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Our esteemed health ambassadors play a critical role as we forge ahead with our plans to ensure that the development of health tech is inclusive, ethical and available to all – and that information which is factual and accurate is available for all. Watch this space – more ambassadors to join!

 

 

ANDREW SCHROEDER

VP Research and Analysis
Direct Relief

ANDREW SCHROEDER

VP Research and Analysis
Direct Relief
DR. AMRITA KUMAR
Consultant Radiologist & AI Clinical Lead
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
DR. AMRITA KUMAR
Consultant Radiologist & AI Clinical Lead
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Amrita Kumar is a Consultant Radiologist at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, with a sub-specialist interest in breast cancer screening. She is leading trust wide research collaboration to implement novel artificial intelligence software for improved patient outcomes. She has been appointed as AI Clinical Lead and is responsible for implementation and adoption of Artificial Intelligence practice within the Trust, working in conjunction with various stakeholders with a mission statement of patient-focused value-based healthcare.

DR. MATTHEW LUNGREN

Co-Director
Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

DR. MATTHEW LUNGREN

Co-Director
Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

DR. STEPHANIE KUKU

Senior Consultant
Hardian Health
 

DR. STEPHANIE KUKU

Senior Consultant
Hardian Health
 

Stephanie is an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur and Senior Research Fellow at UCL and UCLH where she was awarded a Doctorate in Clinical Research in Oncology. Research Interests include Integrated Data Models for Cancer Monitoring, Survivorship and Longevity. A Clinician-Scientist with over 10 years experience, Stephanie has served on council on a National Cancer Society (BGCS) and is the Healthcare Ambassador of the global organisation Women in AI (WAI). She is a Scientific Advisor to WILD.AI and the Havas Lynx Faculty and on the Advisory Committee of the Social Impact Community, the Conduit, London.

FRANK HESTER

Founder and CEO
The Phoenix Partnership

FRANK HESTER

Founder and CEO
The Phoenix Partnership

Frank has always been at the forefront of IT innovation. In his early career he was instrumental in building technological infrastructure in the finance industry. Frank founded TPP in 1997 and pioneered integrated care – delivering his vision of connected care across all health settings. Today, TPP provides leading software that is transforming healthcare worldwide. Frank is active in all aspects of the company’s business operations, working alongside the teams in the development of TPP’s products and representing the company in the public domain.
Frank’s innovative vision is nationally recognised by the NHS, leading journals and healthcare organisations. In 2012, he was elected to the board of TechUK as a spokesperson for the healthcare IT sector. The following year, he was listed as one of the UK’s top 50 innovators in the national health publication, HSJ. In 2015, Frank was named on the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List to be awarded with an OBE (Order of the British Empire), for his services to healthcare.
Frank has been invited on numerous government trade missions, representing the UK health industry around the world. He has visited countries such as China, India and Brazil as part of trade missions led by British Prime Minister, David Cameron and by Kenneth Clarke, QC, MP.

IAN NORTON

Managing Director
Respond Global

IAN NORTON

Managing Director
Respond Global

JOEL MYHRE

Humanitarian Technology Innovator
Pacific Disaster Centre

JOEL MYHRE

Humanitarian Technology Innovator
Pacific Disaster Centre

ROOPA DHATT

Executive Director & co-Founder
Woman in Global Health

ROOPA DHATT

Executive Director & co-Founder
Woman in Global Health

Dr Roopa Dhatt is a passionate advocate for gender equality in global health and a leading voice in the movement to correct the gender imbalance in global health leadership. Determined to build a movement to transform women’s leadership opportunities in health, Dr Dhatt co-founded Women in Global Health in 2015. Today, Women in Global Health has more than 25,000 supporters in more than 90 countries and continues to grow. Dr Dhatt, the Executive Director, and the global team work with a network of WGH chapters in every region to challenge power and privilege for gender equity in health by mobilizing a diverse group of emerging women health leaders, by advocating to existing global health leaders to commit to transform their own institutions, and by holding these leaders to account.  With more than 15 chapters in all regions, Women in Global Health is changing the conversation about women’s leadership in health at global, national and local levels.

 

Dr Dhatt is particularly committed to addressing issues of power, privilege, and intersectionality that keep many women from global health leadership roles and to opening up spaces for the voices of these women to be heard. Women in Global Health’s flagship Heroines of Health event provides a platform for women from diverse backgrounds to share their stories and to advance their leadership. As Co-Chair of the Gender Equity Hub in the Global Health Workforce Network, Women in Global Health published Delivered by Women, Led by Men which looking collectively for the first time at issues of leadership, decent work free from all forms of discrimination, harassment, including sexual harassment, the gender pay gap, and occupational segregation—across the entire health workforce. In recognition of her work advancing gender equality in health, Dr Dhatt was recognized in the Gender Equality Top 100, the most influential people in global policy 2019.

Dr Dhatt is a regular speaker at global health events and has published her views on gender equality widely, including in the Lancet. Dr Dhatt also serves on several advisory bodies advancing gender equality in health, President Council of PathFinder International, the Strategic Advisory Committee for the Global Health Workforce Network (GHWN), and GlobeMed Advisory Board. She was formerly on the Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGS) Advisory Board, Global Health 50-50 Advisory Council, the Global Health Council Advisory Council, and Women Leaders in Global Health Conference Steering Committee in 2017 and 2018. She has led global campaigns relating to the health Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), health and climate change, the social determinants of health, and Universal Health Coverage (UHC), engaging people from more than 120 countries.

 

Dr Dhatt is a practicing primary care physician in Washington D.C. She completed her medical training in the Department of Internal Medicine (International Health Track) at Case Western Reserve University. She served as President of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations and is the founder of the Young Voices, Youth: Pre-World Health Assembly (#yWHA). Dr Dhatt has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Davis, a Masters in Public Affairs from Sciences Po, Paris, France, and a Medical Degree from Temple University School of Medicine.