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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.
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
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 UHBW NHS FT
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.
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 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.
Consultant Clinical Engineer
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.
Clinical Engineer Retired
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.
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 Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Iain is the head of clinical engineering at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and has many years experience working both within the NHS and the private healthcare industry. As a fellow of IHEEM he has previously sat on the RCT Management Board as one of their representatives but has held the position of registrar since September 2016. Iain is registered with the RCT as a clinical technologist and also with the Engineering Council as a chartered engineer (CEng).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Patient Safety Commissioner