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Sunday, July 9, 2023 |
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Darling Harbour Theatre |
Overview
Welcome to Country
Brendan Kerin Representative - Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council 🇦🇺
Welcome by the Conference Co-Chairs
Dr Martin Seneviratne Clinician Scientist, Google Health 🇬🇧
Prof Farah Magrabi FAIDH Professor of Biomedical & Health Informatics, Macquarie University 🇦🇺
Welcome by Vice President, MedInfo, IMIA Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji 🇯🇴
Leading change and digital enablement at scale: The New Zealand approach
Leigh Donoghue Chief Data And Digital, Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ) 🇳🇿
Getting ready for Open Everything
Liz Salmi Citizen Scientist and Patient Informatician 🇺🇸
Generative AI: Why all the fuss?
Prof Toby Walsh Chief Scientist, UNSW, AI Institute 🇦🇺
Address by MedInfo Scientific and Industry Program Co-Chairs
Dr Paula Otero 🇦🇷 and Dr Philip Scott 🇬🇧 Scientific Program Co-Chair
Kate Ebrill FAIDH 🇦🇺 and Greg Moran CHIA 🇦🇺 Industry Program Co-Chairs
Address by AIDH Chair & IMIA President
Bettina McMahon FAIDH Board Chair, Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) 🇦🇺
Prof Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li President, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) 🇹🇼
Speaker
Brendan Kerin
Representative - Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
Welcome to Country
3:30 PM - 3:45 PMBiography
Dr Martin Seneviratne
Informatician
Google
Welcome by the Conference Co-Chairs
3:45 PM - 3:55 PMBiography
Dr Martin Seneviratne is a doctor-turned-data scientist, bridging the divide between technology and healthcare. As a Senior Clinical Scientist with Google Health in London, Dr Seneviratne is an emerging leader in the nascent field of digital health, working on mobile tools and machine learning to improve the quality and accessibility of care.
Prof Farah Magrabi FAIDH
Professor
Macquarie University
Welcome by the Conference Co-Chairs
3:45 PM - 3:55 PMBiography
Farah Magrabi is Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics at Macquarie University. She is an Associate Editor of JAMIA and co-edited the focus issue on Health Informatics and Climate Change which lays out a blueprint for action to mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health in 2022.
Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji
President | Vice-president
eHealth Development Association, Jordan
Welcome by Vice President, Medinfo, IMIA
3:55 PM - 4:00 PMBiography
Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji (PhD, FIAHSI) is President of the eHealth Development Association, Jordan, President of the Middle East and North Africa Association of Health Informatics and Vice President of IMIA for MEDINFO23. A consultant for digital health, he previously worked as Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO/HQ between August 2008 to September 2015.
Liz Salmi
Communications & Patient Initiatives Director
OpenNotes
Getting ready for Open Everything
4:00 PM - 4:20 PMBiography
Liz Salmi is 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.
Prof Toby Walsh
Chief Scientist
UNSW Sydney
Generative AI: Why all the fuss?
4:20 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Toby Walsh is Chief Scientist of UNSW.AI, UNSW's new AI Institute. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many others on this topic. This advocacy has led to him being "banned indefinitely" from Russia. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international "Who's Who in AI" list of influencers. He has written three books on AI for a general audience, the most recent is "Machines Behaving Badly: the morality of AI".
Mr Leigh Donoghue
Chief of Data and Digital
Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand
Pae Ora (healthy futures): Health reform in Aotearoa
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Dr Paula Otero
Professor
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Address by MedInfo Scientific and Industry Program Co-Chairs
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
MD
Scientific Program Co-Chair, & Professor
Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Dr Philip Scott
Programme Director
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Address by MedInfo Scientific and Industry Program Co-Chairs
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Dr Philip Scott is Programme Director at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Chair of the British Computer Society’s health and care group and co-chair of the MCBK-UK steering group. He has worked on healthcare record structures and interoperability standards, clinical decision support and interdisciplinary theory in health informatics.
Kate Ebrill FAIDH
Lead- Interoperability
Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
Address by MedInfo Scientific and Industry Program Co-Chairs
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the health care industry. Skilled in government procurement, digital strategy, healthcare information technology (HIT), program development, change management and delivery. Strong business development professional with post graduate qualifications in Public Health from University of Sydney.
Greg Moran CHIA
Director Strategy & Development
Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH)
Address by MedInfo Scientific and Industry Program Co-Chairs
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Greg Moran is the Director Strategy and Workforce Advancement for the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH). In this role he leads the AIDH workforce and industry certification programs, as well as delivering on the national digital health workforce program in partnership with the Australian Digital Health Agency. The national program is working with the health sector key stakeholders to build foundational digital health workforce frameworks, professional and specialty resources and tools. Greg is a Certified Health Informatician of Australasia (CHIA).
Prof Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li
President
IMIA
Address by AIDH Chair & IMIA President
5:15 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Professor Yu-Chuan Jack Li, MD, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI, top 2% scientist in the world, is a pioneer of artificial intelligence in medicine and translational biomedical informatics. He has also been deeply involved in international collaborations for biomedical informatics development in Asia, America, Europe, and Africa.
Bettina McMahon FAIDH
CEO
Healthdirect Australia
Address by AIDH Chair & IMIA President
5:15 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Bettina McMahon has held various CEO and executive roles in digital health and government organisations, and Board roles including for the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. She has delivered technology projects since the 1990s, primarily to implement government reform, and is passionate about bringing the benefits of better technology and data use to improve the lives of Australians.
