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CT Applications specialist at Canon Medical, Senior CT Product Manager for CT at Philips in Holland, General Manager at Canon Medical for CT/ MRI/X-Ray, Managing Director at Nucletron, a Radiotherapy company
MIPEM, MIET BSc (Hons)
After studying a Masters in Sustainability and Management at Royal Holloway, Addie became ABHI's first Sustainability Executive, joining the Association in 2022 to lead on this critical agenda.
A Senior Dialysis and Medical Engineer at the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation
Alex joined RFID Discovery as a Healthcare Consultant, where he leverages his extensive first-hand experience and knowledge to help healthcare organisations maximise the benefits of their own RFID installations.
From call center software to military logistics systems, Chad has spent 20 years helping create, break and secure a variety of technologies while helping others learn to do the same
Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with more than 15 years' experience in the IoT space.
Scott has over 33 years’ experience in clinical engineering and is a registered clinical scientist with HCPC.
Dr Kayleigh Cox-Nowak joined Schulke and Mayr in 2021 as the UK’s technical support manager.
Ted is currently the Clinical Engineering Professional Advisor to the Scottish Government’s Medical Devices and Legislation Team which is part of the Chief Medical Officer’s Directorate.
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.
MES Engineer at Siemens Healthineers a highly skilled biomedical engineer with extensive professional experience.
Dr Swati is the founder and CEO of Anant Biomedical Ltd, in the United Kingdom.
Richard is a consultant clinical scientist and chartered engineer, worked as Head of Clinical Engineering at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Additionally he is the Professional Lead for Clinical Engineering and Reconstructive Science at the UK’s National School of Healthcare Science, (part of Health Education England). An engineering placement in the Division of Anaesthetics at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, completed as part of an electronics degree at North Staffordshire Polytechnic, encouraged Richard to pursue a career in clinical engineering. Upon graduating in 1984 he joined the Wessex Regional Medical Physics Service, based at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, providing scientific support for clinical instrumentation and undertaking a range of research projects. He obtained an MSc in medical electronics and physics from St Bartholomew's Medical College, followed by a PhD at the University of Bath, investigating the frequency dependence of respiratory mechanics via the oscillatory airflow technique. Subsequently he specialised in the management of medical devices and contributed to establishing the local medical equipment management service. In 1995, the opportunity arose to become head of the Medical Equipment Management Department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Nottinghamshire. In December 2016 he moved to Sheffield and continues to encourage healthcare scientists to work together to play a key role in adopting innovative practices and driving service transformation for patient benefit.
CEO Canon Medical
As someone who was once a healthcare professional, and indeed an ex-customer of this company, I do have the benefit of knowing what matters in that difficult environment. This experience has been a source of inspiration throughout the rest of my career including CT Applications specialist at Canon Medical, Senior CT Product Manager for CT at Philips in Holland, General Manager at Canon Medical for CT/ MRI/X-Ray, Managing Director at Nucletron, a Radiotherapy company, and latterly in my current role.
Justin joined the Medial Physics Department in Cardiff in 1968, after graduating from Manchester University. He was recruited specifically because he had an engineering degree and the department was developing a bioengineering section to support the new University Hospital of Wales. In his early career he was also given the opportunity to develop new medical devices and equipment. His contribution as part of the multi-disciplinary team that developed the first commercially available intravenous PCA apparatus gained him a research MSc degree. From the 1980s, as Head of Clinical Engineering, he lead the teams that provided HTM services to the Trust’s medical equipment and he advised on risk, procurement and healthcare technology regulatory issues. He helped establish the Clinical Engineering MSc course at Cardiff University and continues teaching on the undergraduate Medical Engineering course. He retired from the NHS in 2009 but continues to provide consultancy services to Trusts, Welsh Government and small businesses. He has been involved in Standards at UK and international level. His current focus is on the implications for the NHS of the new Medical Devices Regulations. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET and of IPEM.
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.
John Amoore PhD, retired in 2015 following a career spanning over 40 years, largely applying engineering to healthcare in academia, industry and the NHS. Nearly 30 years service was given to NHS Scotland, first in Lothian and then in Ayrshire and Arran from where he retired as Head of Medical Physics with budgetary responsibilities for procuring and maintaining medical equipment. Academic training began with a BSc in Electrical Engineering which laid the foundation for his career and the recognition that engineering is about people and money as well as technology. Continuing professional development followed, including part-time study in physiology (MSc) and Biomedical Engineering (PhD), developing skills in healthcare technology, its deployment and management. John recognizes the importance of understanding the clinical situation in which medical devices are deployed. Clinical engineering requires a multi-disciplinary team approach, recognizing the focus on person centred care. People are the beneficiaries and operators of medical devices, these inherent links mandating ergonomic assessments in medical device selection. From the core clinical engineering aim of ensuring the safe application of medical devices evolved an interest in understanding the causes and prevention of adverse events.
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 and has worked at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle Upon Tyne, South Tyneside General Hospital and the Royal Preston Hospital. Paul is a member of the Clinical Engineering (North) NPAG group and is an active member of IPEM, having had involvement in the Clinical Engineering Special Interest Group and working as an external moderator for the technologist training scheme. He has also been part of the Department of Health working party on Modernising Scientific Careers and a member of the Northwest Healthcare Science Workforce Board. Paul is currently IPEM representative on the Register of Clinical Technologists Management Panel. Paul graduated in 2003 with BSc (Hons) after completing a part-time degree in Computing and Electronics. Keen on systems and standardisation Pauls current work interests lie in Unique Device Identification and Risk analysis.
Chief Healthcare Technology Officer National Children’s Hospital Project
Francis Hegarty, Chief Healthcare Technology Officer, National Children’s Hospital Project, Dublin, Ireland. Francis Hegarty is a founding member of the Medical Physics and Bioengineering Department in St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Over the course of a thirty year career he has served within this department as a Biomedical Engineering Technician, Chief Technologist and later as Principal Physicist leading the Clinical Engineering group. In this time he has managed teams providing equipment management services and he is familiar with the application of healthcare technology in a broad range of clinical departments. He was instrumental in establishing the department’s management structure and is an advocate for multidisciplinary team working between clinicians and engineers. He led on the implementation of the department’s healthcare technology management systems. Central to this was his development of an innovative medical equipment management database system. He has led a number of multidisciplinary hospital projects where medical equipment was integrated in clinical information systems
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.
Sustainability Executive ABHI
After studying a Masters in Sustainability and Management at Royal Holloway, Addie became ABHI's first Sustainability Executive, joining the Association in 2022 to lead on this critical agenda. Addie provides support to the membership and works with stakeholders to ensure the role of sustainability within HealthTech is recognised. In managing ABHI's Sustainability Group, Addie is helping the industry to tackle the opportunities and challenges that exist on such a complex topic."
Senior Dialysis and Medical Engineer Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital NHS
A Senior Dialysis and Medical Engineer at the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Started my career in medical engineering in July 2020 at QE in Gateshead. Then joined my current workplace as an engineer and progressed quickly into a senior role. Personal experience of living and studying in 3 different countries (Egypt, Italy, and UK). Graduated with a BSc (Hons) in biomedical electronics and instrumentation engineering at the University of Westminster. Now finished the first year of MSc in Physics and Engineering in Medicine at UCL. In my current role I am working simultaneously in the main medical engineering and dialysis department, that has allowed myself to gain lot of experience in a short amount of time.
Healthcare Conultant RFID Discovery
Alex began his career at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust in 2018 as a Clinical Engineering Technician. His technological ability, keen eye for detail and appreciation for global standards earned him the role of MDAR Developer in 2020. Here he played a vital role in implementing the largest GS1-compliant RFID system in the NHS tracking over 40,000 assets, with the project crowned 'Best Global Implementation in Healthcare' in 2022 by RFID Journal. After a short stint as Datix System Development Analyst at Cardiff and Vale UHB, Alex joined RFID Discovery as a Healthcare Consultant, where he leverages his extensive first-hand experience and knowledge to help healthcare organisations maximise the benefits of their own RFID installations.
Cybersecurity Cynerio
From call center software to military logistics systems, Chad has spent 20 years helping create, break and secure a variety of technologies while helping others learn to do the same. In his role as Cynerio’s Security Evangelist, Chad helps educate healthcare providers on the threats introduced by IoT, OT and Medical IoT devices throughout their organizations. As part of these efforts Chad discusses real-life incidents, attacker motives, remediation and mitigation techniques, how to balance risk with functionality, and achievable approaches to improve cybersecurity in healthcare. Prior to joining Cynerio Chad has held a variety of cybersecurity, development and marketing roles at companies including Red Hat, Accenture, and Veracode.
Founder PervasID
Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with more than 15 years' experience in the IoT space. Sabesan founded PervasID based on his Ph.D. research at Cambridge University. He invented and developed the world's most accurate passive RFID technology. As founder and CEO, Sabesan successfully grew PervasID from its inception to a global enterprise, providing transformative solutions to the healthcare, industrial and retail sectors with a complete product suite. Throughout his career, he has been an expert in entrepreneurship, strategic business development and innovation leadership. Sabesan was awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation and the Royal Academy of Engineering's Silver Medal.
Founder Health Care Tech Solutions
Scott has over 33 years’ experience in clinical engineering and is a registered clinical scientist with HCPC. A Chartered engineer and Chartered scientist he has extensive experience of clinical engineering, project management and training. He currently teaches on FdSc in Medical Equipment Technologies and Hospital Engineering. Scott has published widely in peer reviewed journals.
UK's Technical Support Manager Schulke
"Dr Kayleigh Cox-Nowak joined Schulke and Mayr in 2021 as the UK’s technical support manager. She has a masters degree in biological chemistry and obtained a PhD in biofunctional polymers at the University of Sheffield. She then spent several years working as an expert in polymer chemistry and regulatory affairs within the chemicals industry."
Clinical Engineering Professional Advisor NHS
"Ted is currently the Clinical Engineering Professional Advisor to the Scottish Government’s Medical Devices and Legislation Team which is part of the Chief Medical Officer’s Directorate. He was seconded, to the Scottish Government in June 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, from his then substantive role of Head of Service for Medical Equipment Management in Scotland’s largest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and has been with them ever since."
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.
MES Engineer Siemens Healthineers
MES Engineer at Siemens Healthineers a highly skilled biomedical engineer with extensive professional experience. Graduated from the University of West Attica in Athens, Greece. Working for various companies and organizations in Greece and UK quickly established me as a skilled and innovative engineer, capable of developing creative solutions to complex problems. Passionate about biomedical engineering continues to work tirelessly to advance the state of improved healthcare outcomes for people everywhere.
CEO Anant Biomedical Engineering
Dr Swati is the founder and CEO of Anant Biomedical Ltd, in the United Kingdom. Swati is a Biomedical Engineer having attained ‘Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)’ in Biomechanical Engineering from Heriot Watt University and Masters in Biomedical engineering (MSc) from University of Dundee. She has worked in the NHS; and National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), India. She has 16 year’s MedTech experience in Biomedical Engineering Operations, including complex medical products R&D, tests and developing standard operating procedures.
Chairman EBME.co.uk
Manraj is a Senior Net Zero Delivery Manager in the Greener NHS Programme at NHS England.
Graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff in 2000 and completed basic surgical training in South Wales including spending a year sabbatical in the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
Dr Supanki Kamalanathan- Consultant Anaesthetist at Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust.
She qualified in 2005 and started working in Royal Liverpool University Hospital utilising her skills in Scrub, Recovery and Anaesthetics.
Prof. Noam Gavriely completed his MD and DSc (cardio-pulmonary physiology) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and his post-doctoral training at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr Sarah Hurst is an ACCS CT3 Anaesthetist in the Mersey Deanery; although she started life in the South of England and went to Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Chris Frerk is an anaesthetist in Northampton. He is the current chair of the Clinical Human Factors Group (the patient safety charity founded by Martin Bromiley).
Jenny is an ODP by background and is now a Clinical Manager for Quality Improvement. Jenny has also been AfPP Trustee since 2021
"Outside his day job Mike works Pre-Hospital as a BASICS Doctor with North West Prehospital Critical Care Charity, and is a Major Incident Doctor with North West Ambulance MERIT team.
Rebecca completed her medical training at Liverpool Medical School in 2016.
Maxime graduated from Barts & The London School of Medicine in 2012.
I am a registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) and have worked across theatres in the NHS for many years as an ODP, progressing to Theatre Manager.
Lawrence graduated from Glasgow University in 1988, moving to Liverpool in 1989 to take up Emergency Medicine and surgery.
Tom Coleman is a Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Originally from Yorkshire he has found a new home in Merseyside having studied there and remaining ever since.
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.
Graduating from St George's Hospital Medical School in 2007, he completed medical and surgical house jobs whilst joining the Royal Navy.
"Benedetta Pettorini qualified as a doctor (MD) from the Catholic University of Rome, in Italy, in 2002.
‘Laurie Forty is an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) currently working as a Simulation Facilitator in the north of England.
Addie MacGregor, Sustainability Executive After studying a Masters in Sustainability and Management at Royal Holloway,
Senior Net Zero Delivery Manager Greener NHS Programme at NHS England
Manraj is a Senior Net Zero Delivery Manager in the Greener NHS Programme at NHS England. Her work focuses on the delivery of the NHS net zero commitment, through initiatives to transform clinical care and services with a patient centred approach to low carbon care. She is a specialist urology registrar, has completed a leadership and sustainability clinical fellowship and has experience working on Global Health projects and research for health system strengthening.
Co-Topic Lead SAFE Paediatric Anaesthetic
Graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff in 2000 and completed basic surgical training in South Wales including spending a year sabbatical in the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia working both in the emergency and burns departments. Following return in 2004 gained Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England before spending 18 months as a medical officer for the British Antarctic Survey on the scientific research base of Rothera in the Antarctic.
Consultant Anaesthetist Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust
Dr Supanki Kamalanathan- Consultant Anaesthetist at Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust. She completed her training in the Mersey region gaining her CCT in May 2021. She recently returned from one year in Queensland, Australia working for Lifeflight as a Medical Retrieval Officer. The role entailed transfer of critically ill patients from rural and urban settings around South East Queensland via fixed wing, rotary wing and road ambulance, typically covering significant distances.
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.
Founder Karmel Medical AT Ltd
Prof. Noam Gavriely completed his MD and DSc (cardio-pulmonary physiology) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and his post-doctoral training at the Harvard School of Public Health. He then headed the pulmonary physiology unit at the Technion until 2006. In parallel he held positions at the biomedical engineering and anesthesia departments at Northwestern University, Chicago IL.
Anaesthetist Mersey Deanery
Dr Sarah Hurst is an ACCS CT3 Anaesthetist in the Mersey Deanery; although she started life in the South of England and went to Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Whilst at Medical School she intercalated in Psychology at Kings College, London and has maintained interest in learning and appreciating psychological and behavioural factors and how this relates to clinical practice.
Anaesthetist Northampton NHS
Chris Frerk is an anaesthetist in Northampton. He is the current chair of the Clinical Human Factors Group (the patient safety charity founded by Martin Bromiley). He has a passion for human factors and ergonomics; particularly how to use it to help improve medical equipment design and procurement to make it as easy as possible for healthcare teams to have the safest equipment available.
Clinical Manager for Quality Improvement NHS
Jenny is an ODP by background and is now a Clinical Manager for Quality Improvement. Jenny has also been AfPP Trustee since 2021. She has almost 25 years' experience in and around theatres. Most of these years were spent in large adult trusts in Liverpool, with the last 6 years in Paediatrics in Alder Hey Hospital. Jenny has been part of the Education Team at Alder Hey for the last 4 years and as well as being a trained coach, is an accredited Human factors trainer. She has a passion for driving change and has been involved with developing a Theatre safety programme which is what she is here to talk about.
Consultant Orthopaedic & Major Trauma Surgeon Liverpool University Hospitals
"Outside his day job Mike works Pre-Hospital as a BASICS Doctor with North West Prehospital Critical Care Charity, and is a Major Incident Doctor with North West Ambulance MERIT team. Mike is a long term member of Cheshire Search & Rescue team, and is the team’s Medical Director"
Anethatist The Royal Liverpool Hospital
Rebecca completed her medical training at Liverpool Medical School in 2016. After completing her foundation training she worked in both emergency and respiratory medicine. Rebecca is now completing her third year of training in anaesthesia based at The Royal Liverpool Hospital. She has worked with colleagues at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford researching the use of call salvage in sarcoma surgery.
Anaesthetic registrar Salford Royal Hospital.
Maxime graduated from Barts & The London School of Medicine in 2012. He commenced his training in anaesthesia in 2015 in Liverpool and is currently working as an anaesthetic registrar in Salford Royal Hospital. Most recently he has worked with colleagues in the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford researching the use of cell salvage in sarcoma surgery.
Principal Educator Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust
I am a registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) and have worked across theatres in the NHS for many years as an ODP, progressing to Theatre Manager. I left the NHS to pursue a career as a university lecturer teaching a variety of healthcare professions in varied subject areas from perioperative practice to leadership. During the pandemic I left my role as Principal Lecturer to return to the NHS, where I am now employed as a Principal Educator.
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Lawrence graduated from Glasgow University in 1988, moving to Liverpool in 1989 to take up Emergency Medicine and surgery. After a 5 year stay in surgery he went back to Emergency Medicine, taking up a post in Anaesthesia as part of his training. Following from this he continued a career in Anaesthesia and managing to pass all 3 FRCA exams and completing training in Intensive Care Medicine.
Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Tom Coleman is a Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Originally from Yorkshire he has found a new home in Merseyside having studied there and remaining ever since. He unfortunately insists on still following Leeds United to the misery of everyone in his house as he is frequently left disheartened by their lack of form. When he isn't working, he can be found cycling or encouraging his 2 children to cycle or kick a football or just not to draw on the curtains...again
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.
Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar Royal Navy
Graduating from St George's Hospital Medical School in 2007, he completed medical and surgical house jobs whilst joining the Royal Navy. After successfully passing out as a Medical Officer from Britannia Royal Naval College in 2009, he undertook several years of General Duties, deploying on busy operational tours to the North Arabian Gulf onboard HMS Somerset in summer 2010, and Afghanistan with 45 Commando Royal Marines in summer 2011
Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
"Benedetta Pettorini qualified as a doctor (MD) from the Catholic University of Rome, in Italy, in 2002. Her basic surgical and neurosurgical training took place in Rome. Thereafter her advanced Paediatric Neurosurgical training was completed in United Kingdom. She underwent specialist Fellowship training in Paediatric Neurosurgery in Birmingham Children’s Hospital and in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. "
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.
Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) NHS
‘Laurie Forty is an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) currently working as a Simulation Facilitator in the north of England. Born and bred Dudley girl Laurie moved to the North West in 2016 and fine tuned her clinical skills in recovery and anaesthetics. After becoming an ALS instructor in 2021 she decided to follow the education route as that had always been the dream.
ABHI Sustainability Executive
"Addie MacGregor, Sustainability Executive After studying a Masters in Sustainability and Management at Royal Holloway, Addie became ABHI's first Sustainability Executive, joining the Association in 2022 to lead on this critical agenda. Addie provides support to the membership and works with stakeholders to ensure the role of sustainability within HealthTech is recognised. In managing ABHI's Sustainability Group, Addie is helping the industry to tackle the opportunities and challenges that exist on such a complex topic."
Deputy Chairman
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.
Senior Procurement Manager at Cambridge Universities hospitals, degree in business law concentrating on contractual and intelligence property.
Chris is Managing Director of Akeso with over 20 years' experience in private and public sector across the U.K. and Europe
Newly appointed Med Tech Director for UK DHSC with responsibility for setting the direction of future UK Med Tech policy.
Fred is a Manager with Akeso, specialising in business case delivery and clinical and operational strategy transformation in the public and healthcare sectors.
Senior Procurement Manager Cambridge Universities hospitals
Senior Procurement Manager at Cambridge Universities hospitals, degree in business law concentrating on contractual and intelligence property. Worked at CUH procurement department for 10 years and currently head of all clinical procurement within the trust. Very passionate about the NHS and proud to work within it, especially Cambridge Universities Hospital as it is my local hospital.
Managing Director Akeso
Chris is Managing Director of Akeso with over 20 years' experience in private and public sector across the U.K. and Europe. Since co-founding Akeso, Chris has led the development and implementation of growth strategies in public and private Health sector serving over 50 leading Health providers including the NHSSC Category Tower for Diagnostics, Pathology & Therapies Technologies and Services. Chris has led many projects involving the specification, sourcing and contracting of Medical Equipment through capital procurements and managed equipment services.
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.
Manager Akeso
Fred is a Manager with Akeso, specialising in business case delivery and clinical and operational strategy transformation in the public and healthcare sectors. Fred has worked extensively with a range of the U.K's largest healthcare and public sector organisations, across a range of projects, including the delivery of complex clinical, capital, operational, and procurement and supply chain transformations. Fred has led many projects involving the development and evaluation of business cases for complex Medical Equipment and Infrastructure investments.