About this event
- Date and time Wed 6 Nov 2024 from 9:30am to 5:30pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Digital Health
Digital twins are a reality in clinical practice but do we know enough about them? Find out about which digital twins you can use now and be part of the conversation about the ethical implications of this groundbreaking technology.
Continuing the discussion from our previous event, this one will provide clinicians and patients the insights and understanding as to what digital twins technologies are currently available. It will enable attendees to critically appraise the technology and be part of the discussion about the ethics of digital twins. The Royal Society of Medicine brings together a unique mix of developers, clinicians, patients, academics, regulators and philosophers who are at the forefront of the next stage in healthcare technology.
By attending this event, you will:
- Understand what digital twins are
- Learn about which digital twins are available now in healthcare
- Be part of the discussion about the ethical implications of digital twins in healthcare
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Tickets
Early Bird pricing available until 08 October 2024.
Member
| RSM Fellow | RSM Associate | RSM Retired Fellow | RSM Trainee | RSM Student |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £77.00 | £46.00 | £46.00 | £46.00 | £24.00 |
Non - Member
| Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors | AHP / Nurse / Midwife | Non Healthcare Professional | Trainee | Student |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £141.00 | £84.00 | £84.00 | £84.00 | £44.00 |
Agenda
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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction
Dr Alice Byram, Council Member, Digital Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Dr Julia Manning, Council Member, Digital Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Demystifying the digital twin in healthcare
Professor Roger Highfield, Science Director, Science Museum Group
Session one: What is the problem we are trying to solve?
A physician's view of the clinical need
Dr Cameron Watson
Question and answer session
How do we know how to design for clinical settings?
Professor Michelle Oyen, Inaugural Director of the new Center for Women’s Health Engineering, Washington University, St Louis, USA
Question and answer session
Tea and coffee break
Session two: Digital twins are already being used in clinical practice
Chair: Dr Caroline Rooney, Lecturer, Computational Medicine, Queen Mary University of London
Heart, lungs and the rest
Dr Mariano Vazquez, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, ELEM Biotech
Using synthetic data in practice
Clinician to be confirmed, MD Clone
Digital twins of hospitals
Costas Stylianou, Senior Technical Specialist for Public Sector and Health & Life Sciences, Intel and Honorary Associate Professor, University College London
Question and answer session
Keynote presentation: Prioritising patient specific outcomes
Professor Alejandro Frangi
Lunch
Session three: What are the steps needed to get digital twins into a healthcare system?
Chair: To be confirmed
Digital twins in healthcare systems
Peter Coveney
Digital twins in the NHS
Dr Steven Luttrell, Medical Director, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, Sanome
Hospitals?
Speaker to be confirmed
Question and answer session
Session four: Patients, safety and ethics
Chair: Professor Andrea Townsend-Nicholson, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London
Incorporating ethnography, SDoH and deprivation markers into digital twins
Dr Sheuli Porkess, Chief Medical Officer and Business Unit Director, Precisia Life Sciences, a C2-AI business
A philosophers view
Maartje Schermer, Department of Medical Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Impact investing in digital twins and ethics
Nuno Godhino, Founder and CEO, FuturePulse Ventures
Patient view
Jenny Camaradou, NICE Covid-19 Expert panel lay/member of ESC patient forum/EAN ANS WG
Question and answer session
Tea and coffee break
Session five: Questions and answers from the day
Plenary
New and exciting in digital twins
Dr Wahbi El-Bohri, Lecturer, University of Liverpool and Head of Virtual Vascular Human Group Developing Digital Twins in Healthcare
Keynote presentation: Digital twins beyond the final frontier
Professor Kevin Fong, OBE MRCP FRCA
Closing remarks
Dr Alice Byram
Close of meeting
Drinks reception
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Registration for this event will close on 5 November 2024 at 8:30am (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time
If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.
All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.