascular diagnostic pathway supported by the NIHR and BHF. Other projects that also leverage ICS-wide NHS data assets include implementing and evaluating virtual wards, sleep apnoea diagnostics, digital waiting list prioritisation, and wearable technology for cardiac rehabilitation.

Mihir completed his PhD at Imperial College London on implementing digital pathways for cardiovascular diagnostics and management, and applies his expertise in the regulatory ecosystem as a Clinical Assessor for Scarlet Comply, the EU’s only Notified Body specialising in AI and Software as a Medical Device.

Omar Khan is an Interoperability Standards Architect at NHS England. He leads on the development and appropriate use of interoperability standards across several NHS England Programmes and Services.

Most recently he has been leading development of FHIR standards for the NHS England Genomic Medicine Transformation Programme, aiming to digitise Genomic Test Ordering and Structured Reports.

Omar is also a board member of HL7 UK and sits on the HL7 Clinical Genomics Working Group.

Omar has a background in academia, formerly being a researcher in Health Informatics at the University of Warwick before joining the NHS, and has an interest in Clinical Decision Support.

Philippa is on the Board of the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare and is a champion for the safe, ethical, and responsible implementation of AI in health and care. 

Currently serving as the Clinical Safety Officer and Digital Transformation Lead at Kent Community Health, Caroline is at the forefront of integrating technology into healthcare. She is passionate about driving the sustainable use of digital systems, with a particular focus on their impact on staff and patient well-being. Caroline’s unique blend of extensive clinical experience and digital expertise positions her as a valuable voice in the evolving landscape of healthcare technology

Denis is the CDIO across both Guy’s and St. Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Trusts. With a combined revenue of £4.5 billion and more than 50,000 staff, these Trusts represent the largest group of hospitals using a single digital platform in the UK. Prior to his role as CDIO, Denis served as CIO across the both Trusts and was the Technology Director for the implementation of a joint electronic health record system.

As Chief Executive Officer of UCLPartners, Chris leads our work as a health innovation partnership and provides executive oversight of the NHS Innovation Accelerator, working with its co-directors.

He joined UCLPartners in October 2021, initially as Director of our Health Innovation Network and National Director of the NHS Innovation Accelerator, before being appointed as UCLPartners Chief Executive Officer in February 2022.

Chris undertook specialist training in nephrology, critical care and internal medicine, and continues to practise as a consultant nephrologist at University College London and Royal Free Hospitals, where he is also Honorary Associate Professor of Nephrology at the UCL Centre for Nephrology.

He undertook research training in renal disease, genetics and physiology at UCL and INSERM Paris. He remained active in research through clinical trials, health services research and the use of artificial intelligence in predicting acute renal disease.

Previous leadership roles have included Training Director, Clinical Lead for Nephrology and Associate Medical Director of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He worked for four years as Divisional Director of Emergency Services in University College London Hospitals where he oversaw the acute care pathway, leading an extensive programme of transformation. In the latter role he also led the UCLH emergency care response during the COVID-19 pandemic. He founded and led London Acute Kidney Injury Network.

Chris has a strong interest in digital health, technology and data science and worked for five years as a senior clinical advisor to DeepMind and Google Health.

He sits on the Royal College of Radiology Informatics committee, on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Doctoral Training for Biomedical AI in Edinburgh University and is a scientific advised to the National Covid Chest Imaging Database.

A graduate of Trinity College Medicine, along with his medical degree he also qualified with an Msc. in Health Informatics and completed his radiology training in Aberdeen. He is an honorary senior clinical lecturer in the University of Aberdeen. Dr Lip has published and spoken on topics nationally and internationally such as patient engagement, innovation in breast imaging techniques quality assurance and safety in breast AI.

He leads on range of projects including trauma for the STN (thetraumaapp.com), Dynamic COPD (support.nhscopd.scot) and OPERA(early diagnostic heart failure utilising AI). Such projects focus on developing AI/ML clinical decision support by embedding a data driven approach combined with patient co-management into clinical care pathways. David also established the EmQuire research group focusing on data, device and decisions within Emergency Medicine.

Neil has been Chief Executive of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust since January 2019, after holding the interim position a year. Prior to this he was part of the Trust Board for 3 years as Chief Operating Officer.

Neil chairs the Buckinghamshire Executive Partnership and is vice-chair of the Health & Wellbeing Board in Buckinghamshire. Neil is also Honorary Professor of Professional Practice for the School of Business at the University of Buckingham, and Trustee of Scannappeal.

Neil started his NHS career in Yorkshire as a National General Management Trainee in 2003, before joining the Trust in 2005. After leaving for a role at the Healthcare Commission and general management positions at Imperial and Guys and St. Thomas’ Trusts, he returned to the organisation in July 2013 as Deputy Chief Operating Officer for the Surgery and Critical Care Division.

Graduating from St. Anne’s College, Oxford with a modern history degree in 2000, Neil subsequently completed an MSc in Healthcare Management from the University of Birmingham.

Dr Sonja Marjanovic is Director of RAND Europe’s portfolio of research in the field of healthcare innovation, industry and policy. Her work provides decision makers with evidence and insights to support innovation and improvement in health and care systems.

She is also a member of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, an expert advisor to the NHS England cancer innovation programme, a Trustee of the Nuffield Trust and on the advisory board for the Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research (CHIR) as City, University of London.

Sonja is the RAND Europe lead for Decide, a new rapid evaluation centre focused on technology-enabled remote monitoring in health and care. Funded by the NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) programme, Decide is a partnership between the University of Oxford and RAND Europe. Sonja received her Ph.D. from Judge Business School, Cambridge University.

Ian is the NPIC Programme Head for Digital Deployment & Business Services, responsible for delivering a digital pathology solution to NHS Trusts nationally, whilst supporting our partners to embark on digital transformation across pathology. Ian is responsible for managing the relationships with our existing partners and to identify opportunities with new partners to work with NPIC in the future.

Ian has worked in IT delivery in the Healthcare industry for the last 19 years and held various leadership roles covering Programme delivery, Operations and Training Services. Ian has delivered numerous digital transformation projects in clinical environments across Primary Care, Community, Child Health & Acute Care settings. Ian has also helped NHS Digital deliver the Health & Social Care Network which was the largest public sector migration to a new data network, saving the NHS £75m per year. 

Ian is now helping to drive forward the clinical implementation of the NPIC digital pathology solution across the country to help NPIC deliver against its objectives in forming a true national network for pathology. 

As the founding Director of the Office for Life Sciences, across the Departments of Health and Business, Nicole led the development of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy for UK government and acted as SRO for Genomics England. Prior to OLS, Nicole had over 15 years’ experience as a strategy consultant at Deloitte and Kearney. Nicole was previously an Executive Director of NHS DigiTrials and a Non-Executive Director of the Health Research Authority. Currently, Nicole serves as a NED at the Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult and Wellcome Sanger Genome Research. She holds a DPhil in Neuroscience from the University of Oxford.

Cate has deep experience in delivering agile, user-centred services within the public sector. Her expertise includes leadership coaching and development, facilitating conversations across organisations and systems, and supporting leaders to be bold and brave in leading change.

At Public Digital, she works across public sector organisations, healthcare companies and charities, including the NHS, Arup, Greenwich Council and the charity Change Grow Live.

Helen has over 30 years’ experience of working in, creating, and leading internet-based organisations delivering innovation and systems change at scale. She works closely with people deep in communities as well at global and national levels. She has worked in public, private, charity, and academic sectors.

Helen was awarded an OBE for services to digital inclusion in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2015. In 2017 she won the coveted title of Digital Leader of the Year (UK). Helen was named by Computer Weekly as the 14th most influential person in UK IT in 2020. In 2021, she was named Internet Hero of the year by ISPA. And in 2024, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Sheffield. She is on the Treasury’s Financial Inclusion Committee, and the Money and Pension Services’ Board Advisory Group. Outside of her work for Good Things Foundation, Helen is the Chair of environmental charity Subak, and a Non-Executive Director on the board for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Before joining the Fund, Pritesh led the innovation activity at the Royal College of General Practitioners encompassing system change, entrepreneurship, grassroots innovation and horizon-scanning. Before this he worked at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust helping to bring together clinicians and patients with research and technology to improve the care and outcomes of people with life-debilitating conditions such as heart failure.

John has enjoyed over 20 years in the NHS Health Space, working within Primary Care, CCG, ICB and Support Services arenas.

A champion for connected systems and data, John is keen to empower clinicians and patients by ensuring that they have access to the right information to support their requirements.

Currently, Ciara serves as the Nova Program Director, the first of type electronic patient record initiative across three domains (acute community and mental health) at the Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust Hospital and Essex Partnership University Trust Hospital. This groundbreaking programme underscores her belief in digital technology as a pivotal enabler of improved work experiences for staff and enhanced care for patients.

Ciara is dedicated to delivering a program that prioritises people and purpose, demonstrating unwavering commitment to advancing healthcare delivery through digital innovation and strategic transformation. Ciara is also a social entrepreneur, redefining the professional landscape for women over 50, building new narratives that empower women in their encore careers enabling them to thrive with confidence and purpose.

As Director, Helen is responsible for Strategic Planning, Quality, Performance Improvement, and the delivery of ICT Digital and telecommunications across the Trust. In addition her role sees her carry out the duties of being Lead Director for Health Development and Population Health; this includes membership of Community Planning Partnerships and sits on the newly formed Area Integrated Partnership Board for South Eastern Locality as well as Vice-Chair for a Strategic Community Planning group within one of the three council areas that the South Eastern Trust provides integrated health and social care services to.

Dr. Jessica Morley has worked in NHS data, tech, and AI policy for the past ten years. Originally working in the NHS and the Department of Health and Social Care, she transitioned to working full-time in academia in 2019: working for the Bennett Institute of Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford on OpenSAFELY and the Goldacre Review until April 2023.

Now, having completed her PhD “Designing an algorithmically enhanced NHS”, also at the University of Oxford, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale Digital Ethics Center. All Jess’s work focuses on ensuring healthcare systems can capitalise on the opportunities of better use of data, whilst mitigating the ethical harms.

Michael has covered a range of roles in social work, from practitioner, team manager, principal social worker, safeguarding service manager, and his current role of Chief Information Officer for Social Work and Social Care. Here he has led on the design and implementation of encompass, the world’s first fully integrated health and social care operating system powered by Epic.

Nicky is the Regional Director for Digital Transformation in the East of England. In this role, Nicky provides oversight and support for digital transformation programmes across the East of England, working with national programme teams, ICS and ICB leads, and local provider teams who are delivering transformational change with digital technologies. Nicky’s previous experience includes delivering international transformation programmes through technology when working as International Government Health Lead at Amazon Web Services. Nicky has also worked in a range of national, regional and local roles across the NHS, including as Chief of Staff & Director of Policy Delivery to the Deputy Chief Executive at NHS England.  

A Chartered Marketer (CMktr) and Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM), Matt holds BSc and MA degrees in business, technology, and communication. He has extensive experience in both B2B and B2C marketing across the public and private sectors, with expertise spanning digital marketing, integrated campaigns, media relations, PR, and social marketing.

A/Prof. Ng Yih Yng is the Director of the Digital and Smart Health Office for the Healthcare Innovation (CHI) at the National Healthcare Group (NHG), overseeing the Hospital without Walls Program, Digital Enablement & Adoption, Digital Transformation and the Health Empowered by AI Launchpad (HEAL) initiative, focused on adoption and scaling of artificial intelligence across the NHG.

He is also a faculty in Digital Health & AI with the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKC-SOM), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), as well as the clinical director of the LKC-SOM, NTU World Health Organisation collaborating centre for Digital Health & Health Education. 

At the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Yih Yng is a Senior Consultant, Department of Preventive & Population Medicine as a public health physician and supporting the training of emergency physicians in evidenced based medicine.

His research interests includes resuscitation, emergency medical services, innovation and the adoption of digital health and AI.

At the start of the Covid pandemic, Ella joined the London Nightingale Hospital’s Training and Education team. Since then, she has worked within the NHS, supporting a wide range of national, regional, and local programmes. For more than two years, Ella led a national initiative to implement the first-ever national digitised proficiency framework for adult critical care nurses, spanning 60 NHS Trusts across the UK. She now leads NHS Elect’s digital transformation offer, in addition to supporting exec teams at national, regional, and Trust levels in shaping their organisational strategies.

Dan possesses a broad spectrum of experience in social care, accumulated over the years, specialising in cyber security compliance & data analysis. Dan regularly deciphers national compliance data with the Data Security & Protection Toolkit and supports the programme’s partners to identify gaps and where to best focus their efforts.

She is equally leading efforts to facilitate secure access to data for research and innovation with the design and implementation of a network-wide approach to data management and governance.

Jill has extensive experience across public health, including working on national policy for substance misuse and on workforce development. Jill has also been a private company director, and studied and worked in law, bringing these perspectives to innovator support.

Architecture Lead, Traverse Digital – providing services on behalf of the Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Shared Care Record. Toby is currently working alongside health and care organisations in the region to deliver shared care record functionality aligning to local priorities. He is leading on discovery activities to ensure that challenges in different care settings are well understood and that technical capabilities solve the right problem. This also includes the design of standards for health and social care information that align to national and regional approaches.

In the past he has worked on health and care digital transformation initiatives with NHS trusts and local government in Leeds as well as on the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record. Toby’s previous experience has also included solution architecture, application development and clinical informatics for EMIS Health. He has a particular interest in using human-centred design and design-thinking methodologies alongside enterprise architecture best practice.

Jenny’s mission is to make healthcare work better for patients and staff through innovation. She is an engineer by background, with a particular interest in how digital technology can support better healthcare. Jenny worked for many years in primary care management setting up new services and medical centres, and recognises the huge potential of AI to address service and workload challenges. 

Her leadership extends beyond her current role, having spearheaded local transformation projects during her time as a Darzi fellow and managing the national COVID-19 Test programme during the pandemic. A shortlisted finalist for the Next Generation Leader at the Women in IT Awards, she brings a blend of frontline clinical experience and strategic digital health expertise to drive impactful change across the NHS.

With over 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector, Sonia is a highly respected leader with a proven track record of driving digital innovation, even in the most challenging environments. Her leadership is shaped by a strong commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and she is an active advocate of the Shuri Network and Stemettes. Sonia also dedicates her time to mentoring emerging talent, demonstrating her passion for cultivating the next generation of digital leaders.

Alan is an executive level Digital and Technology leader with over 30 years in Healthcare, Health Insurance, Banking and Capital Markets, bringing digital innovation, vision, knowledge, drive and the ability to deliver globally across multiple businesses and support functions.

He’s held executive technology and engineering leadership positions at Sensyne Health, Aetna International, Nuffield Health, BUPA Merrill Lynch, Oracle and CTO at JPMorganChase.

Alan is now Group Product and Engineering Director for the Health, Support & Care division at the Access Group. Here he is responsible for the overall vision, direction and delivery of the technology for this crucial group of customers, as they aim to meet the twin aspirations of digitisation and integrated health and care.

He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the UCL Faculty of Engineering (Intelligent Systems) and has specific research interests in Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship.

Iolanda Pedrosa is the first CIO in the NHS to come from a Nursing Information Officer background. An avid learner across multiple disciplines, she has a nursing degree, an MBA, level 2 of British Sign Language, and is a Mental Health First Aider.

Her experiences of both providing care and being a patient, in the UK and in Portugal, have given her a unique perspective. She is passionate about amplifying patients’ voices in decisions around digital and information technology in the NHS, and creating a supportive culture of wellbeing in the teams that she leads.

Andy has over thirty years’ experience delivering practical, cost-effective digital communication strategies across both the NHS and Local Government marketplaces.

I am also the Director of the Statistics group (NDPCHS), and as part of this role, I am involved in multiple research activities within the department. However, my primary research interest is Monitoring for managing long-term conditions (e.g. Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, etc) individually or jointly (sometimes called multimorbidity).

I lead a large group of methodologists working across multiple clinical areas and have been PI of large Programmes of work and Theme lead for NIHR-funded infrastructure programmes (NIHR BRC, NIHR ARC, and NIHR MIC). I set up the NDPCHS fully accredited Clinical Trials Unit as its original Statistical Director.

With over 20 years of experience in leadership roles across the UK’s charity, health and higher education sectors, Gemma has led ground breaking initiatives in cancer research, care and clinical best practice. Since joining Macmillan in January 2023, Gemma has catalysed the collaborative development of a new organisational strategy, preparing the organisation to ensure that everyone living with cancer in the UK gets the best possible care today, while sparking a revolution in cancer care for the future.

Rachel joined the Patients Association as Chief Executive in 2017and has led changes in the charity, resulting in a more engaged membership and an increase in profile for the Patients Association and its goal of embedding patient partnership in the design and delivery of health and care services.

Described by The Times as, “the UK’s foremost patient campaigner”, Rachel is a passionate advocate for patient-centred care. In 2023 she was invited by the English Patient Safety Commissioner to join her advisory group and be a member of the Martha’s Rule working group. She sits on the NHS Assembly and is also a member of the National Data Advisory Group, Personalised Care Institute Steering Group, and NHS England’s Patient Choice Steering Group, among other memberships.

Rachel’s focus is on empowering patients through the provision of information that enables them to be active partners in their care. This is reflected in the Patients Association general election manifesto that provides the next Government with a roadmap of how to ensure access to high quality care and embed patient partnership across health and care services.

Alec Price-Forbes joined NHS England as national Chief Clinical Information Officer at the start of October.

Alec is an experienced Consultant Rheumatologist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, was previously the Trust’s CCIO and was the NHS’s first system CCIO for Coventry and Warwickshire’s Health and Care System. He has also held roles as Clinical Lead and co-Chair for NHSE’s Digital Blueprinting Steering Group and as CMIO for 3M Healthcare (UK and Ireland).

With a reputation as a compassionate and empathic clinician, he has an established track record of working across care settings to facilitate new ways of working to transform health and care delivery. With extensive experience in strategic planning and quality improvement, he has successfully led many programmes and projects, accelerating and embedding core Digital capabilities. These include the Shared Care Record, consolidating EPR capabilities with a vision for a single EPR, Virtual Health and Care capabilities and a Population Health Management solution. In 2021, he spearheaded the creation of a digitally-enabled Transformation Strategy for Coventry and Warwickshire’s ICS. This emphasised the convergence and standardisation of systems to deliver maximal integration, focusing on citizens and patients and not just care providers.

He is passionate about the role of high quality data, digital technologies and capabilities in enabling us to reimagine health and care services and outcomes in meeting the Quintuple Aim of HealthCare and dedicated to improving patient care by fostering a culture of change and collaboration.

After over 2 decades working for the NHS, including some of the largest Acute and specialist organisations in England, Rob now helps close to 100 NHS organisations meet their objectives in anticipating and minimising the impact of unscheduled and/or prolonged digital outages.

Dr. Simon Rang is a Consultant Anaesthetist at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and serves as the South East Regional Clinical Lead for Perioperative Medicine at NHS England. With a strong focus on improving the perioperative pathway, Dr. Rang works to ensure optimal patient outcomes while enhancing the efficiency and standards of care. He is particularly interested in leveraging digital technology to streamline healthcare data availability, ensuring the right information is accessible at the right time. His work aims to improve the safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of perioperative care across the healthcare system.

As a doctoral researcher, she explores the impact of electronic health records (EHRs) in maternity care, particularly regarding healthcare inequalities affecting marginalised populations. Her research aims to assess whether EHRs enhance care coordination or exacerbate disparities, while developing frameworks to engage service users effectively in the design of these digital tools, ensuring they deliver equitable care for all.

Dr Charlotte Refsum is a trained physician and expert in health policy. Her work focuses on harnessing the power of AI and other technology to drive prevention, create sustainable health systems and achieve health for all. 

Working alongside Sir Patrick Vallance and Sir John Bell, her thought leadership contributes significantly to policy discussions of social-care policy, biotechnology and health care in the AI era. 

Over the course of her career, Charlotte has worked in 25 countries to support the transformation of health systems globally.

Alongside her leadership role, Maggie is Head of Clinical Transformation at System C Healthcare, where she works to integrate digital solutions that enhance maternity and neonatal services. With a strong background in clinical informatics, she has led large-scale digital transformation projects, ensuring that technology empowers, rather than burdens, frontline clinicians.

Hi! I’m Kaye, a Registered Nurse since 2011. I have worked clinically for over ten years, predominantly as a chemotherapy and palliative care nurse. In October 2021 I became the full time CSO for my organisation, and in June 2024 was promoted to the Lead CSO role. I am currently working towards my MSc in Digital Health (due to complete summer 2025), and I am very passionate about the safe use and introduction of digital systems into the clinical setting.

Patient safety is my priority and increasing awareness about the potential risks and benefits of digital health is imperative. I also run a national network for CSOs to meet online, meeting once a month via Teams. We have just hosted our first in-person collaboration day (26th June 2024) with the amazing team at DrDoctor and their CSO Laura – who is also on the council with us here. I’m really looking forward to being a part of this amazing team of dedicated clinical safety professionals and hope we can form an inclusive, collaborative council, for the benefit of all.

Dr Paul Rice joined Bradford and Airedale NHS Foundation Trusts from his role as Regional Director of Digital Transformation for NHS England and NHS Improvement in the North East and Yorkshire. He leads on the delivery of digital programmes across both organisations and at Place within our Act as One Programme. This work includes driving forward Airedale’s ambition as a Digital Aspirant to secure an enterprise wide Electronic Patient Record, updating and improving the Infrastructure, Networks and Cyber resilience of both organisations, and leading major digital system upgrades including Laboratory Imaging Systems.

He is committed to programmes of inclusive digital transformation and passionate about diversifying the skills base and creating professional career opportunities for current and future digital and data workforces. He is also a firm believer in information technology being a means to an end not an end in itself.

He has three decades of transformation and programme management experience. His first decade focused on UK military aircraft projects and for the last two decades he has focused on digital transformation in the NHS. He is currently leading the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record development to provide interweave as an open platform for shared care record and population health systems. He is also the CIO of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Senior Responsible Owner for the mental health digital transformation of Humber & North Yorkshire ICS, Technical Senior Responsible Owner for the national reasonable adjustment digital flag, member of the PRSB advisory board, National ICS Digital Council, Interoperability Advisory Group and vice chair of Northern, Yorkshire and Humberside Digital and informatics Forum (NYHDIF). More recently he has provided the technical leaders for the Yorkshire & Humber Secure Data Enviroment.

Shelly Rose currently serves as the Associate Director of Nursing for Critical Care, Anaesthetics, and Specialist Surgery at East Kent University Trust. Alongside this role, she is also the Non-Medical Advisor for Anaesthetics and Perioperative Medicine for NHS England in the South East region.

Shelly has been passionate for many years about supporting improvements in the perioperative pathway, ensuring a smooth transition from the point of listing through to discharge planning. She recognises that digital innovations are essential for supporting elective recovery, enhancing the quality of care, improving efficiency, and reducing duplication, all to benefit both patients and healthcare professionals.

Previously, Derm held the role of Director of Technology Services at NHS Digital, where he managed IT services during the critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. His leadership ensured the seamless transition to virtual working environments and the provision of essential IT infrastructure to frontline workers.

Tania Saheed is a highly experienced Lead ePMA (Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration) Pharmacist and Clinical Safety Officer, dedicated to improving medication safety and digital transformation in healthcare. With a strong background in pharmacy and health informatics, she plays a key role in the implementation, optimization, and safety governance of ePMA systems.

Tania is passionate about leveraging technology to enhance patient care, ensuring seamless integration of digital solutions while maintaining the highest clinical safety standards. She actively collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation, improve workflows, and support safe prescribing practices.

With a background as an occupational therapist, a PhD in health informatics, and recognition as a Fellow of both the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Louise brings a wealth of expertise to the field. She advises companies, start-ups, boards and governments on health innovation, strategy, policy, commercialisation, product development, global expansion, and market positioning.

Louise is also the host of the popular Pulse💗 podcast, where she explores the latest in digital health and innovation. Deeply engaged with the digital health community, she is always online, and yes, she does have the coolest job!

An evangelist for optimising patient-flow across global health eco-systems by established cross-organisational collaboration, underpinned by intelligent technology and pragmatic change management. 

Dedicated to building efficiencies and future sustainability for health and care ecosystems; delivering better patient outcomes and experience. 

Alumni of U of M Business School, University of Oxford Continuing Professional Development, A Member of The Institute of Directors – MoD and The Institute of Healthcare Management. 

Joanna is Director of Partnership and Development for Warm Wales, and is a Registered Public Health Practitioner and Environmental Health Practitioner (MSc Environmental Health). She has 20 years of experience working in Local Authority and third sector in the field of housing and public health. Jonna is passionate about exploring the links between housing and health and the impact that it has and what we can do to reduce the impact. Joanna’s current role at Warm Wales combines engagement, development and implementation, looking at identifying and cultivating new partnerships along with maintaining relationships with existing partners and services in the community, leading on the development of new project opportunities and following them through to implementation. She joined Warm Wales back in 2017 and has led many projects such as the Welsh Government Energy Advice pilot and Healthy Homes People Lives and Communities. Joanna was also responsible for setting up the model of delivery, Healthy Homes Healthy People (HHHP) which looks at tackling fuel poverty, reducing avoidable health inequality and improving health and wellbeing by linking the provision of energy advice, fuel debt, case worker support, income maximisation, awareness raising and behaviour change and wider wellbeing via social prescribing.

Joanna recently won an award at the UKPHR (UK Public Health Register) Awards 2024, innovation in Public Health for best Digital Initiative  for the work that Warm Wales have been leading on, digitally integrating Health and Housing Support.

Joanna is a touch rugby player and has represented Wales Women’s 35 at the Euros in 2022 where she won silver and at the World Cup in 2024 where they came 4^th.

Warm Wales – Cymru Gynnes CBC is a Community Interest Company, established in 2004, to deliver fuel poverty and associated programmes in Wales. With the aim to work with others to alleviate fuel poverty and to provide homes in Wales with affordable warmth. In doing so, we make a difference in the everyday lives of people in Wales by making their homes more energy efficient, healthy, comfortable, durable and affordable. “Our mission is to empower people to make the right choices and decisions for themselves to enable them to alleviate fuel poverty and become more resilient”

Dr. Shelmerdine plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of radiology through her leadership positions in prestigious national and international organisations. She is a member of the Royal College of Radiologists’ AI and Academic Advisory Committees, chair of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology AI Taskforce, and member of the European Society of Radiology’s eHealth and Informatics Subcommittee. Her work focuses on ethical AI deployment, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and improving patient outcomes through technology-driven solutions.

​Haris Shuaib is CEO of Newton’s Tree, a company that delivers an enterprise AI platform to healthcare organisations to help them evaluate, deploy, and monitor 3rd party AI solutions.

Haris is also a healthcare professional and currently Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of the Clinical Scientific Computing section at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, where his team are developing people, platforms, and policy for digital health.

Finally, he also holds a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship, where he is leading a national multi-centre trial to see whether AI can improve the treatment of glioblastoma.

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She has spent much of her extensive career working in the health and life sciences sector, holding senior leadership and operational roles across health and higher education institutions. She began her healthcare career overseas, running a private primary care practice before continuing her career in the UK establishing the organisational structure of a department focused on alternative therapies education at prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford, and King’s College London.

Nick trained as a paramedic in Kent and specialised in trauma management and urgent care.
He held several operational and educational management roles within the ambulance service.
He then moved to the acute sector leading significant improvement in emergency care standards, planned care performance and has held various senior leadership roles in operations.

He is a graduate from the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Masters in Healthcare Leadership programme and has qualified as a Service Improvement Practitioner.

Nick is driven by delivering high performing services which put the patient at the centre of what they do.
He is committed to driving improvement and implementing new ways of working and maximising the benefits of technology in healthcare.

Rahul is currently the Associate CCIO for Medicines at NHSE, where he holds SRO accountability for the Digital and Interoperable Medicines Programme. As the designated Chief Pharmaceutical Officer lead for any national digital improvement programmes, Rahul holds the responsibility for any specific medicines related work and will also provide professional leadership for the pharmacy informatics workforce and related workforce development.

Rahul has held several leadership positions across NHS organisations and ALBs, most recently he was the Chief Pharmacist at NELFT. He has been involved in digital projects that include the deployment of; hospital-based medicines automation, EPMA, EPS2, E-Job Planning and working with partners to define pharmacy and medicines related performance metrics. Rahul is also Health Foundation Generation Q Fellow.

He has strategized, operationalised, and transformed stroke services at BHRUT with the PRIDEWAY leading to a D-rated service to A or B-rated. This service won the BMJ award for 2019 for rapid transformation.

He is interested in clinician-focused digital intervention with population-based data to prevent secondary events, clinically meaningful AI, and data-led intervention in the pathways.

Dr Robert Smillie has a dual role as Chief Medical Information Officer at the Royal Free London, and Radiology Registrar at the Royal London Hospital.

Professor Reecha Sofat is Chair of the Professional Records Standards Body. She is also Breckenridge Chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool. She practices general internal medicine and is also an Associate Director at the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre (DSC) which is led by Health Data Research UK (HDRUK). 

Reecha was also announced as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in May 2024, recognising her remarkable contribution to advancing biomedical and health sciences, ground-breaking research discoveries and translating developments into benefits for patients and wider society.  

A physiotherapist since 2004, Christina earned her MSc and became a MACP member. After a successful career as a Clinical Lead Physiotherapist, she worked at NHS England as a Clinical Transformation Fellow and completed the Digital Pioneer Fellowship at DigitalHealth.London. She continues to practice as an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist (MSK) at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on Friday afternoons.

Additionally, Christina facilitates leadership training at Health Education England (HEE) and has presented at national and European conferences.

I was privileged to be asked to set up the Warm homes for young lungs project back in 2023.  We use the CIPHA platform to identify families living in our region’s most deprived areas and families with children who have been prescribed Salbutamol and are at risk of being  admitted to hospital with respiratory symptoms. The service provides clinical intervention, financial support, onward referrals for housing support and peer support in the form of breathe buddies.

He has authored numerous publications on digital consent and shared decision making. He is the Partnership Lead of the Innovation Hub for the Royal College of Surgeons (England). He is passionate about healthcare and effective, safe innovation. Amongst other skills he has domain expertise in consent & shared decision making, the evaluation of medical devices and digital health.

Dr. Laura Tan is a Medical Doctor (MBBS BSc) and Co-founder of Avid, where she combines her clinical, technical and academic expertise to build and scale impactful care solutions to shift healthcare to be more preventative, predictive and personalised. Graduating from Imperial College Medical School, she worked across a wide variety of specialties, also securing an Academic Clinical Program with research into wearables, AI and data analytics. After building programming skills in app and web development, she co-founded Avid – a VC backed digital health start up for proactive health action. Dr Laura’s commitment to healthcare innovation is reflected in her participation in Harvard’s Value-Based Healthcare Seminar, the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Program, and the DigitalHealthLondon Bootcamp. She is driven by a mission to redefine proactive healthcare at scale – combining the best of consumer tech and AI-powered risk prediction, with clinical rigour, meaningful outcomes and practical support.

About Avid: Avid actively engages you in protective health activities, driving proactive action to manage chronic disease and reduce health risks through our comprehensive pipeline of programs. Avid applies a targeted, modular program of early intervention, that is highly engaging, to drive a specific outcome improvement, via a combination of accountability health coaching, content and data insights, leveraging AI to scale and augment human expertise: from automated Coach assist, to personalised risk prediction, to engaging AI avatars.

Ming has over 20 years’ experience in managing and delivering large scale change involving implementation of new operating models in complex and challenging environments.

She joined the NHS in October 2009, initially leading commissioning support services in the West Midlands as the Managing Director for Healthcare Commissioning Services and then as the Managing Director for South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit.

Ming is currently the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for NHS England responsible for strategic development of data and analytics capability across NHS.

Dr Gareth Thomas joined the Greater Manchester health and care system in 2023 as Digital Innovation Director. He joined as part of a joint appointment between Health Innovation Manchester and NHS Greater Manchester.

Gareth’s previous role was Deputy National Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) within the Transformation Directorate at NHS England, where he brought clinical leadership to national policy, strategy, systems liaison, and workforce development initiatives.

He is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia and worked as Clinical Director at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to his national role he was the Group Chief Clinical Information Officer at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.
 

Helen has been the CEO of Digital Health & Care Wales since 2021, leading the organisation’s impressive response to the Covid-19 pandemic, supporting the NHS in Wales to adopt data and digital advances at pace and scale.

Helen also led the organisation through its transition to a Special Health Authority on 1st April 2021, with Digital Health & Care Wales continuing to deliver national digital and data services to NHS Wales.

Helen was named Digital NHS CEO of the year in 2021, and has an MSc in Health Informatics from Swansea University, is a leading practitioner of the Federation of Informatics Professionals, a fellow of the British Computer Society and a Professor of Practice at University of Wales Trinity St David.

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Sarah is an experienced digital healthcare leader who is passionate about the power of data and technology to transform outcomes for patients and the working lives of staff across the NHS. She has been Digital Director on the New Hospital Programme since 2020, spearheading the digital ambition to develop, deliver and optimise Intelligent Hospitals.

She has 15 years’ private sector experience specialising in healthcare technology. She has been accountable for senior client partnerships with Trusts, resulting in first of type deployments across the UK. She created and led international executive alignment between UK hospitals and US healthcare systems, shaping digitisation and transformation programmes focused on reducing unwarranted variation in care. She has also managed strategy and deployment of industry leading digital delivery models into large acute providers, resulting in the opening of digitally advanced hospitals in the UK.

At Rewired 2025, David will share insights into the collaborative efforts between Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to expand Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs). His presentation will highlight how leveraging existing technology and clinician-led design can accelerate access to critical diagnostics, speeding up the diagnosis of conditions like cancer and heart disease, and addressing health inequalities in the North East.

David’s experience in strategic programme oversight, major incident management, and integrating complex IT systems has been instrumental throughout his career. His pragmatic approach, focusing on patient-centred solutions and operational efficiency, underpins his approach in ensuring access to services, improving patient experience and healthcare outcomes.

As an advocate for person-centred, preventative care, she envisions a world in which patients, clients and service users have more control over their health and wellbeing while medical and social care professionals have the resources they need to consistently deliver holistic care of the highest standard.

“Born in Newcastle, Louise Thompson’s first job was at the Freeman Hospital.  From there, she became an alumna of Northumbria University School of Law.  She went on to complete her MSc at UMIST and became a Certified Company Director by way of examination on behalf of the Institute of Directors, at Warwick Business School.  She is also an alumna of Windsor Leadership Trust.  Louise is a CEDR-accredited mediator. 

Louise spent 25 years in blue chip corporate organisations (EDS, BT, SAP, Accenture, De La Rue, Sopra Steria), applying the legal and commercial wrap to tech solutions and managing the end to end contractual lifecycle of customer agreements including bid submissions.   She has been a committee member of BSI’s ART/1 Committee on AI.  She is also a hospital governor.  She is a speaker and writer. 

Most recently, and based on her experience of being in a senior leadership position whilst caring for ageing parents, Louise founded Myfolks.  Myfolks (www.myfolks.uk) is the digital platform that sends someone round to an isolated elder to put the kettle on and have a cup of tea and a chat and Mysocialhealth (www.mysocialhealth.uk) which is using AI to delve into identifying and tackling social isolation as a preventative measure before it leads to disease such as dementia, heart disease, stroke and diabetes that are more costly in every sense.

Louise is on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, as a Patient Entrepreneur and Myfolks is supported by the National Innovation Centre for Ageing and Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria. Louise lives in Sussex, with her husband Paul, although her businesses are registered on the banks of the Tyne.”

Sarah is a Pharmacist and CCIO at Wirral University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Nominated by the Pharmaceutical Journal as a ‘Woman to Watch 2022’ Sarah is proud to be one of the first Pharmacist CCIO’s nationally.

A passionate advocate for career development for non-medical CCIOs, Sarah is determined to see further representation from Pharmacy, AHP, Nursing and Midwifery colleagues nationally. Sarah’s main areas of interest include clinical engagement, clinical safety, & optimisation of digital systems.

An experienced Programme Manager, Juliette has worked in Higher Education for over 10 years, previously for Imperial College Business School where she was responsible for the delivery of the school’s portfolio of residential and online MBA programmes. Her focus has been on finding meaningful connections between learning outcomes and faculty interests in order to translate these into engaging learning experiences for students. She has always supported programmes for professional learners, and leadership has been a key area of interest throughout her time at the College.

Prabha Vijayakumar is the Chief Allied Health Professions Information Officer in NHS England.  She is a registered Occupational Therapist with over 25 years of experience operating at board level, managing complex projects and business transformations within clinical, health and care services.  Prabha also has experience of leadership in reducing inequalities across health and social care. 

Prabha in her current role is looking at identifying and bringing together clinical leadership in Informatics across the AHP professions. She is also keen on highlighting AHP involvement within mainstream Clinical Informatics programmes nationally, regionally, and locally.

She is keen and looking forward to driving the overarching digital strategy for AHPs at a national level and regional levels, ensuring supported alignment across the systems. 

Dr Simon Wallace is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and Director of Business Strategy at Microsoft in the UK and Ireland. Simon has worked as a GP, hospital and public health doctor in Brighton and London. His interest in digital health began in the 90s when he spent a year at the King’s Fund investigating the impact of the internet on shared decision making between patients and their healthcare professional. For the past 20 years, he has worked for a range of organisations including Bupa, Dr Foster, Cerner Corporation and GSK across a range of technologies which include AI-powered speech recognition, electronic patient records, telemedicine, mobile health and lifestyle devices.

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Peter is Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust first CNIO; a senior nurse working with the clinical, iDigital and Innovation teams. Having close working relationship with clinical staff to ensure they have access to the best digital solutions, Peter is transforming the way nurses deliver care for children and young people. Peter takes an active lead on nursing informatics, utilising data to improve patient care, safety and experience. Peter is the chair for the UK Meditech User Group as well as an active member of the North West Digital Nurse, AHP and Midwifery Network. As the first specialist hospital in Europe to achieve HIMSS Stage 7, Alder Hey is at the forefront of digital innovation and implementation.

Andy is a UK futurist, speaker, podcaster and founder of FUTURE OF HEALTH – a new think tank and systems convener exploring the long term vision for holistic health in a technology enabled 21st century.

Through the lens of human-centred value creation Andy has undertaken many research, innovation and strategy projects across Health and Care. This includes authoring high profile reports for the UK’s NHS and policy makers on whole systems approaches to the future of Health.  Most recently he has been working closely with Suffolk and NE Essex ICS to bring a new futures based approach to whole systems working.

Emma Wills is a Researcher at The King’s Fund. She has a background in psychological and mental health research and has worked at an e-health organisation in the Netherlands. Her research has particularly focused on tackling health inequalities and on making health and care more inclusive. She has worked on a range of projects involving patients and the public in research to produce evidence and recommendations grounded in lived experience.

Matthew joined Imperial College Health Partners in November 2021 as a Senior Innovation Manager. A Physiotherapist by background, Matthew has over 20 years of NHS frontline clinical delivery experience.

In the five years preceding his tenure at ICHP, Matthew worked as a Consultant Physiotherapist and Head of Musculoskeletal Practice for a leading community services healthcare provider. Leading multi-disciplinary teams of over 400 clinicians, Matthew oversaw the provision of innovative and transformational community Rehabilitation, Musculoskeletal Assessment and Treatment, Persistent Pain, Rheumatology and First Contact Practitioner services serving over 375k patients and 50+ NHS Trusts/ CCGs.
Matthew has spent over ten years in NHS London Teaching Hospitals in various clinical and leadership roles.

Alongside his frontline roles Matthew served for eight years as London representative on the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Council. He served terms as the Chair on both Research and Development, and Practice and Development Committees during this time.

Matthew is passionate about innovation, quality improvement, patient engagement and public health.

I have worked in the NHS for 10 years starting operationally in a hospital managing surgical specialities, before going on to work at a CCG where I worked on improving patient flow and discharges, UEC and on the outpatient improvement programme. I have now been at NHSE for 3 years originally working on the clinical review of standards and then for the last two years as a Senior Change Manager for Digital Planned Care. Primarily I have been focussed on the roll out of patient engagement portals and integration into the NHS App for the South East.

With over a decade of experience in advancing early-stage innovations, Ilias has led high-profile projects across medtech, digital health, and cell and gene therapy on both national and international platforms. His work has also contributed to promoting the UK’s life sciences sector globally, attracting international investments reflecting his commitment to improving population health and economic growth. A dedicated advocate for diversity and inclusion in healthcare, Ilias champions equitable recruitment and fostering supportive workplace environments.

During this time at UCLPartners, he has spearheaded collaborative programmes in early cancer detection and dementia care. Currently, he leads projects aimed at accelerating the adoption of AI technologies at scale across London healthcare providers, driving transformative change in health and care delivery