Future Health

Avril is MedTech Lead at NIHR Devices for Dignity HTC, with responsibility for all MedTech aspects of the portfolio of projects. Avril is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield.

Over the last 25 years Christine has conducted translational research, applying psychology to inform and improve patient care.

Her focus is on the role of patient beliefs about long-term conditions and how this impacts on their mood and health behaviour through to interventions that enhance motivation for self-management.

Lex is a behavioral researcher who wrote his PhD thesis on the topic of user-centered design for personalisation.

Next, he worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment where he focused on the design and evaluation of mobile health technology and health information seeking behavior. At Roessingh Research and Development, Lex works as senior researcher and holds a research line on requirements engineering for telemedicine services. His expertise include human-centered design, requirements engineering, information design, personalization and designing for privacy and trust. Lex is associate editor for BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

Lisa is a Consultant surgical educationalist – UK and abroad, Education Advisor – British Orthopaedic Association, and Educationalist AOUK

Lisa spent 20 years in clinical practice and then 20 years in surgical education. She managed an orthopaedic/trauma service of a major teaching hospital, and has insight into the circumstances and challenges facing surgical teams. Having been immersed in both cultures, she is in a unique position to provide educational advice. Lisa has been a surgical educator since 1992. In that time she has trained over 15,000 surgeons from 60 countries within Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. She also has an MSc in Higher Professional Education.

Ruth is also a Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care at the Bristol Children's Hospital. She graduated from Bristol University and initially trained in general medicine as an SHO and registrar. Her main interests are anaesthesia for trauma, head and neck surgery and management of the difficult airway.

Sir Terence English is a retired cardiac surgeon He now lives in Oxford but spent his professional life in Cambridge, where he was consultant cardiothoracic surgeon to Papworth and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals from 1972 to 1995.

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Gyles studied at Bart’s & the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, graduating in 2011. After three years of clinical practice, he now works as a Clinical UX Specialist for his own company Dr-Hyphen, where he improves the experiences people have with healthcare technology and services. He has specialist skills in user research, iterative design and high fidelity prototyping.

Mike English is a UK trained paediatrician who has worked in Kenya for over 20 years supported by a series of Wellcome Trust fellowships. His work often takes Child and Newborn Health as a focus but increasingly tackles health services or wider health systems issues.

Laila is Co-founder and CEO at Fitnescity, a data-driven wellness company. Fitnescity's mission is to advance human performance and reduce lifestyle-induced disease through personalized, data-driven wellness.