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Learn about the world of AI from business, tech, academic and clinical experts
PROF. DR. MED. MATHIAS GOYEN, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER EUROPE ━ GE HEALTHCARE
Prof. Dr. med. Mathias Goyen is responsible for leading GE HealthCare’s medical, clinical and evidence-generation strategies for product modalities in Europe. Together with his team, he provides leadership in healthcare economics and outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research to develop customer value propositions for new and existing products. Mathias holds a medical degree from the University of Bochum, Germany and began his career as a Diagnostic Radiologist working at Essen and Hamburg, was appointed Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Hamburg in 2010. As the Managing Director of UKE Consult and Management GmbH, a subsidiary of the University Medical Center Hamburg, he significantly contributed to establishing the Comprehensive Cancer Center linking clinical medicine with new oncologic research strategies.
JAN BEGER, hEAD OF AI ADVOCACY ━ GE HEALTHCARE
As Head of AI Advocacy at GE HealthCare, Jan Beger is dedicated to transforming AI’s role in healthcare—from a perceived threat to a powerful, transformative opportunity. Jan simplifies complex AI and machine learning concepts, making these technologies accessible and understandable for everyone. He leads HelloAI, a strategic initiative supported by EIT Health, which enhances AI literacy among medical and healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, researchers, and students. The program offers a flexible, self-paced e-learning format enriched by live online events, and to date, approximately 2,900 participants from over 70 countries have completed it. With over 19 years of experience in healthcare informatics, medical imaging, and Artificial Intelligence, Jan is committed to transforming the industry through education and advocacy. He promotes AI literacy as a key driver in adopting AI-enabled technologies across the healthcare sector. By leveraging AI to streamline routine tasks, Jan aims to enhance healthcare delivery, improve patient outcomes, and enable providers to dedicate more time to the human touch and building meaningful patient relationships.
Dr Rowland Illing, Chief Medical Officer & Director | International Government Health ━ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dr Rowland Illing is the Chief Medical Officer and Director of International Government Health for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has responsibility for public sector healthcare strategy and operations for AWS internationally, excluding the US & China. This encompasses healthcare service delivery, research and genomics. He is passionate about the delivery of person-centred care, increasing access and improving outcomes at a lower cost by accelerating the digitization and utilization of healthcare data. Rowland is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London, who trained in both Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He continues to present and publish on topics including digital healthcare and AI, he is a member of the Digital Health Roster of Experts for the WHO and a member of the European AI Alliance for the European Commission.
Philippe Lambin, Head of the Department of Precision Medicine ━ Maastricht University
Philippe specialized in A.I., Radiomics, I.O., tumour hypoxia & genetically engineered Clostridium as a living medicine & Serial entrepreneur. Philippe Lambin is a Clinician-Scientist, Oncologist by training, and pioneer in translational research with a focus on Radiomics, AI-based Decision Support Systems, tumour hypoxia and living medicine. He has a PhD in Molecular Biology and is a Professor at the University of Maastricht. In 2017, he launched a new discipline-agnostic Dpt of Precision Medicine focusing on convergence sciences and dedicate his time to research, in particular his ERC advanced grants & supervision of his PhD students.
Roshni Bhagalia, VP of Product Management, Edison AI & Platform ━ GE Healthcare
Roshni leads a dynamic product team engaged in building a customizable, scalable and modular software platform and AI tools that underpin the next generation of HIPAA-compliant healthcare applications. Roshni has more than a decade of experience in healthcare spanning both technical innovation and product development. Prior to her current role, Roshni was a senior scientist at the GE Research Centre specializing in image and data analysis, statistical methods, machine learning & AI. Her work has spanned application in radiology, clinical diagnostics, pathology and genomics. She has authored 25+ scientific publications, holds multiple patents and continues to be involved in the scientific community. Roshni holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, specializing in image analytics, from the University of Michigan.
Jorge Juan Fernández García, Director of Innovation ━ EIT Health
Working with companies/institutions at the intersection of business, government, and academia, to catalyze, accelerate and amplify healthcare innovation, and build Europe's next generation of growth companies. Director of Innovation (portfolio of over 70 large-scale projects) and member of the Management Board of EIT Health. His main expertise evolves around HealthCare & Life Sciences (Providers, Pharma, Biotech, MedTech, Digital Health) and disciplines are: in strategic planning and execution, technology, Innovation, entrepreneurship, Biodesign, Lean Startup.
Sebastiaan Huntjens, Project Manager, Dept. Precision Medicine ━ Maastricht University
Sebastiaan has a background in diagnostic imaging, radiology, and healthcare policy and administration. After being the Managing Director of GROW, and general director of The Maastricht Forensic Institute, starting in April 2018 Sebastiaan joined the company Health Innovation Ventures as business development manager. In this position he is involved in the further development of several life-science companies: Exomnis Biotech, LivingMed Biotech, Oncoradiomics, ptTheragnostic, DNAmito, The Medical Cloud Company, and Convert Pharmaceuticals. He also plays a role in the Department of Precision Medicine at Maastricht University being responsible for project management and control of multiple large-scale European-funded research projects.
Dmitry Grishenkov, Associate Professor ━ KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Dmitry’s Research Group is working with Contrast-Enhanced Medical Imaging and Therapy. In particular, experimental and theoretical work concerns the characterization of structural and physical properties of multimodal contrast agents, investigation of the nature and mechanism of sonoporation and cavitation, and understanding of the dynamics of the multiphase medium in biomedical applications. Moreover, recent work has been dedicated to high-frequency ultrasound imaging and photoacoustic imaging in vivo using small and medium laboratory animals, developing new and improving existing methods for visualization and quantification of multimodal contrast agents.
Charlotta Norgaard, CEO ━ PATIENT IN FOCUS
Charlotta Norgaard is the Chair of EUPATI Denmark, an EUPATI fellow, and Co-Founder and CEO of Patient in Focus, an international disease-neutral nonprofit patient organization built by patients for patients. Patient in Focus improves the living conditions for patients through knowledge, tools, and education so that patients can lead a life of quality despite illness, pain, and disability.
Deniz Alis, CEO at Hevi ai & Associate Professor ━ Acibadem University
Dr. Deniz Alis graduated from Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty in 2013. He finished his training in 2018 with a doctor's degree. He completed his government service obligation in Mehmet Akif Ersoy Cardiovascular research and training hospital. Dr. Alis primarily engaged in high-end cardiovascular radiology applications such as cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and coronary computed tomography in clinical and academic environments. As an associate professor of radiology, his primary focus in the Acibadem HealthCare group was contributing to the group's already high healthcare, providing standards, particularly with his expertise in cardiovascular imaging and artificial intelligence. Dr. Alis is the co-author of more than 50 papers published in international journalsand is the co-founder and CEO of Hevi AI, a start-up company producing deep learning-based software solutions for medical imaging.
William Benkő, Owner & Business Developer ━ Rózsakert Medical Center
William is the Founder of the Speak Academy. According to William Benkő, the shortest way to build and improve self-confidence is by practising public speaking. Most people detest speaking in public. If you want to get ahead of your competition, do what they don’t want to do. That is the main reason why he has established the Speak Academy because you need a tool to build confidence.
DR. CHUNLIANG WANG, SENIOR RESEARCHER ━ KTH
Chunliang Wang is a researcher at the School of Technology and Health (STH), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He received his medical training at Tianjin Medical University, China, during 1998-2005, and got his PhD degree in medical science from Linköping University, Sweden in 2011. He also worked as a software engineer at Sectra AB, Linköping, Sweden from 2011 to 2015. His current research interests are medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning (especially deep learning) and statistical shape modelling.
DR. RODRIGO MORENO, SENIOR RESEARCHER ━ KTH
The common thread of my research is to devise new mathematical-founded computational tools for analyzing medical images acquired through different imaging modalities. Those tools can also be used for improving the acquisition of images. Efficiency is of utmost importance, provided that the ultimate goal of these tools is to support physicians in clinical practice. I am very interested in bringing these new developments from basic research to final products that can be used in clinics, for which collaborations with the industry is a must. In particular, I am interested in using artificial intelligence to solve image analysis problems, the modelling of perception theories into computational methods, the use of tensor-based image processing, and the optimization of image acquisition in advanced MRI imaging.
Borbála Deák-Karancsi – Senior Analytics Engineer – GE Healthcare
Borbála started at GE Healthcare working with MR images. Currently she is leading the MR segmentation and Radiation Oncology segmentation groups, governing the segmentation process to produce semi or fully automated segmenting algorithms. As a medical doctor Borbála has the insight of the clinical side of radiology, and radiation oncology, and is able to translate that information to the more technical side. She is currently doing her PhD in analyzing and processing of MRI images of central nervous system tumors for irradiation planning with deep-learning Al-based segmentation algorithms.
Dr George E Dafoulas - Digital Health Services Clinical Consultant and Clinical Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Thessaly, Greece
Dr George E. Dafoulas was trained in Internal Medicine and holds a Master in Business Administration in Health Services Management from the Nottingham Business School-Nottingham Trent University, UK. He was a visiting scholar in CSAIL-MIT, Cambridge-Boston, USA working on the topics of open source/open science for Global Health. He has worked as EHTEL Medical Officer and as a Clinical Research fellow of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Athens, Greece and of University of Birmingham, UK in projects related with Diabetes, as well as e-health and e-care services and real-world data analytics. He has participated in the organising committee of Heath Hackathons and Datathons and as Medical Consultant for startups in the e-health sector
Marc Masa - Department Head of Health & Biomedicine department
Degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona in 1999. During the period 1999-2008 he joined the Laboratorio de Bioinvestigacion of the Merck KGaA group.He carried out research activities for the discovery of new therapeutic entities for Oncology based on genomic and proteomic research. During this period, He made short stays in Darmstadt (Germany) and Boston. He also participated in the management and strategic planning of the laboratory. Finally, he was appointed as project leader for the development of a kinase inhibitor, coordinating teams in Spain and Germany. From 2008, He joined the Leitat Technology Center as a founding member of the new Health&Biomedicine department of the centre and, later co-founder of the Lykera Biomed company. During his professional career, He has participated as co-author in 9 international scientific publications and co-inventor of 10 patents, some of them currently in national phases in the area of oncology and transferred to Lykera Biomed. He participates and has participated in more than 15 national and European projects. He’s been the leader of the Leitat diagnostic and biosensors group from 2014-2019. In 2020, he was appointed as Department Head of Health & Biomedicine department.
Henry Woodruff - Assistant Professor at the Department of Precision Medicine
Henry is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Precision Medicine and Head of The D-Lab. Holding a PhD in astrophysics he now employs machine learning techniques and advanced quantitative image analysis methods to bring precision medicine closer to clinical implementation Currently he is working on dozens of projects focused on finding prognostic and diagnostic imaging biomarkers related to diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and stroke. Henry is a passionate educator and wishes to bring AI into the curriculum for biomedicine and medicine. He also organizes the international quantitative image analysis course AI4Imaging.
Cecilia Olsson - Product Life Cycle Manager Europe, Middle East, and Africa - GE Healthcare
Cecilia Olsson, a breast cancer survivor and Product Life Cycle Manager at GE Healthcare in EMEA, is passionate about patient advocacy and experience. She manages a significant fleet of imaging devices and serves as an internal and external patient ambassador. Cecilia promotes patient engagement, shares insights through speaking engagements, a blog, and a podcast, and has a strong background in international business. She received a Patient Experience Leadership certificate in 2019 and resides in France with her family, enjoying travel, cooking, and hiking.
The HelloAI Program is funded by EIT Health, formed and curated by GE HealthCare, in collaboration with KTH and LEITAT. EIT Health is supported by EIT, a body of the European Union.
