Presenters

Asif Akram
Asif is a Chief Solution Architect in the Global eHealth Unit with extensive experience of delivering software and internet based projects in healthcare. His expert knowledge in eHealth gives participants unique insights into state-of-the-art software product development and agile methodologies in healthcare environments.

Assoc Prof Dr Josip Car
Josip is a physician-scientist combining the roles of the Founding Director of Health Services and Outcomes Research Programme at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, a Director of the Global eHealth Unit and Co-Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health at Imperial College. Josip has extensive expert knowledge in field of eHealth and is one of the global research leaders in that field. He provides a unique skill set for eHealth both from a medical and a public health point of view.

Živa Cotič
Živa is a researcher specialised in Law & eHealth. She holds an MA in Medical Law from King’s College London. She worked as an advisor at the Human Rights Ombudsman. Her research focuses on eEducation in healthcare as well as global eHealth governance. She contributes to this eHealth-course with the latest legal and ethical findings.

Dr Austen El-Osta
Austen is a Primary Care & Public Health Research Manager at Imperial College London. He has an eclectic background spanning academia & industry, and includes research topics such as eGovernance in health, Big Data in health, Digital Health & m/eHealth, He is also interested in innovation praxis & change management in the NHS. Austen holds a Doctorate in Medicine from King’s College London, a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) form the London South Bank University, an MSc in Pathology & Virology from Imperial College London & a BSc in Molecular Biology from Queen Mary University of London. His contribution makes this course an exciting opportunity to get insights into the usage of electronic health records in national health systems.

Dr Holger Kunz
Holger is a Teaching Fellow and course organiser of the eHealth short course. He graduated in medical informatics from Charité - University Medicine Berlin which is Europe’s largest academic university hospital. His research topics lie in the area of eHealth for Health- and Wellbeing (HWB), medical decision support systems, eHealth for quality management in health care, IT-governance in eHealth. Holger has worked in public administration and consulting. He contributed as a speaker to many international conferences and provides a unique skill set in the area of eHealth/health informatics. Holger organised an international Post-Master Education program for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT ICT Labs), an initiative and organisation of the European Union, in the area of Information and Communication Technologies and Health- and Wellbeing. He is the module leader for the eHealth-course in the Master program of the School of Public Health, Imperial College London. The knowledge and experience of these educational programmes are integrated into this intensive short course.

Colin Love 
Colin was appointed as Teaching Fellow (Strategy & Marketing) and Director of Undergraduate Studies in April 2008 at the business school of Imperial College London. He provides a unique perspective of business strategy in combination with eHealth. This will give participants a distinctive insight into strategic management and eHealth.

Dr Nikolas Mastellos
Nikolas is a senior health services researcher within the Global eHealth Unit with expertise in the uptake of electronic health records. His work focuses on designing and evaluating eHealth and service redesign interventions in clinical trials and other longitudinal studies both nationally and internationally. Prior to joining Imperial, Nikolas worked in the pharmaceutical market research industry and the healthcare sector where he blended his clinical, business and research skills to generate high-quality reports and other outputs. In this short course, Nikolas will contribute to the insights of electronic health records.

Dr John O'Donoghue
John is a Senior Lecturer in eHealth at Imperial College London and Deputy Director of its Global eHealth Unit. His main research areas include: Pervasive Data Management, Quality of Data, Health Informatics and Medical based Information Systems. Examples of projects which John is currently involved with include, detection and management of acutely ill patients on hospital wards, data management modelling for clinical trials, use of mHealth technology to identify illness in children in developing countries, and development of systems for integrated chronic disease management. John will lead the introduction of this short course and provide insights into many aspects of eHealth.

Dr Petra Wark
Petra Wark is the Assistant Director of the Global eHealth Unit at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Imperial College London. Petra has a strong interest in the use, development and characteristics of dietary and lifestyle assessment using web-based instruments, wearable devices and apps. She will address the endless possibilities that mHealth offers to epidemiological research and public health, whilst also addressing the needs for validation. Her ongoing collaborations with multi-national enterprises in the field of eHealth on validation and practical application of such novel technologies for health and wellbeing improvement will provide up-to-date background knowledge and insight.

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