Speakers

Keynote Speech Title: “Opportunities and considerations for adoption of AI in Healthcare”

Professor. Karin Verspoor

Dean, School of Computing Technologies
RMIT University in Melbourne
Australia

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Professor Karin Verspoor is Dean of the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Karin’s research primarily focuses on the use of artificial intelligence methods to enable biological discovery and clinical decision support, through extraction of information from clinical texts and the biomedical literature and machine learning-based modelling.
Karin held previous posts as Director of Health Technologies and Deputy Head of the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as the Scientific Director of Health and Life Sciences at NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
She is also the Victorian Node lead and co-founder of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Health.

Keynote Speech Title: “What does AI bring to healthcare? From lab prototypes to improved care”

Prof. Shlomo Berkovsky

Professor, Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Data Horizons Research Centre
Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre
Centre for Health Informatics
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia

Keynote Speech Title: “Patient Centric Education in the Digital Age”

Mr. Tom Bauer

Executive Director of Patient & Family Education
Johns Hopkins Health System
USA

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Mr. Bauer is the Executive Director of Patient Education at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Recognized by the National Academy of Science & Medicine as an exemplar in implementing the 10 attributes of a health literate organization, he has also presented at their Roundtable discussion on “Making the Case for Health Literacy.” His work has been featured in two AHRQ case studies and two VHA Blueprints.
Mr. Bauer has served as an advisor to the American Hospital Association’s Opioid Collaborative and PFAC collaboratives. He received the prestigious Eagle Award for his commitment to improving health outcomes in North Carolina. Additionally, he is a member of the International Health Literacy Association’s Standing Committee on Practice Standards.

Keynote Speech Title: “Challenges related to EHR deployment and governance”

Dr. Christopher Libby

Member of the Physician Informatics Team
Cedars Sinai Health System
American College of Emergency Physicians
American Medical Informatics Association
California Medical Association
American Medical Association
USA

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Dr. Libby completed his BA and MPH at Boston University before working as a technical consultant for health IT. He then attended the University of Massachusetts Medical School followed by his emergency medicine residency at the University of Central Florida and his clinical informatics fellowship at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. He was initially drawn to informatics prior to medical school where he worked in technical EHR consulting. He loved how building interfaces, optimizing workflows, and developing reporting solutions could improve how physicians could deliver care to more patients. During his Emergency Medicine residency, he served as chief resident and worked with the chief of staff to optimize various order sets. He then completed fellowship in clinical informatics at Cedars Sinai where he had the opportunity to work on several projects including developing policies to release notes and result to patients, convert clinics and hospital from Cerner to Epic, design and implement a Hospital at Home, and develop decision support to improve sepsis outcomes. He is currently a member of the physician informatics team at Cedars Sinai Health System where he supports physicians in all specialties with the EHR, new technologies, data requests, and sometimes help with their iPhones. He also works with the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Medical Informatics Association, the California Medical Association, and the American Medical Association to advocate for better uses of technology in healthcare.

Dr. Satoru Miyano

Director, M&D Data Science Center, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo
Specially Appointed Professor of Institute of Science Tokyo, ISCB Fellow
Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo
Japan

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Satoru Miyano, PhD, is the Founding Director of M&D Data Science Center at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, established in 2020 after he completed his tenure as Director of Human Genome Center at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo. Dr. Miyano received his bachelor’s (1977), master’s (1979) and PhD (1984) in Mathematics from Kyushu University. As part of the Cabinet Office’s inter-ministry program, titled the Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hospital, Program Director Dr. Yusuke Nakamura drew a vision of a near-future hospital in Society 5.0, harnessed with AI technology. Dr. Miyano served as the sub-Program Director of AI Hospital from 2018 to 2022. He is currently managing the Post-AI Hospital Project BRIDGE (2023) and SBIR (2023-present). His research field is bioinformatics. He led the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, including the Systems Cancer Project and the Systems Cancer in Neodimension. He was named a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2013. He was presented with the 2016 Uehara Memorial Foundation Award for his contributions to the advancement of cancer genomics, the 2020 Healthy Society Award for his pioneering work on cancer research using supercomputers and AI, and the 2023 Okawa Prize for his cutting-edge research on whole-genome and cancer genome analysis using supercomputers.

Dr Vaikunthan Rajaratnam

APU-UNESCO Chair Partner
Adjunct Professor (Innovative Digital Learning)
Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation
Malaysia
Senior Consultant Hand Surgeon at KTPH National Healthcare Group
Program Director of Instructional Design and Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
Professionals at NHG College
Singapore

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Vaikunthan Rajaratnam is an internationally accredited and passionate hand surgeon, medical educator, and instructional designer with four decades of clinical practice, teaching, and faculty development. He is a key player in developing public and health professional education through leadership while enabling and empowering learners and teachers through technology. Vaikunthan is an active and practicing medical ethicist and researcher in clinical and educational domains and mentors teams in authentic and real-world action research. He is a committed humanitarian and activist with extensive experience in clinical and health professional education across borders. Vaikunthan advocates democratizing learners with a blended approach enhanced with open-access platforms and educational technology. He is a lifelong learner with effective communication and global collaboration assets through extensive networks.

Vaikunthan is a Senior Consultant Hand Surgeon at KTPH National Healthcare Group and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is also the Program Director of Instructional Design and Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Professionals at NHG College, Singapore. Additionally, he is an APU-UNESCO Chair Partner & Adjunct Professor at the Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) Malaysia.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators (UK), the Faculty of Surgical Trainers, the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and the Higher Education Academy (UK). Vaikunthan also examines various prestigious institutions, including the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh and the National University of Singapore.

Vaikunthan’s research interests include hand surgery, orthopaedic surgery, microsurgery, medical education, instructional design, technology, Generative AI in education and research, and surgical volunteerism. He has designed and developed an online teaching program for health professional research and has mentored surgeons in Europe, US and Asia.

He has extensive experience in teaching and training, curriculum development, research, and administration. Vaikunthan has also designed and developed ambulatory surgical centres and is familiar with modern healthcare management.

Vaikunthan is a prolific author who has published several books and journal articles and is an academic journal reviewer.
Publications: https://tinyurl.com/VAIKUNTHANSCHOLAR

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7498-4995 and Generative AI in teaching research and practice.

Prof. Adam CHEE

Founding Lead,
Centre for AI-Enabled Health (CAIEH)
Singapore

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A seasoned professional with expertise in Health(Care), Informatics, Innovation, Technologies, and notably, the Business dimensions of the healthcare ecosystem, Adam recognizes the interdisciplinary essence of implementation science where he bridges the gap between varied key opinion leaders and stakeholders. Actively operating on operational, strategic, and governmental planes, Adam forges meaningful commercial partnerships with multinational corporations as well as budding local startups. He harnesses the power of Data, Technology, and Design to drive transformative changes, addressing the evolving challenges of health(care) models.

With a rich legacy spanning across the Asia Pacific and Middle East, Adam’s prowess lies in promoting the systematic adoption of research insights and evidence-based practices into everyday health & healthcare routines. His journey, enriched with strategic and operational consulting, technology advisory, design, and the hands-on rollout of tech solutions, saw its inception in the Tech domain. Venturing into Health Informatics in 2002, Adam’s diverse experience encompasses business, market growth, and product management roles with renowned MNCs and agile startups. His tenure at Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) marked him as an industry pioneer where he played an instrumental role in deploying and overseeing clinical information systems. His engagements span the healthcare spectrum, from primary care setups to tertiary hospitals, research centers, government health bodies, and global NGOs.

Adam’s leadership and contributions are reflected in his roles across various pivotal committees and boards, including:

- Chairperson, Health Level Seven (HL7) Singapore
- Founding Executive Council Member, Health Level Seven (HL7) Asia
- Founding Co-Chair, HL7 Korea-Singapore Research & Innovation Alliance (HKSRIA), Korea
- Past President, Association of Medical & Bio-Informatics Singapore (AMBIS), Singapore
- Ex-Member, Special Committee (Health Information System Benchmarking), MOH, Malaysia
- Chair, Technical Committee for Healthcare & Health Informatics, Singapore Standards Council (Enterprise Singapore)
- National Delegation Member (Singapore) to International Standards Organization (ISO) TC215
- National Representative (Singapore) to Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI)
- National Representative (Singapore) to International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
- Regional Editor (Asia), Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT)

Committed to lifelong learning, Adam is a ‘deep generalist’ who continuously evolves through professional development across varied fields and holds graduate degrees in Health Informatics, Data Science, Computing, Public Health, and Business Administration. Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert, Adam collaborates as a Digital Health Expert with WHO and holds esteemed faculty positions in renowned universities, including Professorships with Taipei Medical University, Swansea University and National University of Singapore. A prolific author, Adam has penned three books, a myriad of articles, and is a frequent speaker at global platforms like HIMSS and Harvard. His accolades include fellowships with HL7 (FHL7), HIMSS (FHIMSS), Australasia College of Health Informatics (FACHI) and Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH).

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