Speakers
The speaker programme in 2011 will include the same mix of world leading speakers, including leading clinicians, innovators, global CEO’s, Government Ministers and expert commentators.
The following list of speakers have been confirmed, details on other main stage speakers will follow shortly:
Andrew Lansl
ey, Secretary of State for Health
Andrew was elected as Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire in May 1997. He lives in South Cambridgeshire with his wife Sally and their two children, Martha and Charles. Andrew also has three daughters from his first marriage: Katherine, Sarah and Eleanor.
In 2003, Andrew was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health, and has now been in the post for more than five years. Following the 2010 General Election, Andrew was proud to accept David Cameron's appointment as the Secretary of State for Public Health.
Andrew frequently visits hospitals and GPs across the country, listening to clinicians and NHS professionals and is well respected across the medical profession for his knowledge for the NHS.
Coming from a public service family, he is committed to improving the NHS for everyone. His father was working in the NHS from the day it was created in 1948. He went on to run the pathology lab at East Ham Memorial Hospital for thirty years. His eldest brother trained as a teacher and his middle brother is a policeman.
Andrew was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and the University of Exeter, where he was President of the Guild for Students. He began his own career as a civil servant, working at the Department of Trade & Industry.
His proudest career achievements include running the Conservative campaign for the 1992 General Election, for which he was awarded a CBE, and transforming the public’s view of the Conservative Party’s commitment to the NHS and being appointed as the Secretary of State for Public Health.
Andrew enjoys spending time with his family, history, films and travel. He is an active member of the Church of England.
Watch Andrew's presentation at the Expo here
Sir David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive, Department of Health
Sir David has been Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England since September 2006. His career in the Service spans over 30 years. He started in the NHS as a management trainee, having graduated from the University of Bristol. He has held leadership positions in acute and mental health services, and at four regional health authorities. He was Chief Executive of the NHS in London before he became Chief Executive of the NHS in England. He was awarded the CBE in January 2004 and was knighted in 2010, both for his services to the NHS.
Watch David's presentation at the Expo here
Lord Howe
, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health.
Lord Howe was born in 1951. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. After leaving University in 1973, he joined Barclays Bank and served in a number of managerial and senior managerial posts both overseas and in London.
In 1987, he was appointed London director of Adam and Co. plc, the Scottish-based private bank, where he remained until 1990.
In 1991, Lord Howe became a government whip in the House of Lords with responsibilities, successively, for transport, employment, defence and environment. Following the General Election of 1992, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary (Lords) at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; and in 1995 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, a post he relinquished at the 1997 General Election.
He was opposition spokesman for Health and Social Services in the House of Lords since 1997. He is an elected hereditary peer under the provisions of the House of Lords Act 1999. Apart from his frontbench responsibilities, Lord Howe has previously been a member of the all-party groups on penal affairs, abuse investigations, pharmaceuticals, adoption, mental health and epilepsy.
Watch Lord Howe's presentation at the Expo here
Jim Easton, National Director for Improvement and Efficiency, Department of Health
Jim 
has been an executive in the UK National Health Service for over 20 years. In June 2009 he was appointed as the NHS National Director for Improvement and Efficiency. Working to the NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson, he is leading the drive over £15 billion major efficiency savings whilst improving the quality of services for the 51 million people in England. Jim is leading on changes needed to the NHS in delivering its quality and efficiency commitments through a greater focus on quality, innovation, productivity and prevention. Previously Jim was Chief Executive of NHS South Central, the part of the UK Health System which oversees the performance and development of all types of health care for 4 million people in the South of England and prior to this he was the Chief Executive Officer of York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a 700 bed acute hospital. During his career Jim has also worked in primary care, mental health, health care commissioning and policy development. Jim’s particular interest is in the leadership role in quality improvement and is regularly invited to speak internationally on this subject, on which he is also currently finalising a doctoral thesis.
Watch Jim's presentation at the Expo here
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS Medical Director, Department of Health
He has been Medical Director of the National Health Service in England since November 2007 and is responsible for clinical quality, safety and strategy, undergraduate and postgraduate education of doctors, dentists and pharmacists, as well as postgraduate training of clinical scientists. He is also responsible for the medicines supply chain to the UK. He oversees the work programme of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). He was a British Heart Foundation Senior Lecturer and consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Hammersmith Hospital in London before moving to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where he became associate medical director for clinical governance and the cardiac surgical service lead. In 2004 he was appointed Professor of Cardiac Surgery at University College London and Director of Surgery at the Heart Hospital. He has a long-standing interest in clinical quality and outcomes. He has served as a Commissioner on the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) and the Healthcare Commission, and was knighted for services to medicine in 2003.
Sir John Oldham is a principal General Medical Practitioner and the National Clinical Lead for Older People in the Qipp programme.
He is best known for his work as head of the National Primary Care Development Team which worked with practices across the country to improve access and raise standards of patient care. He is also internationally known for bringing about large scale improvements in primary care in England, Scotland, Australia and elsewhere.
He has also done much cross boundary work with education and community improvement. Sir John was awarded a knighthood for his services to the NHS in 2003.
Sir John Oldham, National Clinical lead for Quality & Productivity. John is a GP and also an expert member of the National Quality Board. He has led national programmes before in the UK and overseas, most notably the national primary care collaborative in the late 90s which led to major improvements in GP waiting times and cardiac care in primary care. John will lead work to shape and run national clinical work programmes and at first will concentrate on long term conditions, urgent care and integration of care between health and social care.
Dame Barbara Hakin DBE MRCP MRCGP
National Managing Director of Commissioning Development, Department of Health
After 20 years as a GP, Barbara moved into a full-time management role as the Chief Executive of Bradford South and West Primary Care Trust in 2000, before moving to the East Midlands in 2006. Best known for her commissioning expertise, having held the role of Interim Director General of Commissioning in the Department of Health, Barbara is also involved in modernisation and is a champion of the equality and diversity agenda. Barbara was awarded an OBE in 2001.
Ben Page is Managing Director of IPSOS MORI Public Affairs and chairman of its Social Research Institute.
Since 1992, he has worked closely with both Conservative and Labour ministers as well as senior policy makers across central and local government, the Department of Health, local authorities and NHS Trusts. Named one of ‘the most 100 influential people in the public sector’ and ‘one of the most 50 influential people in local government’ he is naturally one of the most sought after speakers on leadership and performance management, has won numerous awards, and serves on a wide range of commissions and reviews.
Watch Ben's presentation at the Expo here
Paul Wicks, Director of Research and Development, PatientsLikeMe.
An internationally recognized expert in psychological aspects of neurodegenerative conditions, Dr. Wicks is responsible for shaping the scientific and medical validity of the online patient communities at PatientsLikeMe. As R&D director, he leads a team of experts charged with conducting scientific research that generates insights about the personal health data shared by patient members.
Under Dr. Wicks’ direction, the PatientsLikeMe R&D team has produced over a dozen peer-reviewed publications to date, including an innovative patient-led trial of lithium in ALS, a survey of pathological gambling in Parkinson's disease, and an extension of a gold-standard patient reported outcome measure; studies which have appeared in major scientific journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Movement Disorders and European Journal of Neurology. In addition to working with elite research organizations, including Johns Hopkins, Penn State, and Forbes-Norris Pacific ALS Centre, the R&D team also provides professional services to the company’s commercial partners.
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Mike Farrar CBE, Chief Executive, NHS North West
Mike was appointed as chief executive of NHS North West, the new strategic 
health authority for the north west of England in May 2006. Previous to this he had been chief executive of West Yorkshire SHA and of South Yorkshire SHA before that. Other previous posts include chief executive of Tees Health Authority and Head of Primary Care at the Department of Health.
During his time at the Department of Health, Mike was responsible for establishing primary care groups, primary care trusts and Personal Medical Services (PMS).
Mike chaired the NHS Confederation GP Contract Negotiating Team that successfully negotiated the new General Medical Service contract. Mike currently chairs the new Strategic Health Authority Chief Executives' Group and was the National Programme Director of NHS Live.
He is also a board member of Sport England which is an organisation committed to creating opportunities for people to start in sport, stay in sport and succeed in sport.
Prior to working in the NHS, Mike worked for Grand Metropolitan UK Ltd and pursued early sporting aspirations, playing cricket for Lancashire’s second eleven and semi-professional football for Altrincham and Rochdale.
John Warrington, Deputy Director of Procurement Policy and Research.
John joined the NHS in 1984 to work in the West Midlands Regional Supplies Department. He worked in a number of purchasing roles in the West Midlands, Oxford and North West Regional Health Authorities before joining the National Purchasing Unit of the NHS Supplies Authority in 1992. He was National Portfolio Manager for the Rehabilitation Section before becoming Head of Strategic Supply Development and Innovation in the Authority’s Strategy Directorate.
John was made Head of Research and Innovation for NHS PASA on its formation in April 2000, and was appointed a Director in January 2004, with responsibility for research and innovation and national procurement for food, domestics and textiles categories. After a spell as Director – Policy and Innovation, he recently transferred to the Department of Health’s Procurement, Investment and Commercial Division to take up a new role as Deputy Director, Procurement Policy and Research.
Martyn Lewis CBE
Martyn Lewis’s career is an unusual blend of the media, charitable and business worlds. Over 32 years as a television journalist he anchored every mainstream national news programme on Britain’s two main terrestrial channels and presented numerous documentaries and special live programmes on major events, before moving in 1999 into the world of business.
He regularly chairs debates in the corporate, charitable and public sectors, including the World Bank - Leadership in Emerging Nations, European Commission and European Brain Council. His extensive charitable involvement includes Founder and Chairman of award-winning charity YouthNet, which provides internet support and information for 16-24 year-olds; President of United Response, helping people with learning disabilities; and Vice-President of all three main national Hospice charities. In November 2010, he became Chairman of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (the umbrella organisation for over 8,000 charities).
Martyn is the author of seven books, ranging from the humorous best-seller “Cats In The News” to “Tears and Smiles – The Hospice Handbook”, the first layman’s guide to the British Hospice movement, and “Reflections on Success” for which he interviewed 67 famous achievers from all walks of life.
He holds an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster, is a Freeman of the City of London, and in 1997 was awarded a CBE for “services to young people and the Hospice movement”.
Dr James Kingsland, President, National Association of Primary Care
James is the Senior Partner in a Personal Medical Services partnership in Wallasey. He has been in practice on the Wirral since 1989. His practice has won numerous awards for clinical excellence and was in the early waves of fundholding, a first wave PMS plus site, and early adopter of Practice Based Commissioning.
Prof Nicholas Stone is a NIHR Career Scientist Research Fellow.
He holds the position of Consultant Clinical Scientist within Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Clinical Professor at Cranfield University. Nick leads the Biophotonics Research Unit based at Gloucester. The Unit’s goals are to pioneer the field of novel optical diagnostics within the clinical environment. It works closely at the clinical/academic/commercial interface to pull-through novel technologies to be used where they have most clinical need.
Nick graduated with a BSc(Hons) from Bath University in Applied Physics with Industrial Training in 1992. Since then he has undertaken numerous studies which include: an MSc with Distinction from Heriot-Watt and St Andrews Universities in Laser Engineering with Applications; an MSc with Distinction in Applied Radiation Physics with Medical Physics at Birmingham University; a PhD in the application of Raman spectroscopy for cancer diagnostics at Cranfield University and an MBA (Health Executive) at Keele University. Nick has received numerous awards for his research both personally and within his research group. He recently won the Chief Scientific Officer’s National R&D Award for 2009. He has published over 100 papers and book chapters.
Download Nick's presentation at the Expo here
Helen Beva
n, Chief of Service Transformation, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Helen is Director of Service Transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. This is a government body that supports the 1.3 million staff to the NHS to accelerate the delivery of world-class health and healthcare by encouraging innovation and developing capability at the frontline of patient care.
Over the past 15 years Helen has led change initiatives at local and national level which have created improvements for millions of patients. Her current role is to keep NHS improvement knowledge fresh, relevant, impactful at the leading edge.
She holds a first degree in social science, an MBA and a doctorate from Henley Management College. In 2001, she was made an OBE (officer of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth for service to healthcare.
Helen is currently working with a group of senior leaders from ambitious, high performing hospitals in England to develop transformation strategies. She is also leading programmes to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of frontline patient care in hospital and community settings.
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Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive, Young Foundation
Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos (described by The Economist as the most influential in the UK when he left).
He has also been Chief Adviser to Gordon Brown MP; a lecturer in telecommunications; an investment executive; and a reporter on BBC TV and radio. He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL, Melbourne University and a regular lecturer at the China Executive Leadership Academy.
He has been a board member of the Work Foundation, the Health Innovation Council, Political Quarterly and the Design Council, and chair of Involve. He is a fellow of the Sunningdale Institute at the UK National School of Government and of the Australia New Zealand School of Government, and has served on many task forces and commissions, including most recently the European Union 2025 programme, the UK Government Commission on reducing health inequality and the Atomium Culture programme linking 25 of Europe's top universities and media organisations.
He recently chaired a Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland. Geoff has advised many governments around the world, including several Prime Ministers.
Watch Geoff's presentation at the Expo here
Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief, British Medical Journal
Fiona has been editor in chief of the BMJ since 2005. She qualified as a doctor in 1985, trained as a general physician in Cambridge and London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Since joining the BMJ in 1990 she has written on a broad range of issues, including the impact of environmental degradation on health, the future of the World Health Organization, the ethics of academic publication, and the problems of editorial peer review. In 1994 she spent a year at Harvard University as a Harkness Fellow, evaluating efforts to bridge the gap between medical research and practice.
On returning to the UK, she led the development of BMJ Clinical Evidence, which evaluates the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of treatments and is now provided worldwide to over a million clinicians in 9 languages. In 2000 she moved to Current Science Group to establish the open access online publisher BioMed Central as editorial director for medicine.
In 2003 she returned to the BMJ Group to head up its new Knowledge division. She has served as president of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and is co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.
Paul Hodgkin is founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion
Paul has been a GP for 25 years, mostly in Sheffield, and still practices for a day a week as a salaried GP.
The rest of the time he runs Patient Opinion with the help of a great and innovative team. He is a graduate of the Young Foundation's School for Social Entrepreneurs and has written more than 30 articles and papers about the future of medicine and how health care is changing.
He is passionate about using the web to release the insights and creativity of thousands of all of us to solve the problems of the 21st century.
Dame Christine Beasley, Chief Nursing Officer for England, Department of Health
Christine was appointed Chief Nursing Officer in October 2004 and is the Director General within the Department of Health for Professional Leadership (including Allied Health Professions) and for Children, Families and Maternity. She is also the lead director for Reducing Health Associated Infections and the Cleaner Hospitals Programme.
She was awarded an Honorary Professorship in Nursing by Thames Valley University in 1997 and is the Pro Chancellor at the University. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Northumbria and Sheffield Hallam. She is also a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute and a Trustee of Marie Curie Cancer Care. Christine was awarded a CBE in 2002 and a DBE in June 2008. She is married with three sons, two stepsons and four grandchildren.
Andrew M. Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Proteus Biomedical
There are over 4B cell phones on the planet. The mobile internet is like a new utility to go with water and electricity – and it is more available than either.
Hundreds of millions of folks on this new utility grid are patients and families taking care of themselves or a loved one. They have no tools, no rewards and no recognition. A big question is how pharmaceutical companies and health care providers tap into this existing network and use it to deliver value?
At Proteus we believe that THE DRUG IS THE PLUG. Proteus makes sensors from food ingredients specifically designed to be co-manufactured with proven drugs at ultra low cost.
Mr. Thompson is President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Proteus Biomedical and has led the company since inception. His vision for Intelligent Medicine is focused on expanding global access to care, dramatically increasing the value delivered by drugs and creating a sustainable model for innovation that leverages computer technology in healthcare.
Mr. Thompson began his career as an industrial trainee at Metal Box PLC. Later he was a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton specializing in operations management.
For the last 20 years he has lived in Silicon Valley and focused on the start-up and development of technology based medical businesses. Companies that have completed successful IPOs or have been acquired by Fortune 100 businesses where he played an important role include: Cell Genesys (NASDAQ IPO), Cytotherapeutics (NASDAQ IPO), Abgenix (NASDAQ IPO), CardioRhythm (acquired by Medtronic), FemRx (NASDAQ IPO, acquired by J&J), Northstar Neuroscience (NASDAQ IPO) and QRx Pharmaceuticals (ASX IPO). In addition he is a founding School Board member and Foundation President of Summit Prep, a leading Charter High School, featured in the Davis Guggenheim movie Waiting for Superman.
Andrew Thompson grew up in the United Kingdom and was educated at Cambridge University, where he gained an M.A. in engineering. He was a United Kingdom National Engineering Scholar from 1982 to 1985. He also holds an M.A. in education from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
He is married with five children and lives in Portola Valley California. Andrew is active in his community as a soccer coach, Sunday school teacher and Cub Scout Den Leader.
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Stephen Greenhalgh is the Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham council.
He led the Conservatives to power in west London in 2006 after 20 years in opposition. His policies and political approach soon got him elevated to the head of David Cameron's Conservative Councils Innovations Unit and it's not hard to see why. Not only is he held to exemplify the George Osborne-endorsed principle of getting more for less – better services at a lower price – he has also shown a firm grasp of his leader's need to reconcile some of their party's most visceral urges with its new emphasis on healing social ills – and, better still, articulating them as localist virtues.
Kevin Dean is Managing Director for Public Sector Healthcare in Cisco's Internet 
Business Solution Group (IBSG)
Focusing on helping public sector customers to develop their strategies and implementation plans for "Connected Health" information management and technology. He has experience in numerous aspects of health IT strategy and execution. He and his team work with national & regional Governments around the world, as well as working with the European Commission and World Health Organisation. Kevin's team is also providing advice for ground-breaking projects such as the Health Academy, a joint WHO / Cisco initiative to provide health education to school children in developing nations. Kevin edited and introduced a collection of essays from leading health IT thinkers (Thought Leaders: "Connected Health" published December 2003), setting out ideas, lessons and opportunities for networked healthcare based on real experience. He also edited and contributed to the White Paper on the use of Grid Technology in healthcare, jointly published with the Healthgrid Association, in 2004.
Tim Kelsey, Founder of Dr Foster Intelligence and Senior Expert, McKinsey & Company
Tim is a senior expert at McKinsey & Company who has pioneered the development of consumer information strategies in public services, and particularly in health. In 2000, Tim was founder CEO of Dr Foster, the organisation which published comparative data on the quality of NHS hospitals for the first time. Greater transparency has led many NHS organisations to show demonstrable improvements in clinical outcomes. Dr Foster is now market leader in the provision of quality benchmarking analytics in the UK health sector and also the leading independent information brand for patients and the public. In 2005, Dr Foster was identified as one of the top 10 fastest growing private companies in the UK by the Sunday Times. In 2007, he designed and led the launch of the new national health information service - NHS Choices. This is now the most visited health information resource in the UK. Tim joined McKinsey to lead on the development of consumer propositions in public services to transform quality and productivity.
Tim was awarded the annual award for 'Innovation' by Laing and Buisson in 2007 and in the following year received the award for 'Outstanding Contribution in Healthcare' from Health Investor magazine. He is a member of the NHS National Quality Board, a trustee of the Nuffield Trust, a commissioner on the 2020 Public Services Commission, and a member of the advisory board of Warwick University medical school.
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David Behan, Director General of Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, Department of Health
He joined the Department in September 2006.
Before joining the Department, David was the first Chief Inspector of the Commission for Social Care Inspection.
From 1996 to 2003 he was Director of Social Services, London Borough of Greenwich and a member of the Greenwich Primary Care Trust Board and the Professional Executive Committee. Throughout 2003 he was the President of the Association of Directors of Social Services.
Between 1989 and 1996 David was Director of Social Services with Cleveland County Council, having been Senior Assistant Director and Deputy Director there. Following Local Government reorganisation, he held the position of Director of Social Services for Middlesbrough Council.
Between 1984 and 1989 David was employed by Avon County Council in a variety of head office posts and as an area manager in North Bristol. From 1978 to 1984 David was employed by Wakefield Metropolitan District Council Social Services Department, working initially as a social worker and then as a team manager in Children's Services.
David was born and brought up in Blackburn in Lancashire and graduated from Bradford University in 1978. He was awarded a CBE in 2003, and in 2004 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Law by Greenwich University. He is married with two sons.
Lord Victor Adebowale, Chief Executive, Turning Point
He joined Turning Point, the UK’s leading social
care organisation, as Chief Executive in September 2001. Victor began his career in Local Authority Estate Management before joining the housing association movement. He spent time with Patchwork Community Housing Association and was Regional Director of the Ujima Housing Association, Britain’s largest black-led housing association. He was Director of the Alcohol Recovery Project and then Chief Executive of youth homelessness charity Centrepoint before taking up his current post.
Victor was a member of the Social Exclusion Unit’s Policy Action Team on Young People and was Chair of the Review of Social Housing Co-ordination by the Institute of Public Policy Research.
He is involved in a number of taskforce groups, advising the government on mental health, learning disability and the role of the voluntary sector. He is co-Chair of the Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health National Steering Group and is a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Victor is a Patron of Rich Mix Centre Celebrating Cultural Diversity, a patron of Tomorrow’s Project and of the National College for School Leadership. He is a member of the National Employment Panel, the DEMOS Advisory Council, the New Economics Foundation Board and the Institute for Fiscal Studies Council. He is also on the policy advisory board of the Social Market Foundation.
Victor is a Trustee of the RNID and has an honorary PhD from the University of Central England, an honorary doctor of letters from Lincoln University and an honorary PhD from the University of East London. He is an honorary Fellow of South Bank University and honorary Senior Fellow in the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham.
In 2000, Victor was awarded the CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to the New Deal, the unemployed and homeless young people. In 2001 he became one of the first group of people to be appointed as People’s Peers.
Watch Lord Victor Adebowale's presentation at the Expo here
Helene Raynsford, Paralympic Gold Medallist
Helene has had her disability since 2001 and starting rowing in summer 2005. She is current Paralympic Champion for Women’s Arms Only Single Scull. Helene has a degree in Medical Biochemistry and is currently undertaking a Masters in Human Neuroscience. Helene was unwell following her race in Beijing and had to sit out the 2009 racing season following diagnosis with a heart condition. Despite the best efforts of both Helene and her support team she could not tolerate training and in March 2010 she retired from international rowing. Totally unexpectedly Helene is now back in the GB Rowing Team preparing for the World Championships 2010 in New Zealand, November.
Christopher Langley, Chairman of Heatherwood and Wrexham Park NHS Foundation Trust
Chris started as Chairman on the 15th October 2009.
Chris was Senior Non-Executive Director at the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, where he was Chair of the patient Safety and Quality Committee, chair of the Remuneration Committee, and member of the Finance Committee.
He has 27 years experience in the private sector gained in high profile customer-facing businesses. He is an experienced leader with significant board level experience in private companies and the NHS. He has expertise in performance management, change management, turnaround and strategic review.
Fares Haddad, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust
Graduated from the University College London Hospitals with a First Class BSc and MB BS. Basic training in hip and knee surgery and reconstruction started in London on the St Bartholomew's, Royal Free and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital rotations and was subsequently enhanced by fellowship training in the United States and Canada including a year in Vancouver and time in Boston, Los Angeles and Gainsville. Gold medallist in the FRCS (Orth) exam and has gained a large number of prizes and prestigious academic awards. EFORT Travelling Fellow, British Hip Society Travelling Fellow and an ABC Travelling Fellow.
Jim Dawton, Partner Designit London
For the past twenty years Jim Da
wton has worked in many of London’s foremost design consultancies, climbing through the ranks of designers at Roberts Weaver, BIB and Tangerine before becoming one of the original four-man team at Therefore Product Design, an Associate Director of Seymour Powell and the Managing Director of Pearson Matthews Innovation Consultants. Having set up as an independent consultant at the beginning of 2009, he has recently joined forces with the European design group Designit in order to set up Designit London.
Over the years he has worked with a wide range of international companies from product-focused brands such as Tefal and Rowenta, to service providers as diverse as Virgin Atlantic and the National Health Service. At Pearson Matthews he applied his expertise to the technically focused medical device industry, creating an offer that spanned the full innovation journey from strategy and R&D, through to design and manufacture.
Jim is an advisor to the Associate Parliamentary Group for Design and Innovation, and until recently was a member of the Associate Parliamentary Health Group. He frequently judges design competitions, and regularly gives talks and lectures to a wide range of international design audiences and academic institutions. Jim studied Industrial Design at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Polytechnic, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
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Hugh Griffiths, National Director of Mental Health, Department of Health
Hugh Griffiths has been a consultant psychiatrist in the North-East of England since 1988 and for 8 years (until December 2002) was an NHS Trust Medical Director.
In 2000 he also became Medical Director of the Northern Centre for Mental Health where he undertook a variety of work including the development of changing roles for consultants, support for medical managers and clinical leadership of the Mental Health Collaborative. He was Director of Policy and Knowledge Management for the NHS Clinical Governance Support Team from 2003 until April 2004 and since then has been Deputy National Director for Mental Health (England). He continues in part-time clinical practice.
'I am delighted to be overseeing this important policy area and would like to pay tribute to the former national director for mental health Louis Appleby, who is now the first-ever national director for health and criminal justice.'
Paul Wike, Central Sheffield GP Cluster
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