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David works for the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government and leads the team responsible for delivering Scotland’s Digital Telecare transformation programme. Prior to moving into this role, he was a Senior Manager with the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership for more than 10 years, providing senior level leadership to a portfolio of services including Community Equipment, Telecare and Citywide Supported Housing. David was also the Partnerships Lead Officer for Digital Telecare during this time. With a demonstrated history of working in the Technology Enabled Care, Housing and Third sector. David is skilled in Strategic Planning, Business Development, Organizational Development, Change Management and is a qualified Agile Practitioner. David also holds a Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip) focused in Public Sector Leadership.

Alex Eavis is Director of Analytics at EMIS, responsible for the development and delivery of new technologies that use data driven insights to help clinicians improve outcomes for patients and advance health and care. In 2017 Alex co-founded Dovetail Lab, now part of EMIS Group, pioneering better information sharing using blockchains and putting patients in control of their own data.
Alex is an avid advocate of tech for good. The potential for human-centred design, partnership working and modern technology to deliver better, evidence-based care to more people for less gets her out of bed in the morning and keeps her up at night.

Dr Sam Patel is a consultant respiratory physician with 25 years of frontline clinical experience. He has worked in both the Scottish and English healthcare systems, undertaken research and completed his doctorate in Cardiorespiratory Physiology at Glasgow University. A decade ago, he expanded his lifelong interest in technology to the health sector and led the Scottish Government commission: ‘Closing the Loop’, aimed at improving electronic communication between Primary and Secondary care. Since then, Sam has been closely involved in the electronic management of medicines both in hospitals and in the community. To overcome his impostor syndrome, he undertook his masters in Global eHealth at Edinburgh University, graduating in 2018. He is a founding fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and is currently a Clinical eHealth Lead at NES Digital Services. His latest project is co-leading the work to deliver paperless digital prescribing in the community.

Dr Chris Williams has been a GP for the past nine years and is currently working as a salaried GP in Grantown-on-Spey. He has also worked across Highland as a sessional GP including out of hours roles and has worked in Orkney, Moray and Gairloch as part of a remote and rural GP scheme. Chris has been actively involved in RCGP since he was a trainee and has attended Scottish Council for the past seven years. He represents RCGP Scotland on the Scottish Government’s Rural Working Group and is also on the board of the Scottish Rural Medicine Collaborative. Chris is currently Chair of North Scotland Faculty and is RCGP Scotland’s Clinical lead for IT and co-chair of the Scottish Joint GP IT Group.

Dr Steve Baguley is a consultant in Sexual Health & HIV and Clinical Director of eHealth for NHS Grampian. In 2020 he was appointed chair of clinical digital leads for Scotland.

Steve has long had an interest in information management in healthcare, completing an MSc in Healthcare Informatics in 2008 and a PG Dip in digital health leadership in 2019. In 2016 he spent a month studying digital health in Estonia and sits on various national groups that advise on Digital Health strategy and implementation in Scotland.

In his role as chair of the clinical digital leads Steve has been improving collaboration between clinicians and managers and was instrumental in establishing the Scottish Digital Health & Care Network.  The goals here being to improve representation and to increase the pace of delivery – bringing benefits to citizens and staff alike.

Currently works for Cisco Systems, leading the Industry Solution Partners and Strategic Alliances Program for Education and Healthcare markets in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Before that, he was the Regional Business Development LEAD for Cisco Education and Healthcare markets supporting Latin America, North America and Emerging Markets during the past ten years. He joined Cisco in 2000 and has taken other leading regional roles in Marketing & Business Development, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
He has over thirty years of experience in world-class technology companies, working closely with end-users and partner organizations to drive the adoption of integrated technologies, processes and people solutions to accelerate their digital transformation strategies and generate business outcomes.
As an academic during the past 20 years, he has focused on Teaching and Research in Digital Business Transformation, Business Strategy & Planning and Marketing.
He holds a master’s degree in Global Business Administration from Duke University (USA), a post-grad specialization in Advanced Management from the INSEAD (France), and Health It management from John Hopkins University.

Morag Hearty is currently seconded part time as Strategic Lead for Remote Health Pathways within the National Technology Enabled Care (TEC), Scottish Government Digital Health & Care Directorate.

Her substantive post is TEC programme manager leading the use of Remote Health Monitoring, Video consultations and other associated digital work streams across NHS Lanarkshire and the Health & Social Care Partnerships.

Since qualifying as a nurse in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Morag worked in various primary and secondary care posts (from ward sister to practice nurse) before being instrumental in developing and managing several innovative joint and integrated discharge and community teams.

Garry McCord is the Chief Product Officer at Servelec. He has held various senior roles leading in the development, delivery and implementation of IT software solutions across health and social care, such as, Development and Projects Director, Chief Technical Officer and Chief Executive Officer. He currently leads product development across healthcare, social care, education and youth services products at Servelec. Garry helps drive the interoperability of the product range and delivers innovation to support the vision for joined-up care.

Carol is User Research Manager at NHS 24. Carol is responsible for developing the user research function within the organisation, her team plan, design and carry out research activities with users that help the organisation gain a deep understanding of the people that use NHS 24 services & products. Applying user research methods to ensure the development process is human centred, and aligned with the principles of the Scottish Approach to Service Design

With over 10 years experience of working within the NHS in various health & care roles, Carol is passionate about health inequalities, user centred design and ensuring service design, development and improvements are driven by user needs.

Atul is the Clinical Lead for the Edinburgh City Region Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Health and Social Care DataLoch Programme – a linked data repository of health and social care data for over 1 million citizens in South East Scotland. He is also a Consultant Geriatrician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he looks after older patients with falls and fractures. As a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Atul works on maximising knowledge from routine electronic healthcare data, particularly in identifying frailty in hospitalised older adults. He has also worked on data-enabled cardiovascular trials that have changed guidelines for the management of patients with suspected heart attacks.

Prior to his current role Marc was an Occupational Therapist in Shetland and used Near Me clinically to provide services to children & families. As the COVID 19 pandemic took hold last year he supported staff and patients in their use of Near Me to facilitate the continuity of services in a remote island community. Marc was then part of a team who created digital resources and ran webinars last year to enable wider NMAHP services across Scotland to use Near Me at pace and scale.

Marc was then seconded into the Near Me Network as the National Lead to further roll out and embed Near Me within all areas of Health, Social Care and the 3rd sector. Prior to his current role Marc was an Occupational Therapist and AHP Practice Education Lead in Shetland where he used Near Me clinically to provide services to children & families.

Fiona is Service Design Lead in the Social Security Directorate, part of Scottish Government working on the development and delivery of benefits that have been devolved to Scotland. She joined Scottish Government in 2018, as the only service designer in Social Security Directorate, initially working on the development of Best Start Grant. Fiona took a lead role as the programme of work scaled, and has grown the service design team to match – the team is set to reach 25 service designers in 2021.
Fiona previously worked with Skills Development Scotland, developing work-based learning products for young people in the senior phase of secondary school, and worked on the national launch of Graduate Apprenticeships.

Chal leads on DHI’s technical strategy and is responsible for the way we support and deliver technical innovation, by applying systems thinking and methodologies in support of the DHI innovation model. He is devoted to the idea that citizens can be empowered to take an active role in their own wellbeing. Chal believes that digital health offers the tools to achieve this, and the DHI has the fresh perspective necessary to reconceive the relationship between the citizen and those who might care for them. He brings a range of skills including a Master’s in Healthcare Management & Leadership and a Master’s in Public Health Policy: Health Systems. He has spent seven years working in digital innovation, seven years working in Scottish Government public policy and healthcare service delivery and has led the design, development, integration and roll out of many digital health and care services with several now in use at scale across Scotland.

Dr Winter has been a clinical e-health lead in NHS Greater Glasgow since 2015 working closely with the e-Health team to help transform clinical engagement and leadership. He is a member of the first cohort of the NHS Digital Academy and was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Informatics in August 2018. By background a sexual health and HIV specialist, he has worked across community and acute settings and has led the digital transformation of sexual health services in Scotland since 2006.

His interests include clinical decision support, the clinical/diagnostics interface and safer management of results, and citizen-held records. His dream is to make using technology in the NHS or social care as easy, fun and normal as using technology at home.

Rohan is head of product at NDS, a team within NHS Scotland building national health and care data infrastructure and products. Rohan has more than fifteen years’ experience in a range of technology and innovation roles in public, private and non-profit sectors. Previous roles include innovation lead for the Edinburgh Festivals, social innovation for Nesta and public sector business change for Accenture. Rohan also a deep expertise in the intersection of wellbeing, technology and design and is well known as the creator of buddhify, the best-selling mindfulness app and host of the popular podcast Meditative Story.

Deryck Mitchelson is a highly experienced digital executive with a global technical, product development and security background through small, medium and FTSE 100 companies.
A proven track record of transforming distributed businesses through high periods of growth and change. Prior to working at NSS, Deryck was Global CISO and CIO for Wood Mackenzie where he delivered re-platforming of legacy enterprise systems (B2B and B2C) onto the public cloud. He previously worked as Chief Operating Officer for brightsolid and Group CIO of media giant DC Thomson.
Deryck has full responsibility for National digital and security services for NHS Scotland including managing the National NHS Information Security team. In this capacity he acts as Senior Information Risk Officer for NSS.

Prior to his current role, Jonathan held a number of IT Project Management posts in the Public and Private Sector and has a strong track record on complex IT and eHealth project and programme delivery. His career in eHealth and IT includes the delivery of the Emergency Care Summary and Key Information Summary systems which were major achievements in improving patient care across Scotland. Proud to be a CivTech Challenge Sponsor and to deliver major programmes for the NHS and wider public sector.

Ann-Marie was appointed by NHS 24 as Chief Information Officer in April 2017 leads the Information, Communication and Technology directorate.

Ann-Marie has over twenty years of IT experience and has held a number of senior roles across the public and private sectors including Chief Information Officer for National Trust for Scotland, Chief Information Officer for Care Visions Group, Head of Technology for Glasgow City Council and Compliance and Data Warehousing Manager for National Australia Group Europe.  Prior to this Ann-Marie held a number of technology based positions after graduating with a B.Eng in Software Engineering.  This was a significant change in having started her career as a State Enrolled Nurse.

Dr Donald Macaskill is CEO of Scottish Care which is the membership body for organisations that provide care in care homes, home care and housing support across Scotland.
In August 2018 he wrote ‘TechRights: human rights, technology and social care.’ which explores issues of AI and smart technology, arguing for citizens to be in full control of the technology they use in their homes and care. Scottish Care published a Human Rights Charter for Technology and Digital in Social Care with associated Guidance in late 2019 and a Vision for Technology in 2020.
Dr Macaskill’s interest in the necessity of a human rights and ethical framework for the use of technology and digital in social care has led to him addressing conferences across the UK and North America on this and related issues.

Prof George Crooks is the CEO OF The Digital Health and Care Institute, Scotland’s national Innovation Centre for Digital Health and Care. He was previously the Medical Director for NHS 24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth
He leads the Integrated Care Action Group of the European Innovation Partnership for active and healthy ageing for the European Commission.
He is a non executive director of the European Connected Health Alliance. He is the past President of the European Telematics Association (EHTEL) and remains a member of the Board. He is also on the Board of the European Critical Care Foundation.

Rohan is head of product at NDS, a team within NHS Scotland building national health and care data infrastructure and products. Rohan has more than fifteen years’ experience in a range of technology and innovation roles in public, private and non-profit sectors. Previous roles include innovation lead for the Edinburgh Festivals, social innovation for Nesta and public sector business change for Accenture. Rohan also a deep expertise in the intersection of wellbeing, technology and design and is well known as the creator of buddhify, the best-selling mindfulness app and host of the popular podcast Meditative Story.