Our Guest Speakers
The HIC Launch Event will be an afternoon filled with networking and celebrations as we recognise the acceleration of digital health and care. The event would not be complete without our array of digital health opinion leaders who will be presenting on the day. We have a range of guest speakers, covering topics from interoperability to genomic medicine.
Sam Shah
Chief Medical Strategy Officer
Numan
Professor Sam Shah is Chief Medical Strategy Officer for Numan, the online men’s health provider. Sam’s interests span digital health, clinical leadership and public health. Sam has a strong interest in consumer facing digital health services. He is a digital health technology advisor to a number of healthcare and technology companies, spanning a range of industries including telecommunications, assessment of apps, scaling new technology into the NHS and workforce solutions. Sam was previously Director of Digital Development for NHS England and NHSX, where he was responsible for digital development of the ecosystem and leading on a number of national transformation programmes. Sam has been involved in digital and clinical policy, working with regulators and addressing reimbursement models. He has worked closely with organisations involved in assessing digital health services in the UK and Europe. Sam advises Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust on digital transformation and innovation adoption across medical technology and continues to work in primary healthcare. His academic interests involve teaching and education across digital health and entrepreneurship working with Ulster University, University of Central Lancashire and UCL Global Business School for Health.
Chris Twomey
Parent and Fan of HBOT
Chris is the proud father of 3 children, Lois and Daphne – 6-year-old twin girls and 15-month-old Frances. Lois has Cerebral Palsy and has benefitted from complimentary therapies since a very young age. Hyperbaric Therapy has been a core part of her routine and has supported her development to be a funny, challenging, and inspirational young person. Chris will be sharing his views on how Lois has benefitted from this treatment.
Professionally Chris is the Corporate Director of Transformation Housing and Resources at West Lancashire Borough Council. Chris has a passion for improving the lives of people by increasing opportunity and aspiration. He is a transformation and housing specialist with a strong track record of listening to the needs of communities and delivering sustainable change.
Andy Williams
Interim Chief Digital and Information Officer
Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
Andy Williams is a nationally recognised Chief Information Officer and Change Architect with over 20 years of experience leading health and social care digital delivery. Andy has been a key driver in the delivery of large scale digitally inspired change throughout the health and social care system, ensuring that clinical and patient-led change is delivered by teams with a patient focus. Leading with a people first style, to create collaborative environments at all levels of an organisation, and has a wealth of experience ensuring that teams are created in new and innovative ways that offers the right platform for successful delivery.
Andy coordinated the discovery team on the National Record Locator (NRL) and National Events Management Service (NEMS) programmes. The two programmes required service and digital transformation at scale, and aimed to harness local record and event sharing into the national arena for direct care.
Stuart Bayliss
Alliance Director
North West Genomics Medicine Service Alliance (NW GMSA)
Stuart Bayliss is the Alliance Director of the North West Genomics Medicine Service Alliance. He has a passion to shape the vision of precision medicine by introducing disruptive technologies into healthcare and specifically how genomics can positively impact on the routine delivery of healthcare.
Stuart works with the alliance partners to introduce cutting-edge technologies that will revolutionise the way that diseases such as cancer are treated and how this will make a positive impact on the routine delivery. This includes the adoption of advanced diagnostic tests, the development of robust clinical guidelines, and the implementation of telemedicine services for patients with rare diseases.
Partners in the Alliance work with NHS Trusts, with patient groups, and with industry to ensure that patients across the North West and across England and Wales benefit from the power of genomic medicine.
Neville Gaukroger
Programme Director
North East & Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (NE&Y GMSA)
Neville Gaukroger is the Programme Director for the NE&Y GMSA. Neville works with partners across the region to bring genomics into everyday healthcare. As one of 7 GMSA’s in England the NE&Y GMSA is helping to embed genomics into routine care locally and across the whole population the NHS serves in England by bringing together the vital multi-disciplinary clinical leadership and other operational and digital functions that are necessary to make this possible.
This is made possible by facilitating strong collaborations across the region by bringing together the Genomic Laboratory Hub that forms the backbone of the Genomic Medicine Service together with clinical genetic services. THE GMSA works with all provider organisations across the care continuum and with Primary Care Networks, Cancer Alliances, research and academia and patients and public representatives.
The NE&Y GMSA is a partnership between:
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Peter Mann
UK Digital Strategy Lead
Xerox
Peter leads Xerox’ NHS Community of Practice, joining together and sharing the experiences gained across and between the substantial number of NHS Trusts and more recently ICS groups that Xerox supports.
As the Digital Strategy Leader for Xerox over the past three years across all sectors, Peter provides advisory and implementation options to actively transition teams and enterprises to a digital operating model. Peter began his career as a web developer some 25 years ago and has gone on to lead digital programmes for national and local government, defence and security services, and health as well as financial services.