Colin Callow is Programme Director at the NHS Technology Adoption Centre (NTAC) leading a number of national programmes to identify, understand and dismantle both systemic and commercial barriers to adoption, leading to a way of working that enables existing beneficial commercially-provided technology driven innovations to be rapidly adopted and diffused across the NHS.
Colin has also recently led a collaborative project with Professor John Hutton at York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) to undertake an analysis of the challenges facing senior NHS managers in the adoption of healthcare technology in the NHS. This project has informed one of NTAC’s next stage programmes which will develop a systematic and practical management approaches to the successful and sustainable adoption of medical technologies as part of the broader strategy of achieving major improvements in service quality and productivity in the NHS.
Colin has had a varied clinical and management career in both the NHS and ten years experience in the commercial healthcare sector , was formally a Divisional Manager at the Christie Hospital in Manchester with responsibility for planning and delivering services across a range of oncology specialties.
Alan was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) in January 2010. Alan was seconded to the Trust as interim CIO in 2008 from the professional services firm Deloitte, where he was an Associate Partner in the Technology Integration Practice.
He has held leading roles on assignments in many of the major central government departments and a selection of private businesses, including Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Ministry of Defence (MoD), Connecting for Health and Royal Mail Group.
His career has also included roles as Operations Director at Praxis, a software and systems development company specialising in the development of business critical applications, and as head of ICT in a medical electronics company.
Jim Ebzery serves as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Security, Management and Operating Platforms business unit. He is responsible for product strategy, development and go to market for the newly formed business unit and will focus on delivering intelligent workload management solutions for the Data Center and Identity and Security markets. Previously, Mr. Ebzery was responsible for leading the Identity and Security Management business unit, one of the key growth areas at Novell.
Mr. Ebzery is an experienced technology executive with an extensive track record of delivering results and operational improvements. He is a proven team leader, successfully leading change in a variety of challenging environments and industries, from startups to global technology leaders.
Prior to joining Novell, he was President of the Viisage Division at L-1 Identity Solutions, a leading provider of advanced technology identity solutions. He also served as Senior Vice President of sales and marketing while at Viisage Technology. Mr. Ebzery served as Vice President of operations for Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm, serving on multiple boards providing guidance and strategic direction to the management teams. His past experience also includes 17 years at IBM, where he held a variety of sales and executive positions. Mr. Ebzery earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College in Computer Science.
Daniel Morrison-Gardiner has worked with UK Government organisations for over 9 years; delivering IT solutions in fields ranging from Mobility & Network Security to Managed Services and Connectivity. Prior to joining Research In Motion, Daniel worked for GlaxoSmithKline, BAE Systems, McAfee Inc. and Message Labs Group.
Andrew qualified as a work study, organisation and methods engineer from Derby University while working in the textile industry.
He has worked in the NHS since 1988, beginning in North Derbyshire where he built up a successful management consultancy service. In 1999 he became programme director for the Nottingham LIS programme (the local implementation strategy for ‘information for health’), working for the local health authority. The very successful Nottingham LIS team gained national recognition for its approach and local acclaim for securing significant additional resources for IT and information management. As a result, Andrew has spoken at a number of international and national conferences on change management in ICT and the NHS.
In 2001 Andrew became the director of ICT services for Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen’s Medical Centre University Hospital, Nottingham. He became director of health informatics at Nottingham University Hospitals when the two trusts merged in 2006.
Andrew’s broad range of skills and his specific experience of influencing the agenda at a regional and national level while working directly with clinical teams to apply informatics have delivered real benefit to the people of Nottingham through the use of IT.
Charles Gutteridge has been the National Clinical Director for Informatics in England since January 2010. Throughout his health service career he has continued practising as a haematologist and has both clinical and laboratory interests in the specialty. Charles has had a lifelong commitment to health service management and the transformation of personal health through research and innovation. Prior to his appointment as National Clinical Director of Informatics, he was Medical Director of Barts and the London NHS Trust, a large university hospital serving the people of East London.
Jonathan Bamford joined the staff of the Data Protection Registrar when the office was first established in early 1985. He has remained through the transition to Information Commissioner with the introduction of the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Information Commissioner enforces this legislation in the UK. Jonathan is Head of Strategic Liaison.
His main duties focus on freedom of information and data protection liaison with key stakeholders. He leads the ICO’s work on ‘surveillance society’ issues and on developments such as e-Borders, electronic health records, ID cards and video surveillance. He is involved in the ICO’s international data protection duties and is a member of the joint supervisory authorities for Europol and the Customs Information System. He also represents the UK at the meetings of the Schengen Information System Joint Supervisory Authority.
As Director of Technology Strategy for the NHS Technology Office, Mark Ferrar is establishing innovation in NHS information technology at the heart of central Government.
Mark chairs the Government’s Chief Technology Officers’ Council, which was established to develop shared strategies, policies and standards around public sector IT enterprise architecture. He also chairs the cross-Government Architecture Review Board and is a member of the Public Sector Infrastructure Team’s executive group.
Among initiatives he is closely involved in are the G-Cloud, Data Centre and Application Store programmes across the UK public sector. Mark is also a member of both the Public Sector Network Programme Steering Board and the Government ICT Strategy Implementation Steering Group.
For the past two years Mark has sat on the Technology Strategy Board’s Network Security Innovation Platform Steering Group, which aims to allocate Government funding to support innovation and growth in the UK IT security industry.
Back in the NHS, Mark manages key relationships with suppliers such as Microsoft, Novell, McAfee, Oracle, Cisco, Intel and AMD. With over 1.3million employees, the NHS in England is, at the same time, Microsoft’s largest global account, Novell’s largest customer and Oracle’s second largest global customer.
A recent addition to Mark’s portfolio includes responsibility for leading on technology architecture aspects of the UK’s contribution to pan-European eHealth activities, including the recently announced EC Joint Action involving most EU Member States.
Previously, Mark was the Director of Infrastructure Architecture covering all infrastructure projects, services and standards, such as NHSmail and the NHS’s N3 network. In this role, Mark established the Common User Interface programme, working closely with Microsoft to develop open user interface standards enabling improvements in safety and usability for clinical applications. Mark has also driven the widespread introduction of barcoding and RFID technologies into the NHS, which resulted this year in an invitation to join the Supervisory Board of GS1UK, the not-for-profit organisation controlling standards for auto-identification technology in the UK.
Mark joined the NHS in 2004 after 17 years with ICI, the international chemicals and paint company, where he held a variety of IT management and architecture roles, including Global Infrastructure Manager in the Office of the Global CIO.
Mark holds BSc, MBA and PhD qualifications, the latter for work on the computer simulation of flow-processed short-fibre reinforced composite materials whilst at Liverpool University.
When time allows, Mark can be found mountain biking, canoeing or hill-walking with his wife and two daughters in the English Lakes, Yorkshire Dales or on the North York Moors not far from his home in the North East of England.
Dr. Maureen Baker is an experienced general practitioner who now works mainly in the field of patient safety, although she retains a clinical commitment. She has a background in postgraduate educational and workforce research, service development and clinical governance. Through her work in the Royal College of General Practitioners, she has demonstrated leadership, especially within the field of workforce and career support. She leads on emergency planning for the RCGP and has chaired the joint RCGP / GPC emergency planning group that has developed a package of tools to support general practices in the event of an influenza pandemic. Her current work for NHS Connecting for Health is key to the safe and effective implementation of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. As a strategist and problem solver, she has had significant influence within the RCGP and the NHS. She is regarded as a thoughtful and effective policy maker and has considerable professional credibility with recognised influencing skills.
During most of her professional life she has been directly involved in medical education. She has been a VTS course organiser and an Associate Adviser in general practice. She has taught undergraduates and developed CPD programmes for general practitioners. For NHS Direct, she designed and ran multi-disciplinary training programmes. For the RCGP, she developed the principles of its Leadership Programme. Within NHS Connecting for Health she is presently delivering an educational programme for accredited clinicians in safety and risk.
Over the previous five years, she has established the Clinical Safety Management System for NHS Connecting for Health. This approach ensures that IT products being delivered into the NHS are as safe as design and forethought will allow and minimises the chances of unforeseen adverse consequences for patient care. As Honorary Secretary of the RCGP from 1999 to 2009, Maureen Baker has had a clear leadership role within the discipline of general practice and in the wider profession. Within the RCGP she has championed issues relating to health inequalities; workforce; emergency planning; revalidation; and care of children, especially child protection.
Christine is the first Chief Information Officer for Health and her role focuses on developing and delivering the Department’s overall information strategy and integrating leadership across the NHS. She took up post in September 2008.
Christine was CIO at Cadbury Schweppes from May 2004 to September 2007.
Prior to joining Cadbury Schweppes, Christine worked in various global roles at BP. Her career included the senior IT position for both the Exploration and Production and Refining and Marketing businesses as well as leadership roles in Business Simplification, Technology, Innovation, Internal Audit and General Management. Her last position in the company was as Chief of Staff for the Gas, Power and Renewables business.
Christine was born in Scotland and has a degree in Computer Science from Aberdeen University.
Bernard Crump was born in Burton on Trent and studied Medicine at Birmingham University qualifying in 1980. After 7 years in clinical practice and clinical research, he returned to the West Midlands to postgraduate training in Public Health Medicine. He spent a decade as Director of Public Health, in South Birmingham and in Leicestershire, where he was also Deputy Chief Executive. In 2002 he became CEO of Shropshire & Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority, a post which he occupied until being appointed the first CEO of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement in July 2005. The NHS Institute has developed a wide range of programmes that are supporting the improvement of the NHS; the Productive Ward and the Productive Series; the No Delays Achiever and support for commissioners.
He has written and lectured on a wide range of topics in healthcare including aspects of population health, the role of clinicians in management, health and healthcare improvement, the use of metrics in encouraging improvement and the use of health economics in decision making. He is visiting professor at the University of Leicester and Honorary professor at the University of Warwick.
He has been a member or chairman of many national committees and the author of several influential reports. He is an inaugural member of the new Health Innovation Council.
Bernard lives in Leicestershire with his wife, Isabel, a GP and two children, Eleanor and Thomas.
John Stetic current serves as Vice President of Product Management at Novell, Inc. In this capacity he works to help set the strategic vision and roadmaps for multiple product lines, with a particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. Mr. Stetic is also responsible for overseeing the Novell management products, including the Novell ZENworks, PlateSpin and Business Service Management product lines.
Mr. Stetic was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive the PlateSpin product and services offerings globally before Novell acquired the company in March of 2008. Mr. Stetic has a broad range of experience with innovative, emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions.
Before joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, BrightSpark and Classwave. He holds an engineering degree from Queen's University and has completed the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School. He has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including:
VMworld
VMworld Europe
Gartner Data Center Conference
Novell BrainShare
Beki Ruban has been Head of UK Business Development for ALERT Life Sciences Computing for the past 18 months and is responsible for the management of sales, tenders and procurement, partnering and business relationships for the UK organisation. After a 20 year career as a Nurse and Director in the NHS at Trust and SHA level Beki took up key roles in the NPfIT Programme where she worked firstly as Regional Implementation Director during the contract negotiations for the North West and West Midlands Cluster and subsequently Health Implementation Director/ Clinical Director for the Cluster. Prior to leaving the Programme Beki moved to a national role with the Programme as Head of Nursing and finally led the Lot 2 Clinical Systems ASCC Procurement for NPfIT managing the overall Lot 2 process to contract award.
Beki has wide experience of working with and implementing clinical IT systems in the NHS and healthcare and is a firm believer in the clinical and operational benefits that IT can bring to patients and organisations
Within ALERT Beki has a key role in ensuring the ALERT solutions meet the needs of the client and works closely with organisations, partners and the ALERT team to ensure that the ALERT solution is the solution of choice for UK healthcare.
Chris Bridgland has worked within the IT sector for the last 15 years and his current role is as Senior Director of the EMEA RSA Archer business unit at RSA, the Security Division of EMC. He is responsible for go to market for the newly formed business unit and will focus on delivering comprehensive Enterprise and IT Governance Risk and Compliance (eGRC and ITGRC) solutions. Chris’ has broad vertical industry experience and led EMC’s Centera SE team globally in the evolution of game changing PACS and HIS archiving solutions for the global medical and healthcare industry.
Chris has been with EMC since 2000, where his previous roles have included leading the representation and continuous process improvement program across RSA’s portfolio and Security disciplines, for EMC's entire Presales organisation, and heading up heading up EMC's Global Solutions Practice for BackUp, Recovery and Archive (BURA).
Steve has recently been appointed as Head of Commercial Services at Commissioning Support for London, having joined the organisation earlier in 2010.
An experienced NHS executive, Steve has been working at Board level in various organisations for the past 15 years. Before joining CSL, he was Programme Director and Interim MD for the SE London Acute Commissioning Unit. Previously Steve has held positions as Chief Executive of a SHA, Advisor to the Department of Health, and Director roles in commissioning, strategy, primary care and organisational development.
Steve is a passionate about using technology and information to improve patients’ experience of the NHS and its services.
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