The World’s Leading
AI in Medicine Summit

Tara Donnelly is the interim Chief Digital Officer at NHS England.

She oversees a portfolio of citizen facing digital services, including the NHS website, NHS App and the development of digital services which meet people’s needs, target prevention and offer a personalised experience.

Tara is on secondment from her role as Chief Executive of the Health Innovation Network. She has led the Health Innovation Network for over three years and is also a non-executive director at the Nuffield Trust.

She has an extensive background in leadership roles within the NHS and the voluntary and community sector and has spent the past 18 years at board level. She has worked in the NHS for 30 years, with her first role being as a Ward Housekeeper when she was 18.

Alan Karthikesalingam is a Senior Clinician Scientist at DeepMind Health, leading the translation between our Health Research and Streams teams. After studying medicine at the University of Cambridge, Alan trained in vascular and endovascular surgery in London, Lille and New York. At St George’s University of London, he completed his PhD and led a successful research group investigating neural networks for medical imaging, new approaches to randomised trials, and the use of routine data to understand care. Alongside clinical practice, he published over 125 peer-reviewed papers, including award-winning first-author studies in the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine. Prior to joining DeepMind, he co-launched an app still in use across the London Ambulance Service in a study of vascular emergency Triage.

Dr. Wei Fan is the executive director of Tencent Hippocrates Labs. His main interests are in using various artificial intelligence techniques-based digital therapeutics & digital biomarker for clinical problems, such as motion disorder syndrome (e.g., Parkinson’s disease), cancer radiotherapy planning, heart failure early detection, etc. Dr. Fan received Ph. D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. He has been working in AI since 1995. He has over 150 top journals and conference papers with h-index of 58. He has received multiple best paper awards in top AI conferences and competitions. He served as the associate editor of ACM Transaction on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Prof. Dr. med. Mathias Goyen is currently the Chief Medical Officer Europe for GE Healthcare, a $19billion division of General Electric. Mathias is responsible for leading GE Healthcare’s medical, clinical and evidence generation strategies for product modalities in Europe. Together with his team he provides leadership in healthcare economics and outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research to develop customer value propositions for new and existing products Mathias began his career as a diagnostic Radiologist working at Essen and Hamburg/Germany. He was appointed Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Hamburg/Germany in 2010. Mathias’previous experience also includes 5 years as Managing Director of UKE Consult and Management GmbH, a subsidiary of the University Medical Center Hamburg where he was responsible for the overall consulting and foreign business of the University Medical Center Hamburg. Together with the leadership team of the hospital Mathias established a Comprehensive Cancer Center linking clinical medicine with new oncologic research strategies. Mathias holds a medical degree from the University of Bochum, Germany. He has been secretary general of the German-Chinese Society of Medicine, Berlin, since 2005. Mathias lives in Essen/Germany with his family.

Stephanie is an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur and Senior Research Fellow at UCL and UCLH where she was awarded a Doctorate in Clinical Research in Oncology. Research Interests include Integrated Data Models for Cancer Monitoring, Survivorship and Longevity. A Clinician-Scientist with over 10 years experience, Stephanie has served on council on a National Cancer Society (BGCS) and is the Healthcare Ambassador of the global organisation Women in AI (WAI). She is a Scientific Advisor to WILD.AI and the Havas Lynx Faculty and on the Advisory Committee of the Social Impact Community, the Conduit, London.

Dr Marc Farr started his career at Experian, where he was head of public sector consulting. He went on to become head of development at Dr Foster, and has been director of information at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust for seven years. He is also founder and chief executive of Beautiful Information.

Beautiful Information is a first of kind NHS / private partnership, that delivers real time information to NHS trusts to help them plan and resource clinical services. It’s vision is to connect patients, clinicians and managers through beautiful information, to make healthcare simple and transparent.

Fernanda is an Ophthalmologist working at two private practices where she is running several studies integrating healthcare and clinical practice to AI. She is also working as a Medical Consultant for Deep Cube’s Glaucoma Algorithm. Fernanda is part of the Surgical Retina Fellowship at HUPE where she also supervises Ophthalmology Medical Residents and is recently running news studies about eye diagnostics with artificial intelligence. 

Frank has always been at the forefront of IT innovation. In his early career he was instrumental in building technological infrastructure in the finance industry. Frank founded TPP in 1997 and pioneered integrated care – delivering his vision of connected care across all health settings. Today, TPP provides leading software that is transforming healthcare worldwide. Frank is active in all aspects of the company’s business operations, working alongside the teams in the development of TPP’s products and representing the company in the public domain.

Frank’s innovative vision is nationally recognised by the NHS, leading journals and healthcare organisations. In 2012, he was elected to the board of TechUK as a spokesperson for the healthcare IT sector. The following year, he was listed as one of the UK’s top 50 innovators in the national health publication, HSJ. In 2015, Frank was named on the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List to be awarded with an OBE (Order of the British Empire), for his services to healthcare.

Frank has been invited on numerous government trade missions, representing the UK health industry around the world. He has visited countries such as China, India and Brazil as part of trade missions led by British Prime Minister, David Cameron and by Kenneth Clarke, QC, MP.

Dr. Amrita Kumar is a Consultant Radiologist at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, with a sub-specialist interest in breast cancer screening. She is leading trust wide research collaboration to implement novel artificial intelligence software for improved patient outcomes. She has been appointed as AI Clinical Lead and is responsible for implementation and adoption of Artificial Intelligence practice within the Trust, working in conjunction with various stakeholders with a mission statement of patient-focused value-based healthcare.

I am a research focussed clinical scientist, working in advanced imaging and image processing for radiotherapy.

My interests include translating cutting-edge methods into routine clinical practice and maximising patient benefit through digital technology, particularly artificial intelligence. Robustness is critical for novel digital technologies in the health sphere, to enable safe and effective uptake of AI.

My clinical work involves imaging patient motion during radiotherapy. Before changing career into radiotherapy I was a chemical physicist working in academic research. I enjoy the outdoors and live in Leeds with my wife and two boys.

Sarah Porter has launched 21 b2b and b2c technology products in 11 countries since 1996 and has a renowned reputation for taking ideas from concept to market with subsequent significant growth globally.

Emerging tech / AI / Medtech / Singularity / existentialism is where her core experience lies and she has over 20 years of commercial experience.

As a board executive for i2i events (parent company The Guardian Media Group / Apax – Ascential – previously Top Right Group) with the specific remit to rapidly grow the business whilst leveraging operational costs and prepare pre IPO. She sat on the i2i mergers and acquisitions committee identifying, analysing and approaching target businesses and accelerated growth by 22% within 12 months.

Achievements include the launch and acquisition of Money 2020 – a leading fintech product. This included negotiation, 3 stage due diligence, its subsequent integration, and the long term geo-adaption into a global portfolio worth over $40m. The launch of World Retail Congress in 10 countries, the re-launch of Cannes Lions festival.

Sarah is a regular keynote speaker on start-ups, business and women / equality related issues and is an ambassador for the Royal Marsden where she champions the use of AI tech in oncology advances.

Sameena Ali-Khan anchors national bulletins for ITV at weekends, and throughout the week on Central Tonight in the Midlands, covering a wide range of stories across daily news and documentaries.

After studying Physiology and Chemistry, Sameena was drawn to journalism. After working on radio in Manchester she first appeared on air on BBC Radio Lancashire. She remained with the BBC, going back to Manchester and GMR before stints on the BBC Asian Network, BBC West Midlands and BBC London, as well Radio 5Live. On TV (aside from a debut appearance made whilst living in Nigeria on the country’s equivalent of Blue Peter) Sameena presented and reported for Northwest Today, Inside Out, and Midlands Today before moving to ITV.

With a presenting style combining bright and approachable with authoritative, Sameena is the only presenter to have won the RTS Best On Screen Personality two years running.