Life Science Working Group members
Chair and Vice-Chairs
Nigel Brokenshire
Nigel Brokenshire
Alex Eavis
Alex Eavis
Alex joined EMIS Health, one of the UK’s largest point-of-care system suppliers, through acquisition in 2019. She now heads up the product teams across digital, data and analytics divisions, and the product experience and design team. Alex is passionate about the potential of technology to help those that need it the most. Her distributed ledger software company, Dovetail Lab, was set up to make primary and secondary healthcare data uses more citizen centric, and give patients greater control over the medical record data.
Before founding Dovetail, Alex co-founded an Internet-of-Things care technology business called Alcove; and a social enterprise called HowDoI?, spun out of an outstanding special educational needs school, using NFC technology to launch step-by-step life skills training.
Alex advocates for greater investment in user-centric design, and use of data-driven technologies to enhance the experience of receiving and providing care, reduce inequalities and improve patient, population and provider outcomes.
Working Group Members
Alison Connor
Alison Connor
Alistair Stuart
Alistair Stuart
Chloe Ambery
Chloe Ambery
Colin Henderson
Colin Henderson
Dr Justin Whatling
Dr Justin Whatling
Dr Justin Whatling is an experienced global healthcare and IT leader with a medical background. He excels in growing businesses, operationalising complex value propositions, and leading organisational transformations with over 25 years’ experience in using technology and informatics to transform outcomes for patients. He is CEO of OptumUK, and holds a number of advisory roles as a member of the Health & Social Care Council for techUK, a member of the BCS Academy of Computing board representing BCS on the management committee of the BMJ Health and Care Informatics journal, and a member of the CW+ innovation advisory board the official charity of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Justin is a Fellow of BCS The Chartered Institute for IT and a Leading Practitioner Federation of Informatics Professionals.
Elias Altrabsheh
Elias Altrabsheh
Heather Cook
Heather Cook
James Norman
James Norman
Biography
James Norman is the EMEA Health and Life Science Director at Pure Storage. A world respected figure in change management and IT transformation, with more than 30 years experience within the health sector, including 24 years senior management within the NHS. James has led multiple major public sector transformation programmes and published several papers on the potential of Technology in healthcare. James was named Healthcare IT champion of the year in 2011 and later sat as an external advisor to Her Majesty’s Treasury, sitting on the Comprehensive Spending Review board. James was named Thought leader of the year in 2013, named one of the top 50 data leaders in the UK and has ranked in the top 10 CIO 100 list. James established the All4Health&Care (previously Tech4CV19) community to help frontline Organisations and Tech companies come together in the fight against COVID-19, in Partnership with NHS England and techUK.
What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work
My whole career has been dedicated to improving the services of healthcare institutions for better patient outcomes, through my early days in creating new applications for NHS organisations to improve access and equality of care, to my recent work in supporting Health Economy and Regional transformation through greater use of Technology and Intelligence systems. I work very closely with governments around the world to help them understand the potential for Technology to transform the way patients access care as well as with Health Tech suppliers large and small, to support them in understanding the market and provide services / technologies that will deliver improved care. Having previously sat on the Council for many years, I worked hard to embed it as the voice it now is, for suppliers, in shaping policy and supporting simplification of entry to the healthcare market. During Covid I helped techUK members to share services and technologies with healthcare providers to overcome the severe pressures they were under. If voted back on, I will strive to maintain and grow the value of the Council in ensuring the concerns of members are raised and heard keeping communication lines open and accessible to all.
Jason Heyes
Jason Heyes
Jenny Yu
Jenny Yu
Justin Whatling
Justin Whatling
Keith Tsui
Keith Tsui
Ken Banks
Ken Banks
Laura Taddei
Laura Taddei
Michael Watts
Michael Watts
Michael is Young Health Tech Leader of the Year 2024, an NHS doctor, NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow and MBA Graduate by background. Over the last few years he has been the Co-founder and Managing director of Blüm Health Ltd, an industry-disrupting digital health organisation that collaboratively works with NHS trusts, Universities and SMEs to design, build, and scale digital health software solutions, in the hope to empower public and private sector organisations to boost their digital maturity and unlock their innovative potential. Michael has extensive experience in supporting NHS organisations design, build and procure digital health ecosystems and understands the importance of digital inclusivity from a patient, workforce and organisational perspective.
Mike Denis
Mike Denis
Mike Roberts
Mike Roberts
I have for many years worked across different sectors, including health and Life Science. I was invited by NHS Innovation to attend an event in Guangzhou whereas head of innovation at ISeeU Global, we ended up partnering with Guangzhou University on a cancer project. I have also delivered many technical solutions across the NHS. My main skill set is joining the dots across technology and industry to come up with innovative ways to solve issues
Nicole Kayode
Nicole Kayode
Nicole Mather
Nicole Mather
Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson
Philip Lindstedt
Philip Lindstedt
Philip Lindstedt is a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies where he leads technology development and delivery across healthcare and life sciences. His various roles at Palantir include as a regional lead for the NHS’s Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, establishing himself as the technical assurance lead for clinical safety and information governance for the entire FDP programme, and heading Palantir UK’s work with the NHS Genomics Medicine Service and the Institute for Cancer Research. Before joining Palantir, Philip earned a PhD and an MPhil in Chemical Biology from the University of Cambridge, where he published several highly cited papers on protein folding and bio-orthogonal chemistry under the mentorship of Professor Sir Christopher Dobson. At Cambridge, Philip’s PhD was awarded the Chemistry Department’s Outstanding Thesis Award in Biological Chemistry. His early career as a research scientist at Seattle Children’s Hospital also saw him contribute to the development of some of the first CAR T-Cell therapies to enter paediatric clinical trials.
Polly Shepperdson
Polly Shepperdson
Rich Cassidy
Rich Cassidy
Ryan Palmer
Ryan Palmer
Scott Dinkle
Scott Dinkle
Stephanie Caird
Stephanie Caird
Stephen Jowett
Stephen Jowett
Tobias Alpsten
Tobias Alpsten
Una Kessi
Una Kessi
