Dr. Videha Sharma
Founder of Fava Health, Clinical Innovation Lead at the University of Manchester
Videha Sharma is a surgeon-turned-entrepreneur and founder at Fava Health, a start-up on a mission to make genomics part of everyday care. He is also Clinical Innovation Lead at the University of Manchester, where he bridges the gap between healthcare, technology, and design. With a PhD in Health Informatics, he works at the intersection of digital health and clinical practice, translating emerging ideas into real-world impact.
Videha has led multidisciplinary teams to create patient-centred digital solutions, develop new clinical services, and shape national health strategies. A strong advocate for design-led innovation, he focuses on ensuring technology delivers its full potential for both patients and clinicians.
Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram FRCS (Plast), BEM
CEO and Founder of Proximie, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Director of Clinical Innovation & Strategic Partnerships at Guy’s + St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram FRCS (Plast), BEM, is CEO and Founder of Proximie, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Director of Clinical Innovation & Strategic Partnerships at Guy’s + St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK. Growing up in post-war Lebanon was a formative experience, shaping her future career not just as a surgeon, but as an entrepreneur. Her initial motivation to help people grew into a wider goal to help bring safe surgery to the world. She created Proximie – a software platform that captures data and generates new insights to improve patient outcomes and OR productivity.
Fodi Kyriakos
Healthcare Workforce Specialist
Fodi Kyriakos is a Healthcare Workforce specialist & strategic advisor with over 25 years’ experience in commercial, business development and workforce solutions. He has particular expertise in Diagnostic Imaging and Oncology, with experience across both public and private healthcare systems.
Fodi founded Skilled Personnel Consulting and now advises organisations, facilitating key relationships across the profession. He previously founded RIG Reporting, which specialised in X-ray reporting services for the UK NHS. The company’s success was realised in 2016 when it was acquired by the InHealth Group, where Fodi later joined the senior management team and established InHealth Reporting’s Teleradiology service.
He has since built a portfolio career, combining consultancy, mentoring and advisory work including one of his current roles as Strategic Partnerships Manager at Teleconsult, where he focuses on developing specialist reporting services and driving collaborative partnerships.
As a Strategic Advisor, Fodi supports the development and delivery of solutions to optimise diagnostic services, with a strong focus on engaging radiographers & other allied health professionals in career diversification. He is also a corporate partner to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and was nominated as Corporate Collaborative Champion for his contribution to lung cancer services.
Dr. Shah Islam
UKIO President, Consultant Interventional Neuroradiologist, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square
Dr Shah Islam is a Consultant Interventional Neuroradiologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and the President of the UK’s largest Imaging and Oncology multi-disciplinary congress, UKIO.
He has been involved in digital health and AI consulting for over 10 years with domain expertise across clinical validation, regulation and go-to- market strategies for software as a medical device (SaMD).
Having held roles with Hardian Health and SMR Health and Tech, his journey has allowed him to work with a vast number of healthcare start-ups across a number of verticals. Whilst preferring to work in ‘stealth’, he is widely recognised as a trusted advisor to successful leadership teams within the industry.
Dr. Amar Ahmed
GP Partner and Independent Consultant
Dr Ahmed is a GP Partner and Trainer at a busy family GP surgery in Cheshire, where he has served for over 25 years. A recognised innovator in primary care, he translates award-winning, practical solutions to the NHS front line. He has worked as a GP appraiser and CQC inspector, and previously served as the National Sectoral Chair for the Conservative Policy Forum (Public Sector & Infrastructure) during David Cameron’s government. His current focus is the safe, equitable adoption of AI in general practice—reducing workload, improving access, and safeguarding the human connection that underpins primary care.
Dr. Wiktor Szczudlinski
NHS GP, co-founder of Health Collider and the Doctoring & Innovation community
Dr Wiktor Szczudlinski is a GP with 20+ years’ experience who has built a portfolio career at the intersection of medicine, health-tech and entrepreneurship. As co-founder of Health Collider and the Doctoring & Innovation community, he supports startups navigating the NHS and empowers clinicians to engage with digital health.
Asma Nafees
NHS Deputy COO, NHS NED, Local Authority NED, Charity Trustee, RSA Fellow
Asma is an inspirational leader whose career spans law, data and digital in healthcare, healthcare commissioning and contracting, and community impact. She began her professional journey as a commercial solicitor in private practice before transitioning into the NHS, where she has held senior leadership roles across analytics, contracting, planning, transformation, and performance. She is currently Deputy Customer Account Director at Arden & GEM CSU, a Non-Executive Director (NED) with Derbyshire Community Health Services FT, a Trustee of Lisieux Trust, a Birmingham-based social care charity supporting adults with learning disabilities, and a NED of Futures, a local authority social enterprise focused on education and helping people into meaningful employment.
Her NHS career highlights include serving as Chief Analytics Officer (where she describes “accidentally” falling into analytics following redundancy as a solicitor and subsequently creating a niche for herself in the NHS); leading national programmes on digital and workforce for Rehabilitation during a secondment with NHS England; and holding Assistant Director and Deputy Director roles in commissioning organisations with responsibility for strategy, contracting, and intelligence. She is passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusion, and about ensuring socially and culturally responsive services that truly meet the needs of individuals.
Beyond her executive roles, Asma is the founder of the SHE Women’s Network, a cross-sector women’s network that creates space for collaboration, mentoring, and empowering women leaders across industries. She has been recognised with numerous accolades, including Women Leaders Association Remarkable Female Leader 2024, West Midlands Outstanding Woman in Public Services 2024, Seacole GEM NHS75 Top 75 Leaders Hidden in Plain Sight, and inclusion in the Equality-X Top 50 Influential Muslims in Europe (2023 & 2024), celebrating professionals with a demonstrable record of impact both in the workplace and wider society.
Alongside her professional portfolio, Asma actively supports her Midlands community through pro bono legal work and is a proud mother of four.
Kevin Hamer
Digital Consultant
Kevin is a digital health innovator, strategist and ITIL v3 expert with over 30 years’ IT experience, primarily focused on product and service development. Before becoming a digital consultant helping NHS organisations and SMEs with their transformation challenges, Kevin was a senior digital manager at University Hospital Southampton NHS FT.
Hassan Chaudhury
Consultant in Digital Health and MedTech
Hassan has worked globally, connecting people across the digital health sector; as an entrepreneur, advisor, lecturer, and on behalf of 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, NHS England, and what is now The Department for Business and Trade), 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 £1bn in trade deals since its inception in 2020.
He has a special interest in supporting the NHS to develop a sustainable commercial model, particularly around data and digital. He is currently 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, and until recently Head of Commercial at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust – one of the 5 best children’s hospitals in the world.
He is also 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), Head of UK&Eire for Welcome Health Ventures, a Co-founder of The Equity Charter, a Non-Executive Director for Opto Health, an Advisor to The Shuri Network, and a Committee Member of HIMSS UK & Ireland.