Eric Sutherland Key-note speaker

Senior Health Economist, Digital Health, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OECD

Eric is a "Data Guy with Personality".

Currently, he is a Senior Health Economist leading the OECD’s work in Digital Health, bringing together policy guidance for digital tools, integrated data, and responsible analytics including artificial intelligence. In that role, he is accountable for measuring and evolving the OECD’s Recommendation on Health Data Governance (2016) and supporting digital health policy that provides data protection (e.g. security and privacy) and timely access to quality data to optimize the use of data for information, insights, and impact among individuals, health workers, policy makers, researchers, and innovators. Eric’s work has led to publications on the use of Artificial Intelligence in Health, the state of Digital Security in Health across the OECD, and a thematic chapter on digital health in the OECD’s flagship Health-at-a-Glance 2023 report, which reflected on digital transformation as a determinant of health.

Inger Ekman Key-note speaker

Senior professor, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och hälsa, Centrum för personcentrerad vård (GPCC), Göteborgs universitet
University of Gothenburg

Senior professor
Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Department of Medicine, Geriatrics and Emergency Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Inger Ekman is the former director and founder of the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) www.gpcc.gu.se. Over eight years, she held the position of head of the Institute of Health and Care Sciences. Additionally, she has served as vice dean at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. Between 2013 and 2015, she coordinated a 7th FP EU project, resulting in a roadmap for future health care in Europe. From 2016 - 2020, she was the coordinator for COSTCARES, a European initiative focused on evaluating person-centred care, with 28 partner countries. Inger holds the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), in addition to being the recipient of the Sigma Teta Tau European Nursing Recognition Award and the Carl-Axel Palm Research Award. The primary focus of her research has been on controlled studies evaluating interventions for person-centred care. She has approximately 170 publications in scientific journals. Currently, she is the primary investigator in a randomized controlled trial that assesses remote person-centred care in frail elderly.

Aslan Akbas Speaker

Kommunfullmäktiges ordförande.
Göteborgs stad

Marjan Garmroudi Speaker

Regionfullmäktiges vice ordförande
Västra Götalandsregionen

Axel Wolf Moderator

Centre director/Professor
GPCC

Axel Wolf is the Director of the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care (GPCC), a leading interdisciplinary research center boasting over 200 national and international researchers dedicated to person-centred care research (www.gpcc.gu.se). He serves in a dual capacity as Professor and Senior Consultant Nurse Anaesthetist at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, and as a Professor at OsloMet University in Oslo, Norway. His academic qualifications consist of an Executive MBA from the University of Gothenburg School of Business, Economics & Law, and a PhD in Healthcare Science from the Sahlgrenska Academy.
His research encompasses various dimensions of person-centred healthcare services, including examining the organizational prerequisites for implementing person-centred care, enhancing Patient- and Public Involvement (PPI), and advancing mobile eHealth and Peer-to-Peer platforms. Wolf collaborates with esteemed researchers globally, including those from the USA (Duke University), Spain (University of Navarra), the UK (University of Exeter & University of Plymouth), Finland (Åbo Akademi University), Denmark (IT University of Copenhagen), and Austria (University of Graz). He currently presides over the European standardisation committee (CEN/TC450), focusing on patient involvement in person-centred care, and co-founded the Gothenburg Pain Lab, an innovative research initiative for person-centred pain research (www.gothenburgpainlab.com)."

Erica Bonns Moderator

Senior Medical Advisor digital helalth, MD
Consultant

Erica Bonns is a senior consultant in healthcare development and digitalisation, and pediatrician in clinical practice.

Erica is a pioneer in developing AI in healthcare and data sharing research. Erica is working in both private and public sectors, domestically as well as internationally .

Erica has the practical experience of healthcare digitalisation where technical implementations meet clinical everyday life.