2027 Speakers

Jacob George
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
MHRA

Marko Balabanovic
Chief Technology Officer
Our Future Health

Alec Price-Forbes
National Chief Clinical Information Officer
NHS England
Saheer Gharbia
Chief Scientific Adviser for Health
Welsh Government

Dominic Harrington
Chief Scientific Officer
SYNLAB UK&I

Cliff Bucknall
Chief Medical Officer
HCA Healthcare
Sohail Munshi
Chief Medical Officer
Manchester Foundation Trust

Ravi Chana
Executive Director of Diagnostics
Association of British HealthTech Industries

Paul Cane
Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer (SynLab)
Synnovis
Puja Myles
Director
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

David Bick
Principal Clinician, Newborn Genomes Programme
Genomics England

Nicola Foot
Head of Service - Cancer Genetics
Synnovis
Joe Emmerson
Head of Clinical Engineering
Manchester Foundation Trust

Joanne Martin
Deputy Vice Principal Health
Queen Mary University of London

Lee Gumble
Diagnostic Service Digital Pathology Manager
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Nathaniel Storey
Senior Bioinformatician
Great Ormond Street Hospital

Mike Saunders
Project Manager
NHSBT

David Crosby
Chief Research Officer
Kidney Research UK
Nathan Kasivisvanathan
Chief Medical Officer
The London Clinic

Andrew Stradling
Chief Medical Officer
NHS London Procurement Partnership

Christopher Elliott
Assistant Director Pathology: Business for Development and Transformation
NHS Blood and Transplant
MaryAnn Ferreux
Chief Medical Officer
Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex

Mark Galtta
Head of Pathology Services and Medical Devices Safety Officer
Practice Plus Group

Katy Heaney
Director of Operations
North West London Pathology
Victoria Heath
Chief Healthcare Science Officer
Welsh Government

Catrin Moore
Professor of Global Health & Infectious Diseases, University of City St George’s London and WHO Advisory Group Member
WHO

Martin Myers
Co-Clinical Lead, Pathology, Getting it Right First Time,
NHS England
Debra Padgett
Clinical Pathology Lead and NENC ICS Pathology Network Operational Lead
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Talisia Quallo
Head of Prevention & Early Detection Research
Cancer Research UK

Shaun Rowark
Associate Director, Healthcare Data Analytics
NICE
Shanker Vijay
GP Lead, Digital Transformation
NHS England

Manjinder Virk
Director
Bioma

Simon Brewer
Managing Director
NHS - South West London Pathology
David Clark
Former Clinical Lead, Digital Pathology Implementation and Consultant Haematopathogist
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Sarah Coupland
President
Royal College of Pathologists

Helen Dent
Chief Executive
B.I.V.D.A. Ltd
David Gibbs
Pathology Network Director
Peninsula Pathology Network

Helen Hobson
Associate Director of Quality & Governance
North West London Pathology

Nic Orsi
Associate Professor in Histopathology & Industrial Innovation and Leeds Research Ethics Committee panel member
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Branko Perunovic
Chief Medical Officer
Black Country Pathology Service

Dil Rathore
Pathology Technology and Innovation Lead
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Hugh Risebrow
CEO
Latchmore Healthcare Associates LLP
Fiona Riddoch
POCT Specialty Lead, Scheme Director, Qpoint EQA, Consultant Clinical Scientist
Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services

Faisal Bin-Reza
National Speciality Adviser (Pathology)
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Kerrie Davies
Head of the HCAI Research Group Laboratory and Honorary Associate Professor, Consultant Clinical Scientist
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Jane Freeman
Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection, Clinical Scientist in Microbiology,
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Jas Khambh
Chief Pharmacist, Chair at the Department of Health and Social Care
NHS London Procurement Partnership

Richard McNamara
Chief Biomedical Scientist
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Sharon Bahia
Managing Director
Wessex Pathology

Claire Dyson
Director of Medial Devices
National Standards Authority of Ireland

Karin Jackson
Chief Executive Officer and SRO coreLIMS and BPaT Digital Programmes
Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service
Andrew Knott
Chief Executive Officer
East and South-East London Pathology Partnership

Rachel Marringdon
Deputy Director
UK NEQAS

David Wells
Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS), National Speciality Advisor for Pathology Pathology,
NHS England
Soraya Shaheem
Quality & Transfusion / Andrology Specialist
Andrology Specialist

Dr Tom Connor
Head of Public Health Genomics and Proffessor of Bioinformatics and Pathogen Genomics
Cardiff University / Public Health Wales

Robert Dale
Head of AI Diagnostics and Implementation Lead for Digital Histopathology
NHS England
Angela Jean-Francois
Managing Director
North West London Pathology

Suchita Joshi
Head of Pathology
NHS England

Anaïse Larry
IVDR Programme Manager, Medical Devices IVDR
National Standards Authority of Ireland
Michael Osborn
Clinical Lead for Pathology, National Specialty Adviser for Pathology, Sustainability and Resilience, Clinical Director NWLP
NHS England

Gareth Richardson
Programme Director
Greater Manchester Diagnostics Network

Katherine Scouler
Director of Quality & Risk
HCA Healthcare UK
Adam Senessie
Chief Operating Officer
London Medical Laboratory

Matt Westmore
Chief Executive Offier
Health Research Authority

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