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, widely used in other industries, are now emerging in healthcare. These virtual models of medical entities, processes, or systems integrate data from sources like medical records, patient data, and sensors, using AI and machine learning to simulate healthcare elements.
Continuing the discussion from our previous event, this one will provide clinicians and patients the insights and understanding of digital twins technologies. 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 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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Agenda
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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction
Professor Julia Manning, Dean of Education, Royal Society of Medicine
Demystifying the digital twin in healthcare
Roger Highfield, Science Director, Science Museum Group
Session 1: What is the problem we are trying to solve?
Chair: Dr Alice Byram, Council Member, Digital Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
A physician's view of the clinical need
Dr Cameron Watson, ED educational fellow, Jersey General Hospital and Dr Elisa Rauseo, Clinical Research Fellow in Cardiac Imaging, Barts Health NHS Trust
Patient voice
Jenny Camaradou, NICE Covid-19 Expert panel lay/member of ESC patient forum/EAN ANS WG
Session 2: Digital twins are already being used in clinical practice
Chair: Dr Caroline Roney, Lecturer, Computational Medicine, Queen Mary University of London
Heart, lungs and the rest
Dr Mariano Vazquez, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, ELEM Biotech
Process mining in the NHS
Christopher Clark, Head of Analytical Development, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Tea and coffee break
Why a digital twin is a good idea
Dr Corné Hurter, Medical Director - Care Transformation, HCA Healthcare UK
Keynote presentation: Digital Patients. Real Impact: Revolutionising patient outcomes with in silico trials
Professor Alejandro Frangi, Lead of the InSilicoUK Pro-Innovation Regulations Network and Director Christabel Pankhurst Institute, University of Manchester
Lunch break
Session 3: What are the steps needed to get digital twins into a healthcare system?
Chair: Professor Andrea Townsend-Nicholson, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UCL
Digital twins in healthcare systems
Professor Peter Coveney, Professor of Physical Chemistry, UCL
Digital twins in the NHS
Dr Steven Luttrell, Medical Director, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, Sanome
Session 4: Regulatory
Chair: Professor Julia Manning
Digital twins: The clinical investigations and trials unit perspective
Visiting Professor Andrea Manfrin, Deputy Director Clinical Investigations and Trials, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Regulating in silico models
Johan Ordish, Head of Digital Health and Innovation Policy, Roche
What a regulated digital twin looks like
Andrew Davies, Digital Health Lead at Association of British HealthTech Industries ABHI
Questions and answers
Session 5: Patients, safety and ethics
Chair: Dr Alice Byram
Incorporating ethnography, social determinants of health 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
Plenary
The 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
Session 6: Questions and answers from the day
Chair: Professor Andrea Townsend-Nicholson
Questions and answers
Keynote Presentation: Digital twins beyond the final frontier
Professor Kevin Fong, Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals, Professor of Public Engagement and Innovation, UCL
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 1:00pm (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time
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