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.