Professor Daniel Lasserson

Dan Lasserson trained in Medicine in London after a Philosophy and Natural Sciences degree in Cambridge. He undertook training in acute hospital medicine with research posts in neurology and stroke medicine in London and then completed academic training in primary care in Oxford, examining the interface between specialists and generalists in the delivery of acute stroke and transient ischaemic attack services.

After a Clinical Lectureship in Primary Care in Oxford, Dan worked in both general practice and acute medicine and working with both an acute trust and community trust set up a community acute assessment unit which won the Guardian Healthcare Innovation Award for Service Delivery in 2013.

Prior to his move to Birmingham, Dan developed a new clinical role as a Senior Interface Physician working across the interface of primary and secondary care in acute medicine whilst undertaking research supported by the BRC and CLAHRC in Oxford. He was the Clinical Lead for Diagnostics and Pathways in the Oxford Academic Health Science Network and has progressed the use of point-of-care diagnostics to support change in healthcare delivery.

He now leads the Acute Care Interfaces Theme of the NIHR ARC West Midlands and the Acute Ambulatory Care and Future Hospital Theme of the NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In Vitro Diagnostic Cooperative. His work for the Society for Acute Medicine includes organising and delivering the annual UK wide hospital benchmarking audit (SAMBA).

Professor Martin Curley

Martin Curley is Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University. Most recently, Martin was Director of the Digital Transformation and Open Innovation at the Health Service Executive (HSE), helping enable the digital transformation of Ireland’s health service and also served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the HSE. Prior to joining the HSE Martin was Senior Vice President and group head for Global Digital Practice at Mastercard. Previously Martin was vice president at Intel Corporation and Director/GM of Intel Labs Europe, Intel’s network of more than 50 research labs which he helped grow across the European region. He also served as a senior principal engineer at Intel Labs Europe leading Intel’s research and innovation engagement with the European Commission and the broader European Union research ecosystem. Prior to this Curley was Global Director of IT Innovation and Director of IT Strategy and Technology at Intel. Earlier in his Intel career, he held a number of senior positions for Intel in the United States and Europe. He also worked in research and management positions at GE in Ireland and Philips in the Netherlands.

Martin has a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and a master’s degree in business studies, both from University College Dublin, Ireland. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Curley is the author of eight books on technology management for value, innovation and entrepreneurship. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, the British Computer Society and, the Irish Computer Society. Martin is co-founder of the Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University, a unique industry-academia collaboration driving research and development of advanced IT and Digital maturity frameworks. He was previously a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan Centre for Information Systems Research and a visiting research fellow at the CERN Open Lab in Geneva. He was the inaugural winner of the Engineers Ireland Innovation engineer of the year in 2006 and was jointly awarded European Chief Technology Officer of the year for 2015-2016.