International Symposium on digital health & care

Ilse Kant is a technical physician who currently focuses on the translation of AI from a research setting to clinical practice in a responsible way: ‘Responsible AI’, studying clinical validation, model evaluation, implementation and clinical effectiveness of medical AI. She is involved in the development of standards and guidelines on the development, validation, implementation and impact assessment of AI in Leiden University Medical Center and for the healthcare sector in the Netherlands as a whole, as part of CAIRELab and as an author of the Dutch field norm on medical AI.

David Shepherd is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Leicester and works with Leicester City CCG on population health management. He supports the work of the Exceed Study providing input from a primary care view and expertise on the use and interpretation of primary care data. He is retired from clinical practice as a former GP Trainer and Board Member of Leicester City CCG and is experienced in extracting and analysing primary care data for audit, health service management, service delivery and research.

Owen Johnson is one of the directors for the Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnosis and Care where he oversees the training and research of 50 PhD students developing AI for early detection, diagnosis and support of cancer patients in the UK National Health Service. He is deputy director for digital innovation in one of the UK’s national patient safety centres. His research group develops process mining techniques for understanding and improving care pathways. He has published over 70 peer reviewed papers in conferences, journals and books. He is developing AI and data quality approaches that recognise the reality of AI embedded within, and data generated from, complex sociotechnical systems.

Abigail Norville is the Deputy Secretary-General at the ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport since October 2019. She is responsible for the following departments: Legal Affairs en Legislation, healthcare in Bonaire, Statia and Saba, Post Covid 19-Affairs, Administrative and Political Affairs Communication, HR and Facility & Operations, Information Policy and CIO, DUSI (Agency that manages the subsidies for institutes), ESTT (Unit for the secretariats disciplinary committee and euthanasia), the program to bring the European Medicines Agency to NL and the program about individual allowance from the government. She is also responsible for the supervision of policy, the general state of affairs, budgetary frameworks, continuity and quality of a lot of organizations affiliated with the ministry (CAK, CIZ, NZA, ZIN, RIVM, CBG, CIBG, Dopingautoriteit, CCMO, IGJ, en SCP).

Before joining the government Abigail has worked as director of Human Resource, Communication and Legal Affairs at the municipality of Rotterdam and as director of Business at the municipality of Vlaardingen. Abigail holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management.

Vladan Ilic, MD runs a general practice in Amsterdam called Westerdokters which is considered to be one of the most innovative practices in primary care in the Netherlands. He has a lot of experience in implementing various e-health solutions which have led to a digital first medical practice. He is a co-founder of the Flexdokters cooperation - a fast growing group of medical practices spread around the country dedicated to innovation and redefinition of the primary care as a answer to the challenges in front of us.

Hine van Os is a medical doctor is currently finishing up his PhD on the topic of AI-powered decision support for cardiovascular disease prevention based on routine care data, at the departments of Neurology and Epidemiology of the Leiden University Medical Center. Since two years Hine is general manager of NeLL, and he is part of the LUMC CAIRElab team where he aims to develop solutions to bottlenecks of the implementation and upscaling of AI in healthcare.

Tanja W Nordseth (1974) studied organisation and information science in Croatia (Zagreb University) and later took also degree Master of Management in Norway (BI Oslo). During her 24 years career she worked in warriors companies both as functional designer, project manager, chief project officer and digital business developer as well as transformational change leader. Her experience from various industries such as meat production, bank and finance, road building and maintenance as well as diverse it consultants assignments have been very useful in gaining the insight into various type of customers which all had one thing in common – the wish to access easy and user friendly customer services and self services.

The past for years she has been part of the senior leadership team in Unilabs Norway, where she was responsible for digital business development in Norway. Since February 2021 Tanja extended her role as CDIO region North. During these years Tanja and her team have successfully digitalised the whole patient journey within radiology – first in Norway and then also in Sweden.

Cynthia is a nurse specialized in primary care with an additional degree in healthcare management. She was managerial head of three departments in the SFG Outpatient Clinic. Currently, she is working as a nurse specialist in the Healthcare Centre Spoorlaan and as an advisor, researcher and learning experience designer at Leiden University Medical Center (e.g. the National eHealth Living Lab/ NeLL).

Cynthia is a member of the European task force that is developing a Worldwide ISO standard for Health and Wellness apps and a member of the PRECISION task force for severe asthma. She co-authored the Dutch Primary Care Lifestyle care-models in chronic diseases (2015) and the Dutch Primary Care Standards for Asthma and COPD (2020 and 2021) for the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG). She is a member of the editorial board Asthma and COPD primary care bulletin for the Dutch Asthma COPD Primary care Advisory Group (CAHAG) and associate editor for the journal Clinical eHealth. She is a lecturer in topics like integrated primary care pathways in respiratory diseases, Reduction of exacerbations in COPD and implementation of eHealth education in medical training and sexual problems in chronic (respiratory) diseases.

Dr Lorainne Tudor Car is an Assistant Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at LKCMedicine, NTU Singapore and an Honorary Senior Research fellow in Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London.

Lorainne is a methods editor to the Cochrane Public Health Group and Campbell Knowledge Translation and Implementation group. She is a methodological lead for a global, evidence synthesis initiative on digital education for health workforce development.

Upon graduating in medicine and an internship, Lorainne completed a PhD on the effectiveness of integration of public health interventions into health systems. Her PhD included an innovative evidence synthesis with modelling of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission uptake cascade and informed the UNICEF consultation on women and children’s health. Ensuing Executive MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science further strengthened her concentration on intricate relationship between health systems’ performance, economics and population health.

Lorainne’s research focuses on the use of digital technology for knowledge translation, education and behavior change of patients and health professionals. More specifically, her research explores the use of conversational agents for promotion of healthy lifestyle and delivery of mental health interventions.

Andreas Ringman Uggla is CEO of the Doktor24 Group - one of Europe’s largest healthtech and disruptive digital care companies where he oversees expansion, major partnerships and large corporate customers.

Andreas previously served as Chief Operating Officer at the Karolinska University Hospital, one of the world’s top-10 Academic Medical Centres. Before that, he was a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group living in the US as well as being based out of Stockholm where he served a broad variety of healthcare clients. He further holds several Senior Advisor roles with e.g. a top-10 global private equity fund and different healthtech start-ups in continental Europe.

He earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) as well as Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

Dr Stephen Sutch has a special interest in Patient Classification and Population Health analytics. He began working in the English NHS in 1987 as an Operational Research consultant, modelling hospital and NHS systems. In 1991 in NHS Wales he managed the investigation of casemix and moved again in 1994 to the national casemix office in England, to subsequently manage the Analytical and Statistics department, and from 2004 to 2006 was Principal Casemix Consultant responsible for the design of casemix groupings for hospital reimbursement in England. In 2006 he set up an international consultancy specialising in casemix and health classification, after completing a Masters in Health Science at Sydney University, Australia.

After working in the USA from 2009-2016 including gaining a Doctorate in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Steve is now living in The Netherlands, specialising in population health and primary care applications of predictive models, with research interests in Care Management in Primary Care and the measurement of multimorbidity. Working with the team at Johns Hopkins University (USA) on the Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) System, he has worked on projects in a number of countries utilizing existing primary and secondary care data to create population-based analyses, developed expertise in mapping differing classification systems.

Bryant lives at the intersection of clinical medicine, research and entrepreneurship. He is the Head of Education for the Center for Digital Health at Stanford and is an active entrepreneur and advisor in Health Technology. He co-founded Arrinex, a leader in the ENT device area which was acquired by Stryker. He is also the founding Medical Director of the Consultative Medicine Clinic where he evaluates patients with complex diagnoses. Dr. Lin co-founded the Center for Asian Health Research and Education which aims to improve the health of Asians everywhere. He received his SB and MEng from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MD and internal medicine training at Tufts and completed the Biodesign fellowship at Stanford.

Carlijn de Ruijter (1974) studied physical therapy and social-organizational psychology in Leiden. After working several years as a physical therapist, she continued her career in the financial sector. She successively worked for Fortis and ABN AMRO. The past four years Carlijn was part of the leadership team of Personal Banking, which is responsible for the network of offices and over 3000 employees. During these years Carlijn and her team successfully implemented video banking. In 2021, after 20 years, Carlijn left the banking industry and joined the board of Máxima MC, a top-clinical hospital in Eindhoven/Veldhoven.

Eva de Valk is a journalist in the field of technology and (corporate) innovation. She was responsible for the technology section of the Dutch newspaper NRC and worked as a correspondent in Silicon Valley for NRC and various radio and TV programs. She co-authored a report on the acceleration of e-health applications during COVID-19 in the Netherlands, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Health (VWS). She loves to discuss future scenarios as a speaker, chairperson, and discussion leader in online and offline events.

Rimke’s research focusses on population health implementation and evaluation of healthcare improvement programs for people (at risk for) cardiometabolic lifestyle related chronic conditions.

In 2015, Niels was appointed Full Professor of Primary Care Medicine, his inaugural speech titled “eHealth in Disease management: goal or tool?”, followed by his appointment as Head of Research and the founding of the National eHealth Living lab (NeLL) in 2018. In 2020 his Chair was continued under the title of “eHealth Applications in Population Health Management”. Niels also holds various other advisory and administrative positions at the interface between population health and (technological) healthcare innovation. In example, he is one of the scientific leads for the Medical Delta program “eHealth & self-management for a healthy society”.

Mattijs is responsible for the academic primary care networks in Leiden and The Hague and the routine healthcare ELAN datawarehouse that supports these networks in Population Health Management and primary care research. He is an expert in primary care research based on advanced analyses of (linked) routine healthcare data to be used for proactive population care of populations that share measurable risks. He is co-chairing the LUMC societal profile area “Population Health” and chair of the Leiden University profile area “Population Health Living Lab The Hague”. H-index WebofScience 42 out of 225 publications.