Patty Kostkova

Biography

Dr. Patty Kostkova is a Senior Research Fellow and the head of City eHealth Research Centre (CeRC) at City University, London, UK. She has built CeRC into a thriving multidisciplinary research centre collaborating with international partners and funding bodies including ECDC, WHO, HPA, DG SANCO, Department of Health UK, EC FP6.

In the recent years, she was appointed a consultant at WHO, ECDC and Foundation Merieux; the Scientific and the General Chair of the eHealth 2009 congress in Istanbul, the Scientific Chair of ehealth 2010 in Casablanca, the Chair of the DeSE 2010 e-health Track in London and General and Scientific Co-chair of the upcoming 4th ehealth 2011 conference in Spain.

In addition to a wide media interest in her research, in March 2011 Patty was invited by BMJ as the "Idea Champion" presenting the future of social networks in healthcare at a theme session seeking to find "The idea most likely to make the biggest impact on healthcare by 2020" and was an assistant producer of a subsequent BMJ scientific film: Medical Innovations: Twitter Epidemics

A regular invited and keynote speaker at prestigious institutions and international conferences, Patty gave a talk on the potential of social networks for outbreak detection at the Epidemic Intelligence Experts meeting, ECDC (2010), keynote talks at the HCSNet Workshop on Social Technology Applications for Health and Medicine, Melbourne, Australia (2009) and the Personalization for ehealth Workshop, AIME, Verona, Italy (2009). In addition, she is an Advisory Board member on the ECDC Knowledge Management Working Group and the NHS National Knowledge Service TB Pilot project.

In addition to a wide media interest, her research into the role of media and social networks in health risk communication was awarded the Prize for the Best Interdisciplinary Research Project at the City Research Competition in December 2010.

Patty has published almost 90 full technical papers, almost 50 peer-reviewed abstracts, a book chapter and edited a number of journals including the "ICST Transactions on eHealth". Her research was covered by international media including the Medi1TV, BBC, AFP, the Vancouver Sun, the Malaysian Insider and other.

Martin Szomszor

Biography

Dr. Martin Szomszor is a Research Fellow and Acting Deputy at the City eHealth Research Centre, London. He has a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, writing his Doctoral Thesis on Dynamic Discovery, Creation, and Invocation of Type Adaptors for Web Service Workflow Harmonisation. Martin is senior expert with 7 years research experience in social network analysis, trend detection, semantic web infrastructures, data mining, user profiling, and recommendation systems. Recently, he has been working with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) to develop and online training manual and web community for intervention epidemiologists (http://www.femwiki.com), as well as evaluating the potential of social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, for early warning detection, epidemic intelligence, and monitoring of public perceptions.

David Fowler

Biography

David has worked on several research projects involving semantic web technology, in collaboration with industrial partners. He has a BSc in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Queen Mary College, London, and a PhD from the University of Aberdeen. His original research was in the area of planning under uncertainty, before shifting focus to the semantic web. He is currently working with the Medicines Support for Optometrists site, aiming to assist in building an online community of practice for optometrists.

Connie St Louis

Biography

Connie St Louis is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the MA in Science Journalism at City University, London. She is chair of the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) and an award-winning broadcaster, science journalist and writer. She worked for BBC Radio 4 for fifteen years as a broadcast journalist. As a freelance she continues to present and produce a range of science and health programmes for BBC Radio 4 and World Service. She is a recipient of the prestigious Joseph Rowntree Journalist Fellowship. Her most recent programme on BBC Radio 4 which she produced and presented, investigated the use of racially targeted designer drugs by pharmaceutical companies. She also presented the landmark Radio 4 series 'Life as' which charted the science of life before birth to death. Her most publications include a book entitled 'Reframing Libel' which is a collection of edited papers examining the government's defamation bill.

Simon Hammond

Biography

Simon joined the City eHealth Research Centre (CeRC) at City University London as a Research Assistant in Semantic Web and Social Networks in 2011. Prior to this, he worked in eLearning for mathematics at the University of Birmingham where he obtained his PhD in Computer Science (specialising in Genetic Algorithms) before continuing as a Research Fellow. He also has industrial experience ranging from small, high-tech startups to large, multinational corporations.

Femida Gwadry-Sridhar

Biography

Dr. Femida Gwadry-Sridhar is Director of Health Informatics at the Lawson Health Research Institute. She is a pharmacist, epidemiologist and methodologist with over 15 years of experience in clinical trials and disease registries. Her research is in the area of medication compliance, development of conceptual frameworks for understanding causal inferences in disease outcomes and processes to understand knowledge translation.

Dr. Gwadry-Sridhar holds a number of peer-reviewed grants from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (Canada) and from CIHR to evaluate knowledge translation. In 2006, she was awarded a five-year CIHR New Investigator Award in Knowledge Translation (2006-2011). Through the CIHR funded trial, Dr. Gwadry-Sridhar and her colleagues at The University of Western Ontario, intensivists in the Critical Care Research Network (CCR-Net), and cardiologists in London and Hamilton are using novel business methodologies to determine systems and process differences within institutions that lead to disparities in outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarcts across Ontario ICUs.

As Chair of the "Determinants of Compliance" working group at the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), Dr. Gwadry-Sridhar is leading new methodologic inquiry into the areas of pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes research. She is also a core member of the Analyses Standards Group on compliance research at ISPOR. This group has developed methodologies to conduct and analyze retrospective and prospective compliance research.

Corinne Marsolier

Biography

Corinne Marsolier has 20 years of Information Technology experience at Cisco. She is currently director, healthcare solutions in Europe for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Most recently she led innovative remote care platform pilots in Scotland and France, that demonstrated the value of care-at-a-distance. Cisco's IBSG is a group of industry experts that act as a trusted business/technology advisor to business and government leaders around the world to help them become more effective through changed business processes and intelligent technology deployment.

Earlier in her career at Cisco, she worked in various European positions in sales, product marketing and consulting practices for public sector and healthcare customers.

Prior to Cisco, she managed technical projects in the networking department at Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, California. Corinne holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (French Engineering School SUPELEC) and a BS in Economics (Sorbonne, Paris).

Gawesh Jawaheer

Biography

Gawesh Jawaheer is a Research Fellow with seven years research experience in online evaluations, user profiling, data mining, personalisation and recommender systems. He has worked on several projects managed by the City eHealth Research Centre(CeRC). Currently, he is working on Moodle Analytics, a multidisciplinary project to evaluate usage of the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment. Prior to joining City University, he worked at Imperial College London, building adaptive systems for the web and wireless sensor networks for health care monitoring in the home as well as in the workplace.

Ed de Quincey

Biography

Ed has worked in the area of online human behaviour for 7 years, looking into the usability and impact of websites as well as uses of the information that they collect. This has recently included an investigation into the potential of Twitter to detect disease outbreaks such as Swine Flu. By collecting messages on Twitter that contained the word "flu" he and colleagues at the City eHealth Research Centre were able to demonstrate the potential that social networking sites have in monitoring epidemics. He is using a similar approach to study the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games as well as investigating the use of other Web 2.0 tools such as Social Bookmarking to support e-Learning. Ed has previously worked as a Researcher at City University, London and is a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Modelling Research Group in the School of Computing and Mathematics at Keele University.

Marcel Winandy

Biography

Marcel Winandy is a member of research staff of the System Security Group at Horst Goertz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB). He studied computer science at the University of Bonn with a central focus on computer security and information systems. After graduating in 2004, he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Bonn focusing on security of adaptive mobile applications. Since 2005, he works as research staff member with RUB and was actively involved in several large research and development projects on secure operating systems and trusted computing infrastructures. He is currently project coordinator for two research and development projects that aim to build secure and privacy-preserving e-health systems. His main research interests are secure operating systems, secure user interfaces, trusted computing, and security and privacy in e-health.

Cristina Urdialis

Biography

Cristina currently works as Assistant Professor at UMA. She received the degree in Telecom. Eng. from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) and two PhD in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Malaga (UMA) and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), respectively. She has lead several projects, publically and privately funded, in Assistive Technologies. Her research interests include Assistive Robotics and Ambient Intelligence.

Tim Meldrum

Biography

Tim joined the Enterprise Office at City University London in September 2008 having spent seven years at Imperial College London, latterly running the Entrepreneurship Centre in the College's business school. He is proud to say that his team ensured Imperial's continuing presence in the annual Financial Times MBA global top-10 Entrepreneurship league table, alongside MIT and Stanford. He has a BA degree in Law & Politics from University of Nottingham, an MSc (Econ.) in Economic History and a PhD, both from the LSE. He gained his MBA from Imperial in 2001, specialising in entrepreneurship. In the 1980s he co-founded and managed several professional theatre-in-education companies working within schools and universities and more recently he has consulted widely in entrepreneurial education.

Tim currently manages Enterprise Education within City's Enterprise Office, leading an innovative team engaged in devising and delivering learning programmes in entrepreneurship and technology commercialisation across the university and at all degree levels; running university-wide entrepreneurship competitions; and collaborating with the Careers service to bring enterprise training, experience & mentorship for hundreds of students. He recently launched the London City Incubator, in which postgraduate interns are trained to conduct market research & investment-readiness preparation for close-to-market projects drawn from both inside & outside the university. He also led the development of commercialisation processes at City to best-practise standards, in which interns play an instrumental role. He is active in a global network of enterprise educators, and has recently given papers at the National Council of Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) annual conference and at the 2nd Economists' Congress in Lisbon. He sits on the committee of the Cass Entrepreneurs' Network (CEN), the organisation for entrepreneurial alumni of Cass Business School.