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Len Marshall, PhD, Head of Healthcare Development, Roche Diagnostics Ireland Len leads the Healthcare Development team at Roche Ireland, where the focus is on shaping healthcare through innovation and partnership with the healthcare systems in Ireland and across Europe. He has a particular interest in the developing areas [...]

Jama Nateqi, Founder & CEO of Symptoma.com In Austria the current situation is serious: due to the steadily increasing numbers of people testing positive for Coronavirus, Austria went into another “hard” lockdown for three weeks straight, starting at the end of November 2020. All stores and service companies [...]

Colin Sheena - Commercial Representative at the Embassy of Israel in Dublin Those familiar with the bilateral relations between Israel and Ireland recognise the numerous similarities that exist between the countries. Both have small populations, and transitioned from agrarian to hi-tech economies, both have strong diaspora [...]

Padraic Gibson - Clinical Director, The OCD Clinic & The Bateson Clinic In South America there is an ant population known as the ‘army ant’. This is one of the few ants that have no natural nest. Wandering aimlessly around the southern parts of the continent, this creature [...]

Liam Murphy - Sales Manager, T Pro Telehealth solutions are revolutionising how patients manage their healthcare and share information with medical professionals. For example, a patient may wear a device into which they can enter their vital signs, or have it collected through blood pressure readers, pulse oximeters, [...]

Neil Griffiths - Managing Director TeleTracking At the time of writing, as we enter the 8th month since the COVID-19 pandemic struck; 6th months since the first lockdown; and having seen acute health services under unprecedented and immeasurable pressure, we have been able to reflect on some of [...]

Amanda Torrens - CEO Brindley Healthcare As I celebrated the arrival of 2020 on New Year’s Eve with friends and family, I was looking forward to what I hoped was going to be a very rewarding year for all at Brindley Healthcare, however the storm clouds of Covid-19 [...]

David Neville - CEO Future Health Summit & Investnet At Investnet we welcome the new Government “Recovery and Resilience Roadmap” published yesterday September 15th.  This means we can REOPEN our business, which has been devastated since March, and start planning our calendar for rest of 2020 [...]

Andrew Kennedy - Communications Officer, Patient Advocacy Service (PAS) The Patient Advocacy Service (PAS) was launched in November 2019 by then Minister for Health Simon Harris, just a few months before the Covid -19 pandemic began. The independent, free and confidential service, commissioned by the National Patient Safety [...]

Professor Ciarán O’Boyle - Director, RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health It has always seemed to me that we go through life largely unaware of the defining impact of our pre-suppositions on our attitudes, beliefs, and actions. The philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn in his book “The [...]

Gary Cokins, Founder and CEO: Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC About Gary Cokins (Cornell University BS industrial engineering/operations research, 1971; Northwestern University Kellogg MBA 1974) is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC at www.garycokins.com in Cary, North Carolina USA. His career included being a management consultant with Deloitte, [...]

Caroline McGarry,  PR & Communications, Health Innovation Hub Ireland

Prof. Michael Mainelli - Executive Chairman of the Z/Yen Group Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI (Hon) FBCS, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group, is a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin. Michael gained his PhD at the London School of Economics where [...]

Michael Harty, Director & Founder, Home Care Plus and Home Care Direct Before the COVID 19 crisis unfolded, the Department of Health were planning the introduction of regulation and a Statutory right to home care. The hope is that this crisis will just reinforce the need to bring [...]

Hazel Chappell, Founder/President/Digitial Transformation Healthcare Consultant/Health2047 Associate/Business Advisor – DellMed CoLab I’m now a #cybersister! Not just a woman in cybersecurity or a cyberwoman but part of a cybersecurity family of females whose passion is in healthcare. I have a specific appetite in healthcare for deep [...]

John Adair, Leadership Theorist and best-selling Author Understanding leadership means focus upon the situation. Taken to extremes, this school declares there is no such thing as a born leader: it all depends upon the situation. Some situations will evoke leadership from one person, others will bring it out [...]

David Neville, CEO Future Health Summit & Investnet As the Covid-19 public health emergency enters what might be its most critical phase so far it is nearing time to consider how the learning emerging from it can best be gathered, assessed, discussed and acted on. The [...]

Peter Carter OBE, Chairman St. Andrews Charity, Northampton, England Frequently when discussing resilience, the emphasis is on individual resilience, however a key characteristic of working in the health service is teamwork. In these taxing times it’s worth reflecting on how teams, that are under huge pressure, work and [...]

Paul Corrigan MBE, Management Consultant & Executive Coach I want to discuss whether a number of very important changes, currently taking place with the delivery of NHS services, will continue after the crisis is over. Or will we return to the way things were before? Where does NHS [...]

Dr. Richard Lee Kin, Periodontist "There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen." — Lenin As I write, dentists across Ireland are either closed or open for emergencies only and for those brave dentists that are - I have my reservations as to [...]

Alastair Campbell, Writer, Communicator, Strategist, Speaker and TV Analyst Good morning fellow isolators … after this week’s announcement, it looks like we really are in it all together now. I’ve pretty much been in self-isolation since Sport Relief eleven days ago, not because of symptoms but because by [...]

Professor Tim Evans, Professor of Business and Political Economy, Middlesex University London The UK government is world-class when it comes to contingency planning and emergencies. Ministers, civil servants and all manner of official experts regularly rehearse and practice for a wide range of disasters and incidents. Across the [...]

Ronan Byrne, Commercial Manager, Dualtron The health and wellbeing of patients is of utmost importance, and should we have a family member or friend in hospital, we all want to know that they are being looked after. We want to be assured that they are getting the right [...]

Beth Meid, Director of Global Business AMD The world’s population is not only growing, but also growing older! The number of 80+ age group is growing four times faster than any other age group. 80% of this age group live with incontinence. How can we, as product manufacturers, [...]

Aisling Gannon, Partner, Head of Healthcare, Eversheds Sutherland Tony McGovern, Partner, Head of Life Sciences, Eversheds Sutherland Ireland consistently ranks amongst the best countries in the world to invest in and do business.  This is particularly true of the health and life sciences sector.  Globally, the health [...]