SESSION 249: <br/><b>International Policy Forum</b>
Track 10
| Sunday, July 9, 2023 |
| 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM |
| C4.10 |
Overview
Invite only
C4.10
C4.10
Speaker
Prof Rachel Dunscombe
Professor | Policy Maker | Industry advisor
Imperial College London
Session chair
Biography
Rachel Dunscombe is AI Council member for the UK government and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, UK, Co-chair of OpenEHR CiC and Chief Industry Advisor of the global health software company Dedalus,. She has over 25 years’ experience in the UK National Health Service (NHS), academia, management consulting, and the technology industry. Rachel was previously Chief Executive Officer of the NHS Digital Academy, leading postgraduate education programs both nationally and internationally, and the National Care Alliance Director of Digital and Group Chief Information Officer at the Royal Salford NHS Hospital in Greater Manchester, UK, where she implemented data science and AI approaches to health and wellbeing. Recently she led the KLAS Research Arch Collaborative International initiative for electronic health record optimization and supported the ‘Big 4’, consulting in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Europe, and low–middle income countries. Rachel is also Health Lead for the UK government’s artificial intelligence roadmap and contributed to policy including the UK AI strategy.
Prof Toby Walsh
Chief Scientist
UNSW Sydney
Emerging technology and artificial intelligence
1:15 PM - 2:10 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".
Prof Enrico Coiera FAIDH
Director
Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Emerging technology and artificial intelligence
Biography
Professor Enrico Coiera has been working at the intersection of information technology and healthcare for over three decades. Trained in medicine and with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence, he still leads this field. He is the founding Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University and the founding Director of The Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), which was established at UNSW in 1998 and is now based at Macquarie University. CHI is the longest running biomedical and health informatics academic research group in Australia. He is also the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Health and founder of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH).
Prof Rachel Dunscombe
Professor | Policy Maker | Industry advisor
Imperial College London
Bringing it together
Biography
Rachel Dunscombe is AI Council member for the UK government and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, UK, Co-chair of OpenEHR CiC and Chief Industry Advisor of the global health software company Dedalus,. She has over 25 years’ experience in the UK National Health Service (NHS), academia, management consulting, and the technology industry. Rachel was previously Chief Executive Officer of the NHS Digital Academy, leading postgraduate education programs both nationally and internationally, and the National Care Alliance Director of Digital and Group Chief Information Officer at the Royal Salford NHS Hospital in Greater Manchester, UK, where she implemented data science and AI approaches to health and wellbeing. Recently she led the KLAS Research Arch Collaborative International initiative for electronic health record optimization and supported the ‘Big 4’, consulting in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Europe, and low–middle income countries. Rachel is also Health Lead for the UK government’s artificial intelligence roadmap and contributed to policy including the UK AI strategy.