Event Overview
The Inaugural International Digital Health Summer School will be hosted at the Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University on June 8th and 9th 2023.
Digital Health is emerging as a completely new discipline, one which combines intersecting disciplines of health, technology, engineering, economics, demographics and much more. While current health systems have served humanity very well yielding a more than doubling of life expectancy over the last two centuries, the systems are now facing a major crisis with full hospitals, a demographic timebomb and record clinician attrition. However one half of the world’s population don’t have access to affordable healthcare and the other half who do have access are increasingly finding it unaffordable. This global healthcare is facing a perfect storm and what Thomas Kuhn would call a Model Crisis.
Digital Health is emerging as a potential ‘silver bullet’ solution which can address critical issues such as accessibility, affordability, variability, quality and clinician work life balance. The cutting edge Digital Innovation Methodology ‘ Open Innovation 2.0’ and the Manhattan Manifesto Stay Left Shift Left 10X developed at the UN Science Summit Digital Health Symposium in New York in September 2022 will underpin the compelling frontier agenda.
Come listen and interact with world leading thoughtleaders and practitioners in an intimate setting to help learn and co-create a new ‘win-win’ healthcare future for all.

The centrepiece of the Summer School will be a distinguished lecture from Dr. Jerome Adams, ex US Surgeon General and now Director of Health Equity Initiatives, Purdue University. Dr Adams will speak about the need and opportunity to achieve health equity and will also share experiences about leading the USA’s response to Covid 19.
A compelling line up of speakers from across all of the four quadrant of the quadruple helix will speak including clinicians, venture capitalists, CEOs, policymakers and most importantly patients.
Apart from Education a key goal of the Summer School is to create an intellectual supercollider which accelerates the emergence of a directed Digital Health Open Collaborative Ecosystem.
Agenda for International Digital Health Summer School
Day 1 (June 8th)
Location: TSI Building, Maynooth University (Lecture Hall 3)
Time | Topic of Discussion | Speaker | Speaker Designation |
9:00 – 9:10 |
Welcome Address | Professor Eeva Leinonen Professor Martin Curley Professor Ronan Farrell |
President of Maynooth University Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Maynooth University |
9:10 – 9:40 |
Building an Open Collaborative Ecosystem to deliver a 10X better Health System – Stay Left, Shift Left 10X | Professor Martin Curley | Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University |
9:40 – 9:50 |
Building a 10X higher Digital Health Exports | Leo Clancy | Chief Executive Officer at Enterprise Ireland |
9:50 – 10:00 |
Building a 10X better Health system Culture | Dr. Caroline Whelan | Chief Executive Officer at Blackrock Health |
10:00 – 10:10 |
Shifting left in Cardiac Care – Real Results in Real World Settings | Dr. Donal Bailey | Chief Executive Officer at Care Connect |
10:10 – 10:30 |
Escaping the Health Matrix |
Lars Hartenstein |
Co-Leader at McKinsey Health Institute |
10:30 – 11:00 |
Manhattan Manifesto | Dr Charles Larkin Mary Carbajal Carolyn Gullery Donal Morris Professor Martin Curley |
Director of Policy Research, University of Bath Founder & CEO of B1OS Founder & Chairperson at HCI Founder & CEO at RedZinc Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University |
11:00 – 11:30 |
Break | ||
11:30 – 12:30 |
Distinguished Lecture – Achieving Health Equity | Dr. Jerome Adams | Executive Director of Health Equity at Purdue University |
12:30 – 12:45 |
Response/Vote of Thanks | Professor Eeva Leinonen | President of Maynooth University |
12:45 – 13:00 |
Summer School Photograph | ||
13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch at Pugin Hall, South Campus | ||
14:00 – 14:20 |
The Future of Health | John Shaw | General Manager at Carelon Ireland |
14:20 – 14:35 |
Humanised Healthcare – Understanding and acting on patient demand for a better healthcare system |
Hamish Dibley | Government & Public Services Director at BearingPoint |
14:35 – 17:00 | Two featured sessions available – 1) Researching, Funding, Growing and Scaling Ventures and 2) Data, AI and Disruptive Technology | ||
Feature Session 1 | Researching, Funding, Growing and Scaling Ventures – Venture Capital is a theory of Growth and is the fuel that is propelling a Cambrian explosion of Digital Health Ventures |
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14:35 – 14:45 |
Funding Digital Health Ventures | Amy Neale | General Partner at Delta Partners |
14.45 – 14.55 |
Building a Digital Health Business, Going Public | Jim Joyce | Chief Executive Officer at Health Beacon |
14:55 – 15.05 |
Angel Investing in Healthcare | Shamus Eivers | Entrepreneur |
Funding Digital Health Research and Innovation | |||
15:05 – 15:15 |
UK Digital Health Priorities | Phillipa Hemmings |
Lead of Health Technologies at Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |
15:15 – 15:25 |
SFI Health Research Priorities | Ciaran Seoighe |
Deputy Director General at Science Foundation Ireland |
15:25 – 15:35 |
North/South Digital Health Collaborations Possibilities | Professor Joan Condell |
Professor of Intelligent Technologies at Ulster University |
15:45 – 16:00 |
Break | ||
Featured Papers | |||
16:00 – 16:15 | Digital Respiratory | Professor Richard Costello | Consultant Physician at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland |
16:15 – 16:30 | Scaling and Adoption of Digital Health | Janette Hughes | Director of Planning and Performance at Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre |
16:30 – 16:45 | A new Patient Capability Maturity Framework | Richard Wyatt Haines Professor Martin Curley |
Chairman at HCI Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University |
16:45 |
Day 1 – Closing Keynote | Elaine Brennan | Senior Vice President at Northwell Health |
Feature Session 2 | Data, AI and Disruptive Technology Generative AI and future technologies have the potential to revolutionise healthcare. In medical research, generative AI can create digital twins and synthetic patient data to identify personalised treatments and develop new drugs based on a patient’s unique genetic profile, medical history, and lifestyle factors. This is key to reduce healthcare costs and improving patient reported outcomes. AI-powered image recognition can detect patterns in medical images, identify early signs of disease, even predict the likelihood of future health problems. Future technologies such as wearable devices and remote monitoring systems can collect real-time data to help doctors monitor patients remotely. These technologies can lead to more personalised and precise care for patients, transforming the way we diagnose, treat, and manage diseases. |
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14:30 – 14:35 | Perfect Storm |
Professor Martin Curley |
Director of Digital Health Cluster at Innovation Value Institute |
14:35 – 14:50 | Driving a data driven Patient experience | John Glennane | Chief Executive Officer at Cap Ventis |
14:50 – 15:05 | European Health Dataspace | Sabine Gerdon | Business Development at Amazon Web Services |
15:05 – 15:20 | Data Governance | Professor Markus Helfert | Director at Innovation Value Institute |
15:20 – 15:30 | AI & ML for Health | Helene Dingreville |
Data Science Director at Carelon
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15:30 – 15:40 | Data Platforms | Alistair Allen |
Chief Technology Officer at Better
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15:40 – 15:55 | The Future of AI in Radiology | Dr. John Sheehan | Clinical Director Radiology at Blackrock Health |
15:55 – 16:05 | The EU AI act | Margaret Hartnett | Co-Founder at Progessio AI |
16:05 – 16:20 | AI and Biomechanical Modelling in Health |
Dr Dario Cazzola | Associate Professor in Biomechanics at University of Bath |
16:20 – 16:35 | Break |
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16:35 – 16:45 | Open Data and Implementation Science | Professor Anthony Staines | Professor of Health Systems at Dublin City University |
16:45 – 17:00 | High Tech and Health | Professor Gerry Lacey | Head of Dept of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University |
17:00 – 17:10 | AI advances in Radiology | Patrick Doherty | Vice President of Siemens Healthineers |
17:10 – 17:20 | Patient Perspective on AI | Stephen McMahon | Director of Irish Patient’s Association |
17:20 – 17:30 | IP and AI on Healthcare |
Raymond J. Hegarty | Chief Executive Officer at Intaval Ltd. |
17:30 – 17:45 | AI and Avators Disrupting Health | Professor Ray O’Sullivan | Consultant Gynaecologist |
17:45 – 18:00 | Break |
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18:00 |
Featured Books and Summer School Reception at Maynooth Library Welcome (Cathal McCauley (Chief Librarian at Maynooth University Library) ‘OneHealth‘ by Professor Piero Formica (Founder of International Entrepreneurship Academy) & Gareth Presch (Chief Executive Officer at World Health Innovation Summit) ‘Towards a Digital Ecology’ by Dr. Victoria Betton (Practice director – human-centred design at SmartCo Consulting) ‘Doing Digital’ by Ved Sen (Business Innovation at TATA Consultancy Services) |
Day 2 (June 9th)
Location: TSI Building, Maynooth University (Lecture Hall 3)
Time | Topic of Discussion | Speaker | Speaker Designation |
9:00 – 9:20 |
Digital Health at Scale – The Apollo Case | Ralf Dreischmeier | Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co |
9:20 – 9:40 |
Open Innovation & Technology Transfer in Digital Health: the role of universities | Professor Fabrizio Dughiero | Professor of Electronic Engineering at University of Padua |
9:40 – 10:00 |
Led Digitalisation | Professor Linda Newnes | President, Interdisciplinary Research Society |
10:00 – 10:10 |
Pharmacy First – A new initiative to drive structural change in the Healthcare Industry | Dermot Twomey | President of IPC and Pharmacist |
10:10 – 10:20 |
Interdisciplinary Research in Health | Dr Atilla Sik | Director at Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries |
10:20 – 10:30 |
Network Centric Healthcare | Professor Cormac Sreenan |
Professor at University College Cork |
10:30 – 10:40 |
Neurology and Digital Health | Professor David Henshall | Director at FutureNeuro |
10:40 – 10:50 |
Digital Health is a Political Decision | Ivan Yeates | Broadcaster |
10:40 – 10:50 | Digital Health Ecosystems | Andy Bleaden | Community Director at ECHAlliance |
10:50 – 11:00 | Architecting Future Health System | Dr. Monica Suryavanshi | Executive Director at Helios Health |
11:00 – 11:20 |
Break | ||
11:20 – 12:30 |
Introducing 5 10X Disruptive technologies which can change Healthcare globally | ||
Respirasense – Making every breath count | Antoinette Doherty Myles Murray |
Adv. Nurse Practitioner at Letterkenny University Hospital Chief Executive Officer at PMD Solutions |
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Occular Micro Tremor detecting Neurolgical disease earlier | David van Zuydam | Chief Executive Officer at Head Diagnostics | |
Digital Ultrasound | Karen Kelly Dr. Peter Weimersheimer |
Adv. Nurse Practitioner Chief Medical Officer at Butterfly Network |
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Blockchain Based Personal Electronic Health Records | Mary Carabjal | Chief Executive Officer at B1OS | |
Motusi, a new Vital Sign | Mark Alexander | Chief Executive Officer at Motusi | |
12:45 – 13:45 |
Lunch | ||
13:45 – 15:15 |
User and Patient Driven Innovation – 10X | ||
Delivering a 10X Better GP experience | Dr. Frank Kenny David Mulville |
Chief Executive Officer at Hanover Medical Chief Executive Officer at Dataflow International |
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10X Reduction on Medication errors that the system has brought to patients | Ade Stack Conor Leonard |
Chief Executive Officer at Digicare Chief Executive Officer at Royal Hospital Donnybrook |
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Delivering a 10X improvement in Thermometry | Dr. Roisin Shorthall | Chief Executive Officer at Trimedika | |
TBC | Richelle Flanagan | Chief Executive Officer at Movement is Medicine | |
Patient Led Innovation | Dearbhail Ormond | Chief Executive Officer at Frendo | |
Zonitas – 10X better Heart Attack response | Dee McGuone Dr. Vinod Malik |
Adv. Nurse Practitioner at St. James Hospital Chief Executive Officer at Zonitas |
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Clinical Workforce Scheduling | Aimee Madden | Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Clinishift | |
15:30 – 15:50 |
Break | ||
16:00 – 17:00 |
Health Elevator and Changing the Business Model of Health |
Speakers

Dr Jerome Adams
Director of Health Equity Initiatives, Purdue UniversityEx US Surgeon General

Professor Martin Curley
Maynooth UniversityProfessor of Innovation

Dr Monika Suryavanshi
Helios Health
Janette Hughes
DHI Scotland
Professor Piero Formica
Author, One Health
John Shaw
GM, Carelon Ireland
Amy Neale
VC, Delta Partners
Prof Fabrizio Dughiero
Vice Rector, University of PaduaHe is Vice Rector for Innovation and Relations with Industries at the University of Padua.

Ade Stack
CEO, Stack Pharmacies
Jim Joyce
CEO, Beacon Health
Dr John Sheehan
Blackrock HealthDirector of Radiology

Dario Cazzola
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Biomechanics at University of Bath
Dr Charles Larkin
Director of Research, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath
Professor Markus Helfert
Director of Innovation Value Institute
Andy Bleaden
Communities Director at ECHAlliance
Hamish Dibley
Government & Public Services Director at BearingPoint
Raymond Hegarty
IP Coach & Chief Executive Officer at IntavalOther Speakers Include:
Dr Roisin Molloy, CEO, Trimedika (Northern Ireland)
Ralf Dreischmeier, Partner, McKinsey & Co
Lars Hartenstein, Co-Leader, McKinsey Health Institute
Leo Clancy, CEO at Enterprise Ireland
Professor Linda Newnes, President Institute of Interdisciplinary Engineering, Centre Director for People Led Digitalisation, University of Bath (UK)
Dr Victoria Betton, NHS and Author “Towards a Digital Ecology”
Dr Vinod Malik, St James Hospital, Dublin and CEO, Zonitas
Aimee Madden, CEO, Clinicshift
Richard Wyatt Haines, Chair, HCI
Sabine Gerdon, Amazon Web Services
Professor Eamonn O’Neill, Head of Computer Science, University of Bath
Richard Kennedy, Janssen
Ciaran Seoige, Deputy Director, Science Foundation Ireland
Mark Alexander, CEO, Motusi (USA)
Professor Anthony Staines, Professor of Health Systems, DCU
Professor Joan Condell, Ulster University
Richelle Flanagan, Entrepreneur and Parkinson’s Advocate
John Glennane, CEO, CapVentis
Karen Kelly, ANP, Novak Cardiac Alliance
David Mulville, CEO, Dataflow International
Accommodation Options
Glenroyal Hotel : https://www.glenroyal.ie/
Barberstown Castle : https://www.barberstowncastle.ie/
Maynooth University Campus Accommodation: https://maynoothcampus.com/

