Keynote Speakers

Dr. Linda W. Dusseljee-Peute is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics at Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, and serves as Director of the eHealth Living & Learning Lab (ELLLA). ELLLA is a cross-disciplinary academic workspace that brings together students, researchers, and industry partners to collaboratively design and evaluate safe, usable, and inclusive digital health solutions. Her research focuses on socio-technical systems analysis, user-centered design, and the evaluation of digital health solutions in clinical and home care settings.

With over 20 years of experience in educating Medical Informatics students, Dr. Dusseljee-Peute has developed, coordinated and taught a wide range of courses on topics such as Human Factors Engineering, inclusive User Experience Research, and digital care innovations, including telemedicine and patient self-management tools. She plays a central role in mentoring future professionals who will shape the future of healthcare technology. Together with two other health innovation labs she has given rise to the Amsterdam health & technology innovation district with a hospital at home facility and the Amsterdam HealthTech@home learning alliance.

She contributes to the international field by Chairing the Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), where she leads international efforts to improve the integration of human-centered design in health IT development and implementation. Besides she acts as faculty coordinator for the International Partnership in Health Informatics Education (IPHIE), a global consortium of leading universities committed to advancing education in biomedical and health informatics.

As Specialty Chief Editor of the Human Factors section of Frontiers in Digital Health, she supports international scholarship that enhances the safety, usability, and effectiveness of healthcare technologies. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Dusseljee-Peute advises the Dutch government through NICTIZ on the usability of health information systems in the context of the new information exchange legislation (Wegiz).Through her academic leadership, research, and policy advising, Dr. Dusseljee-Peute continues to shape the field of medical informatics at the intersection of technology, design, work processes and human experience.

Dr. Gillian Matthews is an Innovation Project Manager at the National Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC), based at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. NPIC is a national digital pathology programme, which is deploying digital pathology at hospitals across the country. The programme began as a unique collaboration between NHS, academic, and industry partners and has built a national digital pathology system as a platform for the NHS. NPIC’s network and infrastructure is uniquely placed to drive innovative research, and support the development and evaluation of AI in pathology.

At NPIC, Dr Matthews has been responsible for managing a portfolio of research projects, focused on the application of AI-based approaches to improve the diagnosis of cancer and other diseases. She has supported the delivery of collaborative projects to develop and evaluate AI-based tools, involving broad interdisciplinary teams of clinicians, data scientists, academic researchers, health economists, regulatory consultants, and industry partners.

 Within her role at NPIC, Dr Matthews has built on her extensive background in academic research across the UK and the USA. She completed her PhD in neuroscience at Imperial College London and went on to conduct research in the USA: first as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and subsequently as a Research Scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She has been awarded fellowships from the Simons Centre for the Social Brain and the Charles A. King Trust, which supported her research on the neural circuitry underlying behaviour, using histological labelling methods, cutting-edge imaging techniques, and data-driven approaches. 

Dr Matthews’s current research activities at NPIC are focused on the evaluation, implementation, and regulation of AI-based image analysis tools for clinical use, and include the construction of a public register of AI products for digital pathology. Through facilitating innovative research and evaluation, this work aims to improve patient outcomes, encourage transparency, and promote robust testing of AI products in pathology.

Dr. Ulli Prokosch, PhD was University Professor for Medical Informatics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) from February 2003 until March 2025. Parallel to this university position with research and teaching responsibilities he has been designated as the CIO of Erlangen University Hospital and was responsible for the strategic management and planning of all IT activities at Erlangen University Hospital until 2024. Before moving to Erlangen he hold the Medical Informatics Professorship at the University of Münster from 1995 until 2003. In Münster he also founded the center of clinical information management and data processing within the University Hospital and was responsible for the introduction of a comprehensive commercial hospital information system at the University Hospital.

His earlier research positions were at the Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA: 1987/1988) and at the Department of Medical Informatics at Gießen University (1981-1986, 1989-1994).

During more than 40 years in medical informatics Prof. Prokosch has published numerous scientific papers on a wide spectrum of medical informatics research issues, mainly in the context of clinical information system architectures, medical decision support and research IT infrastrucures. He is member of AMIA and international fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. Prof. Prokosch is currently member of the board of directors of the German Medical Informatics Association (GMDS e.V) and former member of the board of directors of the Telematics Platform for Medical Research Networks (TMF e.V.)

Within the large German Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) funding scheme (BMBF) he is member of the national steering committee and scientific coordinator of the MIRACUM project (comprising a total of 10 university hospitals and 12 universities). Until March 2025 he was also Co-Coordinator of the NUM (Network of University Medicine) project NUM-DIZ and the MII projects FDPG+ and Open Medical Inference (OMI).