Advisory Board | MISSION 10X ECOSYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE

Former Chair of NICE, President of the British Medical Association and Chairman of the Royal Council of General Practitioners

Sir David Haslam

Sir David Haslam is past Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK. He is also past-President and past Chairman of Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, past-President of the BMA, and is Emeritus Professor of General Practice at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He was a GP in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire for over 35 years, an expert member of the NHS National Quality Board, and National Clinical Adviser to both CQC and the Healthcare Commission. In addition, he has been a Non-Executive Director of Dorset Healthcare University NHS Trust, a member of the NHS Modernisation Board, and a Director of the State Health Service in Cyprus. He currently chairs the charity “Young Lives vs Cancer”, is Non-Executive Chair of Itecho Health, and an Associate with Kaleidoscope Health and Care.

He has written 14 books, mainly on health topics for the lay public and translated into 13 languages, well over two thousand articles for the medical and lay press and has been invited as keynote speaker to Conferences in 33 different countries. Every year for over ten years he was listed by the Health Service Journal as one of the most influential people in the NHS and was named by Debretts and the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential and inspirational people in the United Kingdom. He was awarded CBE in 2004 for services to Medicine and Health Care, knighted in 2018 for services to NHS Leadership, and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Birmingham University and the University of East Anglia.

AI expert and member of the UN's High Level Advisory on Artifical Intelligence

Rahaf Harfoush

Rahaf Harfoush is a Strategist, Digital Anthropologist, and New York Times Best-Selling Author who focuses on the intersections between emerging technology, innovation, and digital culture.

She is the Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture. Rahaf is a member of France’s National Digital Council.

Rahaf was recently named to the United Nations High Level Advisory on Artificial Intelligence and served on President Macron’s commission on AI’s impact on democracy. In 2021 she joined The Oxford Internet Institute as a Visiting Policy Fellow.

Her third book, entitled “Hustle & Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work,” was released in 2019. She has been featured by Bloomberg, The CBC, CTV, and Forbes for her work on workplace culture. It has been translated into Chinese and French.

Formerly, Rahaf was the Associate Director of the Technology Pioneer Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva where she helped identify disruptive-startups that were improving the state of the world.

Rahaf is the co-author of “The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know your Customers” It was published in early 2014 and was listed on both the New York Times and USA Today best seller lists. It won a 2015 Gold Axiom Award for Best Business Technology Book. The Decoded Company explores how big data is providing an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to dramatically improve their decision making, increase their performance and, most importantly, intentionally create happy and vibrant work cultures.

In 2019, the prestigious “Les Napoleons” named Rahaf as one of the most innovative women in France. She was listed as one of the top future thinkers to shape the world by the Hay Literary Festival in 2017. Rahaf was named as a Young Global Changer by the G20 Global Think Tank Summit. Rahaf has also been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Shaper, and by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society as a Rising Talent for her thought leadership in the fields of digital culture and technology. In 2014, Rahaf was also named as a “Canadian Arab to Watch,” by the Canadian Arab Institute. She is a member of the German Marshall Network of Transatlantic Leaders.

Rahaf’s writing has been featured in HBR, Wired, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, Monocle, The Financial Times, Techonomy, The Next Web and many more. She is a frequent commentator on France24 and the CBC. She has been speaking about Digital Culture and Technology since 2006.

In her spare time, Rahaf enjoys instagramming too many pictures of her dog Pixel, learning how to play the ukulele and working on her second novel.

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Global Authority on patient safety and outcomes improvement

Graham Copeland

Mr Graham Copeland is a retired consultant general surgeon whose research and work over the last 30+ years has been dedicated to improving quality in healthcare and outcomes for patients. His work has been recognised nationally and internationally both clinically and managerially and its application has had an enormous and demonstrable impact for saving patients’ lives and reducing harm.

International research

Graham is the inventor of the POSSUM surgical scoring system, the most widely known, published and recognised surgical risk scoring system in the world.

He initially developed the POSSUM system in the late 1980s and since its publication in 1991 he has expanded its application to be validated in all surgical specialties with the exception of cardiothoracic surgery (which will shortly be added). Sub-specialty versions exist for orthopaedic surgery, vascular, colorectal, transplant surgery, ENT, maxillofacial, ophthalmology and upper gastrointestinal surgery. His system is the audit method of choice recommended by all the British Royal Colleges, all the specialist associations of the Royal Colleges and the Association of Surgeons of UK and Ireland. It forms an essential component of the National Clinical Audit datasets for cancer and the national vascular surgery audit. It is also the system recommended by the National Confidential Enquiry into Peri-operative Deaths in England and Scotland and has recently been recommended by Monitor and in Lord Darzi’s review of surgical outcome assessment.

Over the course of 30 years Mr Copeland acted as collator of an international POSSUM database, with a devoted following that ultimately has contributors from 46 countries, and now represents the largest risk adjusted outcomes database of individual patient outcome measures (both mortality and morbidity) in the world. At present this stands at >400million procedures processed. He has provided quality reviews to some 36 countries worldwide, including Argentina, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, USA, Columbia, Australia and New Zealand. He acts as a reviewer for articles written by these contributors and there have been approaching 350 articles published worldwide about POSSUM over time. He has been a reviewer for the British Journal of Surgery and the Annals of Surgery.

National activities

Graham has had a major interest in clinical audit over the past 25 years and has an international reputation for advising international and local organisations in all forms of clinical audit, both medical and surgical. He was seconded to the Department of Health as National Director for Clinical Audit, and likewise acted for the National Clinical Governance Support Team (CGST) – a part of the Modernisation Agency. During this time he produced ‘The Practical Handbook of Clinical Audit’, which has changed the focus and direction of local clinical audit. It was the most downloaded resource from CGST nationally and became the mainstay of the National Clinical Audit Group (NCAG). It remains the definitive manual for clinical audit providing essential direction on structures, processes, methodologies and priorities for good clinical audit.

He co-chaired the National Clinical Audit Group with Dr J Boyce and acted as advisor to the Healthcare Commission (now the Care Quality Commission) on local and national clinical audit issues. He was likewise an advisor to NICE with regard to implementation and monitoring of compliance.

International activities

Graham has acted as clinical audit advisor to many countries and organisations worldwide as documented below. He was central in advising the Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality, the Department of Health in Scotland, along with the governments of Germany, Portugal and Singapore as well as organisations in Spain, Sweden, Denmark Ireland and beyond. He has also acted as advisor in clinical audit and clinical governance to the Ministries of Health in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Most recently, Graham has redeveloped these systems to help the NHS with the growing list of patients waiting for surgery after COVID by providing automated clinical triage to put the patients at greatest need first. This has been evaluated independently by NHS England, results in the first year show significant improvements in waiting times, reductions in patients deteriorating whilst they waited (including a corresponding reduction in patients admitted in emergencies), with large savings in bed capacity and ICU capacity, and also in surgeon time, freeing them up to deliver more services.

Graham’s passion for outcome improvements and the reduction of avoidable harm extend well beyond the boundaries of hospital care into the transformation and delivery of healthcare in communities and Life Sciences.

Truly unique, Graham’s work has been winner or finalist in over 30 national and global awards.
Link to POSSUM methodology here

Government, provider and payor strategy and non-profits

Geoffrey M. Pradella, B.A., B.A. (Hons), M.A., LL.M.

Geoff has 25 years of international experience in business, government, non-profits and higher education, complemented by an extensive track record of community service and volunteer board engagements. His work reflects a personal and professional commitment to building and enhancing organizational capacity, executive management and systems, strategic analysis, complex change management, policy, leadership, governance, human rights, community inclusion and innovation. He is the Chief Executive Officer of KBH+, an ecosystem built around the Kids Brain Health Network and Foundation.

Board Appointments and Community Service

A key principle in Geoff’s life has been giving back to the community through volunteer work and service on a wide range of medical, editorial, legal, arts and community boards. He is currently the Chair of Genome Alberta and a Founding Director of the Canadian Museum of Recorded Music and Culture Foundation. He recently served as Vice Chair of the Alberta Research and Innovation Authority, Vice Chair of the Persons with Developmental Disabilities (Calgary Region) board, and as the Ethicist Member for the Out of Country Health Services Appeals Panel.

He holds memberships in a number of professional and academic societies, and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for his professional and volunteer work and service to the community and society.

Career

Before stepping off the KBHN Board to take on the role of CEO, Geoff served as the Chief Strategy Officer for Alberta Health Services (AHS), working closely with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on the development and execution of strategic priority initiatives directly connected to the AHS Health and Business Plan, and the achievement of overall health system challenges and opportunities for the future.

Prior to joining AHS, he worked in the Ministry of Health as the Senior Strategic Advisor to the Minister of Health and was a co-founding partner and President of Strategy Portal Inc. and Pradella Associates Group. From 2004-2007, Mr. Pradella was a Research Fellow & Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Faculty of Law, and a member of the AHRC Research Centre where he developed and delivered innovative distance-delivery programs and professional development courses in medical law and ethics for several Royal Colleges and the National Health Service (Scotland).

Education

Geoff has an LL.M. (Amplissimis cum meritis) from the University of Edinburgh (in medicine, law and ethics), as well as a B.A. (Honours) (Law) and M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Calgary. At Jesus College, Cambridge, he was a Commonwealth Scholar, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, received 1st Class Honours for his dissertation and coursework, and was elected by his peers to serve as Vice Captain of Boats.

Current and former academic engagements include appointment as an Associate of the J. Kenyon Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and Law (University of Edinburgh), teaching medical law and ethics to third year medical and nursing students and residents (University of Calgary), as an advisor on curriculum development to the Weill Bugando University College of Health Sciences (Tanzania), work with the Physician Learning Program (University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine), leadership as Chair of the Alberta Health Research Ethics Harmonization Initiative and as a member of the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Calgary.

Expert in Digital Health Solutions, Startups and Ecosystem

Hassan Chaudhury

Hassan has worked globally across the digital health sector; as an entrepreneur, advisor, and also for the UK Government.

He has a bootstrapped exit as a founder of a real world evidence agency (Health iQ acquired by CorEvitas LLC in 2019), which exported to over a dozen jurisdictions. He was then appointed as the Global Digital Health Specialist at Healthcare UK (a joint initiative of The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England, and The Department for Business and Trade (DBT)), developing the national offer for digital health for inward investment and international trade across 96 countries for 4 years (2018-2022). He supported over a thousand firms on their way into or out of the UK, and initiated the Digital Health Playbook for Export, which has recorded over £850m in trade deals since inception.

He has a special interest in supporting the NHS to develop a sustainable commercial model, particularly around data and digital, which is why he is currently both Head of Commercial at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust – one of the 5 best children’s hospitals in the world – and the Commercial Director for DATA-CAN; the Health Data Research Hub for Cancer – the cancer real world evidence network for the 4 nations of the UK.

He is an Expert in Residence at The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE), at King’s College London, which is the national asset for clinical and commercial translation in MedTech, and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). He spent 3 years as a visiting lecturer at the world’s first and only business school dedicated to health – UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH) – attached to the MBA Health on ‘Contemporary issues in Innovation’, on Executive Education, and as a module lead for ‘Startups’ on the MSc Digital Health & Entrepreneurship. He continues to support founders and ventures as a mentor at accelerators including the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), the P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator in London and Beijing, the MedTech SuperConnector at Imperial College London, EqualityX, and KQ Labs for data-driven health at The Francis Crick Institute.

In addition, he is one of the founders of AnalystX (the world’s largest community of practice for data and analytics), a co-founder of The Equity Charter (a community initiative for more equity in digital health), a founding Committee Member of HIMSS UK & Ireland, an ambassador for HLTH Europe, a Non-Executive Director at Opto Health, an Associate at Candesic, one of the national trainers at Health Data Research UK (HDRUK), and has been an advisor to organisations as diverse as Optum UK, The Shuri Network, Silver Buck, Blum Health, UB Healthcare, Cognitant, ORCHA, Capita Healthcare Decisions, Healum, Peerr, Welcome Health Ventures, and Newton’s Tree.

His career background includes roles in NHS informatics, social care, and commissioning, as well as having previously been an Editorial Board Member of The International Journal of Digital Health, a Committee Member at The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and an Honorary Researcher at Imperial College London.

Clinical Safety, Medical Device/ SaMD Regulation & Assurance

Stuart Harrison

Stuart Harrison has led the Clinical Safety movement in the NHS alongside some of the most prominent Clinical leaders for over 20 years. Stuart has refined NHS Clinical Safety & Risk Management Systems, re-authored NHS safety standards using plain English campaigns, and worked at the highest level to ensure core safety engineering principles are embedded in the NHS code of practice. Stuart is now the co-founder & director of a company providing ethical services to the health industry. ETHOS Ltd was formed in 2014 as a result of a feasibility study completed in partnership with a large pharmaceutical company in the interests of furthering medical science / MedTech innovation. ETHOS was formed from subject matter experts in the compliance requirements for the NHS covering security, information governance, clinical safety, Medical Devices and General Data Protection Regulations. Stuart’s background is Engineering, particularly safety critical industries where safety has immediate risk to harm to system users or the wider general population. He was one of the original authors, reviewer, and implementers of the clinical safety standards. Stuart led the review into the implementation and effectiveness of clinical risk management and its relationship with design and assurance across the organisation and wider NHS. He has rewritten both standards as part of an independent consultation and restructuring their methods providing a more agile model and easier uptake for users – therefore promoting safer systems in healthcare.

As an expert advisor and project lead for two international safety, security, and effectiveness standards; leading this area internationally since 2017 and creating a legacy from the widely recognised NHS clinical safety practises into the international health informatics industry. This enables a more competitive procurement of safer systems from wider markets and less burden that regional procurement translations bring. Stuart is also an expert advisor to the BSI UK working group feeding into the ISO/IEC standards areas. More recently contributing to the emerging health and wellness app quality standards. Clinical safety standards & methods have led to widespread acceptance of the fact that clinical safety is an enabler to drive health innovation and not a barrier. Stuart has significantly contributed to over 1000 health software systems being clinically assured and provided subject matter input to over 3000 service incidents with patient safety impact in the NHS.

He led the creation of clinical risk management toolkits to enable self-certification across the industry for low-risk unregulated health software & ensuring they are compatible with new medical device regulations. A specialist advisor to NICE for medical technology and work closely with MHRA and other arm’s length bodies where patient safety and health software initiatives are needed. A steering group member and advisor to many professional institutions and organisations representing digital health; Stuart is helping to influence safety culture and methods across a number of domains. Stuart was co-author of the government’s Regulators Pioneer Fund bid to address the assurance of AI & machine learning in health software. Having successfully facilitated a £1M research grant being awarded to NHS Digital & MHRA. Digital Leader finalist – Digital City Awards 2021.

His working life has reached across automation, automotive, nuclear, defence and health industries in a safety engineering capacity. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Chartered Engineer.

Stuart is currently studying part time for a PhD at the University of Warwick on the subject of clinical decision supporting systems including safety concepts for emerging technology & complementary regulatory frameworks, the inclusion of mobile health data into safer decision making and exploring the lifecycle models of clinical decision supporting systems.

Advised by leaders who have shaped how healthcare systems work.

Sir David Haslam

Professor Mike Bewick MB.MS MRCP, MRGCP, FRCP

Rahaf Harfoush

Chris Hutchins

Graham Copeland

Steven E. Mueller

Geoffrey M. Pradella, B.A., B.A. (Hons), M.A., LL.M.

Hassan Chaudhury

Stuart Harrison

Former Chair of NICE, President of the British Medical Association and Chairman of the Royal Council of General Practitioners

Sir David Haslam

Visionary former Deputy Director of NHS, medical school dean and strategic board advisor.

Professor Mike Bewick MB.MS MRCP, MRGCP, FRCP

AI expert and member of the UN's High Level Advisory on Artifical Intelligence

Rahaf Harfoush

US - AI, Data Strategy and Governance Expert

Chris Hutchins

Global Authority on patient safety and outcomes improvement

Graham Copeland

Strategy, Operational Excellence & Medicare Advantage (US)

Steven E. Mueller

Government, provider and payor strategy and non-profits

Geoffrey M. Pradella, B.A., B.A. (Hons), M.A., LL.M.

Expert in Digital Health Solutions, Startups and Ecosystem

Hassan Chaudhury

Clinical Safety, Medical Device/ SaMD Regulation & Assurance

Stuart Harrison