Supercomputers, Satellites and a Safer, More Effective NHS

Iain is a consultant paediatric and neonatal surgeon at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, where he is also Clinical Director of Innovation. A role that involves the co-creation and exploitation of medical technology in partnership with academia, industry and clinicians.

Michael joined the Hartree Centre at its creation in 2013 as a business development manager. Prior to working for the Hartree Centre, Michael was project lead for data and metadata capture systems for STFC’s large facilities and held positions in areas of research, development and sales at Unilever and Dionex. As Deputy Director Michael’s role is to lead the commercial strategy of the Centre overseeing the work of the business development and impact and engagement teams to continue building on the industrial engagement to deliver Hartree's mission to transform UK competitiveness.

Dr Liz Mear is the Chief Executive of the region’s Innovation Agency, one of 15 Academic Health Science Networks set up to spread innovations in the NHS and social care. She has leadership roles in various national and regional healthcare organisations, such as the Northern Health Science Alliance; the Well North Board; the Health Service Research UK Network Board and the Lancashire and Cumbria Innovation Alliance, which is the NHS England Test Bed for the North West Coast region. Liz is also a trustee of the Stroke Association, reflecting her passion for preventing strokes through new ways of working with innovations.

AIMES is an award-winning Cloud Services Provider based in Liverpool, where he was previously the Saxby Professor and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Professor at the University of Liverpool. He has specific interest in the creation of new high growth, high technology businesses emanating from cloud computing.

MD at Glow, Phil has been working in digital product development for 20 years, having studied biosciences in the USA. Phil's work in real time transport software led Glow to repurpose their innovative systems to improve NHS safety and workforce capacity.

Dr Phil Carvil is the HealthTec Cluster Development Manager at Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Daresbury Campus. Before taking up this exciting role in April 2018, Phil worked for the King’s Health Partners for four years as their Clinical Academic Group Development Manager. This involved working across 22 clinical-academic groups to support the alignment of the partnerships tripartite.

Michael Pearson qualified in computer science(1972) and medicine (1975) and became a Consultant Respiratory Physician in 1984 at the University Hospital Aintree. He entered the world of clinical standards with the first UK clinical guideline (asthma) in 1990 which led to studies to measure if the standards were or were not being met. He led the Royal College of Physicians Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation unit producing evidence based national guidelines for many different conditions for national societies and for NICE. In 2006 he took up a chair at Liverpool University focussed on care quality and the ways in which the NHS data mountain can be used to understand care processes and thus help clinicians adjust and improve care. He is a key member of the Connected Health Cities NorthWest Coast Project drawing together the skills of 2 universities, the Innovation Agency and AIMES with the explicit intent of putting information into the hands of clinicians where it can directly inform the care they are providing.

Iain joined the Hartree Centre in June 2017 as Technical Programme Manager for the Innovation Return on Research (IROR) programme. IROR, is a 5 year joint research and development programme with IBM Research, aiming to produce an 18-24 month competitive advantage for UK industry