MEDINFO 2023 - Key Persons
Agus Rachmanto, is the Deputy Chief of the Digital Transformation Office at the Indonesian Ministry of Health.
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- Marketing & Communications Manager
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- Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency
Amanda Cattermole is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, a role she commenced in September 2020.
Prior to this Amanda was the Chief Operating Officer at Services Australia (formerly the Department of Human Services). Amanda served as interim Chief Executive Officer during the 2019/20 bushfires season.
Amanda held several other senior roles at Services Australia, including an extended period as Deputy Secretary, Health and Aged Care, responsible for the delivery of more than $60 billion in annual payments and services to Australians under Medicare, the PBS and in the aged care sector.
Amanda has also held senior roles in the Commonwealth Departments of Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Western Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs.
Andrew is part of the global leadership team for HIMSS Analytics and leads Asia Pacific. He is currently working on digital health transformation projects across the region including in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, India, Hong Kong and Japan. Andrew has specific expertise in cyber security, digital health project design & benefits and maturity assessment of digital projects. He has spent 15 years working in the health, disability and aged care sectors, and has over 25 years' domestic and international consulting experience, including 12 years as a Partner at BDO and Crowe. Andrew is also the founder and operator of Vixier, a data analytics and innovation business, and Kalico, a transparency app. These businesses provide innovative technology and data solutions to disability support services and aged care providers.
Ashley McKinnon have been together for over 30 years and Sari has worked across the digital health space even longer. At the end of 2019 Ashley was admitted to ICU and from that point life changed. Ashley suffered acute renal failure which needed a pancreas and kidney transplant. While Ashley focussed on recovery, Sari saw the challenges patients faced across the healthcare system. Through a carer's lense she recognised the tremendous potential that digital health capabilities could deliver to improve the healthcare experience for patients, their cares and care providers. All of a sudden the value of digitally enabled co-ordination and information sharing across healthcare became very real.
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- Emerging Professional Representative AIDH and Digital Health Lead, Adelaide PHN
Daniel McCabe joined the Department of Health and Aged Care in 2015. His current position is the First Assistant Secretary Medicare Benefits and Digital Health. Before this he was First Assistant Secretary of Benefits Integrity and Digital Health Division. Other public service positions he had held have included with the Department of Immigration and the Department of Defence.
Don Sweete is the guardian of SNOMED CT's clinical terminology and has worked relentlessly to unite stakeholders across the international digital health sector, building and maintaining critical relationships with its 43 global Members and partners. Don joined SNOMED International in 2014 and brings more than 30 years of industry leadership and executive management experience to his role.
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- Director for the Department of Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization
Dr Alain Labrique is the Director for the Department of Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization. He is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative and Editor-in-Chief for the Oxford Open Digital Health journal. An infectious disease and population epidemiologist, he served until September of 2022 as Professor and the inaugural Associate Chair for Research in Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr Daniel Vreeman is a physical therapist, informatician, and serves as the Chief Standards Development Officer at HL7 International. His work aims to create a global health ecosystem where data is available with open standards that unlock the potential for information systems and applications to improve health decision-making and care.
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- Chief Transformation Officer With the Horizons
Helen Bevan is Chief Transformation Officer with the Horizons team, a group of internal change agents within the English National Health Service. Helen has been a leader of large scale change, improvement activist, thought leader and innovator within the NHS for more than 30 years. She has led and facilitated many nationwide initiatives to improve care, including in cancer services, urgent and emergency care and services for people living with dementia, involving many thousands of NHS people and people who use services. She acts as an advisor and teacher to leaders of health and healthcare in many other countries.
Helen has an ability to connect directly with thousands of frontline staff and patient leaders. She is one of the top social influencers in healthcare globally, reaching more than a million people each month through her social media connections, virtual presentations, commentaries, and blogs.
Dr Juanita Fernando is Vice Char of the Australian Privacy Foundation. Dr Fernando's research concerns clinical health informatics, data exchange standards and information security. Dr Fernando has developed an expertise in e-health and m-health tools and their contributions to workflow methodologies in the health sector.
Dr Karen DeSalvo is a physician executive working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and information technology whose career has focused on improving health and eliminating disparities. She leads a team of health professionals at Google who provide guidance for the development of inclusive research, products and services. She has been part of the Google COVID response team.
Before joining Google, Dr DeSalvo was National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Assistant Secretary for Health (Acting) in the Obama Administration. During her time at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr DeSalvo focused on creating a more consumer-oriented, transparent and value-based health system. Dr DeSalvo served as the New Orleans Health Commissioner following Hurricane Katrina. She was previously Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at the Tulane School of Medicine where she was a practicing internal medicine physician, educator, researcher and leader. She serves on the Council of the National Academy of Medicine.
Dr Louise Schaper is an innovator and a change agent who doesn't sit still and whose passion and enthusiasm for digital health and health informatics is contributing to shaping the future of Australian healthcare. Her appointment as CEO came on the back of 10+ years of experience in, and applied passion for, health informatics. With a background as an occupational therapist and a PhD on technology acceptance amongst healthcare professionals, Louise is a world leader in allied health informatics and is intimately connected to Australia's substantial health reform efforts, where digital health is a key enabler to achieving high quality, safe, sustainable and patient-centred care.
In addition to her leadership of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Louise was on the Advisory Board for Stanford Medicine X 2013 conference, was part of the Australian Digital Health Agency's Clinical Leads team and previously chaired the E-Health International Advisory Group of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists.
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- Scientist
- Clinician Scientist, Google Health
- Doctor
Dr Martin Seneviratne is a doctor-turned-data scientist, bridging the divide between technology and healthcare. As a Senior Clinical Scientist with Google Health in London, Dr Seneviratne is an emerging leader in the nascent field of digital health, working on mobile tools and machine learning to improve the quality and accessibility of care.
Having undertaken both his undergraduate degree in Physics and his Medical degree at the University of Sydney, Dr Seneviratne was working as a junior doctor at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital when he made the decision to leap into the world of digital health. He'd felt first-hand the frustrations of outdated software systems, fragmented medical records, and broken lines of communication. So much of healthcare delivery, it seemed, was about getting the right information to the right person at the right time. While still at university, Dr Seneviratne developed an app to support task management across multidisciplinary clinical teams (WardConnect) and worked with the George Institute for Global Health on an app for community cardiovascular screening (HealthNavigator). Shortly after graduating, he was appointed to advisory roles with the Australian Digital Health Agency and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. Then in 2016, he joined healthtech startup CancerAid - a ground-breaking app supporting cancer patients and their caregivers.
The more time Dr Seneviratne spent at the convergence of healthcare and technology, the more potential he saw in the community's vision of a ‘learning health system'. In 2017, he began a two-year research masters in clinical informatics at Stanford University under the John Monash Scholarship, focusing on machine learning over hospital data. During his Masters, he was made a Digital Health Fellow at Stanford Medicine X - a think tank at the intersection of technology, design and healthcare - and quickly became a leading voice on translating machine learning to the bedside.
In 2019, Dr Seneviratne joined London-based AI research agency DeepMind as a Clinician Scientist, later merging with Google Health. His work today helps to shape the future of electronic health records - ranging from research on cutting-edge AI for hospital use-cases, through to lightweight mobile EHRs for community health care workers in low-resource settings.
Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji is an international expert with over 37 years of experience in national, regional and the United Nations system in knowledge management, eHealth, health information systems, medical infomactics, medical librarianship, electronic publishing and database management.
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- Pediatrician at the Department of Medical Informatics
- Scientific Program Co - Chair, & Professor, Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano De Buenos Aires
Dr Paula Otero is a Pediatrician at the Department of Medical Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
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- Programme Director at University of Wales Trinity Saint David
- Scientific Program Co - Chair, & Programme Director, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Dr Philip Scott is Programme Director at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Chair of the British Computer Society's health and care group and co-chair of the MCBK-UK steering group. He has worked on healthcare record structures and interoperability standards, clinical decision support and interdisciplinary theory in health informatics.
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- Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information
Dr. Brian Chapman is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. A native of the United States, he has lived in Australia since 2019. By training, Brian is a medical informaticist, by interest an armchair philosopher, by temperament an artist, and by necessity an experienced patient. A survivor of two childhood cancers as well as two adult cancers, Brian's experiences as a patient have shaped his work as a teacher and a researcher. At the same time, his training as an informaticist has shaped his experiences as a patient. He is passionate about empowering consumers to be informed and knowledgeable pilots of their healthcare
Dr. Denis Newman-Griffis (they/them) is a Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Sheffield and a member of the UK Young Academy. Their work investigates the principles, processes, and practices that inform the development of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and how transdisciplinary design thinking can help reduce and manage bias in AI systems.
Osama contributes to academia through his adjunct lecturer role at the Higher Colleges of Technology. He also serves as a Health Informatics specialist at Dubai Health Authority. He is specialized in software architecture, systems integration and domain-specific modelling and cognitive AI.
Dr Elhassan obtained a PhD in Software Engineering from University of Leicester and an MSc in Advanced Computing from Imperial College in UK
Ed Hammond has provided vision and leadership in most aspects of health informatics for over fifty years. He has been engaged in AMIA, ACMI, IMIA, HL7 International, ISO TC 215, JIC, PAHO, IADB, and various US Government activities over the years.
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- CEO, International Medical Informatics Association ( IMIA )
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- Director of the Centre for Health Informatics
Professor Coiera founded and leads the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH). He was awarded the François Grémy Award by the International Medical Informatics Association in 2015, and was named the Australian Field Leader in Medical Informatics in 2021. In 2017, he was one of 100 scientists worldwide elected as a Foundation Member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.
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- Director of Clinical Terminology Development
Eza Hafeza is the Director of Clinical Terminology Development and Operations at the Regenstrief Institute, LOINC and Health Data Standards. She manages the terminology development team and oversees end-to-end terminology development processes internally. She also leads national collaboration projects with CMS, NLM, ONC, and FDA and international participation with JIC, WHO-FIC, SNOMED, and HL7 In the last 15 years prior to Regenstrief, Eza owned and led a consulting firm that provided informatics solutions and guided implementations in the healthcare field to multiple enterprises. Physician (by trade), informaticist and subject matter expert in Clinical terminology, and in progress working on MS in healthcare informatics. Before the Regenstrief Institute, she held a leadership position as Director of Medical informatics at Elimu (previously PSMI) and Team Lead of Convergent Medical Terminology team (CMT) at Kaiser Permanente.
The Hon Ged Kearney MP is the Federal Member for Cooper and the Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care. Ged has served in the parliament since March 2018, when she was elected in a by-election. She is the first woman to hold the seat. Ged started her working life as a nurse and rose to become Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation. From 2010, Ged served as the president of the ACTU - the peak body of Australia's union movement - where she fought for better conditions for Australian workers.
Ged's working life - from nurse to President of the ACTU to parliamentarian - has been about fighting for the rights of others. She is a strong voice for social justice, workers' rights and universal healthcare inside Labor and the Parliament. Ged is a passionate advocate for the environment and throughout her career she has supported a humane response to refugees.
Ged was born and raised in Melbourne and lived in Cooper for over 25 years. Ged has four children, two stepdaughters and five much loved grandchildren.
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- Physiotherapist
- Representative
- Patient Representative, & AIDH Board Member
- Researcher, Patient
Gillian Mason is a proudly disabled physiotherapist researcher, patient representative, disability inclusion advocate and science communicator. She brings a dual patient-clinician perspective to the design and implementation of research. She explores how technologies can contribute to more efficient and intuitive healthcare, rehabilitation and living, as it intersects with healthcare when there's chronic illness to manage.
At Hunter Medical Research Institute, as Consumer and Community Involvement Lead, she provides strategic advice, training and mentorship around patient and public involvement in healthcare research, and manages the Research Register. She is a member of the Australian Department of Health's Health Technology Assessment Consumer Consultative Committee, and a Consumer Representative member of the Medical Services Advisory Committee.
Gillian is honoured to serve as a Board member of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and, in that capacity, thrilled to be able to welcome you to MedInfo in Sydney!
Heather is a health informatician educator specialising in terminologies, data and standards, passionate about data quality and the safety of information systems in healthcare. Heather is an international leader in the development, implementation, management, and governance of terminologies, health data, education and standards.
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- Director of the Digital Health Strategy Office at Catalan Health Service
Jordi Piera Jimenez is the Director of the Digital Health Strategy Office at Catalan Health Service. He previously held positions of CIO and R&D Officer at Badalona Serveis Assistencials. He is also a lecturer and researcher in digital health and integrated care.
Kate is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the health care industry. She is skilled in government procurement, digital strategy, healthcare information technology (HIT), program development, change management and delivery. Kate is a strong business development professional with post graduate qualifications in Public Health from University of Sydney.
Lesley Hughes is Professor Emerita in Biology and Pro-Chancellor at Macquarie University. Her principal research interests have been the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems and the implications for conservation. She is a former Lead Author for the IPCC's 4th and 5th Assessment Report, a former federal Climate Commissioner, a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, a Councillor with the Biodiversity Council of Australia, a Director of the Environmental Defenders Office, and a Councillor and Director of the Climate Council of Australia. She has recently been appointed as a member of the Climate Change Authority.
Liz Salmi is a Citizen Scientist and Patient Informatician, and currently the Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In this role, Liz aims to better understand the changing nature of patient-clinician communication in an age of increasing health information transparency. She does this by working alongside clinicians, hospitals, health systems, researchers, and most importantly, in partnership with patient advocates.
Over the last 15 years Liz has been: a research subject; an advisor in patient stakeholder groups; a leader in patient engagement research initiatives; and an innovator, educator and investigator in international education and research projects. Today her work focuses on involving patients and care partners in the co-design of research and research dissemination.
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- CEO of the Medical Technology Association of Australia
Mr Ian Burgess is currently the CEO of the Medical Technology Association of Australia the national association representing companies in the medical device industry.
Burgess was CEO of the Ortho Group Pty Limited (OGL) a privately owned health business, comprising orthopaedic and sports medicine consulting and surgery, a hospital and a day surgery, radiology centres and medical supplies businesses.
Dr Mubaraka Ibrahim is a widely-lauded digital transformation leader in the medical and government space. Currently acting as CIO of the Information Sector and as Director of Health Information Systems in the recently-formed Emirates Health Services Establishment, her 20 year career track record includes previous deputyship of all computing functions at the UAE's Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP), where she led 160+ key personnel towards multiple federal healthcare technology projects such as the Riayati (National Unified Medical Record) patient integrations and Tatmeen (Track & Trace) for securing pharmaceutical supply chains that uphold post-pandemic resiliency.
Mrs. Mubaraka Mubarak Ibrahim - Acting CIO Emirates Health Service(EHS), UAE Academically, Mubaraka is a Master of Information Management Systems from the American University in Washington, D.C., and holds a Healthcare Leadership Diploma from the Harvard School of Public Health, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Kuwait University.
Nas started her career at the ABC as a cadet journalist in Sydney in 2011 before working as a regional reporter in Bega on the New South Wales far south coast. She then spent seven years working as a newsreader, reporter and senior producer for triple j and other ABC platforms. Nas has also undertaken projects with ABC International Development, running initiatives for people living with disability across the Pacific.
Nas lost her sight when she was six months old. Nas also has a sensitivity condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth which means she can't read Braille.
NT Cheung is the Head (IT & Health Informatics) of the Hospital Authority (HA). With the development of the Clinical Management System he has taken the 43 hospitals of the HA from a "green fields" situation to one where digital technology is ubiquitous in enabling better care. He also led the development of the territory-wide eHealth System integrating all parts of the healthcare ecosystem. His current work focuses on innovation and digital transformation to ensure the sustainability of healthcare in Hong Kong. NT has represented Hong Kong at the Global Health Digital Partnership since its inaugural Summit and is a fellow of both the IAHSI and AIDH.
Pier One Sydney Harbour is a repurposed Heritage building, built on and over the water, celebrating a unique maritime history. Newly refurbished rooms in 2019 offer five star comfort and style. Centrally located in the heart of The Rocks & Walsh Bay, directly next to the base of The Sydney Harbour Bridge and looking out over the stunning waters of Sydney Harbour and Walsh Bay.
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- Professor of Biomedical & Health Informatics, Macquarie University
- Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Farah Magrabi is a Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. She has a background in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and is an expert in the design and evaluation of digital health and artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for clinicians and consumers.
Rachel offers specific expertise in digitising the workforce, the science of successful health technology deployment and open data. She is part of the open standards community and recently was voted to represent individual members and a deputy chair of the OpenEHR CIC , the global board for OpenEHR standards.
Professor Raina MacIntyre is a physician and epidemiologist, and Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. She leads a research program in control and prevention of epidemics, pandemics and bioterrorism. She has extensive field experience of outbreak investigation. She developed EPIWATCH, an AI-driven epidemic observatory that harnesses open-source data and has proven capability in early detection of epidemics. The suite of EPWATCH tools includes EPIRISK, a real-time risk analysis tool for epidemics.
She has over 450 peer reviewed publications and leads a NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Airborne Threats to Health. She has received many awards including the Sir Henry Wellcome Medal and Prize from the Association of Military Surgeons of the US for her risk assessment research on bioterrorism and the 2022 Eureka Prize for Leadership & Innovation in Science. She is the author of Dark Winter - an insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity (2022)
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- Conference and Events Manager
Toby Walsh is Chief Scientist of UNSW.AI, UNSW's new AI Institute. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many others on this topic. This advocacy has led to him being "banned indefinitely" from Russia. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international "Who's Who in AI" list of influencers. He has written three books on AI for a general audience, the most recent is "Machines Behaving Badly: the morality of AI".
As one of the top 2% scientists in the world, Prof. Li is a pioneer of artificial intelligence in medicine and translational biomedical informatics. He has devoted himself to evolving the next generation of Al in patient safety and prevention ("Earlier Medicine"). He has also been involved in international cooperation for biomedical informatics development in Asia, America, Europe, and Africa.