Nilmini Wickramasinghe | Professor & Optus Chair Digital Health
La Trobe University

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, PhD, MBA, is the Professor and Optus Chair of Digital Health at La Trobe University within the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. She has been actively researching and teaching in health informatics and digital health for over 25 years, with more than 400 scholarly publications, 30 books, a patent, numerous posters and book chapters, and a strong grant funding portfolio. In 2020, she received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Award for her outstanding contribution to digital health. She also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations and is the editor of two major digital health book series: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age (Springer) and Analytics and AI for Healthcare Delivery (CRC Routledge). Professor Wickramasinghe holds or has held honorary research professor roles at Epworth HealthCare, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), Northern Health, the Cleveland Clinic in the US, DHBW in Germany and the Harbin Institute in China. After completing five degrees at the University of Melbourne, she earned her PhD at Case Western Reserve University in the US and later undertook executive education in Value-Based Health Care at Harvard Business School.