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Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with more than 15 years' experience in the IoT space.
Jean-Michel Tchamba, the Chief Executive Officer of My Bridge International, is a distinguished Medical Physicist with a wealth of experience in the medical field.
Mark Fordham, (alumni of the University of Portsmouth), is the Medical Engineering Training Portfolio Manager for Eastwood Park Training Ltd and is a dedicated seasoned dual professional.
Chairman EBME.co.uk
John has been chairman of EBME (www.ebme.co.uk) since 1999. He is recognised as an expert in his field of healthcare technology management. John is a senior research fellow at Middlesex University. He has been instrumental in changing device management policies and processes at many NHS and private healthcare organisations and has a proven track record in delivering improvements that advance regulatory compliance and patient care. His many years of equipment management and maintenance experience includes: biomedical, diagnostic imaging, endoscopy and pathology. John has in excess of 250 published educational articles. He has been published in the Open University Science review, Engineering Technology Journal (IET), Clinical Services Journal, plus various other newspapers, procurement and scientific publications, and the EBME website www.ebme.co.uk. John is keen to share his knowledge and raise the profile of Medical Engineering.
UK Account Manager, Auctioneer & Valuer Hilditch Group
Having joined the Hilditch Group in 2019, Alex will be well known to many EBME departments as an Account Manager, Auctioneer & Valuer. He specialises in maximising the value of medical equipment deemed redundant, whilst working alongside the NHS and private organisations to guide them through the resale process. He is a firm believer in the healthcare circular economy and the environmental benefits of preventing medical equipment waste.
Consultant Clinical Engineer
Fran Hegarty is a Clinical Engineer with extensive experience in applying and supporting healthcare technology in Hospitals. His research interests include Healthcare Technology Management, Clinical Measurement & Informatics, and Art in Health.
Together with the other speakers in this session, he led on the joint authoring of Healthcare Technology Management – A Systematic Approach; a comprehensive textbook published by CRC Press.
He recently retired from the position of Chief Physicist in Children’s Health Ireland. However he continues to lecture on clinical engineering and clinical informatics topics.
Fran is also a musician and composer and is currently studying for an M.Phil in Music and Media Technology.
Managing Director Hilditch Group
Nick has over 30 years UK & international experience in the healthcare industry having held roles at GSK, Dental Directory and Williams Medical supplies leading businesses across a number of different product and service types. Being a firm believer in the benefits of the circular economy, Nick joined Hilditch in 2020 to help grow the established UK business and drive international expansion.
Director MTS Health Limited
Caroline co-founded MTS Health in 1999 following a 17-year career working directly for the NHS culminating with a role as Head of Medical Equipment Management (MEMS) at Kings College Hospital, London. MTS has become the market leader in equipment advisory services including compliance audit, transformation and operational services in Medical Device Management (MDM). Caroline has worked with many NHS organisations on many different projects associated with Medical Devices. With MTS colleagues she has developed an audit tool that specifically addresses the MHRA guidance and also identifies service transformation and opportunities and methods for achieving cost efficiencies and improvements in service management not covered by any guidance.
Chief Executive AfPP
Director, Value and Access ABHI
Luella joined ABHI in 2019, with over 25 years' experience in the pharmaceutical and HealthTech industries. Her career has seen her hold numerous specialist manufacturing and commercial roles at Baxter Healthcare, with responsibility for a range of product portfolios across the HealthTech spectrum within the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
In 2012, Luella was seconded to the Department of Health for nine months as the Industry Liaison for the NHS Procurement Review, a role which saw her engage with government and the wider Life Sciences sector to facilitate the sharing of ideas and best practice. From 2015, Luella led Baxter Healthcare's Government Affairs and Public Policy agenda, where she was tasked with managing key policies impacting the HealthTech sector and the NHS - supporting change that enabled the adoption and spread of innovations that deliver whole-system value across healthcare settings.
Before joining ABHI, Luella Chaired the Association's Public Affairs Policy Group, and has been a Director of the Board at the British Specialist Nutrition Association.
Director of Medical Physics & Bioengineering University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS FT
.An electronics engineer by background Richard has 40 years experience as a practising clinical engineer, manager and leader within the NHS. His areas of expertise involve medical device design, management and supporting clinical instrumentation, with research interests in respiratory mechanics and digital signal processing.
Richard is currently Director of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS FT. Additionally, Richard is a Royal Academy of Engineering visiting Professor in regulated medical technologies at Heriot Watt University, helping develop “real world skills” in the field of healthcare technology design, adoption and management. Specifically the RAE award lets Richard share his expertise in the application of international electromedical safety standards and medical device risk management processes with those involved in developing novel medical devices
Richard chairs IEC SC62A.the sub committee responsible for common aspects of medical equipment, software, and systems standards within the IEC 60601 series of standards. He is therefore significantly inolved with BSI and with the AAMI organization in the US.
Manager Calibration House
Andrew began his career with a 2:1 BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology from Northumbria University and spent 13 years working in the In-Vitro Diagnostics industry. Andrew has spent the last 6 years working in Metrology, enabling hundreds of hospitals to keep their equipment, staff and patients safe across calibration disciplines such as electrical, dimensional, temperature, flow, pressure, and humidity. Andrew is proud to be the Manager of Calibrationhouse, a brand of Seaward Electronic Ltd, with our long history of supporting the NHS, currently across over 100 trusts, and the innovative enhancements we are making to improve our service to the NHS.
Clinical Engineering Manager Retired
Paul started his career working for the inventor of the worlds first blood glucose meter in a small business unit in Consett, County Durham. After spending several years in medical electronics manufacturing in South Tyneside, Paul joined the NHS in 1985 as a Medical Engineer and has worked at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle Upon Tyne, South Tyneside General Hospital and the Royal Preston Hospital.
Paul retired from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT in 2020 after 11 years as Medical Engineering Manager, and then for three years worked with the National Performance Advisory Group, based within the East of England Ambulance Trust. During this time, Paul worked with many Trusts across the UK, seeking to enable Clinical Engineers to learn best practice from each other and develop workable approaches to good benchmarking.
Paul is an active member of IPEM serving on many groups over the years and is currently an external moderator for the technologist training scheme. Previously he has also been part of the Department of Health working party on Modernising Scientific Careers, a member of the Northwest Healthcare Science Workforce Board and Assistant Registrar on the Register of Clinical Technologists Management Board.
Now retired, Paul maintains a keen interest in systems analysis, Unique Device Identification and Risk Analysis. He has collaborated with several other leading Health Technology Management professionals in the authoring of several books and journal articles.
Justin McCarthy has a BSc (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Manchester University. He has had 40 years NHS experience in the field of Clinical Engineering. In his early career he was involved in developing new medical devices and equipment. He worked as part of the multi-disciplinary team in Cardiff that developed and brought into clinical use the first commercially available intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) apparatus This gained him a research MSc degree.
From 1988 until his retirement from the NHS in 2009, as Head of Clinical Engineering, he lead the teams that provided the healthcare technology management and maintenance services to the Cardiff NHS Trust’s medical equipment, introducing an ISO 9001 quality management system in 1991. He advised the Trust on risk, procurement and healthcare technology regulatory issues. He helped establish the in-service graduate training scheme for Clinical Engineers and the Clinical Engineering MSc course at Cardiff University in 1999.
On retiring from the NHS in 2009 he set up Clin Eng Consulting Ltd in order to generate some income to support continuing the formal Standards work that he had become involved in. From 2011 to 2018 he chaired the international IEC committee SC62A General aspects of electrical equipment in medical practice, responsible for the IEC 60601-1 series of Standards (the primary safety Standard for medical electrical equipment) and the BSI committee CH/62 Electrical equipment in medical practice.
He acted as an expert for the NHS Confederation at a European Commission policy conference in 2010 and in 2016, met with MEPs on behalf of IPEM to lobby for the in-house manufacture of medical devices within the EU MDR. Post Brexit, this issue has surfaced again, and he is involved with MHRA on how in-house manufacture and use will be dealt with in new MD Regulations for GB.
He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of IPEM.
Clinical Engineer Retired
John graduated with an Engineering degree (Electrical, that was over fifty years ago). He recalls an early lecture that described engineering as all about People, Money and Machines – in that order. The phrase was not then appreciated by him or fellow undergraduates. But gradually its essential truth became clearer as his career turned to applying engineering to health care.
Initially John focused on research and development, including developing telemetry systems. One project recorded ECGs from athletes running around a track, with analysis looking at waveform amplitude changes with time. This led John to develop proposals for a Master’s (Physiology) and subsequently a PhD (Biomedical Engineering).
But the core of his career has been with the NHS, caring for healthcare technology. Medical devices are used to support personal care and used by professionals to deliver care. This is the first objective of engineering, for People. During John’s career, as he proposed equipment purchases (replacement and additional) and standardisation, the importance of Finance increasingly dominated, particularly in his final years with an NHS Health Board when he had budgetary responsibility for all medical devices – purchase and maintenance. And of course the technology itself, the Machines, needed to be understood, their characteristics, strengths and weaknesses appreciated as well as helping enable the users to operate the technology safely and effectively.
That early lecture was correct: Engineering is for People, carefully using Money, appreciating, developing and applying Technology.
Director of Medical Technology Department of Health and Social Care
Responsibility for setting the future UK Med Tech policy and implementation of the new Med Tech Strategy. SRO for the Innovative Devices Access Pathway (IDAP) and the Ambulance Radio Programme (ARP). Member of new Life Science Council advisory board on medical devices regulatory reform. Strong interest in supply chain, sustainability and enabling adoption of new innovation. Lead for implementation of largest deployment of automated inventory systems in Europe (2010) and lead for implementation of off-site consolidation centre (2019) and in-house wholesaler (2021). Procurement lead for South East London Pathology Programme (£2b) and NHS England Increasing Capacity Framework Agreement (£10b), both completed 2021. Launched the first Government Strategy for Medical Technology (2023). SRO for Innovative Devices Access Pathway (IDAP) and Ambulance Radio Programme (ARP). Accredited by the Government Commercial College September 2021 at Senior Commercial Specialist Level.
Director Amalthea Trust
artin Worcester has been a Director of the Amalthea Trust since September 2015. He is responsible directly to the Board of Trustees for fund raising to support their current programmes in Uganda and Ethiopia, and for developing new partnerships in order to move forward our work of developing and supporting the training of Bio-medical engineers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere. His previous work involved teaching geography at the British School in the Netherlands, and country director in Zimbabwe, for Restless Development, organizing and developing youth focussed HIV prevention programs.
Sustainable Medical Devices Pioneer Airway Medical
Currently working on a novel, disruptive airway suction device; the CAMSUtm, for 'personalised care' via an SBRI contract. As with all our devices, it is entirely sustainable and will reduce the NHS carbon footprint by 0.96* million Kg CO2 (*independent and peer reviewed). Also, working on the AMSUtm, a novel emergency portable airway suction device with disruptive global sales potential, amongst other projects. Medilink Outstanding Achievement 2022. Tech SouthWest Medtech Company of the Year 2023. Airway Medical Ltd is run at better than net-zero impact. I have worked in Project Management, Testing and Commissioning of multi-million pound projects including the Channel Tunnel, Waterloo Area Resignalling Scheme and Jubilee Line, London Underground. Also, Service Engineering and Medical Sales in a variety of Medical Device Companies over 30 years. My last role was as Area Sales Manager promoting Suction and Oxygen Devices within the South West and South Wales. I left this role after 17 years in June 2019 to start Airway Medical Ltd. I am passionate about Sustainability; including Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. My interests include lindy-hop swing dancing, singing jazz, golf and sharing my life with Mignon, my little dog.
Head of Clinical Engineering The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Iain has over 20 years’ experience in Clinical Engineering, starting at St James’ University Hospital in Leeds as part of a BEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. Upon graduation he worked at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust where he gained a number of years experience working on a wide range of medical devices.
In 2001 he took up an opportunity with Medical Physics International and travelled overseas maintaining medical equipment, while at the same time helping the company grow in the UK. He went on to become their UK service manager managing a national team of engineers while gaining a wealth of commercial experience.
In 2009 he returned to the NHS and took up a role within the Clinical Engineering department at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He became head of Clinical Engineering in 2011.
In 2019 Iain stepped in the role of Senior Head of Estates. He still had Clinical Engineering under his remit alongside the operational estates teams within the Trust.
In 2022 he returned to Clinical Engineering and moved to The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust where he manages a team of engineers providing services to the hospital and the wider community.
Iain is a Fellow of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM), through whom he is registered as a Chartered Engineer. He is also a member of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).
In 2013 Iain joined the Register of Clinical Technologists management board when IHEEM replaced the IET, and in 2016 was elected registrar and is currently serving a third term of office.
Iain has also been involved with other projects, he was part of the BSI committee which developed BS70000 and has acted as an external advisor and lecturer on the Clinical Engineering degree at the University of the West of England.
Founder PervasID
Founder & President at PervasID and Fellow at Cambridge University Girton College. Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with more than 15 years’ experience in the IoT space. As Founder and President of his Cambridge University spin-out company, PervasID, Sabesan pioneered and developed the world’s most accurate passive RFID technology, creating a world-leading range of products that are transforming entire industries, generating substantial exports and saving lives. Sabesan’s products and endeavours have both national and international benefit and he has become renowned for forging the worlds of academia and business to great effect, for his intellectual and scholarly excellence, and for the entrepreneurial skills that have enabled him to put innovative ideas into practice in a commercially viable way. Sabesan has become an expert in entrepreneurship, strategic business development and innovation leadership. Sabesan was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s 2024 New Year Honours, The Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal 2021 for an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to UK engineering and Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2021.
CEO My Bridge International
Jean-Michel Tchamba, the Chief Executive Officer of My Bridge International, is a distinguished Medical Physicist with a wealth of experience in the medical field. He has served in various senior positions, including Senior Clinical Technologist, Senior Biomedical Technician, and Medical Physicist, at several leading NHS teaching hospitals in London. Additionally, he has worked for Toshiba Medical, which is now known as Canon Medical, where he gained extensive expertise in his field.
Medical Engineering Eastwood Park
Mark Fordham, (alumni of the University of Portsmouth), is the Medical Engineering Training Portfolio Manager for Eastwood Park Training Ltd and is a dedicated seasoned dual professional. Mark combines technical and educational expertise with over 35 years within the defence, further and higher education environments, to lead and deliver training transformation to Eastwood Park’s Medical Engineering Training Portfolio.
She qualified in 2005 and started working in Royal Liverpool University Hospital utilising her skills in Scrub, Recovery and Anaesthetics.
Rob was an ODP/Team Leader at the Liverpool foundation trust, with over 15 years, of predominantly anaesthetic, experience, as well as holding an honorary contract with Alder Hey children’s hospital.
Operating Department Practitioner and Lead Resuscitation Officer Liverpool Women’s Hospital
She qualified in 2005 and started working in Royal Liverpool University Hospital utilising her skills in Scrub, Recovery and Anaesthetics. In 2007 she achieved a year’s secondment in ITU, in which she gained many critical skills and experience. After the secondment Helen specialised in Anaesthetics and gained her ALS instructor status in 2017. In 2019 she completed a secondment in the Education role as a Theatre Practice Educator. She enjoyed teaching and educating, which led her to her current role as lead Resuscitation Officer, which she has been doing since 2021.
CT3 Anaesthetics Trainee Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospital
I'm a CT3 Anaesthetics Trainee in the Mersey region, having graduated from the University of Birmingham and completed my foundation training in the West Midlands. My areas of interest include paediatrics and regional anaesthesia.
Co-inventor LEAFix
Rob was an ODP/Team Leader at the Liverpool foundation trust, with over 15 years, of predominantly anaesthetic, experience, as well as holding an honorary contract with Alder Hey children’s hospital. Recently Rob has began a new anaesthetic journey with the University of Birmingham, and is currently in training as an Anaesthesia Associate.
I am a consultant anaesthetist and have worked at Birmingham Childrens’ Hospital since 1998. My main interests are liver transplantation and long term central venous access. I have been providing long term central venous access for over 24 years. The venous access team places over 600 tunnelled lines a year. The hospital has a very busy haematology/oncology unit, as well as a dialysis unit and a home parenteral nutrition service. The latter two groups of patients provide the biggest challenge: vessel maintenance. We also place tunnelled lines in small infants for feeding and antibiotics, which can be challenging. My long-term aim is to make paediatric central venous access a routine procedure with minimal risk and disturbance to the child and family. However, much of my time is spent trying to balance requests for lines with the resources available. I have published widely on paediatric central venous access, have delivered lectures and run workshops on the subject. I am a board member of NIVAS, a council mmber of LICAGE and a member of the Safe Vascular Access committee of the Association of Anaesthetists.
Jennie is an ST5 anaesthetic registrar in the Mersey deanery with an interest in obstetric anaesthesia, having previously held a clinical fellow post at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Outside of work, her interests include fitness, skiing and figure skating
Ventilation Sales Support Specialist Zoll
Dr David Faluyi is currently undertaking NHS England’s leadership and management fellowship scheme under the national medical director. In this role he is split between NHS England’s patient safety team and the Academy of Medical Royal colleges. Currently on secondment, he is based at King’s College Hospital where he is completing internal medicine training. He has experience of leading system change through previous work with the NIHR, where he was a co-lead of the Race Equality Framework for public and patient involvement in research. Driven by a passion to improve patient safety, David is committed to improving understanding and adoption of digital systems across the NHS and is leading workstreams on this issue across the two organisations. Within NHS England he has been working on the patient safety team’s strategy on smart pumps and supporting the dissemination of digital clinical safety research. He is looking forward to transferring the skills gained and learning back into his clinical work to improve and implement changes to his local healthcare organisations.
Medical school and Post Graduate Anesthetic training in India. Worked as Specialist Anesthesia for 8 yrs before shifting to UK to join NHS last yr. Presently working as Specialty Doctor. Royal Stoke Hospital, University of Midlands Trust. A faculty and instructor at international and regional conferences in Saudi arabia especially Regional anesthesia. Special Interest areas: Obstetric anestehsia, Regional anesthesia. Pain management. Medical Education.
Dr Tamryn Miller trained in anaesthetics and works as a senior clinical fellow with the North West & North Wales Paediatric Transport Service. During her training she worked with Mercy Ships in Madagascar for 3 months and spent a further 2 weeks on a mission in Benin. She has also undertaken the resident leadership fellowship with Operation Smile and completed a cleft palate assignment in the Philippines. As an elected member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists ‘Anaesthetists in Training Committee’ she represented trainees on the Global Partnerships group. She has specialist interests in paediatric anaesthesia, global healthcare, and education in particular simulation.
Helen has led parallel clinical and academic careers and has worked in the NHS for over 25 years and has 16 years’ experience in the higher education sector. She is currently the National lead for ODP education and training for NHS England and a registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP). She is passionate about ODP and perioperative workforce development and has previously worked in senior education, leadership, management and acute clinical theatre roles. She is a senior fellow of the higher education academy (HEA) and remains employed as an associate lecturer for Sheffield Hallam University. She regularly engages in scholarly activity, is a published author and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Perioperative Practice. Helen and has completed several projects related to the ODP workforce and is currently working on the development of an apprenticeships toolkit to support the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. She works as part of the national elective care recovery workstream ‘building outstanding theatre teams’, offering subject matter expertise and leading on workforce transformation project related to core roles in theatre and ODP workforce, acting as a conduit to connect stakeholders and relevant programmes of work across England. Helen sits on the advisory panel for the development of the critical care capability framework for the Allied Health Professions. Helen sits on the Education and Standards Committee for the College of Operating Department Practitioners (CODP) and is employed as a visitor for the Health and Care Professions Council.
David has worked in Medical Physics in NHS Lothian Scotland for over 28 years. For 17 of those years, he was Principal Clinical Technologist and ran the section based in the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. He was also responsible for what was then known as the district which included both acute and many district hospitals. He was the driving force behind the setting up of an equipment library in the Western General Hospital. David got into training/teaching by accident but found he enjoyed the experience. Medical device training was starting to rear its head and he was able to take a leading role in its rollout along with others in his dept. To assist with this, he decided to go back to college to gain a teaching qualification to aid in this process.
Deputy Chairman
Newly appointed Med Tech Director for UK DHSC with responsibility for setting the direction of future UK Med Tech policy.
Med Tech Director UK DHSC
Newly appointed Med Tech Director for UK DHSC with responsibility for setting the direction of future UK Med Tech policy. Launched the Government’s first strategy for Medical Technology in February: Right Product, Right Place, Right Price. Member of the Life Science Council Medical Devices Regulatory Advisory Group which published re-set proposals in March. SRO for new Innovative Devices Access Pathway (IDAP) announced at the May Life Science Council to fast track adoption of new novel technology due to be launched this Summer.
Senior Implementation Lead DHSC Medical Technology Directorate
Procurement Director NHS Supply Chain
Director Digital Supply Chain Digital Catapult
Head of Healthcare Division UK & Ireland CHG-MERIDIAN