Keynotes
Dr. Bini is the Maria Manetti Shrem Endowed Professor of clinical orthopedic surgery at UCSF with a focus on total joint replacement and complex revision, robotic surgery and gluteus tendon repairs. He has three primary interests digital health and technology, total knee replacement and alignment techniques, and the use of AI and sensors in the evaluation of gait. He is the CTO for the Department of Orthopaedics, serves as liaison to CDHI, AND founded and chairs the Digital Orthopaedics Conference San Francisco (DOC SF) and DOCSF Japan. Dr Bini recently coauthored a textbook on Kinematic Knee alignment and founded and launched the Personalized arthroplasty society which has members in 25 countries. He hosts two podcasts, is a frequent keynote speaker on digital and clinical orthopaedics both nationally and internationally, and has written over 70 research articles and received numerous awards including the Presidential Award at AAHKS. Prior to UCSF, Dr Bini held many leadership positions at Kaiser Permanente northern California where he was instrumental in launching the KP total joint registry and was Chair of Orthopaedics at two medical centers. He serves as associate editor of Arthoplasty Today, and is a reviewer on several journals. Dr Bini was an undergraduate at Stanford, in medical school at Columbia and trained at UCSF for residency in Orthopaedics before doing a fellowship at the Rizzoli Institute in Bologna. Dr Bini also holds a medical degree from the University of Florence, is married to his wife of 20 years and has two teenage kids who play guitar way better than he ever will.
Henning Schneider, CIO, Asklepios Kliniken GmbH
Since 2016 Mr. Schneider is the CIO at the healthcare group Asklepios Kliniken GmbH, which is one of the leading private operators of hospitals and healthcare facilities in Germany with more than 50.000 employees and 170 different locations.
Before he has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the University medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf for 8 Years.
From 2003 to 2008, he succeeded as a program manager at Siemens AG Healthcare Sector running complex customer projects to improve healthcare processes by integrating clinical workflows with IT and medical devices. Before this – from 1998 to 2003 – Mr. Schneider worked at Siemens Business Services as a senior consultant for e-banking solutions.
In 2011, the HIMSS Association as the first digital hospital in Europe honored the UKE with the EMRAM Stage 7 Award. In 2015 the CIO Magazin and Computerwoche honored Mr. Schneider with the „CIO of the year award” (category innovation). Mr. Schneider was Board Member and the vice chair of the HIMSS Board of Directors till 2023.
Prof. Andre Dekker, PhD (1974) is a medical physicist and professor of Clinical Data Science at Maastricht University Medical Center and Maastro Clinic in The Netherlands. His Clinical Data Science research group (50 staff) focuses on 1) federated FAIR data infrastructures, 2) AI for health outcome prediction models and 3) applying AI to improve health of patients and citizens. Prof. Dekker has authored over 250 publications, mentored more than 30 PhD students and holds multiple awards and patents on the topic of federated data and AI. He has held visiting scientist appointments at universities and companies in the UK, Australia, Italy, USA and Canada.
John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., is president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, a digital initiative that brings together solution developers, data partners and healthcare service providers to transform healthcare. Mayo Clinic Platform tools and solutions reached 45 million people in 2023. Trained in emergency medicine and medical informatics, Dr. Halamka has been developing and implementing healthcare information strategy and policy for more than 40 years. Prior to his appointment at Mayo Clinic, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he served governments, academia and industry throughout the world. As the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Halamka helped the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration and governments worldwide plan their healthcare information strategies.
Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University, earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, and pursued graduate work in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his residency at Harbor — UCLA Medical Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He continues to practice emergency medicine and is Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Michael D. Brennan, M.D., President’s Strategic Initiative Professor at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.
Dr. Halamka has written 15 books and hundreds of articles. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020. He and his wife run Unity Farm Sanctuary in Sherborn, Massachusetts, dedicated to the lifetime care of ill, disabled, senior, orphaned and surrendered farm animals.
Dr. Olivier Gevaert is an associate professor at Stanford University focusing on developing machine-learning methods for biomedical decision support from multi-scale data. He is an electrical engineer by training with additional training in artificial intelligence, and a PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He continued his work as a postdoc in radiology at Stanford and then established his lab in the department of medicine in biomedical informatics. The Gevaert lab focuses on multi-scale biomedical data fusion primarily in oncology and neuroscience. The lab develops machine learning methods including Bayesian, kernel methods, regularized regression and deep learning to integrate molecular data or omics. The lab also investigates linking omics data with cellular and tissue data in the context of computational pathology, imaging genomics & radiogenomics.
Dr. Taylor is a Founder and Member of the Board of Directors of HeartFlow Inc. He was Chief Technology Officer at HeartFlow from 2010 to 2021 and then Chief Scientific Officer from 2021 to 2023. Prior to HeartFlow, he was an Associate professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Surgery at Stanford University with courtesy faculty appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Radiology and Pediatrics. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor of Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin and a Part-time Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering work over the last 30 years in combining computer simulation methods with medical imaging data for patient-specific modeling of blood flow to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Charles has published over 400 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has over 300 issued patents worldwide.
He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Charles was elected into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Ms. Ameena Elahi is an Imaging Informaticist and Application Manager at Penn Medicine, where she co-chairs the Clinical Imaging AI Program and is responsible for project oversight for image applications, including research. She holds a BS in Health Administration from Drexel and a master’s in Public Administration from Keller. She is currently enrolled in The University of Pennsylvania’s Organization Dynamics Master’s program, where she is studying to be a leadership and organizational coach. Ameena volunteers for various imaging informatics programs and organizations, including RAD-AID International, where she is the Director of Informatics Operations. She was elected to the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) board in 2021; as of 2023, she is serving her second term. Ameena is the first author and co-author of various peer-reviewed articles and scientific abstracts.
Ms. An Vijverman is a partner attorney at Dewallens & partners (www.dewallens-partners.be), a law firm specialized in health law. Her expertise in health law includes privacy and health data protection, health technology and big data, as well as life sciences including regulation in pharmaceuticals & medical devices law & biotechnology.
Under her leadership, Dewallens & partners was admitted in 2015 as a Belgian member of the Alliance of European Life Sciences Law Firms (www.aelslf.eu). Ms. Vijverman teaches health law at the EHSAL Management School and at the AHLEC chair of the University of Antwerp. She is affiliated as a trainer with the European Centre for Clinical Research Training (ECCRT). Ms. Vijverman frequently publishes on experiments and clinical trials, protection of health data, and medical devices. She is a member of the Clinical Trial College (CT-College) within the FOD Public Health.
Ms. Annemie Zenner brings a diverse background in regulatory affairs, administration, and scientific research, offering valuable insights to healthcare innovation. Currently serving as a Scientific Dossier Manager at the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAGG), she plays a pivotal role in managing clinical investigations with medical devices, ensuring the completeness and quality of regulatory submissions. With her expertise spanning regulatory compliance and safety reporting guidelines, Annemie is dedicated to fostering collaboration and driving positive change in healthcare. Holding a Ph.D. in Biology, her research background includes behavioral ecology, with a focus on male-male interactions in entomopathogenic nematodes. Driven by her interdisciplinary background and passion for innovation, Annemie is committed to making meaningful contributions to the healthcare industry.