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Dr Rajeev K Bali
BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD,
PgC, SMIEEE
Reader in Healthcare Knowledge Management and
Head of the KARMAH research subgroup
Dr Bali specialises in
Knowledge Management, ICTs and clinical and healthcare management. His
involvement with the IEEE resulted in an
appointment as Publications Chair for the ITAB
conference in 2003. He is an Invited Reviewer for
the Journal of Managerial Psychology, the
International Conference of the Academy of
Management, Pearson Education Publishers and
Thomson Learning. He has Biographical Entries
in "Who’s Who in the World"
(Marquis International, 2003-) and "Who’s
Who in Finance and Business" (Marquis
International, 2005-) and was the Guest Editor
of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology
in Biomedicine (TITB) Special Issue on "Knowledge
Management and IT in Healthcare".
He has been involved with the authoring and editing of several well received books. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the International Society for Urban Health and the New York Academy of Sciences. He has been an invited speaker for many institutions including Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (Baltimore, USA), IIT (Chicago, USA), University of Kuopio (Finland) and The Ark Group (Singapore). He was a Visiting Professor in Healthcare and Knowledge Management at IIT (Chicago), USA. He works closely on various projects in the UK's NHS as well in institutions overseas.
Expertise: Knowledge
Management, Healthcare organisations, Organisational
Culture, ICTs, Organisational Behaviour, SMEs,
Clinical Informatics
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Prof Raouf Naguib
BSc,
MSc, DIC, PhD, CEng, MIEE, MIPEM, SMIEEE
Professor of Biomedical
Computing and
Head of the BIOCORE Applied Research Group
Prof
Raouf Naguib has published over 180 journal and
conference papers and reports in many aspects
of biomedical and digital signal processing,
biomedical image processing and the applications
of artificial intelligence and evolutionary
computation in cancer research. He has also
published a book on digital filtering, and
co-edited a second book on the applications
of artificial neural networks in cancer diagnosis,
prognosis and patient management, which is
his main area of research interest. Prof
Naguib is a member of several national and
international research committees and boards,
and is currently serving on the Administrative
Committee of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society (EMBS). He is actively
taking part in a number of collaborative research
projects with various partners and consortia
in the UK (breast, colon, ovarian and urological
cancers, and Hodgkin's disease), the EU (prostate
and colorectal cancers), the USA (breast cancer
and cancers of the oesophago-gastric junction)
and Egypt (bladder cancer).
Expertise: Clinical
Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Artifical
Neural Networks
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Dr Vikram Baskaran
BEng, MSc, PhD
Ryerson University, CANADA
A former research student of ours, Dr Baskaran is an engineer
by profession with an interest in Biomedical
Computing. His research investigated how KM approaches can be used to increased breast screening attendace. His work, funded by the NHS Cancer Screening Programmes, included investigating
the nuances and real time challenges in mapping
one cutting edge technology (ie. KM) on to
another (Biomedical Engineering). Additional
areas of interest lie in Data Mining and Artificial
Intelligence related to KM. He is now based at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada) but retains his excellent working links with us.
Expertise: Data
Mining, Artifical Intelligence |
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Dr Mohd Abdul Khanapi Ghani
BSc, MSc, PhD
UTEM, MALAYSIA
A former research student of ours, Dr Ghani's research work involved the design of a flexible, integrated and distributed telemedicine
framework for Malaysia, mainly for the upkeep of patient lifetime
health records continuously during possible
diasters and/or epidemics. This work is funded by the Malaysian Ministry of Health. Other areas
of interest lie in software design,
database design and software project
management
related to e-health and KM systems.
He obtained his Dip (Computer Science)
from
Mara Institute of Technology Malaysia
and BSc (Computer Science) and MSc
(Software Engineering) from Universiti
Teknologi
Malaysia (UTM).
Expertise: Computer Science, ICTs, conceptual modelling |
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Aapo Immonen
BSc, MSc
PhD Research Student
Split-site, FINLAND
Mr Immonen's work aims to formulate a knowledge-based conceptual model which aims to enhance healthcare professionals' experience and knowledge in post-crisis (and crisis prevention) situations from the public health point of view. Mr Immonen works as a researcher at the Crisis Management Centre, Finland as well as at the Finnish Emergency Service College. Before this he worked as a researcher at the University of Kuopio (Finland) where his research areas were privacy, confidentiality and data security issues as well as wireless data communication technologies supporting public health. He has extensive experience in the areas of project and development management after working for several years in these areas in the public and private sectors as well as in numerous EU-funded projects. He has gained extensive knowledge in the area of Emergency Medical Services working in several Finnish Fire Brigades before entering his academic career. He is also a practising paramedic.
Expertise: Paramedic Knowledge, Crisis Management, Health informatics
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Prof Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Professor of Information Management and Library Science
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe(PhD, MBA, Grad DipMgtSt, Bsc, AmusA (violin) AmusA(piano)) received her PhD from Case Western Reserve University, USA. She researches and teaches within the information systems domain including knowledge management, IT and strategy, change management, decision making and e-business with particular focus on the applications of these areas to healthcare. Her research work focuses primarily on developing suitable models, strategies and techniques grounded in various management disciplines to facilitate more effective design, development and implementation of IS/IT solutions to effect superior, patient centric healthcare delivery. She has collaborated with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organizations throughout US and Europe. She is well published with more than 200 refereed scholarly articles, several books, numerous book chapters, an encyclopedia and a well established funded research track record. Professor Wickramasinghe is the US representative of the Health Care Technology Management Association, the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals published by Inderscience. She is also is a founding minitrack chair at AMICS, and is instrumental in initiating the healthcare IS track at PACIS in 2010.
Expertise:
Healthcare and clinical knowledge systems, technology
and organizations, e-health |
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Prof Maurice Yolles
Head of the Centre for Creating Coherent
Change and
Knowledge (C4K), Liverpool John
Moores University, UK
Prof
Yolles' specialist area is
management systems and managerial cybernetics.
He has published more than 120 papers in refereed
journals, conferences and book chapters. His
main teaching area is in Change and Knowledge
Management. He is editor of the International
Journal of Organisational Transformation and
Social Change (OTASC), and director of the
registered charity The Lentz Foundation for
Peace and Conflict, which he established in
1975. He is also head of the Centre for Creating
Coherent Change and Knowledge (C4K). He has
undertaken a number of international research
and development projects for the EU under
various programmes, and has been involved
in TEMPUS projects with a variety of Central
and Eastern European Countries. He is a visiting
professor at Ostrava University in the Czech
Republic, an honorary professor at Boatou
University in China, and an honorary fellow
of the Richardson Institute for conflict studies
at Lancaster University. He is currently the
vice president for research and publications
in the International Society of Systems Science
(ISSS), and honorary associate of the Centre
for Leadership and Organisational Change at
Teesside University.
Expertise: Knowledge
Management, Cybernetics, Change Management,
Social Change
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Prof Tom Quinn
MPhil RN FESC FRCN
Professor of Clinical Practice
Divison of Health and Social Care, University of Surrey, UK
Prof
Quinn is based at the University of Surrey and Tom is also
clinical lead for the National Electronic Library
for Health (NELH) - Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist
Library. Tom has extensive clinical experience
and was closely involved in developing and
implementing
the National Service Framework for Coronary
Heart Disease and related policies. He led
the multi-centre West Midlands Thrombolysis
Project awarded 'Beacon' status in 1999 and
was subsequently regional CHD co-ordinator.
He was seconded to the Department of Health
as Section Head for the Heart Team from 1999-2001,
and was later heart disease programme Lead
for a strategic health authority and adviser
in emergency cardiac care to the NHS Modernisation
Agency. He
was chairman of the European Society of Cardiology
working group on cardiovascular
nursing in the mid-1990s and a member of
the European Task Force on chest pain; currently
a member of the European working
group on acute cardiac care. He is one of
only three nurses worldwide elected Fellow
of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
and was only the second nurse elected a full
member of the British Cardiac Society.
Expertise:
Cardiovascular disease, acute cardiac care, thrombolysis |
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Dr Martin Orr
MB, BAO, BCH, FRANZCP,
MBA
Psychiatrist & Clinical Director
of Information Services,
Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland,
NEW ZEALAND
Dr
Martin Orr is a
Psychiatrist, a Doctoral student at Southern
Cross University, a Senior Lecturer at Auckland
University and Clinical Director of Information
Services for the Waitemata District Health
Board (Auckland, New Zealand). Dr Orr is involved
on a daily basis in the pragmatics of meeting
the "opportunities and challenges"
of developing health knowledge systems. His
key research interests lie in working with
the dedicated professionals that through the
development, implementation and utilisation
of Health Knowledge Systems, strive to "make
a healthy difference" for their communities.
Dr Orr attempts to capture (in combination
with related literature) key issues and knowledge
gathered from working with these groups, in
the form of visual and mnemonic models. His
hope is that these evolving models will assist
others in their development of Health Knowledge
Systems.
Expertise:
Health Knowledge Systems, Privacy Issues,
Conceptual and Visual Models |
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Meletis Belsis
MSc, MPhil
ICT Consultant, GREECE
Mr Belsis' main research interests cover
all aspects of information security. During
the last few years he has been involved with
the development of security incident data
models. During the last years he wrote a number
of research papers in conferences and journals
in the areas of incident and enterprise security
modeling. He also performed a number of presentations
to computer science students in Colleges around
Athens. Meletis currently works as a security
consultant at TechnoPlus, in Athens, Greece.
The main duties of his work is providing consultancy,
advice and developing architectures to ensure
confidentiality and integrity in enterprises
that implement wireless networks. He lectures
on COMPTia Network+ and Security+ seminars
to IT professionals all over Greece.
Expertise: Information
Security, KM privacy, Secure Knowledge Architectures |
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