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.
CEO and founder SMART Medical Aid
Dr Iryna Rybinkina is a Ukraine-born Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist at King’s College Hospital, London. She leads SMART Medical Aid, a charity that has delivered over 250 ambulances and critical medical supplies to 206 hospitals across Ukraine. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, she organises laparoscopic surgery training and mentors frontline surgeons. Her team also delivers Damage Control Resuscitation courses to improve outcomes in combat trauma. Dr Rybinkina has received multiple honours from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence and is committed to advancing trauma care, surgical education, and international medical cooperation in crisis settings.
Head of Clinical Engineering The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Iain Threlkeld BEng(Hons), CEng, FIHEEM, MIPEM, RCT is Head of Clinical Engineering at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. He has over 20 years’ experience in Clinical Engineering, starting at St James’ University Hospital in Leeds as part of a BEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. In 2001 he took up an opportunity with Medical Physics International and became their UK service manager. In 2009 he returned to the NHS and took up a role within the Clinical Engineering department at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He became head of Clinical Engineering in 2011. In 2019 Iain stepped in the role of Senior Head of Estates. He still had Clinical Engineering under his remit alongside the operational estates teams within the Trust. In 2022 he returned to Clinical Engineering and moved to The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust where he manages a team of engineers providing services to the hospital and the wider community. Iain is a Fellow of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM), through whom he is registered as a Chartered Engineer. He is also a member of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). In 2013 Iain joined the Register of Clinical Technologists management board when IHEEM replaced the IET, and in 2016 was elected registrar and is currently serving a third term of office. Iain has also been involved with other projects, he was part of the BSI committee which developed BS70000 and has acted as an external advisor and lecturer on the Clinical Engineering degree at the University of the West of England.
Chief Executive Officer NHS Commercial Solutions
EBME Technical services manager Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Joe Emmerson is the EBME Technical services manager at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Joe began his career in 1990 as an apprentice electronics engineer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He spent a varied 13 year career in the forces before leaving to become a biomedical engineering technical trainer for Capital Medical. Joe was employed by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust for over 15 years, the first six years being as a site manager for Royal Lancaster infirmary and the latter as the Head of Medical Devices Management with corporate governance responsibility. Joe has been at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust since July 2019 and his role involves managing technical services across multiple acute sites, within the largest cliniecal engineering department in the UK. Joe has a passion for Medical Device Management with particular focus on lean systems of work, operational processes and developing or specifying automated systems to support operational effectiveness. Joe has worked closely with his EBME staff and database suppliers to continue to improve the development of Medical Device Management systems.
Programme Director The 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.
Academic Biomedical Engineering Department, BCU.
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
Managing Director Health Tech Solutions Ltd
Scott has over 35 years’ experience working in clinical engineering in the NHS, commercial sector and running his own business Health Tech Solutions Ltd. He started as a Medical Physics Technician and progressed to senior management roles including Medical Device Risk Manager, Research & Development Directorate Manager and Clinical Engineering Lead. Scott is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist and HCPC registered Clinical scientist with a proven track record in delivering improvements around all aspects of medical device management. He has published over 70 journal papers and articles in HEJ, CSJ, IPEM Scope and on his website https://www.healthtechsolutions.co.uk/. Since setting up Health Tech Solutions Ltd in 2014 the company has diversified into the Veterinary sector where the challenges may be different but equally demanding. Scott has always been keen to share his knowledge and experience and now offers services as an independent subject matter expert in all aspects of Medical Device Management.
Head of MEMS (Medical Equipment Management Services) Morriston Hospital
Experienced Medical Devices Engineer and Training Manager with over 30 years experience working in the NHS hospital & health care industry. Well published in medical devices, Intravenous therapy and infusion device safety. Skilled in Medical Devices Management, quality management and a strong healthcare professional with a CMI: Diploma in Leadership and Management. Sitting on a number of national groups and committees looking at patient safety and medical device learning. Chair of NAMDET (National Association of Medical Device Educators and Trainers) (www.namdet.org) and project lead for DERS (Dose error reduction software) and development of national e-learning training programmes in the UK
Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Service
LtCol Dr Roman Kuziv is a Ukrainian military doctor and Commander of the Medical Forces & Sustainment Group East. With dual qualifications in medicine and law, he leads medical response and innovation efforts on the eastern front. A recipient of numerous state and ministerial honours—including the Orders of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (2nd & 3rd Class)—Dr Kuziv has overseen hospital operations in Zaporizhzhia and field deployments under fire. His recent work highlights include trauma system reform, drone injury analytics, and frontline infrastructure resilience. He continues to share Ukraine’s battlefield medical lessons with NATO and international allies.
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.
Quality and Regulatory Manager
Chairman EBME Expo
John has been chairman of EBME (www.ebme.co.uk) since 1999. He is recognised as an expert in his field of healthcare technology management. John is a senior research fellow at Middlesex University. He has been instrumental in changing device management policies and processes at many NHS and private healthcare organisations and has a proven track record in delivering improvements that advance regulatory compliance and patient care. His many years of equipment management and maintenance experience includes: biomedical, diagnostic imaging, endoscopy and pathology. John has in excess of 250 published educational articles. He has been published in the Open University Science review, Engineering Technology Journal (IET), Clinical Services Journal, plus various other newspapers, procurement and scientific publications, and the EBME website www.ebme.co.uk. John is keen to share his knowledge and raise the profile of Medical Engineering.
Global Healthcare and Pharma Director RFiD Discovery
Simon Dawkins joined RFiD Discovery, the UK’s leading provider of location tracking solutions for healthcare, in 2016. As Global Healthcare and Pharma Director, he is devoted to promoting the benefits of location tracking technologies to healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies throughout the UK and worldwide. In his role Simon advises hospitals and other healthcare organisations on the use of active and passive RFID as well as other tracking technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and GPS and supports them during implementation to ensure maximum benefit. Previously Simon was Head of the Medical Equipment Library at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) where he pioneered the use of active and passive RFID tracking for a total of 37,500 mobile medical devices, included the first roll-out of GS1 compliant asset labelling in an NHS Trust. Using RFID tracking, Simon has improved efficiency, increased patient safety and delivered significant savings to CUH.
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.
CEO & 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 Champions Digital Innovation for Equitable Healthcare Jean-Michel Tchamba, CEO of My Bridge International UK, is at the forefront of transforming healthcare in developing countries through digital innovation. A trained Medical Physicist, he leads the non-profit organisation’s mission to improve access to medical resources and services across underserved regions, including Cameroon, Nigeria, and Ghana. Under his leadership, My Bridge International has launched the My Bridge Medical Portal, a pioneering digital platform designed to enhance telemedicine, facilitate medical equipment donations, and strengthen healthcare infrastructure through strategic partnerships. The portal also supports research and knowledge exchange in medical technology. An international speaker and advocate for equitable healthcare, Jean-Michel continues to inspire change. At the EBME Expo, he will showcase the impact and future of the My Bridge Medical Portal—highlighting its role in improving visibility, traceability, and fair access to healthcare resources across Africa.
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.
HEMS- Management of out of Hospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest
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.
Ventilation Sales Support Specialist Zoll
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.
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
Military ODP
Captain Chrissy Hawkins embarked on her military journey in 2006 when she joined His Majesty Armed Forces as a Dental Nurse. Her dedication to continuous professional growth and unwavering commitment to patient well-being shone through during her various assignments both in the UK and overseas. In 2016, Chrissy made a pivotal decision to re-trade, undertaking a rigorous 2-year course at the Defence School of Healthcare Education to become an Operation Department Practitioner (ODP).
Post qualification, Chrissy immersed herself in military healthcare environments, providing crucial perioperative care alongside surgical teams. Her expertise and dedication caught the attention of her superiors, leading to her assignments to the esteemed 16 Medical Regiment in 2021. Within this unit, Chrissy played a vital role in ensuring the operational readiness and deployment of medical support for frontline airborne troops in the army spearhead VHR Air Manoeuvre Brigade (16 AA BCT).
In 2023, Chrissy transitioned back to the Joint Hospital Group South based in Portsmouth, where she continued to excel in delivering top tier clinical care and exhibiting exceptional leadership skills within a diverse multidisciplinary setting. Her professionalism, leadership acumen and unwavering commitment to military healthcare did not go unnotched, culminating in her successful selection for the 2024 LE/SSE Commissioning course. Throughout her illustrious career, Capt Chrissy Hawkins consistently showcased resilience, adaptability and a pursuit of excellence in clinical practice, embodying the fundamental values that underpin military healthcare services. Her journey stands as a testament to her unwavering dedication to serving her country and providing exceptional care to those in need.
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.
ST4 Anaesthetic Trainee
Dr Hui Ching Ho (Alle) is an ST4 Anaesthetic Trainee in the West Midlands, with a strong interest in medical education. She completed her medical degree at the University of Southampton and holds a Master’s in Medical Education from Newcastle University. Alle is passionate about enhancing educational experiences for trainees and contributing to the development of effective, learner-centred teaching in clinical practice.
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.
Michael studied for his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry at the University of Liverpool, after which he moved to Cardiff University to pursue a PhD in immunity to bacterial infections and cancer, mediated by T-cells. This lead to the discovery of a cancer targeting T-cell with the potential to recognise cancers in many patients. He is currently working the National Center for Cancer Immune Therapy in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he is investigating how to improve T-cell products through genetic engineering, that are then given directly to cancer patients.
Clinical Manager for Quality Improvement NHS
A registered ODP for the last 26 years, Jenny has worked in various roles in Operating departments in the Liverpool area. Her most recent role being Clinical Manager for Quality Improvement in Alder Hey Hospital. She was an elected Trustee for AfPP for 2½ years before joining the Headquarters team as Education team for AfPP in August 2024. She is passionate about improving workplace culture and helping theatre practitioners become the best they can be.
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.
Deputy Chairman
Medical Technology & Innovation Director DHSC
Business Management Lead – Diagnostics, Equipment & Services NHS Supply Chain
Curtis Fallows is the Business Manager for the Diagnostics category at NHS Supply Chain, having worked for the organisation for 15 years primarily in finance and commercial roles with a bias towards procurement in recent years. Curtis started his career in the legal sector before moving into the NHS system, working primarily within the purchasing and supply area but also spending a brief spell working with patient transport for London. As part of the Diagnostics leadership team, Curtis leads on the data and analytics strategy for the area, with a focus on the NETIS programme working in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care. Curtis has a passion for the NHS including a long-term strategic view of how the purchasing and management of medical equipment can be transformed to increase capacity and capability with a view that the NETIS system can be foundational in driving this positive change.
MedTech Director NICE
Mark joined NICE in 2022 as director of HealthTech. This includes diagnostics, digital and medtech that can be implantable or assistive. Mark has 35 years of experience in the medtech arena. He initially trained as a Clinical Physiologist, and worked for 10 years within the UK NHS, Tertiary Cardiac Care, with a specialist interest in complex cardiac devices. Moving into Industry in 2001, holding various clinical and commercial roles. In parallel, he has held roles, including committee member on our technology appraisal programme. Is a past member of the External Advisory Board, University of Leeds EPSRC Centre for innovative Manufacturing of Medical Devices. Mark has also undertaken secondment within the UK Government, Office for Life science, Department of Business, as MedTech Policy Advisor. Since 2014 Mark was the Director of Health Economics and Commissioning for UK & Ireland at Medtronic.
Surgeon Leeds Teaching Hospital
Dr Rory Turnbull is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Healthcare Mechatronics Laboratory at the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds. He brings expertise in medical device development, robotics, automation, and medical device regulation. Having completed his PhD in assistive lower limb exoskeletons, he has worked on various projects, including assay automation, nuclear pipe inspection robots, wearable device development, and medical device evaluation. Working alongside Professor Peter Culmer on the Sustainability Theme of the NIHR HRC in Accelerated Surgical Care, he applies mechatronics and automation techniques to the surgical environment.
Co-founder Pyrexia
Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pyrexia. A doctor, designer and software engineer by background, he has led teams at the junction of all three. With Pyrexia, Ali is building AI native software for healthcare's back office teams. Pyrexia's mission is to make life easier for teams across procurement, workforce, governance and finance.
Founder and CEO MediShout
Dr Ash Kalraiya Bio Ash worked as an Orthopaedic Surgeon for a decade in the NHS and South Africa, plus in Malawi where he was a World Orthopaedic Concern Fellow. He founded MediShout after witnessing hospital operational problems preventing best patient care; for example when he cancelled operations due to faulty equipment or a broken theatre lightbulb. MediShout solves such problems by delivering the world’s first digital platform to integrate clinical staff, clinical engineering and healthcare suppliers; to improve operational workflow in hospitals. Ash has since become an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow.
Senior Analyst DHSC
Jason is an Economic Advisor at DHSC and the Lead analyst on the MedTech Compass Project.
Consultant Emergency General Surgeon and the Lead Clinician for the Leeds Institute of Emergency General Surgery St James University Teaching Hospital
Mr Adam Peckham-Cooper is a Consultant Emergency General Surgeon and the Lead Clinician for the Leeds Institute of Emergency General Surgery at St James University Teaching Hospital, Leeds.
Adam’s clinical focus is on the acute management of complex biliary disease, hernias and all major acute and emergency abdominal surgical presentations. He is an advanced laparoscopic surgeon committed to managing this high-risk patient group with keyhole techniques and has developed novel management and triage pathways and strategies to manage emergency surgical patients in ambulatory and closer to home settings. He is the Director of Emergency General Surgery for Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and a national leader in this field.
He is passionate about the delivery of sustainable healthcare and particularly decarbonising surgical procedures and surgical care pathways. He led a Leeds based team to victory in a highly acclaimed national competition co-hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Health and Royal College of Surgeons (Eng) looking at the delivery of net-zero laparoscopic surgery and is now considered an expert in this field speaking globally on the subject. He works closely with NHSE, DHSC and other stakeholders in this area, co-leads the sustainability theme for the NIHR Healthtech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care and is a sustainability champion at the Royal College of Surgeons (Eng) researching and publishing widely on the subject.
