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With a degree in Biology and Master’s degrees in Health Economics and Health Management, Pol Pérez has developed his entire career in Health technology. Starting as a health IT consultant, he soon joined up the public health service in Catalonia. He then occupied different positions as IT manager in health providers and in 2014 he got promoted as a IT Systems Director for the Institut Català de la Salut.

Nowadays, he is in charge of coordinate and manage the IT healthcare and digital health policies as IT General Coordinator for the Ministry of Health of Catalonia and as IT Systems Director for the Catalan Health Service.

Currently Dr Al-Shorbaji is engaged in consulting works on a freelance basis and is a part-time lecturer at the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics (PLRI), a joint institute of the Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig) and of Hanover Medical School in Germany (MHH)

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Rachel has over 25 years’ experience in the UK NHS, academia, management consulting and technology industry. For the last five years she has been CEO of the NHS Digital Academy for the UK. In recent years she has also led the Arch collaborative global for KLAS research and supported the big 4 in consulting in Australia, New Zealand, US, Europe and low to middle income countries.

Rachel offers specific expertise in digitising the workforce, the science of successful health technology deployment and open data. She is part of the open standards community and recently was voted to represent individual members and a deputy chair of the OpenEHR CIC , the global board for OpenEHR standards.

Until 2019 Rachel was Director of Digital at Salford NCA Group in the NHS where she achieved the top Digital Maturity under the DMA index which supported the organisations double outstanding CQC quality rating. She has extensive experience in all care settings, regional digitisation and with setting up real world evidence systems for clinical trials. In previous roles she has been a customer of the Dedalus PAS, theatres and clinical systems.

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Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji is an international expert with over 37 years of experience in national, regional and the United Nations system in knowledge management, eHealth, health information systems, medical infomactics, medical librarianship, electronic publishing and database management.

Currently Dr Al-Shorbaji is engaged in consulting works on a freelance basis and is a part-time lecturer at the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics (PLRI), a joint institute of the Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig) and of Hanover Medical School in Germany (MHH)

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Jessica DaMassa has emerged as the ‘it girl’ of health tech interviewing. She brings an enthusiastic, fun, charming style, a ton of knowledge, and plenty of tough questions to her hosting of conferences, interviews, and shows focused on health technology and the business of health innovation. With more than 1,000 interviews in six years, Jessica is the ‘girl to know’ to meet ‘who’s who’ and find out ‘what’s what’ in healthcare innovation and technology. Her current project, ‘WTF Health – What’s the Future, Health?’ is an interview series that has taken her around the world to literally ask everyone everywhere about the future of health – and WTF is wrong with it right now. Jessica is also host of ‘CVS Health Live’ an innovation series put out by US mega-healthcare brand CVS Health. She got her start working for healthcare payer on its innovation team

Pier One Sydney Harbour is a repurposed Heritage building, built on and over the water, celebrating a unique maritime history. Newly refurbished rooms in 2019 offer five star comfort and style. Centrally located in the heart of The Rocks & Walsh Bay, directly next to the base of The Sydney Harbour Bridge and looking out over the stunning waters of Sydney Harbour and Walsh Bay. 

Rates from $340 per night.

11 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney NSW 2000 

t: +61 2 8298 9999
e: [email protected]
w: www.pieronesydneyharbour.com.au

Book a stay at Rydges Sydney Central and find yourself surrounded by elegance from the moment you enter our hotel lobby, where you will be greeted by the soothing sight of our in-ground Koi pond. This conveniently located hotel is in Surry Hills, next to Central Station, adjacent to Sydney’s bustling City and minutes away from popular attractions.

Check in and experience our warm and friendly staff as you take advantage of our recently refurbished accommodation rooms, boasting modern comforts and thoughtful amenities including flat screen TV’s and free WI-FI. Spend the night on our cosy dream beds and wake up feeling well rested and refreshed.

Rates from $249 per night

28 Albion Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010

15 minute walk from ICC Sydney

t: +61 2 9289 0000
e: [email protected]
w: www.rydges.com/accommodation/sydney-nsw/sydney-central/

Four Points by Sheraton offers an uncomplicated modern style with genuine friendly service, and is complimented by the surrounding art, architecture and history of the Chippendale neighbourhood. Opening our doors in August 2018, the hotel is within one of the fastest growing and most beautiful green spaces on the CBD fringe of Sydney. You’ll love our great location, where we are just steps from public transport including the historical Central Station within a 6 minute walk to get you in, around, and across town. Sydney’s international and domestic airports can be reached within 20 minutes. The hotel’s distinct design incorporates the highest standards of green and sustainable technology, recently being awarded with a 4 star Energy rating and a 6 star Water rating by the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS). There are endless street dining options all within a 1-3 minute walk including Kensington Street and Spice Alley. Central Park Mall is just 70m from the hotel, providing access to Woolworths and Priceline Chemist, additional specialty stores, and Palace Cinemas, with ‘Chippendale Green’, the Park itself, also just 70m from the hotel which is ideal for guests to stretch their legs, throw a Frisbee, and enjoy the sunshine. We offer 297 bright and welcoming guest rooms and suites with comforts of home, complimentary use of our 24hour fitness centre, along with Central Quarter Restaurant for breakfast, or kick back and relax in Malt Bar, and enjoy a great selection of locally craft beers from our Best Brews programme.

88 Broadway, Hotel entrance via 4 Central Park Avenue Chippendale Sydney, New South Wales 2008

18 minute walk from ICC Sydney

t: +61 2 8288 8888
w: www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/sydcf-four-points-by-sheraton-sydney-central-park/overview/

The Capitol Hotel Sydney is the stylish new addition to Haymarket. Find us next to one of Australia’s only surviving atmospheric theatres, the heritage-listed Capitol Theatre.

Our esteemed guests will make their entrance under the grand chandelier. From there, we’ll meet at reception and you’ll have the option to use our self-check-in kiosks. Boasting 95 show stopping new rooms, a 45 seat restaurant, bar, and custom art prints throughout, our hotel celebrates the performing arts history and future of the precinct. Whether you’re bringing the family, booking for a work function, or staying for the pre-show atmosphere — drop in and explore Sydney city from the very centre.

Features & amenities include complimentary Wi-Fi, room service, restaurant & bar, family rooms and 24-hour reception.

Please select dates and enter Block code 0723HELMSB

Rates from $259 per night.

730 – 742 George Street, Haymarket NSW 2000

9 minute walk from ICC Sydney

t: +61 2 9069 5540
e: [email protected]
w: www.independentcollection.com.au/accommodation/sydney-nsw/the-capitol-hotel

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Dr. Brian Chapman is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. A native of the United States, he has lived in Australia since 2019. By training, Brian is a medical informaticist, by interest an armchair philosopher, by temperament an artist, and by necessity an experienced patient. A survivor of two childhood cancers as well as two adult cancers, Brian’s experiences as a patient have shaped his work as a teacher and a researcher. At the same time, his training as an informaticist has shaped his experiences as a patient. He is passionate about empowering consumers to be informed and knowledgeable pilots of their healthcare

The Holiday Inn Darling Harbour is perfectly located at the southern end of Sydney’s CBD, within a short walk to the city’s popular Darling Harbour, Darling Square, and the International Convention Centre (ICC). The Holiday Inn Darling Harbour has the best that Sydney has to offer right at its door. We look forward to welcoming you to Darling Harbour very soon.

Rates from $245 per night

Block Code: PH5

68 Harbour St, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

5 minute walk from ICC Sydney

t: +61 2 92910200
e: [email protected]
w: https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/sydney/syddh/hoteldetail

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Ashley previously worked in IT Security and Infrastructure, and also as an IT Journalist for several publications, both online and in print. In late 2019 Ashley was diagnosed with acute renal failure and went through quite a long and complicated journey towards recovery and eventually a kidney/pancreas transplant

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Sari and Ashley McKinnon have been together for over 30 years and Sari has worked across the digital health space even longer. At the end of 2019 Ashley was admitted to ICU and from that point life changed. Ashley suffered acute renal failure which needed a pancreas and kidney transplant. While Ashley focussed on recovery, Sari saw the challenges patients faced across the healthcare system. Through a carer’s lense she recognised the tremendous potential that digital health capabilities could deliver to improve the healthcare experience for patients, their cares and care providers. All of a sudden the value of digitally enabled co-ordination and information sharing across healthcare became very real.

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Dr. Osama Elhassan carries more 25 years of experience in digital transformation and advanced computing. He co-founded ZIMAM in 2016 to promote digital health across GCC countries, through continuous education and competency-based career-paths development. He is also an elected board of member of several local, regional and international Scientific and non-for-profit organizations such as Emirates Health Informatics Society, the Middle East and North Africa Health Informatics Society and the Roaster of Healthcare IT Experts at World Health Organization.

Osama contributes to academia through his adjunct lecturer role at the Higher Colleges of Technology. He also serves as a Health Informatics specialist at Dubai Health Authority. He is specialized in software architecture, systems integration and domain-specific modelling and cognitive AI.

Dr Elhassan obtained a PhD in Software Engineering from University of Leicester and an MSc in Advanced Computing from Imperial College in UK

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Professor Raina MacIntyre is a physician and epidemiologist, and Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. She leads a research program in control and prevention of epidemics, pandemics and bioterrorism. She has extensive field experience of outbreak investigation. She developed EPIWATCH, an AI-driven epidemic observatory that harnesses open-source data and has proven capability in early detection of epidemics. The suite of EPWATCH tools includes EPIRISK, a real-time risk analysis tool for epidemics.

She has over 450 peer reviewed publications and leads a NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Airborne Threats to Health. She has received many awards including the Sir Henry Wellcome Medal and Prize from the Association of Military Surgeons of the US for her risk assessment research on bioterrorism and the 2022 Eureka Prize for Leadership & Innovation in Science. She is the author of Dark Winter – an insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity (2022)

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Dr. Denis Newman-Griffis (they/them) is a Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Sheffield and a member of the UK Young Academy. Their work investigates the principles, processes, and practices that inform the development of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and how transdisciplinary design thinking can help reduce and manage bias in AI systems.

They bring their work into practice at the intersection of disability and data science, and have developed AI systems for analysing information on disability experience as well as critical tools to understand how AI materialises disability. They aim to bring together diverse voices to drive disability-led design of AI and data systems and develop more inclusive, person-centred ways of working with disability data. Denis was recognized with the American Medical Informatics Association’s Doctoral Dissertation Award and is an active advocate for LGBTQIA+ support and inclusion in STEM.

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Gillian Mason is a proudly disabled physiotherapist researcher, patient representative, disability inclusion advocate and science communicator. She brings a dual patient-clinician perspective to the design and implementation of research. She explores how technologies can contribute to more efficient and intuitive healthcare, rehabilitation and living, as it intersects with healthcare when there’s chronic illness to manage.

At Hunter Medical Research Institute, as Consumer and Community Involvement Lead, she provides strategic advice, training and mentorship around patient and public involvement in healthcare research, and manages the Research Register. She is a member of the Australian Department of Health’s Health Technology Assessment Consumer Consultative Committee, and a Consumer Representative member of the Medical Services Advisory Committee.

Gillian is honoured to serve as a Board member of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and, in that capacity, thrilled to be able to welcome you to MedInfo in Sydney!

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Liz Salmi is a Citizen Scientist and Patient Informatician, and currently the Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In this role, Liz aims to better understand the changing nature of patient-clinician communication in an age of increasing health information transparency. She does this by working alongside clinicians, hospitals, health systems, researchers, and most importantly, in partnership with patient advocates.

Over the last 15 years Liz has been: a research subject; an advisor in patient stakeholder groups; a leader in patient engagement research initiatives; and an innovator, educator and investigator in international education and research projects. Today her work focuses on involving patients and care partners in the co-design of research and research dissemination.

In 2021, Liz and colleagues were awarded a $12.8 million Center Grant from the National Cancer Institute to determine optimal methods for patient enrollment in a cancer registry—designed in partnership with patients.

It is rumored Liz was the drummer in a punk rock band.

Offer: Room at special group rate

Click ‘Book Now’ to view the offered rate. This discount is valid between Friday 7 July and Wednesday 12 July and is available until 12 June 2023.

Terms and conditions:

• Check-in is available from 14:00 on arrival day, and check-out required by 11:00 on departure day.
• No cancellation charge applies prior to 18:00, up until 30 days prior to arrival. Beyond that time, the first night will be charged.
• Cancellation fees will be charged to your credit card (or to any other proof of guarantee provided)

17 Little Pier St, Darling Harbour NSW 2000

3 minute walk from ICC Sydney

t: +61 2 8217 4000
e: [email protected]
w: www.novotelsydneydarlingsquare.com.au

Offer: Room at special group rate

Click ‘Book Now’ to view the offered rate. This discount is valid between Friday 7 July and Wednesday 12 July and is available until 12 June 2023.

Terms and conditions:

• 1 nights non-refundable deposit will be charged at time of the booking and the remaining balance will be charged at 60 days prior to arrival.
• A credit card will be required at the time of booking and all prepayments are non-refundable.
• Any cancellation will incur the full cancellation of all nights booked.
• Exclusive rate available until 12 June 2023

70 Murray St, Pyrmont NSW 2009

10 minute walk from ICC Sydney

t: +61 2 9563 0888
e: [email protected]
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After initially qualifying as a biochemist, Grahame accidentally landed a job in a clinical laboratory as a clinical chemist, and fell in love with working in healthcare. Since then, Grahame has held a variety of roles:

• Laboratory scientist performing routine clinical tests
• PhD researcher looking at biochemical impacts of diabetes in cholesterol metabolism
• Development lead/CTO for a laboratory information systems vendor
• Editor of international standards for healthcare data exchange
• Consulting to national programs on adoption and implementation of interoperability standards including the Australian National Health Record system

Currently, Grahame is HL7’s Product Director for “FHIR” – the leading healthcare data exchange standard of the future. In that role, Grahame is responsible the growth and governance of the community that develops the FHIR specification, managing the corporate and government relationships around it, and acting as the lead editor for the specification.

Grahame has won many awards for his contributions to the community, notably from AIDH (the Don Walker for effectiveness in Health Informatics).

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Dr Alain Labrique is the Director for the Department of Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization. He is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative and Editor-in-Chief for the Oxford Open Digital Health journal. An infectious disease and population epidemiologist, he served until September of 2022 as Professor and the inaugural Associate Chair for Research in Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Alain has led research in maternal, neonatal, and infant health in resource limited settings and was recognized as one of the Top 11 mHealth Innovators in 2011. He served as a lead author on the 2012 Bellagio Declaration on mHealth Evidence. In 2018, he was awarded the Excellence in International Public Health Practice Award and a Distinguished Alumnus award from Johns Hopkins University.

Alain has authored over 150 publications in high-impact journals, as well as many book chapters and technical reports on Digital Health and Emerging Infectious Diseases. His frameworks for Digital Health remains among the most cited. Alain has served as a Technical Advisor to several international and global health agencies and Ministries of Health, was the Chair of the WHO Digital Health Guidelines Development Group and a member of the WHO Digital Health Roster of Experts.

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Helen Bevan is Chief Transformation Officer with the Horizons team, a group of internal change agents within the English National Health Service. Helen has been a leader of large scale change, improvement activist, thought leader and innovator within the NHS for more than 30 years. She has led and facilitated many nationwide initiatives to improve care, including in cancer services, urgent and emergency care and services for people living with dementia, involving many thousands of NHS people and people who use services. She acts as an advisor and teacher to leaders of health and healthcare in many other countries.

Helen has an ability to connect directly with thousands of frontline staff and patient leaders. She is one of the top social influencers in healthcare globally, reaching more than a million people each month through her social media connections, virtual presentations, commentaries, and blogs.