CONNECT WITH THE UK’S LEADING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS
Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with more than 15 years' experience in the IoT space.
Jean-Michel Tchamba, the Chief Executive Officer of My Bridge International, is a distinguished Medical Physicist with a wealth of experience in the medical field.
Founder & CEO The Care Machine Ltd
Prof. Helen Meese is an award-winning chartered mechanical engineer with over 20 years’ experience in industry and academia. She is CEO of The Care Machine, an engineering consultancy that works with early-stage innovators to develop medical technology and services; accelerating collaboration and creating positive engagement. Helen is an accomplished public affairs and policy specialist; providing consultation and thought leadership to Government, industry, and the public sector on engineering and its contribution to health & care. She is passionate about all aspects of STEM and provides mentoring and coaching to young engineers as well as being the host of the IMechE’s engineering podcast, Impulse to Innovation for 4 years. She is Immediate Past Chair of the IMechE’s Biomedical Engineering Division and a past Trustee, an Entrepreneur in Residence at Durham University Business School, and a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Healthcare Policy Topic Group.
Director Amalthea Trust
Martin Worcester has been a Director of the Amalthea Trust since September 2015. He is responsible directly to the Board of Trustees for fund raising to support their current programmes in Uganda and Ethiopia, and for developing new partnerships in order to move forward our work of developing and supporting the training of Bio-medical engineers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere. His previous work involved teaching geography at the British School in the Netherlands, and country director in Zimbabwe, for Restless Development, organizing and developing youth focussed HIV prevention programs.
Chairman EBME Expo
In the interest of advancing medical knowledge and patient care, I am honoured to be chairing the EBME Expo in 2024 and look forward to seeing you on Wed 26th & Thurs 27th June 2024. The organising committee have chosen this venue: The Coventry Building Society Arena, which is an excellent venue for both delegates and exhibitors alike, having sufficient space to guarantee a valuable experience. The EBME Expo 2024 will feature four conferences with well-known, distinguished speakers in the conference areas, and internationally respected companies in the exhibition hall. There will be a range of both large and smaller exhibition spaces available, to enable all types of companies to come and demonstrate their innovative new products. It is always a pleasure to meet the delegates and exhibitors every year. Our 16th EBME Expo will focus on innovations in medical equipment technology and maintenance on day one, and medical equipment management and training on day two. The EBME conference programme will feature eight speaker sessions each day, concentrating on understanding how technology can deliver improved patient outcomes at lower costs. In addition, there will be a 2-day conference area focussing on ‘Operating Theatres’; a day one conference area discussing ‘Medical Equipment Training’; and a day two conference area discussing ‘Procurement’. There will also be a number of workshops in the breakout areas where some of our exhibitors will provide technical demonstrations and training. The two-days will allow delegates to hear about, and see, the latest improvements in healthcare technology and management across a range of professional areas and offer numerous opportunities for informal networking.
Director of Medical Physics & Bioengineering University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS FT
An electronics engineer by background Richard has 40 years experience as a practising clinical engineer, manager and leader within the NHS. His areas of expertise involve medical device design, management and supporting clinical instrumentation, with research interests in respiratory mechanics and digital signal processing.
Richard is currently Director of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS FT. Additionally, Richard is a Royal Academy of Engineering visiting Professor in regulated medical technologies at Heriot Watt University, helping develop “real world skills” in the field of healthcare technology design, adoption and management. Specifically the RAE award lets Richard share his expertise in the application of international electromedical safety standards and medical device risk management processes with those involved in developing novel medical devices.
Richard chairs IEC SC62A.the sub committee responsible for common aspects of medical equipment, software, and systems standards within the IEC 60601 series of standards. He is therefore significantly inolved with BSI and with the AAMI organization in the US.
richard.scott@uhbw.nhs.uk
Deputy Director of Equipping New Hospital Programme, NHS England
Consultant Clinical Engineer
Fran Hegarty is a Clinical Engineer with extensive experience in applying and supporting healthcare technology in Hospitals. His research interests include Healthcare Technology Management, Clinical Measurement & Informatics, and Art in Health. Together with the other speakers in this session, he led on the joint authoring of Healthcare Technology Management – A Systematic Approach; a comprehensive textbook published by CRC Press. He recently retired from the position of Chief Physicist in Children’s Health Ireland. However he continues to lecture on clinical engineering and clinical informatics topics. Fran is also a musician and composer and is currently studying for an M.Phil in Music and Media Technology.
An electronics engineer by background Richard has 40 years experience as a practising clinical engineer, manager and leader within the NHS. His areas of expertise involve medical device design, management and supporting clinical instrumentation, with research interests in respiratory mechanics and digital signal processing. Richard is currently Director of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS FT. Additionally, Richard is a Royal Academy of Engineering visiting Professor in regulated medical technologies at Heriot Watt University, helping develop “real world skills” in the field of healthcare technology design, adoption and management. Specifically the RAE award lets Richard share his expertise in the application of international electromedical safety standards and medical device risk management processes with those involved in developing novel medical devices. Richard chairs IEC SC62A.the sub committee responsible for common aspects of medical equipment, software, and systems standards within the IEC 60601 series of standards. He is therefore significantly involved with BSI and with the AAMI organization in the US.
Founder PervasID
Founder & President at PervasID and Fellow at Cambridge University Girton College. Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with more than 15 years’ experience in the IoT space. As Founder and President of his Cambridge University spin-out company, PervasID, Sabesan pioneered and developed the world’s most accurate passive RFID technology, creating a world-leading range of products that are transforming entire industries, generating substantial exports and saving lives. Sabesan’s products and endeavours have both national and international benefit and he has become renowned for forging the worlds of academia and business to great effect, for his intellectual and scholarly excellence, and for the entrepreneurial skills that have enabled him to put innovative ideas into practice in a commercially viable way. Sabesan has become an expert in entrepreneurship, strategic business development and innovation leadership. Sabesan was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s 2024 New Year Honours, The Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal 2021 for an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to UK engineering and Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2021.
CEO My Bridge International
Jean-Michel Tchamba, the Chief Executive Officer of My Bridge International, is a distinguished Medical Physicist with a wealth of experience in the medical field. He has served in various senior positions, including Senior Clinical Technologist, Senior Biomedical Technician, and Medical Physicist, at several leading NHS teaching hospitals in London. Additionally, he has worked for Toshiba Medical, which is now known as Canon Medical, where he gained extensive expertise in his field.
She qualified in 2005 and started working in Royal Liverpool University Hospital utilising her skills in Scrub, Recovery and Anaesthetics.
Rob was an ODP/Team Leader at the Liverpool foundation trust, with over 15 years, of predominantly anaesthetic, experience, as well as holding an honorary contract with Alder Hey children’s hospital.
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CT3 Anaesthetics Trainee Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospital
I'm a CT3 Anaesthetics Trainee in the Mersey region, having graduated from the University of Birmingham and completed my foundation training in the West Midlands. My areas of interest include paediatrics and regional anaesthesia.
I am a consultant anaesthetist and have worked at Birmingham Childrens’ Hospital since 1998. My main interests are liver transplantation and long term central venous access. I have been providing long term central venous access for over 24 years. The venous access team places over 600 tunnelled lines a year. The hospital has a very busy haematology/oncology unit, as well as a dialysis unit and a home parenteral nutrition service. The latter two groups of patients provide the biggest challenge: vessel maintenance. We also place tunnelled lines in small infants for feeding and antibiotics, which can be challenging. My long-term aim is to make paediatric central venous access a routine procedure with minimal risk and disturbance to the child and family. However, much of my time is spent trying to balance requests for lines with the resources available. I have published widely on paediatric central venous access, have delivered lectures and run workshops on the subject. I am a board member of NIVAS, a council mmber of LICAGE and a member of the Safe Vascular Access committee of the Association of Anaesthetists.
Jennie is an ST5 anaesthetic registrar in the Mersey deanery with an interest in obstetric anaesthesia, having previously held a clinical fellow post at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Outside of work, her interests include fitness, skiing and figure skating
Managing Consultant
Helen has led parallel clinical and academic careers and has worked in the NHS for over 25 years and has 16 years’ experience in the higher education sector. She is currently the National lead for ODP education and training for NHS England and a registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP). She is passionate about ODP and perioperative workforce development and has previously worked in senior education, leadership, management and acute clinical theatre roles. She is a senior fellow of the higher education academy (HEA) and remains employed as an associate lecturer for Sheffield Hallam University. She regularly engages in scholarly activity, is a published author and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Perioperative Practice. Helen and has completed several projects related to the ODP workforce and is currently working on the development of an apprenticeships toolkit to support the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. She works as part of the national elective care recovery workstream ‘building outstanding theatre teams’, offering subject matter expertise and leading on workforce transformation project related to core roles in theatre and ODP workforce, acting as a conduit to connect stakeholders and relevant programmes of work across England. Helen sits on the advisory panel for the development of the critical care capability framework for the Allied Health Professions. Helen sits on the Education and Standards Committee for the College of Operating Department Practitioners (CODP) and is employed as a visitor for the Health and Care Professions Council.
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Dr David Faluyi is currently undertaking NHS England’s leadership and management fellowship scheme under the national medical director. In this role he is split between NHS England’s patient safety team and the Academy of Medical Royal colleges. Currently on secondment, he is based at King’s College Hospital where he is completing internal medicine training. He has experience of leading system change through previous work with the NIHR, where he was a co-lead of the Race Equality Framework for public and patient involvement in research. Driven by a passion to improve patient safety, David is committed to improving understanding and adoption of digital systems across the NHS and is leading workstreams on this issue across the two organisations. Within NHS England he has been working on the patient safety team’s strategy on smart pumps and supporting the dissemination of digital clinical safety research. He is looking forward to transferring the skills gained and learning back into his clinical work to improve and implement changes to his local healthcare organisations.
Medical school and Post Graduate Anesthetic training in India. Worked as Specialist Anesthesia for 8 yrs before shifting to UK to join NHS last yr. Presently working as Specialty Doctor. Royal Stoke Hospital, University of Midlands Trust. A faculty and instructor at international and regional conferences in Saudi arabia especially Regional anesthesia. Special Interest areas: Obstetric anestehsia, Regional anesthesia. Pain management. Medical Education.
Dr Tamryn Miller trained in anaesthetics and works as a senior clinical fellow with the North West & North Wales Paediatric Transport Service. During her training she worked with Mercy Ships in Madagascar for 3 months and spent a further 2 weeks on a mission in Benin. She has also undertaken the resident leadership fellowship with Operation Smile and completed a cleft palate assignment in the Philippines. As an elected member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists ‘Anaesthetists in Training Committee’ she represented trainees on the Global Partnerships group. She has specialist interests in paediatric anaesthesia, global healthcare, and education in particular simulation.
ST4 Anaesthetic Specialty Trainee Mersey Deanery
Sushil is an ST4 anaesthetic specialty trainee in the Mersey deanery. He has recently finished a clinical fellow post at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital before entering higher training. He has an interest in regional anaesthesia and education.
AfPP
President The College of Operating Department Practitioners
Mike commenced his Operating Department Assistant training in 1983 at Blackpool Victoria Hospital before moving into Higher Education in 2002 becoming Programme Leader for the Pre-registration Operating Department Practitioner programme at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. Mike’s previous role within the College of Operating Department Practitioner was Chair of the Education and Standards Committee. In January 2024 Mike became President of the College and oversaw the transfer of the College from the trade union UNISON. The College launched as a standalone independent Professional Body in January 2025.
Urology Registrar
Shannon Jordan is currently working in Liverpool as a Urology Registrar. In a break from studying medicine, she undertook a Master of Laws. During this program she developed an interest in the human factors and systemic failings that often contribute to cases of gross negligence and manslaughter in the healthcare setting. Her talk will focus on the lessons that can be learnt from open conversations in a blame-free culture, when things inevitably go wrong.
Clinical Manager for Quality Improvement NHS
Jenny is an ODP by background and is now a Clinical Manager for Quality Improvement. Jenny has also been AfPP Trustee since 2021. She has almost 25 years' experience in and around theatres. Most of these years were spent in large adult trusts in Liverpool, with the last 6 years in Paediatrics in Alder Hey Hospital. Jenny has been part of the Education Team at Alder Hey for the last 4 years and as well as being a trained coach, is an accredited Human factors trainer. She has a passion for driving change and has been involved with developing a Theatre safety programme which is what she is here to talk about.
Anaesthetic Trainee Merseyside
Dr Amy Howard is an anaesthetic trainee in Merseyside with an interest in promoting wellbeing within healthcare settings. Since becoming a parent in work-life balance and the importance of maintaining healthy, collaborative working relationships in the medical profession. Amy advocates for practical strategies to improve staff wellbeing, recognising its crucial role in enhancing both team dynamics and patient care.
ST7 General Surgical Trainee North West Deanery
I'm an ST7 General Surgical Trainee in the North West Deanery, currently out-of-programme for a PhD at the University of Manchester. My research focuses on transplant surgery and abdominal wall biomechanics, with a particular interest in wound healing and fascial integrity in kidney transplant recipients. I’m also a surgical lead with the National Organ Retrieval Service (NORS) and passionate about medical education, holding a role with Health Education England North West. I enjoy collaborative theatre work and team-based operating, and balance clinical and academic life with being a mum of two
Operating Department Practitioner and Lead Resuscitation Officer Liverpool Women’s Hospital
She qualified in 2005 and started working in Royal Liverpool University Hospital utilising her skills in Scrub, Recovery and Anaesthetics. In 2007 she achieved a year’s secondment in ITU, in which she gained many critical skills and experience. After the secondment Helen specialised in Anaesthetics and gained her ALS instructor status in 2017. In 2019 she completed a secondment in the Education role as a Theatre Practice Educator. She enjoyed teaching and educating, which led her to her current role as lead Resuscitation Officer, which she has been doing since 2021.
Consultant Anaesthetist
Sally has been a Consultant Anaesthetist in Liverpool since 2009 and has fifteen years experience working in preoperative assessment. The preoperative nursing teams in Liverpool see 20,000 patients a year who are planned to have surgery. Sally has been the clinical director for this service since 2023.
Consultant Clinical Scientist
Ste has worked in clinical engineering for 39 years, mainly in Liverpool. He is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional and a Fellow of the Academy of Healthcare Science. Ste has worked on many engineering projects including a device to measure the speed of eye saccades, dose monitoring of children undergoing total body irradiation for leukaemia, estimation of burn surface area and initial fluid replacement in children and anaesthesia charting software. He has worked for 20 years for a team developing and maintaining a clinical decision support system for pre-operative assessment services.
Consultant Surgeon St Mark’s Hospital
Mr Kapil Sahnan is a Consultant Surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital, London, and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. He specialises in inflammatory bowel disease, complex proctology, and robotic surgery, training in Oxford, Bristol, London, and completing an ESCP/Intuitive fellowship in Barcelona. His PhD at Imperial focused on IBD, big data analysis, clinical trials, and healthcare technology. With 100+ peer-reviewed publications, he is an internationally recognised academic and educator. He has chaired national working groups, completed a teaching fellowship, and serves as an advisory board member and speaker for medtech and the pharmaceutical industry.
Co-inventor LEAFix
Rob was an ODP/Team Leader at the Liverpool foundation trust, with over 15 years, of predominantly anaesthetic, experience, as well as holding an honorary contract with Alder Hey children’s hospital. Recently Rob has began a new anaesthetic journey with the University of Birmingham, and is currently in training as an Anaesthesia Associate.
David has worked in Medical Physics in NHS Lothian Scotland for over 28 years. For 17 of those years, he was Principal Clinical Technologist and ran the section based in the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. He was also responsible for what was then known as the district which included both acute and many district hospitals. He was the driving force behind the setting up of an equipment library in the Western General Hospital. David got into training/teaching by accident but found he enjoyed the experience. Medical device training was starting to rear its head and he was able to take a leading role in its rollout along with others in his dept. To assist with this, he decided to go back to college to gain a teaching qualification to aid in this process.
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Surgeon Leeds Teaching Hospital
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