Speakers

Dr Tracy O’Regan worked as a diagnostic radiographer in the NHS for 23 years prior to commencing her role of professional officer for clinical imaging and research at the society and college of radiographers (SCoR). Tracy represents her organisation on a range of multidisciplinary working parties and supports SCoR advisory groups and networks related to digital, informatics and artificial intelligence. She has a keen interest in the clinical uses of emerging technologies, serves as a steering committee member for the Science and Technology Facilities Council Early Cancer Diagnosis + Network, and champions SCoR work to reduce inequalities in health.

Read more - Stream 2, Session 3: Should we use AI in LMICs?

Professor Manjit Dosanjh joined the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford in 2019 as visiting professor. Her pioneering work to apply physics to the medical domain is changing the field in cancer treatment and she is passionate about the power of STEM to change people’s lives.

As well as taking up a visiting professorship in the Department of Physics in 2019, she was, until recently, Senior Adviser for Medical Applications at CERN where she worked for 21 years and where she continues to collaborate. She is a long-term member of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva and served as the UN representative in Geneva for the NGO Graduate Women International for 15 years. Incarnating the power of collaboration, Manjit is a self-titled ‘bridge builder’ – summed up if nothing else by that fact that as a biochemist, she worked in the world’s largest particle physics experiment and today holds a position in a physics department.

Collaboration and bridging underpin her work. She is a leading figure in the medical applications of physics in the field of cancer and has spent much of her career studying mechanisms of cancer resulting from environmental exposure including radiation damage. She was instrumental in the application of technologies developed at CERN in the medical field, in particular imaging for disease detection, accelerators for use in nuclear medicine and cancer therapy as well as the use of computing and information communication technologies for big biomedical data and personalised medicine. One of her major successes was the promotion and implementation of the Proton-Ion Medical Machine Study (PIMMS), carried out at CERN, by establishing a multidisciplinary European network, which catalysed the construction of state-of-the-art cancer centres where hadrons are currently being used in cancer treatment.   

Read more - Stream 2, Session 3: Healthcare models and AI accessibility

Dr Ana Luisa Neves is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Digital Health and Director of the Global Digital Health Unit (GDHU), a research hub for innovation and entrepreneurship in health care. The mission of the Global Digital Health Unit is to develop innovative, evidence-based solutions for delivering healthcare and health promotion, and for supporting public health research in collaboration with local, national and international initiatives.

Dr Ana Luisa Neves leads a team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers conducting research in digital health. She has more than 15 years of research experience, and >40 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (>3,000 citations), using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Dr Ana Luisa Neves is currently Chair of the Working Party on eHealth of the World Organisation of General Practice, and an elected member of the Executive Board of the European General Practice Research Network.

After qualifying in Medicine and completing specialist training in General Practice, Ana has worked as a medical doctor in both high- and low-income countries. She undertook academic and research placements at Institut National de la Santé et Recherche Médicale (Paris) and at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School Affiliate (Boston), before obtaining her PhD in Clinical Medicine at Imperial College London (2018). Between 2017-2023, Ana took a variety of research roles at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial, the latest being as Associate Director / Advanced Research Fellow at the Imperial NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research (PSTRC). As part of this role, Ana also oversaw the academic support to the WHO Global Patient Safety Collaborative, a multi-national consortium designed to strengthen leadership, capacity building and research development in low and middle-income countries. 

In what concerns teaching activities, she is the Module Lead for Digital Health in the Masters Public Health and Global Master of Public Health at Imperial College London. Ana is also Module Lead (Health Data Collection and Principles of Health Data Science) at the PhD Programme in Health Data Science at University of Porto, where she holds an invited post as Assistant Professor.

Read more - Stream 2, Session 3: Equality in access to AI

Since studying the social impact of digital technologies for my undergraduate degree thesis at the University of Oxford in 2012, I have been passionate about understanding the ethical, philosophical and practical ramifications of the increasing use of technology in critical industries, notably healthcare and financial services.

I have gained extensive experience in this time in how to research (both quantitatively and qualitatively) and design evidence-based policies in response, to ensure technology can be utilised to help people, organisations and society achieve collectively-desired aims whilst minimising the potential negative ramifications.

This has included experience in managing multi-stakeholder projects and culminated in my spending the a significant proportion of the last couple of years as the lead tech advisor for data-driven tech at UK Department of Health and Social Care (soon to be NHSX), leading the development and co-authoring of the Code of Conduct for data-driven health and care technologies and several other related programmes – including designing the State of the Data-Driven HealthTech Ecosystem survey.

For the past year I have done this whilst also studying the for my MSc in social science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Specifically, I study the ethics and philosophy of using healthcare information with Professor Luciano Floridi as a member of the Digital Ethics Lab.