THEMES

Bita Farhadpour

Director of TeleHealth | Dignity Health- Common Spirit Health

Bita is a software engineer with an MBA in Health Industry Leadership and continuing her education on Doctorate candidate in Business Administration who serves as a Telehealth and innovation administrative leader for healthcare organizations. She currently serves as Telehealth leader for Dignity Health, where she leads Telehealth services and organizational alignment, performance management, network development and growth. In this role, she has implemented numerous system-wide ambulatory Telehealth services. 

Ernst Kuipers

CEO | Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam

Ernst trained in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He became professor of Medicine and chair of the Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2000), Internal Medicine (2006), and Surgery (2012) of Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His clinical and research interests included early neoplastic gastrointestinal conditions, and colorectal cancer screening. He is fellow of the American Gastroenterology Association and was the World Endoscopy Organization’s regional lead on colorectal cancer screening for Europe and the Middle East. 

Lindsay Mitchell

D2B Global Lead, Customer Engagement & Care | Philips

Bio coming soon.

Henning Trill

Vice President of Innovation Strategy | Bayer

Bio coming soon.

Dominick Kennerson

Global Head G4A - Digital Health Partnerships | Bayer

Dominick D. Kennerson, Global Head G4A, is a healthcare expert, with deep experience and insight across several sectors, including public health, health innovation and entrepreneurship, healthcare communications, and healthcare policy.

As Global Head of Bayer’s G4A (2020 – current), Dom supports one of the industry’s leading platforms for digital health start-up partnership to “change the experience of health”—to put people at the center of managing their health in the digital age.

Jennifer Pougnet

Global Data Policy Strategy Leader | Roche

Jennifer has served in large-scale public health systems in Canada implementing Electronic Medical Records as well as developing and implementing both operational and legislative health policy. She has been with Roche for the last 6 years working on innovative funding pathways for companion diagnostics and Next Generation Sequencing and now serves as the Global Data Policy Strategy Lead supporting countries around the world. She has a Masters of Business Administration, a Masters of Public Health with a specialization in Policy and recently earned her certificate in Data: Law, Policy & Regulation from the London School of Economics. She serves on the EFPIA Digital Health Working Group, Digital Europe Digital Health Working Group and the BIO Digital Trade Task Force focusing on progressing data and digital policy globally.

Dr. Adam Chee

Chief of Smart Health Leadership Centre | National University of Singapore

Dr. Adam CHEE is a Convergence Scientist familiar with Health(& Care), Informatics, Innovation, Technologies and (equally important,) the Business aspects of the ecosystem. Adam serves as a coach & conduit between various key opinion leaders & stakeholders, engaging at operational, strategic and governmental levels as well as developing commercial relationships with global firms and local start-ups in the utilization of Health Informatics and Digital Health as an enabler in addressing the challenges of new and existing models of health(care. Adam's brief profile is available at www.BinaryHealthcare.com/Adam/

Raj Modi

Director of Health & Life Sciences | Oracle

Raj leads Health & Lifesciences industry for EMEA.  His role involves responding to and stimulating change at senior levels in Oracle’s most important health science customers.   He is from a strategy consulting background with over 15 years transformation consulting working for a range of clients such as the UK National Health Service, Novo Nordisk, BUPA, private equity and various start-ups.

Britt-Marie Zaman

Director of Development | Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Britt-Marie Zaman works at Sahlgrenska University Hospital as a development manager at the newly formed Center for Digital Health and is head of the Digital Development Unit. She was originally trained as a Registered Nurse Master degree and has a higher education in patient safety, quality and business development as well as in Innovation leadership. Her interest is to contribute to the development of healthcare to make it better, safer, and more efficient based on both patient safety and work environment. In recent years, she has mostly focused on digital development with methods and digital tools that already exist but are not fully utilized and have now moved to work more proactively with business-related development of both digital solutions and working methods.

Alexander Büller

Director of the Center for Digital Health | Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Alexander Büller works at Sahlgrenska University Hospital as a director at the newly formed Center for Digital health.  He has a background in system development and system architecture and has a higher eduction in medical informatics at Karolinska institute. Combining healthcare and digital technology to create new solutions and way of working has always been a major  driver for Alexander.  Recent years more of Alexanders focus has been on management,  providing strategic guidance and support of how digitalization and new technologies can act as enablers for business transformation.

Professor George Crooks

CEO | Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre

OBE, MBChB, FRCP, FRCGP. Professor George Crooks is  the Chief Executive of DHI, Scotland’s national innovation centre for digital health and care.  
He was previously the Medical Director for NHS 24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth & Telecare. George was a General Medical Practitioner for 23 years. He is on the Board of the European Connected Health Alliance. He is an expert advisor to the WHO and the European Commission on digital health. He is an editor of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List 2011 for services to healthcare.

Lieven Annemans

Professor Economics of Health and Wellbeing, Lecturer, Author, Advisor | Ghent University and Brussels University

Lieven Annemans is Senior Full Professor of Health Economics at the faculties of medicine of the ‘Vrije Universiteit Brussel’ and Ghent University. He is Past-President of ISPOR, was for 8 years chairman of the Flemish health council, and is currently chairman of the Flemish Committee for Societal Revival. He is (co-)author of > 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and published four books on health economics, among which “health economics for non-economists” (Pelckmans Pro, 2018)..

Maria Hassel

Senior Advisor and International Coordinator | Swedish eHealth Agency

Maria Hassel is a Senior Advisor and International coordinator at the Swedish eHealth Agency.
In her role as an International coordinator, her mission is to make sure swedes can enjoy all the benefits as Europeans in cross-border health care through the engagement in the eHealth Network and all the great work that is being done there.
Initially a pharmacist, educated at Uppsala University, she has worked with requirements and business development in national IT-projects that have had major impacts on both pharmacies and healthcare providers.