James Bachelor

Professor James Batchelor is the Professorial Fellow of Clinical Informatics and Healthcare Innovation at the University of Southampton. He is also the Director of the Clinical Informatics Research Unit and the EDGE Programme, which is a collaborative group of NHS hospitals and research organisations working together to support and improve the Research and Development process through the development of the EDGE Software. James is also a Committee member and advisor to the Republic of Ireland e-Health Programme as well as being involved in the development of clinical research standards, Genomics and Integrated BioMedical Informatics Platforms.  James has worked in this area of research for over 19 years and is well-known within the research community, both in the United Kingdom and overseas.

Dr Pandula Siribaddana is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Informatics/medical education at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo with research interests in ICT4D, public health information systems and blended learning. He is a medical doctor by profession and obtained his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. Following joining the PGIM in 2008, Dr Siribaddana obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Oslo, Norway in Health Information Systems and education technologies. Dr Siribaddana has been part of the Speciality Board in Biomedical Informatics at the PGIM since its inception and has contributed towards establishing Biomedical Informatics as a speciality in medicine in Sri Lanka. He has also contributed to many health information system developments and implementations in the country. At present, Dr Siribaddana is the Hon. Treasurer of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL). Dr Siribaddana is also the coordinator and the lead in the Commonwealth Digital Health Awards, which commenced in 2016 and is in its fourth successive year. As the innovations lead at the CWCDH, Dr Siribaddana is also leading its flagship 'Self Shield' platform, which was initiated as an AI driven COVID-19 response tool.

Dr. Fazilah Shaik Allaudin

Senior Deputy Director  

Planning Division

Ministry of Health, Malaysia

With over 25 years of experience in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Fazilah is presently the Senior Deputy Director of the Planning Division. She has held various leadership roles in Telehealth Division, Planning Division, Medical Development Division and Selayang Hospital, Malaysia’s first digital hospital.  

For over a decade, she has been leading digital health & innovation strategies and collaborations both locally and internationally. She often represents Malaysia at regional and global platforms in digital health. A significant portion of her career has been in policy & strategy for health system transformation agenda, and project management mainly Hospital Information Systems. At present, she leads the nationwide EMR project and the national agenda of Lifetime Health Record. Additionally, she drives policy and regulatory framework development in digital health & innovation.

For the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, she headed the Medical Care Quality Section, leading multiple teams in the area of infection prevention & control, occupational safety & health, patient safety and mortality review. She also contributed to the Ministry’s strategic communication team and passionately drove digital transformation within the nation’s COVID-19 response.

Dr. Fazilah holds an M.D. from the National University of Malaysia and an MBA in Healthcare Administration from the University of Toledo, Ohio. She is professionally certified in Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF 9.0) and in Governance & Management of Enterprise IT (COBIT 5.0).
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Andy Bleaden works for ECHAlliance as the Director for Ecosystems and Membership after joining the ECHAlliance in 2017 to lead on funding. He has had long career in both funding, health and social care going back over 30 years starting in the mental health field working with mentally disordered offenders, homeless young people and then later in the field of dementia. Andy has for the last 18 years working in the UK and Europe for Stockport Council where he also specialised in Adult Social Care, Robotics, Telehealth and Telemedicine, Economic Development, Regeneration and Dementia. He also formed alliances with pan European groups most recently with the EIP-AHA, Coral and Covenant for Demographic Change as well with ECHAlliance with the Greater Manchester Ecosystem.

In addition, he has also been working as an External Expert for the European Commission since 2013 and also with the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) on the new Health KIC and Manufacturing KIC assessing proposals and business plans as well as evaluating Grant Reporting since 2015 and also working for the new Urban Innovation Actions since 2016 as an expert as well as with Urbact as a thematic expert.

He brings a wealth of experience and skills in securing and management of strategic external funding, procurement, innovation funding and forming and development large and complex partnerships across Europe.

In this role now Andy  leads on ECHAlliance ecosystems and membership at a period of unparalleled growth in our Ecosystem Network with new ecosystems opening all over Europe and globally as well. 

Mr. Eskandar is the Digital Services Senior Coordinator at the Digital Society Division of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of ITU. Mr. Eskandar is currently involved in providing assistance to several developing countries by advising on digital applications and services strategies and policies, assisting in implementing technical co-operation projects in areas of digital health, agriculture, governance and education. He has led the development of several guidelines and best practices reports on digital applications particularly on digital Health, digital Agriculture and digital Government. Mr Eskandar is currently leading major joint programmes on digital health, digital agriculture, digital government, smart learning and smart villages in collaboration with several governments, UN agencies and other stakeholders.

Mr. Eskandar has more than 25 years of extensive on-the-ground experience in the field of ICT for Development where he, through working with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent in Switzerland and, UNDP, Ministry of ICT and other NGOs in Egypt, was involved in several development projects in the fields of Health, Education, Illiteracy Eradication, Community Development, SME development and Micro Credits. 

Mr. Eskandar has an educational background in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) and has completed an MBA from McGill University, Canada and a Master Degree in Social and Economic Development Studies from University of Paris I, France.

Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran

Jai works as a senior manager in-charge of healthcare information technology initiatives of
Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, a public charitable Trust based in India that operates a group of
five hospitals. These hospitals have been providing secondary, tertiary and rural outreach
care services (via mobile hospital) completely free of charge for all patients irrespective of
caste, creed, religion or economic status. His core area of work and expertise has been
towards planning, procurement and implementation of web-based Enterprise Hospital
Information Systems (HIS), Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) for
medical imaging, telemedicine, tele-education and web portal for chronic disease
management.

He is a member of the Governing Committee of Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN),
Expert Committee of Global South eHealth Observatory, Fondation Pierre Fabre, France,
Digital Health Roster of Experts, World Health Organisation (WHO) and Digital Health and
Interoperability Working Group of the Health Data Collaborative (HDC). He is also a member
of Health Informatics Sectional Committee of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and a life
member of Digital Health India Association (DHIA) and Telemedicine Society of India (TSI).

He is a visiting faculty at Department of Health Information Management, Manipal College
of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India. He has been a
resource person for national convergence workshops and capacity building missions on
Health Information Systems, telemedicine, and digital health organized by the World Health
Organization (WHO), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Asia eHealth Information Network
(AeHIN) in South East Asia and Western Pacific regional countries.

Dr Oommen John

Dr. Oommen John is a physician researcher and digital health expert. He completed his MD in Internal Medicine from Christian Medical College, Ludhiana and an Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Dr John has extensive field level experience in the area of designing, implementing and evaluating innovative solutions and its applicability in health service delivery. He has served with WHO in Immunization Strengthening and Vaccine Delivery, Research and Development. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Health Science Informatics.

At George Institute for global health, he leads research initiatives evaluating the role of digital health interventions in improving clinical outcomes in chronic conditions. He serves on the expert advisory panel for the Market Access Programme of National Health Authority, India that is implementing the world’s largest health insurance programme towards achieving universal health coverage.

He serves as the Secretary of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics, the scientific advisory committee at Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics (FIND). He is a member of the WHO Digital Health Guidelines Development Group and ITU-WHO focus group on Artificial Intelligence for Health. 

Rohana Marasinghe

Professor Rohana Basil Marasinghe is currently working as the Head of the Department of Medical Education, of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, apart form being the Director of the Staff Development Centre. Rohana does research in Education, Clinical Trials, International and Humanitarian Medicine and Psychiatry. Current projects are 'Telemedicine and eHealth', Educational informatics' with special emphasis on ''Telehealth approach for suicide prevention'.

Ashley McKimm

Ashley oversees the partnerships BMJ has with over 110 global funders, associations, governments, and commercial organisations. Building these collaborations and joint ventures around the globe aligns with our vision of helping to create a healthier world.

Previously, Ashley practised as a doctor in the UK before being seconded as a clinical advisor to NHS England’s National Medical Director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh. He is also past director of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare (Europe and Asia Pacific) and past chairman of the UK Medical Journalists' Association.

Prashant Mishra 

Prashant Mishra is Managing Director at BMJ Publishing Group for India & South Asia. He is  also pursuing his Executive Fellowship Prog in Management from the premier Indian Institute of  Management (IIM) Lucknow, in the area of business communication. 

He has double Masters: Microbiology (Gold Medalist) and Business Management, with the latter  from IIM Lucknow. Strongly influenced by a scientific background he is an avid professional in  the field of healthcare publishing. 

Prashant is a highly experienced presenter, part of various panel discussions, and features as a  keynote speaker in numerous healthcare related events. He is extremely passionate about and  works relentlessly towards improving healthcare outcomes in India and the S Asian region. He  is part of the executive group at BMJ Publishing Group Pvt Ltd, London and is on the board of  directors at the BMJ Publishing Group India Pvt. Ltd. He also sits on the steering committee of  the Global Academy of Medical Education (GAME)-India, is a member of the exec council for  the Association of Publishers in India (API) and is part of the expert group on Technical  Resource Group for LaQshya, program of Govt of India.

Janeta is an innovation leader with 18 years of experience in research & product development.  She is currently Director of Exploratory Innovation in the World Without Disease Accelerator at Johnson and Johnson leading a large digital/device-based cardiovascular clinical trial and managing external partnerships in early oncology drug discovery.  Her career has spanned the Pharmaceutical, Consumer and Device sectors, having worked on strategy and product development, clinical study design and execution, behavior science related to digital health and solution development and external partnerships.  Prior to these roles, Janet came to J&J from the biotech industry working at various tissue engineering start-ups.  She has authored over 30 research publications/book chapters and contributed to 16 patents filings, including 6 granted patents.  Janet holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.   

 A Public Health Specialist and a Senior Medical Administrator, with a 25 years experience in the  medical profession. Actively involved in the field of communication for more than two decades with a MA in Mass Communication.

Tony Singarayar

• Co-Founder Analogy – 23 year old US based global consultancy, advising senior business leaders with global responsibility on innovative strategy and digital business models  analogypartners.com
• Chairman CBA – 50 year old technology and security printing company serving 20,000+ customers in Sri Lanka including Banks and Telcos cba.lk
• Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Commonwealth center for Digital Health cwcdh.org
• Founder/Investor - 16 healthtech, edutech, worktech, retailtech startups using digital technology and AI to build new platforms to solve known problems

Sundeep Sahay

Sundeep Sahay is professor in informatics at the University of Oslo since 1999. He is engaged in research and development in the area of Health Informatics and ICT4D, and has been engaged in research, education, policy, and practical system implementation activities in multiple countries in Africa and Asia. He has founded a NGO in India called HISP India (see hispindia.org) in 1999, to help provide technical support to Indian government, at the state and national levels, and continues to mentor it in an honorary role. He has conducted various assignments for WHO, FAO, GIZ, ADB and others spanning the domains of public health informatics, and food security and nutrition.

Sean Singarayar

• Director Digital Technology, Analogy Partners LLC
  • Analogy (2007…) specializes in R&D and business models for product and service innovation
  • Clients include some of the world’s most successful healthcare and food companies
• Co-Founder PAYable (payable.lk)
  • Startup with mobile phone-based payment solution for SMEs in emerging markets
  • 25,000 merchants enabled
• Advisor to 16 healthtech, edutech, worktech, retailtech startups using digital technology and AI to build new platforms to solve known problems

Sinclair Stockman

Professor Stockman has an extensive career in Telecoms, has served on several Boards, served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the British Telecom (BT) Group, Chief Scientist for he BT group and Programme Director for major Digital programmes. He has also served on the Boards of Cegetel and BT Mahindra (now TechMahindra). 

Over the past 10 years he has worked on the Transformational Impact Digital Technology has on Business Models (often referred to as Smart Business Models). Areas addressed have included Media, Health, Retail, Cities and Academia.   

Professor Stockman is also Chair of the Connected Health Innovation Centre at Ulster University, Honorary Consul for New Zealand and acts as an advisor for a number of community projects.

Sundeep Sahay

Sundeep Sahay is professor in informatics at the University of Oslo since 1999. He is engaged in research and development in the area of Health Informatics and ICT4D, and has been engaged in research, education, policy, and practical system implementation activities in multiple countries in Africa and Asia. He has founded a NGO in India called HISP India (see hispindia.org) in 1999, to help provide technical support to Indian government, at the state and national levels, and continues to mentor it in an honorary role. He has conducted various assignments for WHO, FAO, GIZ, ADB and others spanning the domains of public health informatics, and food security and nutrition.

Ashok is a co-founder and the CEO of Mitra Innovation group and has  been involved in the tech industry for over 20 years, in which time he  has successfully started several companies. Throughout his career, he  has been driven by his passion for helping businesses succeed, advising  entrepreneurs and established forerunners on how to innovate and  successfully convert brilliant ideas into successful products and services  using pioneering and disruptive technology.  

This drive has helped to make Mitra Innovation into the successful  global company it is today, employing over 200 colleagues who provide  transformative solutions across 5 continents. 

Before Ashok launched Mitra Innovation he was a founding member  of Virtusa Corp, (VRTU), a global SI, and helped to grow the business  to $280M and 5000 people. He was responsible for launching the UK,  

European and Middle Eastern divisions, growing them from zero to £50M  revenue per annum within three years. Ashok was also the Chief Architect  of edocs, an online Bill Presentment product that was sold to Oracle for  $180M. 

About Mitra: UK headquartered Mitra Innovation is a global technology  provider that has a team of 200 experts working across four continents  that enables smart entrepreneurs, enterprises and public service  organisations to accelerate innovative ideas into amazing global  businesses or solutions, through product incubation, digital transformation,  integration services and Cloud-to-Cloud integration, with expert skills in  WSO2 and AWS technologies.  

Ashok is also a serial entreprenuer. He is involved in more than ten tech  startups in the USA and UK, at various stages. Few of them are:  

Kraydel, healthtech for elderly care 

The Cookaway, a receipe in a box frp, famous chefs 

Codify.ai, a data-driven AI platform to automate farm to kitchen Decipher, a SaaS product to drive traffic to retailers  

Industrium.io, a platform with smart intelligence to automate operational  decision- making  

Dynamedics, a platform to help people thrive with great health and wellbeing Cloud Patrol, an AI-powered cybersecurity product for executives

Sinclair Stockman

Professor Stockman has an extensive career in Telecoms, has served on several Boards, served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the British Telecom (BT) Group, Chief Scientist for he BT group and Programme Director for major Digital programmes. He has also served on the Boards of Cegetel and BT Mahindra (now TechMahindra). 

Over the past 10 years he has worked on the Transformational Impact Digital Technology has on Business Models (often referred to as Smart Business Models). Areas addressed have included Media, Health, Retail, Cities and Academia.   

Professor Stockman is also Chair of the Connected Health Innovation Centre at Ulster University, Honorary Consul for New Zealand and acts as an advisor for a number of community projects.

Sundeep Sahay

Sundeep Sahay is professor in informatics at the University of Oslo since 1999. He is engaged in research and development in the area of Health Informatics and ICT4D, and has been engaged in research, education, policy, and practical system implementation activities in multiple countries in Africa and Asia. He has founded a NGO in India called HISP India (see hispindia.org) in 1999, to help provide technical support to Indian government, at the state and national levels, and continues to mentor it in an honorary role. He has conducted various assignments for WHO, FAO, GIZ, ADB and others spanning the domains of public health informatics, and food security and nutrition.

Dr Pandula Siribaddana is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Informatics/medical education at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo with research interests in ICT4D, public health information systems and blended learning. He is a medical doctor by profession and obtained his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. Following joining the PGIM in 2008, Dr Siribaddana obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Oslo, Norway in Health Information Systems and education technologies. Dr Siribaddana has been part of the Speciality Board in Biomedical Informatics at the PGIM since its inception and has contributed towards establishing Biomedical Informatics as a speciality in medicine in Sri Lanka. He has also contributed to many health information system developments and implementations in the country. At present, Dr Siribaddana is the Hon. Treasurer of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL). Dr Siribaddana is also the coordinator and the lead in the Commonwealth Digital Health Awards, which commenced in 2016 and is in its fourth successive year. As the innovations lead at the CWCDH, Dr Siribaddana is also leading its flagship 'Self Shield' platform, which was initiated as an AI driven COVID-19 response tool.

Pamod Amarakoon is a Lecturer at Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. Following his basic degree in Medicine and Surgery he has obtained Masters level qualifications in the domains of Biomedical Informatics and Health Administration. He has also obtained postgraduate certificate in Medical Education. Further specialising in the domain of Health Informatics, he obtained Doctor of Medicine degree in Health Informatics in the year 2020. His research interests include public health informatics and mHealth. He is a global trainer in the free and open source platform DHIS2 and has years of experience implementing information systems in several countries in Asia and Africa. He is also a council member and Assiatant Treasurer of Sri Lanka Medical Association and Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka and also serves as the Executive Vice President in Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka.

Dr M H B Ariyaratne, MBBS, MSc(Biomedical Informatics), MD(Health Informatics) is a medical doctor who designed, developed, implemented, evaluated and maintained opensource health information systems used by hundreds of users round in Sri Lanka.

Dr Buddika Dayaratne completed his MBBS from the faculty of medicine University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka in 2001. He has done his MSc in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colombo in 2011 and MD in health informatics at the University of Colombo in 2019. He is currently attached to the Clinical Informatics and Research Unit of the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He is a co-developer of the Electronic Indoor Morbidity and Mortality Report (eIMMR) to collect discharge summaries of the patients in Sri Lanka. During last eight years he was able to successfully implement eIMMR in hospitals island-wide and fulfill the required information gap.

Kaushalya is a Medical doctor with a MSc in Bio Informatics. She is currently involved with sevaral Digital Health Projects including the proposed National Organ transplant system, National EHR and the Digital Health Enterprise Architecture Plan. 

Dr Muditha Liyanagama is a Registrar in  Health Informatics at the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka with research interests in public health information systems. He is a medical doctor by profession and obtained his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna. Dr Liyanagama obtained his Masters degree from the Postgraduate institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, in Biomedical Informatics. Dr Liyanagama has been part of development and implementation team of the electronic Reproductive Health Management Information System (eRHMIS) in Family Health Bureau, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Pradeep Sylva is a BDS qualified Dental Surgeon and has been practicing general dentistry since 2001. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Biomedical Informatics and a Doctoral Degree in Health Informatics and is further qualifies as a TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect. He is currently attached to the University of Southampton as a Commonwealth Digital Health Fellow and contributes to work related to digital Platform for Planet, Place and People, under the Commonwealth’s Systems Framework for Healthy Policy and the COVID Digital Solutions platform of the Commonwealth Center for Digital Health. Dr. Sylva has a keen interest on digital health related policies and strategies, governance, architectural frameworks guidelines and standards.

"A Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) qualified Medical Officer  since 2003 with a passion to utilize information technology to solve real world health challenges.

I have successfully completed the post graduate studies in MSc (Biomedical Informatics) and MD (Health Informatics) from the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am also certified in Enterprise Architecture from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and in Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Administration by the Radiological Services Training Institute, Solon, OH 44139, USA."