AI in healthcare: From development to deployment, a virtual masterclass - Day 2

Dr Ross Upton is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Ultromics, a health-technology company, which leverages AI to automate echocardiogram analysis, including the first world’s first heart disease prediction tool. Ultromics supports physicians with the detection and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease - the leading cause of death globally.

Ross is passionate about the value of AI and automation in supporting healthcare professionals, and the potential of Ultromics’ technology to transform healthcare delivery by enabling doctors to earlier identify and treat heart disease. His mission is to automate echocardiography thereby improving patient outcomes and saving clinicians’ time. There is significant potential for Ultromics to help healthcare systems save billions annually.

Ross’ vision for Ultromics took shape during his DPhil, at the University of Oxford, whilst also training as a cardiac sonographer in the UK’s NHS. He recognised the potential of combining machine-learning with his clinical knowledge of echocardiography; having noticed that heart disease diagnosis in its current form, is subject to high user-variability often leading to misdiagnosis. He recognised that AI could help reduce misdiagnosis rates and the often-disastrous impact of the wrong treatment or unnecessary surgery on patients.

Dan Mullarkey is the Medical Director of Skin Analytics and a practising NHS GP. He is experienced in designing, deploying and assessing digital and AI technologies in a range of healthcare settings.

Dan was part of the team that worked with NHS sites to deploy Skin Analytics’ medical device (DERM AI) which supports skin cancer triage in primary and secondary care settings.

Mr Hillary Harel, CEO and co-founder of Serenus.AI, has demonstrated active leadership which has led to the success of the company. Hillary has extensive experience in founding and managing various start-up companies, including a leading company in the telecommunication field. Hillary volunteers in community projects including managing leading environmental non-profit organizations. Hillary is magna cum laude LLM graduate of the Hebrew University, Israel.

She was named the first-place winner of the MTL Tech Awards 2020 by Printemps numérique, Deloitte, and OVHcloud, a finalist in the Department for International Trade (DIT)'s first-ever "2020 European Women in Tech", Winner of Quesnay's Female Founders in InsurTech 2020, named winner of Top AI start-up company in "Healthcare Innovation Landscape 2020" Data Roots Labs report and named winner of 58th Most Influential Woman in the Tech World.

Dr Fiona Pathiraja is a founding partner of Crista Galli Ventures, a $65m pan-European health tech fund based in London and Copenhagen. The fund invests in deep tech in healthcare, digital health and personalised medicine.

Fiona is a doctor by background and is dual board-certified in Radiology and Public Health. Most recently, she was a consultant radiologist in the NHS. Fiona also has experience of UK health policy, having worked as a clinical advisor to the NHS Medical Director at the UK Department of Health and also a healthcare management consultant in the private sector.

She holds an MPH from LSHTM and an MBA from London Business School.