Chair - Dr Ana Luisa Neves
Dr. Ana Luisa Neves is a Clinical Associate Professor in Digital Health and Director of the Global Digital Health Unit at Imperial College, where she leads a team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and a practicing General Practitioner in London, UK. Her research interests focus on the use of digital technologies to deliver safer, more effective, and patient-centred care. She has more than 15 years of research experience, and >80 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (>4,800 citations, h-index=31), using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Prior to joining Imperial College, Dr Neves earned her medical degree from the University of Porto in Portugal, where she also completed her specialist training in General Practice in 2013. She has practiced as a General Practitioner in Portugal and the United Kingdom, and has volunteered in low-income countries, focusing on patient education programs related to women's health and infectious diseases in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mozambique. During her General Practice residency, she undertook academic and research placements at Institut National de la Santé et Recherche Médicale in Paris and at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Boston. In 2014, Dr. Neves moved to London to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Medicine at Imperial College London, which she completed in 2018. IIn 2018, she was awarded a scholarship by the European Association of General Practice (WONCA Europe). She subsequently held a Visiting Scholar appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, serving as a Home Hospital International Fellow at Ariadne Labs (2024-2025), where she continues serving as Associate Faculty.
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Deputy Chair - Dr Edmond Li
Dr Edmond Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anaesthesia and Surgery at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto.
Working at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), Edmond’s current research focuses on understanding how surgeon and anaesthesiologist characteristics and practice patterns, impact on patient outcomes, care quality, and healthcare resource utilisation. Outside of his appointment with IHPME, Edmond’s research interest pertains to the safer, more efficacious implementation and use of digital health in primary care settings. He is also interested in investigating how undergraduate and post-graduate medical curricula can be updated to incorporate digital health training to encourage greater digital literacy and skills proficiency in future healthcare providers. Edmond remains an Honorary Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Global Digital Health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London.
Prior to his roles in academia, Edmond worked as a technical consultant with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme in Geneva, Switzerland. His work pertained primarily to the 2018 Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as assisting with monitoring and reporting of other communicable disease outbreaks worldwide. During the initial year of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict, Edmond worked with the WHO Ukraine Health Cluster, contributing to ongoing humanitarian response efforts through the design, implementation, monitoring, and analysis of healthcare-related assessments.
Edmond holds an MB BCh BAO from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and an MPH from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He obtained his PhD in Health Policy and Patient Safety from Imperial College London in 2024.
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