DIGICORE EEIG - Key Persons
Anne has over 25 years' experience in finance in a variety of services companies and industries across Europe and has held senior positions in companies and start-ups as well as for entrepreneurs.
She brings considerable experience in supporting management teams, board members and shareholders by advising on a wide range of financial, tax and legal matters.
Anne holds a MSc in Business & Engineering and is certified as a Data Protection Officer.
Anne can be reached at info@digicore-cancer.eu.
Job Titles:
- Medical Gynaecologist - Oncologist and Assistant Professor
Anne-Sophie Hamy-Petit is a medical gynaecologist-oncologist and assistant professor at the University of Paris. She has worked extensively in bio-informatics and real world research.
Asieh Golozar is a physician-epidemiologist and biostatistician with over 20 years of experience in health services research and real-world evidence generation. She is currently the Director of Clinical Research at the OHDSI Center at Northeastern University and an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor and Group Leader at the Department of Artificial Intelligence
Alberto Traverso is an assistant professor and group leader at the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Faculty of Medicine at San Raffaele Hospital (Milan) and at the Maastricht Comprehensive Cancer Centre (The Netherlands).
He is medical physicist with a PhD in medical oncology and his research interest focuses on bridging AI and medical informatics technologies with unmet clinical needs in oncology.
He is part of the major medical physicist and oncology international societies, where he has been awarded several early investigator prizes and leads working groups. He holds an appointment as scientific director at one of the Innovation Centres for AI labs in the Netherlands, working to speed up academic and industrial partnerships for personalized medicine.
He is a visiting researcher at the Moffitt Cancer Centre (Florida), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (Toronto), and the MD Anderson Cancer Centre (Texas)
Janne Vehreschild is a practicing haemato-oncologist, with an interest in infection research.
He has led multiple real world studies, in particular, over the past two years, into COVID-19, and led the setup of the European Registry for Coronavirus Patients.
Mariana Guergova-Kuras is an expert in data science and precision medicine. She currently leads the Paris Saclay Cancer Cluster (PSSC) Data Project, a federated approach that harmonizes hospital data for real-world oncology research, streamlines feasibility assessments, and accelerates multicentric studies.
Sue Cheeseman is a practicing oncologist and active researcher in oncology Real World Evidence (RWE).
She is a pivotal figure in the REAL-Oncology alliance at Leeds Teaching Hospital, and she has published extensively on real world research in multiple tumor types.
Gilliosa Spurrier-Bernard is Vice-Chair of WECAN (the Workgroup of European Cancer Patient Advocacy Network) and an experienced patient advocate in melanoma. She is passionate about the importance of patient involvement in cancer research.
Golbahar Pahlavan has worked for over 15 years in biomedical research, management and policymaking in both public and private sectors across the Research, Development & Innovation value chain. She has led international programs spanning capacity building in research and public health, clinical research, as well as biotechnology and bioentrepreneurship. She has held senior positions at European Research Infrastructure as well as research organisations such as Institut Pasteur, Institut Curie in France and ISGlobal and the Barcelona Science Park in Spain.
Golbahar can be reached at info@digicore-cancer.eu.
James Anderson has worked extensively in healthcare, both in the NHS and the private sector.
In recent years he has supported life sciences companies in innovative uses of real world evidence in oncology, such as external comparators. He has a particular interest in people development, having previously run training programmes in the public and private sector, and is a qualified and accredited executive coach.
Job Titles:
- Senior Healthcare Data Scientist at IQVIA
James Brash is a Senior Healthcare Data Scientist at IQVIA, where he is an expert leader, delivering Real World Evidence studies using OMOP standards.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at King 's College London
Mieke Van Hemelrijk is a Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at King's College London, where she leads the Translational Oncology and Urology Research (TOUR) team. Her research focuses on improving outcomes and experiences for cancer patients, particularly in urological cancers, and she has published extensively in this field.
Job Titles:
- Project Officer
- DIGICORE 's Project Officer
Pia Noël serves as DIGICORE's Project Officer, bringing experience in research management and international health initiatives across academic, healthcare, and development sectors.
She has held positions at the University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow, where she contributed to systematic reviews, policy analysis, and stakeholder engagement.
Pia holds an MSc in Global Mental Health and is completing her doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.
Pia can be reached at info@digicore-cancer.eu.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Clinical Data Science at Maastricht University Medical Centre
Andre Dekker is a Professor of Clinical Data Science at Maastricht University Medical Centre and a board certified Medical Physicist. His areas of interest include: building global data sharing infrastructures, and applying artificial intelligence to the improvement of patient care.
Job Titles:
- Co - Chair
- Director of Cancer Services
- Professor
David Cameron is Professor of Oncology and Director of Cancer Services at NHS Lothian.
He has worked extensively in cancer research, and has a particular interest in the use of routine clinical data to improve patient care through his current role as director of the Scottish Government funded Innovative Health Care Delivery Programme (IHDP).
Job Titles:
- Co - Chair
- Head of Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit at Maria Sklodowska Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Iwona Lugowska is the Head of Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit at Maria Sklodowska Curie National Research Institute of Oncology.
Her research interests include precision oncology and decision support systems for cancer patients. She also has a strong interest in leadership development, having been a member of the first cohort of the EORTC Early Career Programme in 2018/9.
Job Titles:
- Massimo Di Maio Is Professor of Medical Oncology at Department of Oncology, University of Turin
Massimo Di Maio is Professor of Medical Oncology at Department of Oncology, University of Turin.
He has deep experience of cancer research, with particular interest in the methodology of clinical trials and in the study of patient reported outcomes (PROs), both in clinical research and in clinical practice.
Rachel Giles is an experienced Associate Professor and professional patient advocate with decades of experience in the hospital & health care industry. She is currently the president of VHL Europa, an organisation dedicated to improving the lives of individuals affected by Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease.
Job Titles:
- Real World Evidence Researcher
Will Sopwith is an experienced Real World Evidence researcher, epidemiologist and writer. He has supported DIGICORE training programmes since their inception and also heads up IQVIA's Oncology Evidence Network in the UK.