ROBOTICS & TECHNOLOGY
CONFERENCE 2025
4TH MARCH 2025
CONGRESS CENTRE, LONDON
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Welcome to our third Medical AI, Robotics and Technology Conference organised by SpecialistInfo and Iconic Media Solutions. We are excited to be hosting world-leading experts to explore the cutting-edge technology that empowers solutions in healthcare. We are delighted that there will be a keynote presentation by Hulya Mustafa, Director of Digital Policies and Programmes in the Department of Health and Social Care.
Digital innovation, including AI and robotics, is re-shaping the healthcare industry at pace and it is crucial that clinicians work hand in hand with industry leaders to deliver the best way forward. I very much hope you will enjoy this valuable opportunity to bring these fields together to discuss the latest developments.
For those of you with an interest in the Medico-Legal industry, we will also be hosting our annual Medico-Legal Conference on Thursday 12th June 2025 at The Congress Centre, London (medicolegalconference.com)
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MEDICAL AI
ROBOTICS & TECHNOLOGY
CONFERENCE 2025
Programme
4th March 2025 Congress Centre, London
Master of Ceremonies
Mr Chris Aldren
9:30 - Welcome and Introductions from the Master of Ceremonies
Mr Chris Aldren, Consultant ENT Surgeon
9:40 - Keynote: How the Responsible use of AI can make an NHS Fit for the Future
Hulya Mustafa, Director of Digital Policies and Programmes in the Department of Health and Social Care
10:05 - Robotics in Interventional Oncology
Dr Ed Johnston, Academic Consultant in Interventional Oncology, Royal Marsden NHSFT and Institute of Cancer Research Biomedical Research Centre
10:30 - GoodSAM – Combining Community / Technology (and AI!) to Support Health and Emergency Services
Mark Wilson, Neurosurgeon, Pre-Hospital Specialist and Medical Director / Co-Founder GoodSAM
10:55 - Refreshments & Networking
11:15 - The Trials and Tribulations of Building a New Medical Robot
Dr Mark Slack, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, CMR Surgical
11:40 - Digital Consent, and the Possibilities of Learning from Big Data
Mr Edward St John, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer – Concentric Health and Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon & Honorary Associate Professor, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust & University of Portsmouth
12:00 - The Legal Aspects of Robotic Surgery
Flora McCabe, Head of Advocacy and Risk Management - Healthcare at Lockton Companies LLP
12:25 - Healthcare 3.0
Ryan Kerstein, Lead for RCS (Eng) I-Hub and Consultant Plastic Surgeon 12:50 - Lunch & Networking
13:50 - Heidi Health: Leveraging Ambient AI Technology in Healthcare
Oscar Bown, Associate, Heidi Health
14:15 - The AI and Digitally Enabled Future of Health and Medicine, What’s Next?
Daniel Kraft M.D., NextMed Health, Digital.Health & Continuum Health Ventures
14:35 - Towards the Automation of Duodenal Biopsy Diagnosis with a Particular Focus on Coeliac Disease
Florian Jaeckle, Chief Technology Officer, Lyzeum Ltd
15:10 - Tools You Can Trust: Ensuring Patient Safety with Regulated Technology
Steve Lee, Diagnostics and Digital Regulation Director, Association of British Healthtech Industries
15:30 - Refreshments & Networking
15:55 - Predicting Joint Replacement Failure from Radiographs and its Wider Application
Mr Vipin Asopa, Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
16:15 - Finding our way: From Proof of Concept to Production OpenPredictor – AI Clinical Decision Aid for Elective and Planned Care
Professor Mike Reed, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and OPCI.ai
16:35 - Leveraging AI-Powered Analysis for Facilitating Morbidity and Mortality Discussions in Healthcare
Dr Dmitriy Chernov, Chief Medical Information Officer and Dr Noam Roth, ST5 Gastroenterology Registrar, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
17:20 - Closing Comments followed by Champagne Reception
Mr Chris Aldren, Consultant ENT Surgeon
4TH MARCH 2025, CONGRESS CENTRE, LONDON Programme may be subject to change
Speakers
HULYA MUSTAFA - KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Hulya Mustafa is the Director of Digital Policies and Programmes in the Department of Health and Social Care. As well as AI, her role covers health tech and digital (including the NHS App and electronic patient records), digital neighbourhood health, digital prevention, and adult social care. She has been a civil servant for over 25 years and covered areas such as local government finance, regeneration, housing and adult social care. She is currently SRO for the NHS’s AI Lab, which runs an awards programme as well as funding various test projects and research into ethics.
CHRIS ALDREN - MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Chris is an ear surgeon based in Windsor specialising in hearing restoration. He is the past president of LION (live international otolaryngology network) one of the world’s first live streaming surgical websites (www.lionweb.org) He was an early adopter of endoscopes and lasers in ear surgery. He travels throughout the world lecturing and operating.
MR VIPIN ASOPA
Mr. Vipin Asopa PhD FRCS (Tr & Orth) is a consultant hip and knee arthroplasty and soft tissue surgeon, based at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre. He completed a PhD in Articular Cartilage Biology at the Kennedy Institute before completing his higher orthopaedic surgical training in North West London. He undertook fellowship training at Sportsmed.SA, Adelaide and The Royal Berkshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Mr. Asopa has received grants for his research work from ORUK (as a primary investigator) and the Gwen Fish Trust for projects including a study titled, ‘The use of Machine Learning in the early detection of failing total hip replacements’.
OSCAR BOWN
Oscar is one of the founding members of the UK Heidi team. Joining at such an early stage means wearing many hats - spanning sales, operations, strategy, and support. He believes that the real challenge isn’t just building a strong product, it’s ensuring clinicians actually use it.
DR DMITRIY CHERNOV
Dr Dmitriy Chernov serves as Chief Medical Information Officer at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where he contributes to the clinical adoption of the Trust’s new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system and digital transformation initiatives. He actively participates in digital governance working groups and supports the Trust’s digital training program. His recent projects include piloting AI solutions in Same Day Emergency Care with Heidi Health, developing electronic referral pathways, and creating digital tools for clinical workflow optimisation. Dr Chernov has a keen interest in AI applications in healthcare and is familiar with LLM finetuning and quantisation techniques.
Speakers
FLORIAN JAECKLE
4TH MARCH 2025, CONGRESS CENTRE, LONDON
Florian is the Chief Technology Officer at Lyzeum Ltd, a Cambridge based healthcare spin-out, creating reliable, explainable, and trustworthy Machine Learning solutions diagnosing duodenal biopsies with a particular emphasis on Coeliac Disease. Florian is also a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge working with Professor Elizabeth Soilleux. His research there focuses on developing machine learning based technologies to diagnose coeliac disease more accurately.
DR ED JOHNSTON
Dr Ed Johnston is an Academic Consultant in Interventional Oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital/Institute of Cancer Research Biomedical Research Centre. He trained in Clinical Radiology on the University College London Hospitals Scheme, obtained his PhD in Magnetic Resonance Imaging from University College London in 2017 and gained subspecialty training in Interventional Radiology at Kings College Hospital. His academic work has ranged from laboratory research to clinical trials, with current focus upon developing, optimising, and integrating promising new technologies into clinical practice. He established the first robotic Interventional Oncology program in the UK at the Royal Marsden Hospital in 2021.
RYAN KERSTEIN
Ryan Kerstein, FRCS (Plast), is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Associate Medical Director for Research and Innovation at Buckinghamshire NHS Trust, driving cutting-edge advancements in healthcare. He leads the Royal College of Surgeons’ Future of Surgery Innovation Hub, fostering collaboration and mentoring to integrate transformative technologies into clinical practice. He is also the Editor for the RCS Eng Bulletin Journal.
DANIEL KRAFT
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and investor. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008 and is founder and chair of NextMed Health (the evolution of Exponential Medicine), a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. He is a General Partner with Continuum Health Ventures, funding and catalysing early stage healthtech and healthspan focused startups. Daniel is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is a member of the Kauffman Fellows Society. He is often called upon to speak to the future of health, medicine and technology and has given four TED and two TEDMED Talks and has delivered keynotes to a diverse array of organisations. He also serves as chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance and Health Brain Trust. He is heavily involved in healthtech, founded Digital.Health, and is on the board of several Fortune-50 and digital health-related startups. He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell-based regenerative therapies.
Speakers
STEVE LEE
After completing his degree in Biochemistry and Biology, Steve trained as a Biomedical Scientist, working in hospital microbiology before moving to industry to work as company microbiologist. Steve joined MHRA in 1996 when it was still the Medical Devices Agency and when the IVD Directive had yet to be implemented. While at MHRA, Steve worked with manufacturers, Notified Bodies, other Competent Authorities, Trade Associations, standards bodies and government departments. Steve was Chair of the European Commission’s IVD working group when the IVD regulations where being developed. In 2019, Steve was presented with the TOPRA award for regulatory excellence.
FLORA MCCABE
Flora is a 17-year qualified solicitor with a passion for healthcare defence work, ranging from looking after individual consultants and dentists in civil, inquest and regulatory matters to helping large healthcare corporates with proactive risk management strategies and advising on legal tactics on mutli million-pound claims.
Speakers
PROFESSOR MIKE REED
4TH MARCH 2025, CONGRESS CENTRE, LONDON
Professor Mike Reed is a full-time trauma and hip and knee joint replacement surgeon. He trained in the North of England and did fellowships in New Zealand. He leads Trauma and Orthopaedics at Northumbria, working with a team of 31 talented colleagues. His research focuses on clinical outcomes particularly around short stay surgery as well as infection prevention, diagnosis and management. Professor Reed is on the steering committee and executive of the National Joint Registry (NJR) and Chaired the Annual Report from 20192024. He now leads on Surgical Performance for the NJR, is a trustee for the Orthopaedic Research UK charity and is on the grant awards committee for the National Institute Health and Care Research (NIHR) (i4i PDA). He leads clinical trials for industry and NIHR, and works academically with the University of York. He is leading the openPredictor project which aims to use data and artificial intelligence algorithms to predict the outcome of medical interventions including complications and health gain.
NOAM ROTH
Noam is an ST5 Gastroenterology Registrar at Watford General Hospital. He is passionate about innovation in medicine and the roles that AI can fill in improving patient care, and is part of a team training Large Language Models on a local level to improve internal hospital processes. He has a professional interest in AI applied to endoscopy, and its potential to improve both patient outcomes and healthcare costs.
MARK SLACK
Mark Slack qualified as a doctor at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He then completed his postgraduate training at the University of Cape Town. He graduated from the College of Medicine of South Africa in Gynaecology, winning the Daubenton Gold Medal for the most distinguished candidate in the exams in the country. He was previously head of Gynaecology and Urogynaecology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge Teaching Hospitals Trust, Cambridge. Mr. Slack has run an active research unit in Cambridge. He developed and introduced the Sacrospinous Fixation to the UK. This is now the most commonly performed procedure for prolapse in the United Kingdom. He has invented several procedures which were adopted and taken to global launch by international Medical Device companies. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, more than 25 book chapters and numerous national guidelines. He is a regular contributor on several National Radio and Television programs. He is a Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of CMR Surgical, a start-up company in Cambridge which has developed a novel surgical robot (Versius). This is now the second largest soft tissue robotic company in the world. In 2021 it had the highest private MedTech funding round in the world with a $660 million raise. The subsequent valuation gave it Unicorn status. He was appointed the Ethicon travelling Professor in 2004 as well as the Sims Black Professorship of the RCOG. He was recognised by the NIHR in 2015 with an award as one of the leading researchers in the UK for clinical research. In 2018, under his leadership the Urogynaecology unit in Cambridge achieved the highest accreditation score ever awarded by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 2021 he was awarded honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow and the French Academy of Surgeons.
