LEADERSHIP

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Dimitris is founder and Chief Executive at Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation, UK. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence in medicine and twenty years of experience in international development as an expert with the World Bank, the WHO, the EU Commission, UNICEF and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dimitris has had an instrumental role in developing health innovation ecosystems world-wide, and in resilience and recovery planning during the Covid-19 crisis. Participating in AI policy think-tanks and working groups he has contributed to shaping the EU AI Act. In 2015, working with the World Bank, the WHO and the Government of China, he helped shape policy for Deepening Health Reforms in China, now implemented as Healthy China 2030. Dimitris is a member of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee, founder and chair of the IEEE SA Value Base Pre-standard for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Previously IBM, CEO & Board Director, Dimitris served on the board of advisors of start-ups in Europe and the USA. He is a distinguished keynote speaker, Global AI Ambassador 2023, judge and mentor in the Edison™ Accelerator, powered by GE Healthcare and Wayra UK, and Health Executive in Residence at the UCL Global Business School for Health. 

Professor Paul Barach, B.Med.Sci, MD, MPH, Maj (Ret.) is a passionate believer in smart health information technology to improve the safety and quality of healthcare. He is double boarded anesthesiologist and critical care physician-scientist, trained at Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston City Hospital. Paul is an elected member of the lead international honorary society the Association of University Anesthesiologists. Previously, he held the position of Chief Quality Officer and Associate Chief Medical Officer for the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital. He had held prominent advisory positions nationally and internationally overseeing quality and patient safety, telemedicine development, innovation technology and adoption, and population health programs. Paul is former member of ASA and WFSA Patient Safety and Quality committees, and Chair of the Patient Safety Commission for the World Society of Intravenous Anesthesia. Paul is Associate Editor of Telehealth and Telemedicine journal and has published more than three hundred papers in scientific journals and 5 books. Paul has been regularly funded for his research grants and his work has led to over $16,000,000 as PI or Co-PI (of more than $120,000,000 in group funding) in federal competitive grant funding from the US(NIH/AHRQ/HRSA), EC (FP-7, Horizon, Erasmus), Australian (NHMRC, ARC), UK (NIHR), Dutch and Norwegian Federal Agencies. Paul holds numerous US and international academic part time positions as Professor at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Austria; Honorary Professorship, University of Birmingham, UK; Lecturer and senior advisor to Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health; Visiting Professor Milan Polytechnic; Visiting Professor and Honorary Professor at the National Cancer Center in Seoul, Korea, and Visiting Professor, Riphah University, Pakistan and at MUHAS, Tanzania. He has given courses in Team Leadership in Disaster Management; Leadership during Crisis; Preparation of Health Systems for Crisis, Patient Safety, Human Factors, Digital Health systems design, Individual and Community Resilience. He advises several digital health companies.

Dr. Nana Bit-Avragim is a physician-scientist, strategic health and biotech leader, and the next-gen healthcare ecosystem builder. She loves solving challenges and building solutions from scratch. 

To translate the latest global technological developments into life sciences and align it with the healthcare industry, Nana has successfully developed and executed a broad scope of innovative programs and partnerships between SMEs, NGOs and academia in her previous roles as Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Charité Foundation and Head of Digital Health & Life Sciences program at the German hub of Singularity University, an executive education organization based on NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley. Nana’s current focus is on building and implementing blockchain solutions in healthcare and life sciences at the DHL Blockchain Center of Excellence. As an advisor and mentor for several EIT Health startups and early-stage ventures from Switzerland, Germany, UK and Israel, Nana applies her talents to offer both a strategic vision as well as concrete actions to achieve. Nana enjoys communicating across borders and cultures and she loves tweeting about digital health, open innovations and open science.  

Dimitri Varsamis PhD is an independent advisor on digital and clinical strategy for health tech companies and public institutions. Until June ’23, he was the Head of Digital Innovation Delivery for Digital Care Models in NHS England. Since 2018, as the Senior Policy Lead for Digital Primary Care he oversaw the use of the national General Practice contract and financing in order to roll out transformative patient-facing digital services through all 6,500 GP practices in England. He had worked on national clinical policy and local service redesign since 2006. He has three degrees on medical devices and biosensors. Internationally, he represented the UK government on the EU Joint Action on Chronic Diseases policy programme and led the Policy Summary on reducing mortality in England with the WHO European Observatory. As a Churchill Fellow in 2019, he researched the incentives and levers for digitising primary care in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He also served at the UK Government Department for International Trade with Healthcare UK.

Zsolt is Ecosystem Lead for Hungary at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Healthcare division (EIT Health), developing and managing the Hungarian healthcare ecosystem on behalf of the biggest healthcare network in Europe, focusing on innovation, education and business acceleration cross-border projects. Zsolt is an economist specializing in management and organizational structure. He has previous executive advisory experience working with multinational companies such as Microsoft and Accenture and extensive experience in economics and operations in healthcare. In his current role at EIT Health, Zsolt supports startups to create sustainable business and community building models and to define and achieve business development goals. His focus is on aligning ethics, motivation and change management practices with company structures and unmet market needs to achieve the desired level of innovation and to create a win-win environment for all shareholders.