Golam Abu Zakaria, PhD

Prof. Dr. G. A. Zakaria studied physics at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1978, and post-graduated at the University of Gottingen and received his Ph. D in medical physics at Heidelberg University, Germany. Prof. Zakaria is the chairman of the Department of Medical Radiation Physics at Gummersbach Teaching Hospital of the University of Cologne and professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Koethen, Germany. Furthermore he has been invited as Guest/honorary/adjunct professor in many institutes or universities in Germany, Italy, China and Bangladesh. In January 2018, Dr. Zakaria is nominated as the Accreditation Committee-2 Chair (Radio-Oncology Physics) of the International Medical Physics Certification Board (IMPCB) and since September 2018 Vice Chair of the International Organization Medical Physics (IOMP) Accreditation Board. Prof. Zakaria has more than 35 years clinical and academic experiences in medical physics (both in Radiotherapy and Imaging) in Germany and also in the developing countries especially in Bangladesh and India. He has supervised numerous bachelor, master, diploma and doctoral thesis and has published more than 80 articles in journals and books. Prof. Zakaria is member of several scientific societies: DGMP, ESTRO, AAPM, AMPI (Life member) and BMPS (Honorary member).

Dr. Anjum Ahmed, MBBS, MBA, MIS, ITIL

Dr. Anjum Ahmed began his clinical career as a General Physician, and over the last 19 years has been focused on change management initiatives and helping set the path to digital transformation throughout hospitals and health authorities across USA, Canada, Latin America, UK, Europe, Middle East, South Africa and Asia Pacific.

Dr. Anjum currently leads Multispecialty Imaging IT and Artificial Intelligence development initiatives at Agfa HealthCare to help healthcare organizations enable evidence-based personalized care delivery models, improve outcomes, and maximize value from health IT investments. Dr. Anjum’s white papers, on Value-based Care and Artificial Intelligence in medical imaging, are published and distributed widely across healthcare forums (including HIMSS). Prior to joining Agfa HealthCare, Dr. Anjum worked at GE Healthcare for 12 years implementing healthcare IT and Clinical Informatics solutions across EMEA and Canada.

Prior to joining GE Healthcare, Dr. Anjum practiced as a General Physician at Al Jedaani Group of Hospitals in Jeddah Saudi Arabia from 1997 to 2002. Al Jedaani Group of Hospitals also runs Saudi Arabia’s first Medical and Dental College (Ibn Sina Medical College). Besides practicing as a GP, during this tenure at Al Jedaani Hospitals, Dr. Anjum developed the HIS and Patient Record Management solution and workflows at Al Jedaani Hospitals.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Dr. Anjum passed the Saudi Council of Health Specialties License exam to practice as a GP (General Physician) in Saudi Arabia (SCFHS Registration # 2001/0894 issued Hijri 16/1/1422)
• Dr. Anjum graduated with an MBBS Degree (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor or Surgery) in 1995 from Rawalpindi Medical College, Punjab University of Pakistan
• Dr. Anjum did is MBA with MIS (Management Information Systems) from Preston University USA Pakistan Campus in 2007
• Dr. Anjum also has an MBA in Marketing from Preston University USA Pakistan Campus in 1996
• Besides this, Dr. Anjum as completed the following Executive Education Programs:

  o Health Policy and Economics - Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto
  o ITIL Certification (Chartered Institute of IT)
  o GCP (Clinical Research and Trials) – Royal College of UK certified training

Dr. Anjum is a sought after global speaker, he speaks at thought leadership events across the globe regarding the intersection of technology, machine learning and cognitive computing; its applications in healthcare, impact on population health, early disease detection, and precision medicine. Dr. Anjum was most recently interviewed by Financial Times London at the CogX event on AI in London, England.

Carmel J. Caruana, PhD, FIPEM

Head and Professor,
Medical Physics Department
University of Malta
Msida, Malta

Khaled M. Elsayes, MD

Dr. Elsayes is a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and in the Medical School of University Texas in Houston. Dr. Elsayes is a well-known world renowned radiologist with more than 300 peer review publications and abstracts, 100 visiting professorships, many presentations in international conferences and over 70 international awards (including 2014 RSNA honored educator award).

Dr. Elsayes is an imminent speaker in national and international conferences, fellow of Washington University in Saint Louis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as well as several international societies, including the society of Abdominal Radiology. Dr. Elsayes has been an examiner of the American Board of Radiology and Saudi Board of Radiology. He is also editorial member of several international journals.

Dr. Elsayes is an editor and author of three major radiology textbooks; “Introduction to Diagnostic Radiology” published by McGraw-Hill, “Cross Sectional Imaging of the Abdomen and Pelvis” published by Springer, “Pitfalls of the Abdomen and Pelvis” published by Elsevier.

Carol H. Lee, MD

Dr. Carol H. Lee is an Attending Radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and is also Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Prior to coming to Sloan Kettering, Dr. Lee was the Chief of Breast Imaging at Yale University. Dr. Lee has specialized in breast imaging for more than 30 years and has served as Chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Breast Commission and as President of the Society of Breast Imaging, and Vice-President of the American College of Radiology. She is currently a member of the National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee with advises the Food and Drug Administration on regulatory issues. She is also head of the ACR Breast Imaging Reporting and Data Systems (BI-RADS) committee. For her contributions to the field, she was awarded the Gold Medal from the Society of Breast Imaging in 2016.

François DeBlois, PhD, FCCPM

Dr. François DeBlois is a Fellow of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine since 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2001 from McGill University and completed his clinical residency training at McGill University Health Centre in 2003. He worked at McGill University Health Centre until 2007. From 2007 to 2017 he was assistant professor at McGill and Chief Clinical Physicist at the Jewish General Hospital, a McGill teaching Hospital. He has supervised many graduate students and is an instructor in the McGill graduate medical physics program. Since 2017 he is head of physics at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal (CHUM). His main interests are medical physics software, devices and treatment techniques development.

Jan Demey

Jan’s initial playground is the area where business meets ICT and the other way around. From an education background in both areas, Jan started his consultant career at Ernst & Young (& spin off Knowledgeware), where he assisted large companies (banks, industry, public sector) in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering concepts and solutions. For this innovative approach Jan worked together with universities and the major ICT players like IBM (AD Cycle). At the introduction of Client/Server architectures, Jan became responsible for this C/S offering and projects.

Always being interested by innovative concepts, Jan started with some colleagues the company OO Partners. Having the context of VTM (as starting broadcasting company), OO Partners applied advanced technologies (Object Oriented) to develop scheduling solutions for the broadcasting market place (currently known as Mediagenics). Based on the experience of this development work, OO Partners started with Jan a consulting division, bringing these new ICT concepts to the market place. Large customers worked with OO Partners like Banque General de Luxembourg, VRT, Smalls, etc.

After the merge of OO Partners/consulting with Delaware Computing (ICT company of Bekaert), the new division- Delaware Object Technology Team – became an important market player for innovative ICT projects. Very complex turn-key projects (e.g. Engineering workbench for Pauwels trafo), innovative technologies (first web-based projects for Bekaert – POPS on the web) and international roll-outs of pointed solutions (Electronic Document Management integrated with SAP for Bekaert Global), where projects were managed by Jan.

After the transition of Delaware Computing from Bekaert to Arthur Andersen, Jan became first director and then Partner. Having the Business/technology background, Jan developed the E-business proposition for Arthur Andersen Belux, in collaboration with ArthurAndersen Worldwide. Next to this responsibility, Jan developed a successful alliance model between IBM and Arthur Andersen, and this mainly in the domain of Enterprise Application Integration (Beacon Award San-Fransisco 2000). Large customers like AXPO, Bekaert, Koramic, Delta Lloyd, etc. realised their business and EAI integration with our approach. Arthur Andersen Belgium joined forced in 2002 with Deloitte & Touche, where Jan became Partner for the Public Sector & Healthcare industry consulting solutions. Projects were done at INFOHOS, Ministry of Finance, ECC; NATO ( NAMSA), etc.

In June 2004 Jan founded hict, a consulting company focussing on the healthcare market place. hict has become an international healthcare consulting company. Hict has today more the 400 customers worldwide.

hict believes that through further strategic reflection, re-engineering, automation, innovation and integration of healthcare resources and stakeholders, we can assist to raise the level of service and quality in favour of the patient, and optimise the available resources within the Healthcare Markets. hict is a fully independent company offering specific solutions and services to the extended Healthcare market place (care providers, pharma, medical devices, technology market, patient organisations, insurances, suppliers, public sector related services, 3rd payers, etc.) hict is an international player in the Healthcare Consulting Market with references all over Europe, Middle & Far East, Afrika and North America. Our internal team of consultants and extended network of experts (including academic experts) offer an international, multidisciplinary and flexible service model to deliver projects within the healthcare market. The focus area's you can find on ou website (www.hict.com) and are mainly structured around Strategic questions in the healthcare market, Process related optimisation projects, Technology driven healthcare and change management and Quantification / modelling / simulation / programming of healthcare questions to create evidence in decision taking. Examples of our projects are : Hospital Audits & reorganisation, Market Acces programs for Pharma and other suppliers, HE& HTA studies, Reimbursement projects, Value Added Services for industry in Hospitals, Hospital Planning for new-build or renovation of hospitals and care networks, Project & change management ( incl. training) for introduction of innovation or new technologies, Market Research , Scientific publications, Clinical Pathway Development, development clinical research organisations in Hospital (networks), Hospital network development & consensus building, Support programs for technology Start-ups in healthcare, etc...

Erik van Rijn

Specialties in customer relations and sales of PACS/PACS2,Enterprise Imaging, RIS and clinical applications, businessintelligence, nuclear medicine and ESR iGuideExtensive knowledge in healthcare and related technology like digitalimaging, X-ray technology, IHE, DICOM, HL7, Oracle, RadiationOncology equipment,Workflow analysis, customer relations, projectmanagement (PRINCE2).

Sales of PACS,RIS,enterprise PACS, XDS/XDS-i, Medical devicesetc.

Author of a chapter radiotherapy textbook "Radiotherapeutischtechnieken".

Specialismen: Sales of Medical IT,IT, HL7, DICOM, IHE,Oracle,radiation safety, workflow analysis,SQL,XDS XDS -i

Rani Al-Senan, PhD, DABR

Medical Physicist & Assistant Professor,
Radiology Division of Physics
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, USA

Marijn Kruiskamp, PhD

Senior Clinical Scientist MR Therapy
(MR-RT and MR-Linac), Philips Healthcare
BIU ADI MR Therapy Clinical Science
Best, Netherlands