Training and Procurement Conference

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Hilary is a senior clinician with public, private, regulatory and voluntary sector experience  who has spent the last 14 years in Consulting. She was Lead Clinician for a Cancer Network, an acute trust Medical Director and Professor of Oncology at the University of Surrey. Hilary is motivated by having positive impact for patients and in her consulting career has worked across healthcare systems around the world and at the interface with the spectrum of Life Sciences companies – especially in the UK, North America and Europe. Hilary was Vice Chair of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and co-led the merger with Breast Cancer Campaign to create Breast Cancer Now. She was also Vice Chair of Imperial Healthcare Charity. She has worked with medtech, med devices, diagnostics, biotech as well as medium and large pharma companies developing approaches to care which enhance patient experience, quality and outcomes.

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Hilary is a senior clinician with public, private, regulatory and voluntary sector experience  who has spent the last 14 years in Consulting. She was Lead Clinician for a Cancer Network, an acute trust Medical Director and Professor of Oncology at the University of Surrey. Hilary is motivated by having positive impact for patients and in her consulting career has worked across healthcare systems around the world and at the interface with the spectrum of Life Sciences companies – especially in the UK, North America and Europe. Hilary was Vice Chair of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and co-led the merger with Breast Cancer Campaign to create Breast Cancer Now. She was also Vice Chair of Imperial Healthcare Charity. She has worked with medtech, med devices, diagnostics, biotech as well as medium and large pharma companies developing approaches to care which enhance patient experience, quality and outcomes.

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Glyn Griffiths MEng, PhD. Sustainability and innovation Principal Consultant at PA Consulting. Working with the world’s largest technology, consumer and healthcare brands to lead product and strategy development.  

Glyn’s professional background, spans working within in-house development teams, technology start-ups and consultancies. Typically in the integration of new technologies for enhanced functional and user experience.  

Gaining a PhD in engineering and sustainability in 2014, which focused on the life cycle impacts of nanotechnology development for carbon dioxide capture and utilisation. Glyn brings data-driven methodologies to life in the advancement of new products and services.

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Hassan is the UK and Ireland Service and Support Manager for CMR Surgical, the Cambridge-based company that has developed and manufactured the Versius surgical robotic system currently in use in numerous NHS hospitals, and over 160 centres around the world. By trade, Hassan has studied and working in the field of Biomedical Engineering, and has experience with a number of different companies in the field, such as Siemens. Hassan has been with CMR since 2019, where he has been involved with key service and support projects both in manufacturing as well as in supporting the introduction of Versius to different parts of the world. He is now responsible for managing field service across the UK and Ireland, and ensuring the successful installation, service, and operation of all CMR surgical robots within the region, allowing as many patients as possible to receive the benefits of robotically-assisted minimal access surgery.

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Graham works with test developers in the field of diagnostics as part of his current role as an applied bio-scientist at PA Consulting. He supports with the development journey from ideation through to the scaling up of production and has worked alongside academic spin-outs, SME’s and teams within ‘big-pharma’.

A chemist and surface scientist, Graham has 20 years’ experience of biotech- and medical device-development, building on foundations in biosensing. He has worked in R&D, leading assay development-, informatics- and bioengineering-teams. As well as laser-focus on functionality, he tries to steer development towards products which are also elegant and easier to use.

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